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Douglas Wood (October 31, 1880 – January 13, 1966) was an American actor of stage and screen during the first six decades of the 20th century. Born on Halloween 1880 (October 31), his mother, Ida Jeffreys, was a stage actress. During the course of his career, Wood would appear in dozens of Broadway productions, and well over 100 films. Towards the end of his career, he would also make several guest appearances on television. Wood died in 1966. At the end of 1933, Wood began work on his first film, with a supporting role in David Butler's comedy, Bottom's Up, starring Spencer Tracy. The following year he would originate the role in talking pictures of Wopsle in Stuart Walker's 1934 production of Great Expectations. Over the next 20 years he would appear in over 125 films, mostly in smaller and supporting roles. In 1937 he would appear in a small role in Maytime, the sound version of the 1910s play in which he had starred. Other notable films in which he appeared include: Two Against the World (1936), starring Humphrey Bogart; the Abbott and Costello vehicle, Buck Privates (1941); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), starring Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, and Claude Rains; Howard Hawk's 1941 classic, Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper; and The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), starring Fredric March.
During the 1950s, Wood appeared in a handful of pictures, mostly B-films. During the early and mid-1950s Wood would make several guest appearances on several television series, including The Lone Ranger (1950–51), Fireside Theater (1952-53), and Topper (1954). His final screen performance would be in a small role in That Certain Feeling (1956), starring Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, and George Sanders. In 1958 Wood returned to the Broadway stage with a supporting role in Jane Eyre, it would be his final acting performance. Wood died on January 13, 1966 in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles, California.
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01 December 1936
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
15 November 1951
After conning a potential buyer into believing that Queenie's herd is diseased, nasty would-be empire builder Duke Drake is confronted by the girl's new tough foreman Bill Foster.
29 March 1946
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
05 November 1947
Socialite Cathy Abbott is working in the chorus of a Broadway show instead of being enrolled at an exclusive girl's school as her parents think.
11 July 1936
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
02 June 1936
A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends.
01 November 1950
Western tale of a special agent (Bill Edwards) unravelling a series of rustlings on and around Cooleh
12 April 1934
Three smart film-flammers help a homeless little girl to love and happiness by making monkeys out of Hollywood's big movie moguls.
27 October 1955
A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead--among them a rich husband she wouldn't divorce unless he paid her a huge settlement, a lover she caused to be fired from his job and an assistant whose fiancé she tried to seduce.
11 January 1940
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family.
08 December 1935
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
23 March 1935
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
27 June 1935
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
23 November 1934
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed.
01 February 1949
A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to stop it from having a television station built on it.
08 October 1943
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel.
06 October 1948
Patty Nelson lands a job as a singer with orchestra leader Al Tyler, and tours with the band as "Patty Hart.
27 December 1935
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
12 February 1938
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands.
06 August 1942
Nurses parachuting.
10 April 1946
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
19 January 1949
A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find their fortunes turning.
19 June 1947
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives.
16 October 1937
The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
30 October 1937
American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
21 September 1937
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem.
26 October 1939
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
18 January 1946
A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
02 September 1938
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
27 September 1940
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller.
09 January 1947
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series.
31 October 1944
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
28 May 1937
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
17 May 1940
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
30 May 1941
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead.
15 December 1947
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
28 January 1944
A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.
19 February 1943
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
10 May 1945
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
11 August 1943
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.
22 August 1934
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie.
20 November 1937
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn.
04 May 1945
A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.
17 November 1934
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A.
27 September 1941
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
29 December 1943
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
14 June 1940
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
10 June 1939
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
05 July 1940
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
31 January 1941
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor.
21 June 1935
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor.
11 May 1936
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
30 August 1940
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
31 December 1942
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht.
13 May 1943
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment.
29 September 1945
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.
09 October 1936
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well.
20 February 1946
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss.
30 October 1945
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
22 January 1945
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
