death_place death_date birth_place birth_date yearsactive article_title name occupation
los angeles , california , usa 28 december 1968 cleveland , ohio , usa 5 may 1889 1923-1958 harry woods -lrb- actor -rrb-
 harry woods actor
harry woods -lrb- actor -rrb-

harry woods -lrb- may 5 , 1889 -- december 28 , 1968 -rrb- 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 -lrb- the banker or saloon owner who secretly runs the bandit gang terrorizing the area -rrb- 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 .
his son , harry lewis woods , jr. , followed in his footsteps and acted in the 1940s and 1950s as craig woods .
