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Donald Woods
Actor
Born December 2, 1906Died March 5, 1998 (91 years)
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Donald Woods (born Ralph Lewis Zink, December 2, 1906 – March 5, 1998) was a Canadian-American film and television actor whose career in Hollywood spanned six decades.
Born in Brandon, Manitoba, Woods moved with his family to California and was raised in Burbank. A son of William and Margaret Zink, Presbyterians of German descent. His younger brother, Clarence Russell Zink, also became an actor (Russ Conway).
Woods graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and made his film debut in 1928. His screen career was spent mostly in B movies, for example as lawyer Perry Mason in the 1937 film The Case of the Stuttering Bishop. He also occasionally played major roles in bigger feature films like A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Watch on the Rhine (1943), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944), and Roughly Speaking (1945).
Of considerable importance to his acting career were several seasons as leading man with the Elitch Gardens Theatre Company in Denver, Colorado, where he performed in 1932, 1933, 1939, 1941, 1947, and 1948.
In the early days of television, Woods starred as the title character in the 1951 syndicated TV series Craig Kennedy, Criminologist, and he was the host of Damon Runyon Theater on CBS-TV. He played himself on the dramatic series Hotel Cosmopolitan, also on CBS, and he was one of three hosts of The Orchid Award on ABC-TV. He portrayed Walter Manning on Portia Faces Life on CBS.
He also appeared in such anthology series as The Philco Television Playhouse, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Robert Montgomery Presents, The United States Steel Hour, Crossroads, and General Electric Theater. On April 11, 1961, Woods appeared as "Profesor Landfield" in the episode "Two for the Gallows" on NBC's Laramie western series. Series character Slim Sherman (John Smith) is hired under false pretenses to take Landfield into the Badlands to seek gold. Landfield, however, is really Morgan Bennett, a member of the former Henry Plummer gang who has escaped from prison. Slim has no idea that Lanfield is seeking the loot that his gang had hidden away. Series character Jess Harper (Robert Fuller), Pete Dixon, played by Warren Oates, and Pete's younger brother soon come to Slim's aid. The title stems from the talk that the undisciplined Dixon brothers might eventually wind up on a hangman's noose.
Woods later was a regular in the role of John Brent on the short-lived series Tammy and made guest appearances on Bat Masterson, Wagon Train, Ben Casey, 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Stoney Burke, Bourbon Street Beat, Bonanza, Coronet Blue, Ironside, Alias Smith and Jones, The Wild Wild West and Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, among many others before retiring from acting in 1976.
Besides his film career, he also worked as a successful real estate broker in Palm Springs where he lived with his wife, childhood sweetheart Josephine Van der Horck. They were married from 1933 until his death and had two children, Linda and Conrad. He was interred at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California.
Donald Woods (born Ralph Lewis Zink, December 2, 1906 – March 5, 1998) was a Canadian-American film and television actor whose career in Hollywood spanned six decades.
Born in Brandon, Manitoba, Woods moved with his family to California and was raised in Burbank. A son of William and Margaret Zink, Presbyterians of German descent. His younger brother, Clarence Russell Zink, also became an actor (Russ Conway).
Woods graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and made his film debut in 1928. His screen career was spent mostly in B movies, for example as lawyer Perry Mason in the 1937 film The Case of the Stuttering Bishop. He also occasionally played major roles in bigger feature films like A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Watch on the Rhine (1943), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944), and Roughly Speaking (1945).
Of considerable importance to his acting career were several seasons as leading man with the Elitch Gardens Theatre Company in Denver, Colorado, where he performed in 1932, 1933, 1939, 1941, 1947, and 1948.
In the early days of television, Woods starred as the title character in the 1951 syndicated TV series Craig Kennedy, Criminologist, and he was the host of Damon Runyon Theater on CBS-TV. He played himself on the dramatic series Hotel Cosmopolitan, also on CBS, and he was one of three hosts of The Orchid Award on ABC-TV. He portrayed Walter Manning on Portia Faces Life on CBS.
He also appeared in such anthology series as The Philco Television Playhouse, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Robert Montgomery Presents, The United States Steel Hour, Crossroads, and General Electric Theater. On April 11, 1961, Woods appeared as "Profesor Landfield" in the episode "Two for the Gallows" on NBC's Laramie western series. Series character Slim Sherman (John Smith) is hired under false pretenses to take Landfield into the Badlands to seek gold. Landfield, however, is really Morgan Bennett, a member of the former Henry Plummer gang who has escaped from prison. Slim has no idea that Lanfield is seeking the loot that his gang had hidden away. Series character Jess Harper (Robert Fuller), Pete Dixon, played by Warren Oates, and Pete's younger brother soon come to Slim's aid. The title stems from the talk that the undisciplined Dixon brothers might eventually wind up on a hangman's noose.
Woods later was a regular in the role of John Brent on the short-lived series Tammy and made guest appearances on Bat Masterson, Wagon Train, Ben Casey, 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Stoney Burke, Bourbon Street Beat, Bonanza, Coronet Blue, Ironside, Alias Smith and Jones, The Wild Wild West and Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, among many others before retiring from acting in 1976.
Besides his film career, he also worked as a successful real estate broker in Palm Springs where he lived with his wife, childhood sweetheart Josephine Van der Horck. They were married from 1933 until his death and had two children, Linda and Conrad. He was interred at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California.
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Filmography
| 1986 | Horrible Horror · as Cyrus Zorba, In Clips From The '13 Ghosts' Trailer |
| 1982 | The Mississippi (TV Series) · as Jordan |
| 1976 | Sweet Revenge · as Car Salesman |
| 1974 | Dirty Sally (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1973 | Love Story (TV Series) · as Dr. Newman |
| 1973 | Police Story (TV Series) |
| 1972 | The Sandy Duncan Show (TV Series) |
| 1971 | The D.A. (1971) (TV Series) · as Stanley Squire |
| 1971 | Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law (TV Series) · as Judge |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) |
| 1969 | True Grit · as "barlow" |
| 1968 | Istanbul Express · as Shepherd |
| 1968 | A Time to Sing · as Vernon Carter |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) |
| 1967 | Hondo (TV Series) |
| 1967 | Coronet Blue (TV Series) · as Paul Frame |
| 1967 | Tammy and the Millionaire · as John Brent |
| 1966 | Dimension 5 · as Kane |
| 1966 | The Felony Squad (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Moment to Moment · as Mr. Singer |
| 1965 | The Wild Wild West (TV Series) |
| 1965 | Tammy (TV Series) · as John Brent |
| 1964 | Kissin' Cousins · as General Alvin Donford |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial (TV Series) · as Chet Hayes |
| 1962 | Stoney Burke (TV Series) |
| 1962 | Sam Benedict (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Five Minutes to Live · as Kenneth Wilson |
| 1961 | Ben Casey (TV Series) |
| 1960 | The Law and Mr. Jones (TV Series) · as John Cole |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) · as George Thruxton |
| 1960 | Thriller (TV Series) · as Dr. John Carmody |
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| 1959 | Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) · as Mort Schwann |
| 1959 | Bourbon Street Beat (TV Series) |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | Men into Space (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Laramie (TV Series) · as Morgan Bennett |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | The Deputy (TV Series) · as Douglas Brainard |
| 1959 | Tightrope (TV Series) |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) |
| 1958 | Bat Masterson (TV Series) · as Roger Purcell |
| 1957 | Tombstone Territory (TV Series) · as Ferguson - President Arthur's Rep |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Philip Ayers |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1955 | Crossroads (1955) (TV Series) · as Father Francis L. Sampson |
| 1955 | A Wind from the South · as Robert |
| 1955 | Damon Runyon Theater (TV Series) |
| 1955 | The Millionaire (TV Series) · as Cobb Marley |
| 1954 | Lassie (TV Series) |
| 1954 | The Inner Sanctum (TV Series) |
| 1953 | The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) |
| 1953 | The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms · as Capt. Jackson |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Norman Frost Bennett |
| 1952 | Born to the Saddle · as Matt Daggett |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) · as Kirby Sinclair |
| 1951 | All That I Have · as Pastor William Goodwin |
| 1950 | The Bigelow Theatre (TV Series) · as Herbert |
| 1950 | Mr. Music · as Tippy Carpenter |
| 1950 | The Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | The Web (1950) (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | The Lost Volcano · as Paul Gordon |
| 1950 | The Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | Johnny One-Eye · as Vet |
| 1950 | |
| 1949 | Scene of the Crime · as Bob Herkimer |
| 1949 | Free for All · as Roger Abernathy |
| 1949 | Barbary Pirate · as Maj. Tom Blake |
| 1949 | Fireside Theatre (TV Series) · as Steve Trent |
| 1949 | Daughter of the West · as Commissioner Ralph C. Connors |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series) |
| 1947 | The Return of Rin Tin Tin · as Father Matthew |
| 1947 | Bells of San Fernando · as Michael 'gringo' O'brien |
| 1946 | The Time, the Place and the Girl · as Martin Drew |
| 1946 | Never Say Goodbye · as Rex Devallon |
| 1946 | Night and Day · as Ward Blackburn |
| 1946 | Lights Out (TV Series) |
| 1945 | Star in the Night · as Hitchhiker |
| 1945 | Wonder Man · as Monte Rossen |
| 1945 | God Is My Co-Pilot · as Cast |
| 1945 | Roughly Speaking · as Rodney Crane |
| 1944 | Enemy of Women · as Dr. Hans Traeger, Md |
| 1944 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey · as Brother Juniper |
| 1943 | Watch on the Rhine · as David Farrelly |
| 1943 | Corregidor · as Dr. Michael |
| 1942 | The Gay Sisters · as Penn Sutherland Gaylord |
| 1942 | Thru Different Eyes · as Ted Farnsworth |
| 1941 | Sky Raiders · as Captain Bob Dayton |
| 1940 | Mexican Spitfire Out West · as Dennis 'denny' Lindsay |
| 1940 | Young America Flies · as John Woodward |
| 1940 | If I Had My Way · as Fred Johnson |
| 1940 | Forgotten Girls · as Dan Donahue |
| 1940 | City of Chance · as Steve Walker |
| 1939 | Mexican Spitfire · as Dennis Lindsay |
| 1939 | Heritage of the Desert · as John Abbott |
| 1939 | The Girl from Mexico · as Dennis Lindsay |
| 1939 | Beauty for the Asking · as Jeffrey Martin |
| 1938 | Danger on the Air · as Benjamin Butts |
| 1938 | Romance on the Run · as Barry Drake |
| 1938 | The Black Doll · as Nick Halstead |
| 1937 | Big Town Girl · as Mark Tracey |
| 1937 | Charlie Chan on Broadway · as Speed Patten, Reporter New York Bulletin |
| 1937 | Talent Scout · as Steve Stewart |
| 1937 | The Case of the Stuttering Bishop · as Perry Mason |
| 1937 | Sea Devils · as Steve Webb |
| 1937 | Once a Doctor · as Steven Brace |
| 1936 | Isle of Fury · as Eric Blake |
| 1936 | Anthony Adverse · as Vincent Nolte |
| 1936 | The White Angel · as Charles Cooper |
| 1936 | Road Gang · as James 'jim' Larrabie |
| 1936 | The Story of Louis Pasteur · as Dr. Jean Martel |
| 1935 | A Tale of Two Cities · as Charles Darnay |
| 1935 | Frisco Kid · as Charles Ford |
| 1935 | Stranded · as John Wesley |
| 1935 | The Case of the Curious Bride · as Carl |
| 1935 | The Florentine Dagger · as Juan Cesare |
| 1934 | Sweet Adeline · as Sid Barnett |
| 1934 | Charlie Chan's Courage · as Bob Crawford |
| 1934 | Fog Over Frisco · as Tony Sterling |
| 1934 | Merry Wives of Reno · as Frank |
| 1934 | As the Earth Turns · as Stan |