Harry Woods
Actor, Film actor
1889 – 1968
Who was Harry Woods?
Harry Woods was an American film actor, born in Cleveland, Ohio. He appeared in nearly 250 films between 1923 and 1958. During his 35-year film career he acquired a reputation as a screen villain par excellence; his imposing size, powerful build, piercing eyes and snarling voice typed him as a bad guy to be reckoned with. He seldom played ordinary henchmen, usually cast as both the brains and the brawn behind the local villainy. Well respected by his peers—another prime screen villain, Roy Barcroft, once said of him, "Everything I know about being a bad guy I learned from Harry Woods"—he enjoyed a long career in films before retiring in 1958, and he died in Los Angeles ten years later from uremia.
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- Born
- May 5, 1889
Cleveland - Also known as
- Harry Lewis Woods
- H.L. Woods
- Harry Wood
- Harry L. Woods
- H. L. Woods
- Spouses
- Helen P. Woods
( - 1968/12/28)
- Helen P. Woods
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 28, 1968
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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