Harry Lewis Woods
Harry Woods (born Harry Lewis Woods on May 5, 1889 in Cleveland , Ohio , † December 28, 1968 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor .
Life
Woods worked as a salesman prior to his film career. After his marriage to Helen Hookberry in 1911, the two moved to Akron , Ohio. Harry began filming for Hal Roach Studios in the 1920s . During his nearly 40-year film career, Woods appeared in nearly 250 films. Due to his impressive height of two meters, Woods was very often cast as a film villain, mostly in Westerns of the B-category . In larger film productions he often had to be content with only small supporting roles that were not mentioned in the credits. His beefy stature has also been used for comedic purposes in some films, for example Laurel and Hardy accidentally mess with the physically superior Woods in their comedy Die Klotzköpfe (1938). From the 1950s onwards, Woods also appeared in front of the camera for a number of television series, his last role in 1961 at the age of 72 as a guest actor in the western series Lawman .
Harry had three sons with Helen, of whom Harry Lewis Woods Jr. was also active as an actor under the pseudonym Craig Woods (1918-1974). Harry Lewis Woods remained married to Helen until his death and died of uremia in December 1968 at the age of 79 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1923: Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande
- 1923: The Steel Trail
- 1926: His mother's avenger (A Regular Scout)
- 1927: A Bandit of Honor (Jesse James)
- 1928: The Devils of the North Sea (The Viking)
- 1931: The Marx Brothers at Sea (Monkey Business)
- 1932: Raid on Silver City (Texas Gun Fighter)
- 1932: Law and Order (Law and Order)
- 1932: Hunt for James A. (also I am an escaped chain convict , I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang )
- 1934: Wonder Bar
- 1934: The St. Louis Kid
- 1936: The Plainsman (The Plainsman)
- 1936: Dangerous cargo (human cargo)
- 1937: The attack on the Gold Express (Courage of the West)
- 1937: Ali Baba Goes to Town
- 1938: Laurel and Hardy: The Block-Heads
- 1938: The Buccaneer of Louisiana
- 1939: The Frechdachs of Arizona (The Arizona Wildcat)
- 1939: The Man in the Iron Mask (The Man with the Iron Mask)
- 1939: Three Foreign Legionnaires (Beau Geste)
- 1940: The Pearl Raiders of Pago-Pago (South of Pago Pago)
- 1940: The Long Voyage Home (The Long Voyage Home)
- 1940: The House of the Seven Gables
- 1941: Sheriff of Tombstone (Sheriff of Tombstone)
- 1942: Pirates in the Caribbean Sea (Reap the Wild Wind)
- 1942: The Secret Weapon (Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon)
- 1944: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- 1944: With rifle and lasso (Tall in the Saddle)
- 1946: Law of the Prairie (My Darling Clementine)
- 1947: The Kansas Death Riders (Trail Street)
- 1947: The Double Life of Walter Mitty (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
- 1947: The Road to Rio (Road to Rio)
- 1947: Hyenas of the Prairie (Wyoming)
- 1948: The Adventures of Don Juan
- 1948: The Rough Horsemen of the Fearless Legion (The Gallant Legion)
- 1949: outlawed (Colorado Territory)
- 1949: The Devil's Captain (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
- 1949: A Man Like Explosives (The Fountainhead)
- 1952: Man against Man (Lone Star)
- 1953: The Texas Rangers (TV series, episode)
- 1953: Railway detective Matt Clark (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1956: The Ten Commandments (The Ten Commandments)
- 1957-1960: Smoking Colts (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1958: The Sheepman in Colorado
- 1958–1960: Wild West Arizona ( Tombstone Territory ; TV series, 6 episodes)
Web links
- Harry Lewis Woods in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry Woods Bio on b-westerns.com (English), accessed August 21, 2019
- ↑ Craig Woods at the Internet Movie Database. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woods, Harry Lewis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Woods, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1968 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |