Biography: Donald Woods |

Handsome Hollywood "second lead" Donald Woods came from the stage to films in 1934. He played a few unremarkable roles before rising to prominence as Charles Darnay in the 1935 version of A Tale of Two Cities. He spent the 1940s and 1950s heading the... more
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Tammy and the Millionaire (1967)
Tags: Drama 
Length: 87min
In this drama, sweet and honest Tammy is hired as a secretary by a powerful industrialist with a handsome young son. Meanwhile a society dame is angered that the millionaire hired Tammy because she wanted her own girl to have a shot at the son. To...

Tags: Thriller Crime Crime Thriller 
Length: 80min
Johnny Cabot (Johnny Cash) is a bloodthirsty New Jersey gangster who is forced to hide out in a small California suburb after killing a cop during a job gone wrong. He's given a chance to get back in the game by Fred Dorella (Vic Tayback), a crook...

Cast: Martin Milner Margaret Hamilton   
Tags: Haunted House Film Horror 
Length: 88min
Gimmick-loving producer William Castle strikes again with this fun haunted-house thriller which invited audiences to find the hidden ghosts roaming about a haunted house through a special process called "Illusion-O" by which patrons could employ a...

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Cast: Ray Harryhausen Cecil Kellaway   
Tags: Prehistoric Fantasy Horror Creature Film 
Length: 80min
A longtime "dream" project of production designer-turned-director Eugene Lourie, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms sees the titular beast unleashed on the world via nuclear testing. Making its way from the Arctic Circle, the monster-a carnivorous...

Tags: Adventure 
Length: 64min
Quickie king Sam Katzman was responsible for the 64-minute swashbuckler Barbary Pirate. Set mostly in the bay of Tripoli in the early 19th century, the film stars Donald Woods as American army officer Tom Blake. Hoping to trap the titular pirates,...

Cast: Walter Mirisch Marjorie Lord John Ridgely Johnny Sheffield Elena Verdugo   
Tags: Action Adventure 
Length: 67min
The Lost Volcano is the 3rd entry in Monogram's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. Johnny Sheffield, formerly "Boy" in the Tarzan pictures, stars as Bomba. In this outing, Our Hero sets out to rescue David (Tommy Ivo), the kidnapped son of...

Tags: Docudrama Drama Western 
Length: 74min
Bells of San Fernando was advertised as a romantic adventure, but it plays more like a Western. Donald Woods plays an Irish immigrant who teams with Mexican gal Gloria Warren to combat land baron Anthony Warde. Whenever the plot lags, Warren sings....

Cast: Robert Cummings Percy Kilbride Robert Buckner Bernard Herzbrun George Robinson   
Tags: Comedy 
Length: 120min
A pleasant comedy with serious undertones, Free for All stars Robert Cummings as erstwhile inventor Christopher Parker. Hoping to secure a patent on his latest invention--a formula that turns water into gasoline--Parker is flummoxed by yards and yards...

Cast: William Farnum Donald Woods   
Length: 76min
Martha Vickers was given a rare leading-role opportunity in Daughter of the West. Vickers plays Lolita Moreno, a part-Native American girl who falls in love with college-educated Navajo Navo (Philip Reed). The film's Indian characters are depicted in...

The Return of Rin Tin Tin (1947)
Cast: Gaylord "Steve" Pendleton   
Tags: Family Family-Oriented Adventure Animal Picture 
Length: 67min
Actually it's Rin Tin Tin III, grandson of the legendary silent-movie canine star. Filmed in less than glorious Vitacolor, Return of Rin Tin Tin stars Donald Woods as an American priest assigned to a postwar European mission. Bobby Blake (later...

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