Woody Woodbury

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Woody Woodbury (* 9 February 1924 in St. Paul , Minnesota as Robert Dennis Woodbury ) is a former American comedian , actor and a TV personality and talk show host.

life and career

Woody Woodbury was born on February 9, 1924 under the name Robert Dennis Woodbury as the only boy of his parents, next to three girls, in St. Paul, the capital of the US state Minnesota. He had an early interest in music and even as a child he founded a ten-piece orchestra with the neighboring children. He was also interested in sports, especially in ice hockey , had to stop his interest in a sports career after a broken leg and concentrated more on jazz , swing and classical piano playing. His plan to study journalism at the University of Minnesota from January 1942 was dashed by World War II . After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he was enlisted in the military and began the Aviation Cadet Program of the US Navy . In the course of his service he also got his nickname Woody , which remained with him throughout his life. During his time as an aviator, he was trained at various training centers and air bases, but then switched to the US Marines , where he completed his flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola . Subsequently, he was ordered to Naval Air Station Daytona Beach , where he flew fighter planes from then on. During his time at Daytona Beach , Woodbury noted that his comedian credits, coupled with playing the piano, raised the morale of his comrades in the squad.

While many of his comrades were sent to the Pacific War , Woodbury came to Naval Air Station Jacksonville , where he attended the flight school there, and later returned to Daytona Beach and trained the recruits there in handling fighter jets. Since he was not involved in any acts of war up to this point in time, he wanted, like his other comrades, to serve his homeland in the war, but this was ignored by his superiors for months. After he was ordered to the new Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro near Irvine in the US state of California, after six months , he thought he could still take part in the war, but was employed there as a piano player to raise morale. After that, it took more years before he was ordered by Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar to fly a fighter plane in the planned invasion of Japan . With the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the associated end of World War II in Asia, this arrangement was nullified and Woodbury was honorably discharged from the military. After his return or homecoming to Daytona Beach, he first tried publicly as a comedian. One of his first appearances was an appearance at the very exclusive Bath and Tennis Club in Daytona in 1946.

From here he moved to the Peacock Club and the Embassy , two gambling clubs in Jacksonville , Florida that he knew from his time at the local Naval Air Station. In November 1948 he moved south to the Clover Club in Miami , one of the top addresses on Biscayne Boulevard at the time. Initially only supposed to work for two weeks at the club in South Florida , after a year he had dozens of job offers. At the Clover Club , he also began the performances for which he would become famous. Sitting at the piano and captivating the guests with stories from everyday life, Woody Woodbury came to fame so quickly. Over the years his trademarks have become a red polo shirt with a raised collar and a mostly gray cap, similar to a baseball cap . In parallel to his regular stage appearances, he also acted as the club's Master of Ceremonies . After a long stint at the Clover Club , he moved down the street to the Arthur Godfrey Room in the Vagabond . However, his time in the Vagabond was interrupted by the outbreak of the Korean War, after which Woodbury was drafted back into military service and, as a seasoned fighter pilot, flew over 100 missions in Korea between 1950 and 1953. After the end of the war he came back to the Clover Club , where he was then employed until May 1955.

Through his agent at the time, he came to Fort Lauderdale , where he became a local celebrity when he performed in the Chart Room at the Bahama Hotel . After he appeared there from November 1956, he not only lured the local audience to the hotel, but was also admired by numerous greats from the show business , which made the Bahama Hotel one of the hotspots of nightlife in southern Florida. He was also discovered in the Bahama by Fletcher Smith , a retired animator and special effects expert who had worked with Max Fleischer at Fleischer Studios , among others . This wanted to record his appearances, whereby in 1958 and 1959 the album Woody Woodbury Looks At Love And Life was released on Smith's label StereOddities . The album hit the top 10 on the Billboard LP chart and went gold in the United States, making Woodbury one of the first stand-up comedians to receive a gold record . Further albums followed in the following years with Woody Woodbury's Laughing Room and First Annual Message From The President Of The "Booze Is the Only Answer" Club (both 1960), as well as Woody Woodbury's Concert In Comedy and Woody Woodbury's Saloonatics (both 1961).

While on hiatus from South Florida, he was approached by an advertising producer who put him in touch with television producer Don Fedderson in June 1962 while performing at Mister Kelly’s famous Chicago nightclub . He was looking for a replacement for Johnny Carson , who had migrated to The Tonight Show , and who had been playing the TV show Who Do You Trust? moderated. Shortly thereafter, he appeared under Jack Paar in two episodes of the Tonight Show before Carson took over the show in early October 1962. Subsequently, Woodbury Carsons took over previous roles as host of the game show Who Do You Trust? which, however, was completely discontinued a year later to make room for soap operas . In 1962 Woodbury also released another album entitled Woody Woodbury In The Spice Is Right , in keeping with his work as a game show host and with reference to The Price Is Right . He also made his first film appearance that year when he appeared in the baseball film Safe at Home! with the baseball pros Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in a minor role as a hotel porter.

After another Woodbury album, The Best Of Woody Woodbury , was released in the following year and he shone through his TV presence and his work as a comedian, he was hired for the beach party film Beach Party by Moonlight , released in 1964 , where he worked in Film itself played. A year later, Woodbury's eighth album Thru The Keyhole With Woody Woodbury was released; In 1967 he received his own talk show called The Woody Woodbury Show , which he hosted until it was discontinued in 1968. In the 90-minute show, he worked with producer Ralph Edwards , who had the show shot in Hollywood . During this time he hosted some of the greatest Hollywood personalities of the time. The show is now unrecorded as the tapes the show was on were erased and re-recorded, a not uncommon practice at the time. Since Edwards asked Woodbury to act more snappy and controversial, which was not in Woodbury's nature and personality, the show came to an early end, after which the comedian returned to South Florida.

Back in Fort Lauderdale, he returned to the nightclub scene, performing again as a piano comedian and joke teller. Among other things, he performed in the LuluBelle Room in the Beach Club Hotel for ten years , but also had appearances throughout the United States and even in Europe during the summer months and weeks when there were no games. He also appeared on various talk shows, including one episode each of The Joey Bishop Show (1969), Della (1969), The Virginia Graham Show (1970), The Bob Braun Show (1975) and in the variety show Hee Haw (1980). But Woody Woodbury, who released another album called More Of Woody in 1973, was also seen as a film actor . After he appeared in Missing in the Bermuda Triangle by William A. Graham in 1975 and in the lead role with Fred MacMurray as Harry Ballinger and was seen in the minor supporting role of Borden , he had his first appearances in productions with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill from 1978 . In Sergio Corbucci's Two Unstoppable , he was seen in the supporting role of Admiral O'Connor . After an appearance as a police officer in prison in Alles in Handarbeit , by and with Jerry Lewis , in 1980, he was also booked for The Supercop with Terence Hill in the same year . He played a major at NASA , followed by a role as an agent on the plane in Two Strong As A Bear , where he appeared again at the side of Spencer and Hill.

After that, it became largely quiet around Woodbury, who, however, continued to appear in various clubs in and around Fort Lauderdale and is even said to have run a comedy nightclub. However, he continued to perform throughout the country before he largely withdrew from public life. In 2001 he released his tenth and so far last album entitled Woody Woodbury's Merriment . On May 26, 2012, Woody Woodbury was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler and received a place on the Fort Lauderdale Walk Of Fame . On 18 February 2014 called Mayor Seiler, 90. according Woodburys birthday, at a ceremony in Fort Lauderdale City Hall to Woody Woodbury tag from. Woodbury still appears occasionally as a comedian, but is more active as a Master of Ceremonies at golf tournaments, charity events and the like. He mostly only appears as a comedian in country clubs and at private and private celebrations.

Woody Woodburys German speaking voice actors

Over the course of his career, Woody Woodbury had various voice actors in the various German-language dubbed versions of the film in which he was involved. As one of the most frequent dubbing actors, however, Horst Schön appeared, who lent him the voice in Zwei sind nicht zu haltern and Der Supercop . On the other hand, Christian Marschall was his German voice in Zwei bear strong types . Nothing is known about his voice actors in the other German-language dubbed versions.

Discography

  • 1958 and 1959: Woody Woodbury Looks At Love And Life
  • 1960: Woody Woodbury's Laughing Room
  • 1960: First Annual Message From The President Of The "Booze Is the Only Answer" Club
  • 1961: Woody Woodbury's Concert In Comedy
  • 1961: Woody Woodbury's Saloonatics
  • 1962: Woody Woodbury In The Spice Is Right
  • 1963: The Best Of Woody Woodbury
  • 1964: Thru The Keyhole With Woody Woodbury
  • 1973: More Of Woody
  • 2001: Woody Woodbury's Merriment

Filmography

in film roles
  • 1962: Safe at Home!
  • 1964: Beach Party by Moonlight ( For Those Who Think Young )
  • 1975: Missing in the Bermuda Triangle ( Beyond the Bermuda Triangle )
  • 1978: Two cannot be stopped ( Pari e dispari )
  • 1980: Everything by hand ( Hardly Working )
  • 1980: The Supercop ( Poliziotto superpiù )
  • 1983: Two strong guys ( Nati con la camicia )
than himself in various shows
  • 1962–1963: Who Do You Trust? (Game show)
  • 1962: The Jack Paar Tonight Show (talk show; 2 episodes)
  • 1967–1968: The Woody Woodbury Show (talk show)
  • 1969: The Joey Bishop Show (talk show; 1 episode)
  • 1969: Della (talk show; 1 episode)
  • 1970: The Virginia Graham Show (talk show; 1 episode)
  • 1975: The Bob Braun Show (talk show; 1 episode)
  • 1980: Hee Haw (variety show; 1 episode)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Talk with Woody Woodbury - June 10th, 2004 (English), accessed April 25, 2016
  2. ↑ Interview with Woody Woodbury - Part One , accessed April 25, 2016
  3. ↑ Four Local Legends Inducted into City of Fort Lauderdale Walk of Fame , accessed April 25, 2016
  4. ↑ City of Fort Lauderdale - Walk of Fame Honorees (2010-2015 ), accessed April 25, 2016
  5. ↑ Interview with Woody Woodbury - Part Two , accessed April 25, 2016
  6. ↑ An Interview with Woody Woodbury , accessed April 25, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Woodbury, Woody
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woodbury, Robert Dennis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comedian, actor, plus a television personality and talk show host
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Paul , Minnesota