Woody Strode

Acting · Born 1914-07-25 in 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).

Filmography

• Spartacus as Draba
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Pompey
• The Professionals as Jake
• The Ten Commandments as King of Ethiopia
• Once Upon a Time in the West as Frank's Gunman
• Genghis Khan as Sengal
• The Buccaneer as Toro
• Kingdom of the Spiders as Walter Colby
• Bride of the Gorilla as Nedo
• Keoma as George

TV

• The Lieutenant as Sgt. Logan Holt
• Batman as Grand Mogul
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Sgt. 'Big Red' MacMurthy