Woody Strode
Actor
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 1960
The Quick and the Dead
as Charlies Moonlight 1995
The Ten Commandments
as King of Ethiopia 1956
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Pompey 1962
The Cotton Club
as Holmes 1984
The Professionals
as Jake 1966
Boot Hill
as Thomas 1969
Keoma
as George 1976
Two Rode Together
as Stone Calf 1961
Kingdom of the Spiders
as Walter Colby 1977
Sergeant Rutledge
as 1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge 1960
The Italian Connection
as Frank Webster 1972
Vigilante
as Rake 1983
Shalako
as Chato 1968
Posse
as Storyteller 1993
Demetrius and the Gladiators
as Gladiator 1954