Robert Woods (actor)

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Robert Woods (born July 19, 1936 in Colorado ) is an American actor .

Life

Robert Woods grew up as an adopted child on a ranch near Granby , Colorado. Just before the start of World War II , the family moved to Boulder . At the age of 16, he broke the high school , and hitchhiked through California . He then joined the United States Navy , where he was stationed in San Diego for training . Following basic training, he served on the destroyer Charles S. Sperry . During his tenure in the Navy, he took the General Educational Development Test , a second pathway, to graduate from high school and then went on to distance learning . After his honorable discharge, he studied English at San Diego State University . In addition, he began performing in talent competitions. On the advice of a local acting teacher, he changed his subject and began training as an actor.

After graduating, Woods moved to Hollywood in hopes of a feature film career . However, he could not assert himself in any casting for months , so he tried himself as an extra . He was able to win a casting as a stunt double for George Hamilton for the comedy film This Include Two . On the set of the film with Connie Francis and Yvette Mimieux , he was also given a small speaking role. In the following years he stayed afloat with various activities, including at Olivetti-Underwood . In 1962 he was offered a role in Otto Preminger's Der Kardinal ; he was supposed to travel to Europe at his own expense , where parts of the film were shot. In Paris he met Helmut Newton by chance and was contracted by him as a model . He also played in an English-language theater , where the Spanish film producer Alfonso Balcázar noticed him and signed him. During the shooting of the western The Hunted of the Sierra Nevada , however, tensions arose between the two, whereupon the film contract originally concluded for five films was terminated after the first film. Woods then looked for an agent and got a role in the star-studded war film The Last Battle that same year . From the mid-1960s he played in a variety of spaghetti westerns , and in the early 1970s he also played a number of roles in horror films . He then returned to the United States, where he could not build on his European successes and only played a few, smaller roles.

Occasionally he appears in the credits as Robert Wood .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Interview with Robert Woods (English)
personal data
SURNAME Woods, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woods, Bob; Wood, Robert; Woods, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Colorado , United States