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Donald Woods (December 2, 1906 – March 5, 1998) was a Canadian-American film and television actor whose career spanned six decades. He was the older brother of Canadian-born actor Russell Conway, born Russell Clarence Zink, in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, on April 25, 1913. == Life and career == Born Ralph L. Zink in Brandon, Manitoba, Woods moved with his family to California and was raised in Burbank. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and made his film debut in 1928. His screen career was spent mostly in B movies, for example as lawyer Perry Mason in the 1937 film ''The Case of the Stuttering Bishop''. He also occasionally played major roles in bigger feature films like ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1935), ''Anthony Adverse'' (1936), ''Watch on the Rhine'' (1943), ''The Bridge of San Luis Rey'' (1944), and ''Roughly Speaking'' (1945). Of considerable importance to his acting career were several seasons as leading man with the Elitch Gardens Theatre Company in Denver, Colorado, where he performed in 1932, 1933, 1939, 1941, 1947, and 1948. In the early days of television, Woods appeared as the title character in the 1951 TV series ''Craig Kennedy, Criminologist'', and such anthology series as ''The Philco Television Playhouse'', ''Armstrong Circle Theatre'', ''Robert Montgomery Presents'', ''The United States Steel Hour'', ''Crossroads'', and ''General Electric Theater''. On April 11, 1961, Woods appeared as "Profesor Landfield" in the episode "Two for the Gallows" on NBC's ''Laramie'' western series. Series character Slim Sherman (John Smith) is hired under false pretenses to take Landfield into the Badlands to seek gold. Landfield, however, is really Morgan Bennett, a member of the former Henry Plummer gang who has escaped from prison. Slim has no idea that Lanfield is seeking the loot that his gang had hidden away. Series character Jess Harper (Robert Fuller), Pete Dixon, played by Warren Oates, and Pete's younger brother soon come to Slim's aid. The title stems from the talk that the undisciplined Dixon brothers might eventually wind up on a hangman's noose.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Laramie: Two for the Gallows )〕 Woods later was a regular on the short-lived series ''Tammy'' and made guest appearances on ''Bat Masterson'', ''Wagon Train'', ''Ben Casey'', ''77 Sunset Strip'', ''Hawaiian Eye'', ''Stoney Burke'', ''Bourbon Street Beat'', ''Bonanza'', ''Coronet Blue'', ''Ironside'', ''Alias Smith and Jones'' and ''Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law'', among many others before retiring from acting in 1976. Besides his film career, he also worked as a successful real estate broker in Palm Springs where he lived with his wife, childhood sweetheart Josephine Van der Horck. They were married from 1933 until his death and had two children, Linda and Conrad. He was interred at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donald Woods (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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