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Dimension 5

as Kane

1966
Kissin' Cousins

as General Alvin Donford

1964
Five Minutes to Live

as Kenneth Wilson

1961
13 Ghosts

as Cyrus Zorba

1960
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

as Capt. Jackson

1953
Johnny One-Eye

as Vet

1950
The Lost Volcano

as Paul Gordon

1950
Mr. Music

as Tippy Carpenter

1950
Free For All

as Roger Abernathy

1949
Daughter of the West

as Commissioner Ralph C. Connors

1949
Roughly Speaking

as Rodney Crane

1945
Enemy of Women

as Dr. Hans Traeger, MD

1944
Watch on the Rhine

as David Farrelly

1943
Corregidor

as Dr. Michael

1943
Hi'ya, Sailor

as Bob Jackson

1943
The Gay Sisters

as Penn Sutherland Gaylord

1942
Sky Raiders

as Captain Bob Dayton

1941
City of Chance

as Steve Walker

1940
The Girl from Mexico

as Dennis Lindsay

1939
Heritage of the Desert

as John Abbott

1939
Danger on the Air

as Benjamin Butts

1938
The Black Doll

as Nick Halstead

1938
Charlie Chan on Broadway

as Speed Patten, Reporter New York Bulletin

1937
Sea Devils

as Steve Webb

1937
Talent Scout

as Steve Stewart

1937
Anthony Adverse

as Vincent Nolte

1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur

as Dr. Jean Martel

1936
Donald Woods Donald Woods

Birthday

1906-12-02

Place of Birth

Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Biography

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.
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