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Harry Woods

Acting

Born May 4, 1889 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Died December 28, 1968

Also known as Harry Lewis Woods · Harry Wood · H.L. Woods

Biography

Harry Woods was born on May 5, 1889 in Cleveland, Ohio, as Harry Lewis Woods. He was an actor, known for Monkey Business (1931), Road to Rio (1947) and Days of Jesse James (1939). He was married to Helen P. He died on December 28, 1968 in Los Angeles, California. One of Hollywood's all-time meanest villains - Although his imposing size, perpetual scowl, snarling voice and all-around evil demeanor made him one of the meanest of screen villains, before he became an actor Woods made a living selling ladies' hats.

Filmography50+ titles

South of Monterey

1946as Bennet

Come On, Rangers

1938as Morgan Burke

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

1932as Prison Guard (uncredited)

Code of the West

1947as Nate Hatfield

Wanderer of the Wasteland

1945as Guerd Eliott

My Darling Clementine

1946as Luke (uncredited)

Ticket to Paradise

1936as John Dawson

The Ranger and the Lady

1940as Kincaid

Palmy Days

1931as Yolando's Henchman

Sheriff of Tombstone

1941as Shotgun Cassidy

The Man in the Iron Mask

1939as First Officer

The House of the Seven Gables

1940as Mr. Wainwright

Winners of the West

1940as King Carter

Beau Geste

1939as Renoir

The Phantom Rider

1936as Harvey Delaney

Monkey Business

1931as Alky Briggs

The Sheepman

1958as Rancher (uncredited)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949as Karl Rynders (uncredited)

The Scarlet Empress

1934

The Fountainhead

1949as Quarry Superintendent (uncredited)

Tall in the Saddle

1944as George Clews

Nevada

1944as Joe Powell

The Long Voyage Home

1940as Amindra First Mate

Rancho Notorious

1952as Marshal McDonald (uncredited)

Short Grass

1950as Sam Dreen

Wild Horse Mesa

1947as Jay Olmstead

Westward Bound

1944as Roger Caldwell

Down Texas Way

1942as Bert Logan

Riders of the West

1942as Duke Mason

Romance on the Range

1942as Cabin Henchman Steve

The Plainsman

1936as Quartermaster Sergeant

Hellfire

1949as Lew Stoner

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

1942as Kurt (uncredited)

Dark Command

1940as Man in Fight with Seton

Call of the Rockies

1944as J. B. Murdock

West of the Law

1942as Jim Rand

The St. Louis Kid

1934as Louie Munn

Sunset Pass

1946as Cinnabar

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1943as Mongol Guard (uncredited)

The Spoilers

1942as Disgruntled Miner (uncredited)

Call of the Wild

1935as Soapy Smith (uncredited)

Silver River

1948as Riverboat Poker Player (uncredited)

Belle of the Nineties

1934as Slade

Thunder Mountain

1947as Trimble Carson

In Old Caliente

1939as Curly Calkins

Dynamite Dan

1924as Brute Lacy

Backfire

1950as Dick Manning - Man from Detroit (uncredited)

Lone Star

1952

Today I Hang

1942as Henry Courtney

Isle Of Destiny

1940as Capt. Lawson