Donald Woods

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, 1906-12-02

Died: 1998-03-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1928	Motorboat Mamas	Yacht Club Patron (uncredited)	0
2	1928	Motorboat Mamas	Yacht Club Patron	0
3	1934	As the Earth Turns	Stan	53
4	1934	Hollywood Newsreel	Himself	40
5	1934	Merry Wives of Reno	Frank	48
6	1934	Fog Over Frisco	Tony Sterling	62
7	1934	Charlie Chan's Courage	Bob Crawford	80
8	1934	She Was a Lady	Tommy Traill	0
9	1934	Sweet Adeline	Sid Barnett	57
10	1935	The Florentine Dagger	Juan Cesare	57
11	1935	The Case of the Curious Bride	Carl	60
12	1935	Stranded	John Wesley	58
13	1935	Frisco Kid	Charles Ford	68
14	1935	Things You Never See on the Screen	Self	50
15	1935	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Darnay	68
16	1935	A Dream Comes True	Himself (uncredited)	55
17	1936	The Story of Louis Pasteur	Dr. Jean Martel	68
18	1936	Road Gang	James 'Jim' Larrabie	65
19	1936	The Making of a Great Motion Picture		50
20	1936	The White Angel	Charles Cooper	72
21	1936	The Song of a Nation	Francis Scott Key	40
22	1936	A Son Comes Home	Denny	10
23	1936	Anthony Adverse	Vincent Nolte	58
24	1936	Isle of Fury	Eric Blake	53
25	1936	Breakdowns of 1936	Self	0
26	1937	Once a Doctor	Steven Brace	63
27	1937	Sea Devils	Steve Webb	57
28	1937	The Case of the Stuttering Bishop	Perry Mason	68
29	1937	Talent Scout	Steve Stewart	60
30	1937	Charlie Chan on Broadway	Speed Patten, Reporter New York Bulletin	70
31	1937	Big Town Girl	Mark Tracey	60
32	1938	The Black Doll	Nick Halstead	53
33	1938	Romance on the Run	Barry Drake	0
34	1938	Danger on the Air	Benjamin Butts	59
35	1939	Beauty for the Asking	Jeffrey Martin	57
36	1939	The Girl from Mexico	Dennis Lindsay	42
37	1939	Heritage of the Desert	John Abbott	58
38	1940	Mexican Spitfire	Dennis Lindsay	46
39	1940	City of Chance	Steve Walker	52
40	1940	Forgotten Girls	Dan Donahue	50
41	1940	If I Had My Way	Fred Johnson	64
42	1940	Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!	Brian McGrath	0
43	1940	Young America Flies	John Woodward	0
44	1940	Mexican Spitfire Out West	Dennis 'Denny' Lindsay	46
45	1941	Sky Raiders	Captain Bob Dayton	63
46	1941	Bachelor Daddy	Edward Smith	0
47	1941	I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island	Joel Grant / Joseph Elmer	0
48	1942	Thru Different Eyes	Ted Farnsworth	0
49	1942	March On, America!	Francis Scott Key (archive footage) (uncredited)	47
50	1942	The Gay Sisters	Penn Sutherland Gaylord	65
51	1943	Corregidor	Dr. Michael	35
52	1943	Watch on the Rhine	David Farrelly	67
53	1943	So's Your Uncle	Steve Curtis aka Uncle John	50
54	1943	Hi'ya, Sailor	Bob Jackson	60
55	1944	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Brother Juniper	60
56	1944	Enemy of Women	Dr. Hans Traeger, MD	48
57	1944	Hollywood Canteen	Self	73
58	1945	Roughly Speaking	Rodney Crane	68
59	1945	Wonder Man	Monte Rossen	66
60	1945	Star in the Night	Hitchhiker	74
61	1946	Night and Day	Ward Blackburn	57
62	1946	Goodbye, Weeds	Henry	0
63	1946	Never Say Goodbye	Rex DeVallon	63
64	1946	The Time, The Place and The Girl	Martin Drew	54
65	1947	Bells of San Fernando	Michael 'Gringo' O'Brien	42
66	1947	Stepchild	Ken Bullock	0
67	1947	The Return of Rin Tin Tin	Father Matthew	52
68	1949	Daughter of the West	Commissioner Ralph C. Connors	0
69	1949	Scene of the Crime	Bob Herkimer	63
70	1949	Free For All	Roger Abernathy	60
71	1949	Barbary Pirate	Maj. Tom Blake	60
72	1950	Johnny One-Eye	Vet	49
73	1950	The Lost Volcano	Paul Gordon	53
74	1950	Mr. Music	Tippy Carpenter	40
75	1951	All That I Have	Pastor William Goodwin	50
76	1952	Tall, Dark and Dead	Craig Kennedy	0
77	1953	The Studebaker Story	John Mohler Studebaker	0
78	1953	Born to the Saddle	Matt Daggett	50
79	1953	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms	Capt. Jackson	65
80	1955	A Wind from the South	Robert	57
81	1960	I'll Give My Life		60
82	1960	13 Ghosts	Cyrus Zorba	57
83	1961	Five Minutes to Live	Kenneth Wilson	55
84	1964	Kissin' Cousins	General Alvin Donford	47
85	1966	Moment to Moment	Mr. Singer	51
86	1966	Dimension 5	Kane	48
87	1967	Tammy and the Millionaire	John Brent	50
88	1968	A Time to Sing	Vernon Carter	50
89	1969	Istanbul Express	Shepherd	51
90	1969	True Grit	"Barlow"	73

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
2	1949	Lights Out		53
3	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		56
4	1951	Craig Kennedy, Criminologist	Craig Kennedy	0
5	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Kirby Sinclair	73
6	1953	General Electric Theater		63
7	1953	General Electric Theater	Norman Frost Bennett	63
8	1953	The United States Steel Hour		62
9	1954	Inner Sanctum		70
10	1954	Portia Faces Life		10
11	1954	Lassie		61
12	1955	The Millionaire	Cobb Marley	50
13	1955	Damon Runyon Theater		0
14	1957	Hotel Cosmopolitan		0
15	1957	Wagon Train	Philip Ayers	63
16	1958	Bat Masterson	Roger Purcell	61
17	1958	77 Sunset Strip		67
18	1959	Tightrope		55
19	1959	Men Into Space		70
20	1959	The Rebel	Sam Moss	51
21	1959	Bourbon Street Beat		50
22	1960	Thriller	Dr. John Carmody	64
23	1961	Ben Casey		56
24	1962	Sam Benedict		60
25	1962	Stoney Burke		57
26	1965	The Wild Wild West		75
27	1965	Tammy	John Brent	50
28	1966	Felony Squad		64
29	1967	Ironside		68
30	1967	Hondo		65
31	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
32	1972	The Sandy Duncan Show		0
33	1973	Police Story		69

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