1906-12-02 ( 118 years old ) in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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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.
Movies
True Grit
1969-06-11
Istanbul Express
1969-03-07
A Time to Sing
1968-08-15
Tammy and the Millionaire
1967-05-01
Dimension 5
1966-10-01
Moment to Moment
1966-01-27
Kissin' Cousins
1964-03-06
Five Minutes to Live
1961-12-07
13 Ghosts
1960-07-18
I'll Give My Life
1960-02-03
A Wind from the South
1955-09-14
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953-06-13
Born to the Saddle
1953-03-15
The Studebaker Story
1953-01-01
Tall, Dark and Dead
1952-01-01
All That I Have
1951-10-01
Mr. Music
1950-12-08
The Lost Volcano
1950-06-25
Johnny One-Eye
1950-05-05
Barbary Pirate
1949-11-10
Free For All
1949-11-01
Scene of the Crime
1949-07-28
Daughter of the West
1949-02-15
The Return of Rin Tin Tin
1947-11-01
Stepchild
1947-06-07
Bells of San Fernando
1947-03-01
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946-12-26
Never Say Goodbye
1946-11-09
Goodbye, Weeds
1946-10-30
Night and Day
1946-07-02
Star in the Night
1945-10-13
Wonder Man
1945-06-08
Roughly Speaking
1945-01-31
Hollywood Canteen
1944-12-15
Enemy of Women
1944-11-10
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944-02-11
Hi'ya, Sailor
1943-10-08
So's Your Uncle
1943-09-01
Watch on the Rhine
1943-08-27
Corregidor
1943-03-29
The Gay Sisters
1942-08-01
March On, America!
1942-06-20
Thru Different Eyes
1942-06-19
I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
1941-08-04
Bachelor Daddy
1941-06-04
Sky Raiders
1941-04-08
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940-10-29
Young America Flies
1940-07-13
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
1940-06-07
If I Had My Way
1940-05-05
Forgotten Girls
1940-03-15
City of Chance
1940-01-13
Mexican Spitfire
1940-01-12
Heritage of the Desert
1939-06-23
The Girl from Mexico
1939-06-01
Beauty for the Asking
1939-02-24
Danger on the Air
1938-06-30
Romance on the Run
1938-05-11
The Black Doll
1938-01-31
Big Town Girl
1937-12-03
Charlie Chan on Broadway
1937-09-22
Talent Scout
1937-07-24
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937-06-08
Sea Devils
1937-02-19
Once a Doctor
1937-01-23
Breakdowns of 1936
1936-12-30
Isle of Fury
1936-10-10
Anthony Adverse
1936-08-26
A Son Comes Home
1936-07-31
The Song of a Nation
1936-07-04
The White Angel
1936-06-25
The Making of a Great Motion Picture
1936-04-15
Road Gang
1936-03-28
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936-02-22
A Dream Comes True
1935-12-31
A Tale of Two Cities
1935-12-25
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935-12-01
Frisco Kid
1935-11-30
Stranded
1935-06-29
The Case of the Curious Bride
1935-04-13
The Florentine Dagger
1935-03-30
Sweet Adeline
1934-12-29
She Was a Lady
1934-08-22
Charlie Chan's Courage
1934-07-06
Fog Over Frisco
1934-06-02
Merry Wives of Reno
1934-04-18
Hollywood Newsreel
1934-03-24
As the Earth Turns
1934-02-14
Motorboat Mamas
1928-09-30
Motorboat Mamas
1928-09-30
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