Woody Strode
Acting
July 25, 1914
Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
An athlete turned actor, Strode was a top-notch decathlete and a football star at UCLA. He became part of Hollywood lore after meeting director John Ford and becoming a part of the Ford "family," appearing in four Ford motion pictures. Strode also played the powerful gladiator who does battle with Kirk Douglas in Spartacus (1960).
Movies
The Ten Commandments
1956
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
Spartacus
1960
No Time for Love
1943
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
The Quick and the Dead
1995
Kingdom of the Spiders
1977
City Beneath the Sea
1953
Jungle Warriors
1984
Genghis Khan
1965
Shalako
1968
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
The Cotton Club
1984
The Royal African Rifles
1953
Jaguar Lives!
1979
The Revengers
1972
Scream
1981
Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954
Vigilante
1983
Che!
1969
