His wife is Tina Ellawee (10 May 1982 - 31 December 1994) ( his death), Luana Strode (14 October 1940 - 17 September 1980) ( her death) ( 2 children) He later said his salary in Italy went up to $10,000 a week. It deals with a black U.S. Calvary sergeant of a regiment of black troops played by Woody Strode (who appeared in several later Ford films, including his last film Seven Woman playing a Chinese warlord) who is court-marshaled for raping and killing a white woman and her father as well. Woody Strode was 6-3 (190 cm) tall. It's clear they loved him. This past August in Canton, Ohio, family members accepted the Ralph Hay Pioneer Award on the players' behalf at the enshrinement gala that precedes the NFL season. And so the studio actually tried to trick audiences into thinking that the film was about the white characters. You can unsubscribe at any time. [3], "I got a cultural educationmajored in history and education," he said in a 1971 interview. His name was the only one of the four "professionals" that was left off of the movie poster; nevertheless, the film was a major box-office success that established him as a recognizable star. The supporting cast includes Linda Cristal, Andy Devine, and John McIntire. Look instead at a debate that continues between the lawyer and the farmer about guns. Beginning with "Stagecoach" (1939), continuing from 1948 through 1950 with the Cavalry Trilogy ("Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and "Rio Grande"), and finally to 1962 and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," together in 10 features they largely formed the templates of the Hollywood Western. "It had dignity. Ransom Stoddard believes in the U. S. Constitution, the rule by law, the trust in government. Pompey actor Woody Strode remembered that Ford kept needling Duke about his failure to make it as afootballplayer, comparing him to Strode who was a former NFL player. The 6-foot, 4-inch Strode was a world-class decathlete with a body so toned that he posed nude for an exhibition of athletic portraits shown at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. And Duke came up to me one day and said, Hows it come that youve gone through this whole thing and youve never been at the bottom of the list? Professional Football Player, Actor. He was both successful and a popular draw, but he gave up wrestling due to his popularity in motion pictures. As a showdown between Stoddard and Valance Ford begins to seem inevitable, Ford creates considerable tension. An old black cowboy named Pompey ( Woody Strode) takes Hallie on a buckboard ride into the countryside where they regard the burned-out remains of Doniphon's cottage. In the article below independent historian Clarence Spigner analyzes Sergeant Rutledge and the other major films of the college football star, early National Football League player, and actor Woody Strode.. 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Woody Strode, byname of Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode, (born July 28, 1914, Los Angeles, California, U.S.died December 31, 1994, Glendora, California), American character actor who was part of director John Ford's "family" of actors, appearing in nearly a dozen of Ford's films. Indeed Hallie and Nora Ericson (Jeanette Nolan) are the only two noticeable women in town; little wonder Tom's love for Hallie is intense. Fortunately the DVD made-to-order Warner Archive specialty label is bringing back Rutledge at a lot lower price, starting next week. ), TCM Remembers 1995 in Chronological Order, American actors who appeared in spaghetti westerns. He was a decathlete and football star who was one of the first African American players in the National Football League in the postwar era. He went on to depict myriad gunslingers at home and abroad. (1978), Ravagers (1979), Jaguar Lives! [21], He had a support role in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) and a small part in The Buccaneer (1958). Strodes filmography lists 68 appearances. His more modest and more successful western, also made for Warners, and released four years earlier, in 1960, Sergeant Rutledge is remarkable and pretty advanced for its period. M, Last edited on 27 February 2023, at 14:07, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Pacific Coast Professional Football League, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, "Woody Strode (19141994) Find A Grave Memorial", "Woody Strode? On top of that, in the early 1930s, Ford also made several films with long-lambasted black character actor Stephin Fetchit, likeJudge Priest and Steamboat Around the Bend, in which he played degrading and embarrassing supporting roles, often as a slow-witted, lazy buffoon. It was the first UCLAUSC rivalry football game with national implications.[9]. "It had dignity. While in college, Strode and Washington held summer jobs at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, mostly running errands on various sound stages; he noted that most days involved standing around and waiting for someone to order something. Strode would become an assistant to some of the studios biggest stars including Bette Davis, James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland and Jane Wyman. Strode was in Storyville (1992), and Posse (1992), working with director Mario Van Peebles. Stoddard has come to town with a satchel full of law books, and hangs out his shingle at the newspaper office. But Rutledge faces it heroically and is not passive either, even breaking ranks and official orders to try to track down the evidence and the real killer who will clear him. The 5/6/70 issue of "Variety", in the Italian Films Shooting column, lists the movie "Violence" filming in Morocco, director. He was Cree and Blackfoot on his father's side and Cherokee on his mother's. That he does this by mixing in history, humorous supporting characters and a poignant romance is typical; his films were complete and self-contained in a way that approaches perfection. Trapped for life. Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (July 25, 1914 December 31, 1994) was an American athlete and actor. Posed for one of two paintings commissioned by, Reportedly, his favorite film from his career was, Played college football for the UCLA Bruins, the most integrated collegiate team in the nation in 1939, which included future NFL running back. Strode played a single season with the NFL before moving to Canada to play, according to Britannica. Met his wife, a Hawaiian princess and stand-in for the swim sequences for Dorothy Lamour. And I went on, and it went around the company: Stewart has never, hes always right up there., The day before the movie finished shooting, the cast was preparing to do the funeral scene. Acting wasnt his first passion, however, as football at Jefferson High School and UCLA brought him initial fame. "It was like I had fought Joe Louis," he recalled. And according to the actor, Ford froze, then walked away. Valuing his toughness, Ford cast Strode as Rutledge over future Oscar winners Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte. (1979), and an episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979). Wednesday, 1st March 2023See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. His illiterate students include Hallie. When Strode tried to help him, Duke knocked his co-star away. His last film was The Quick and the Dead (1995), which starred Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Russell Crowe. Pompey/Strode physically carries and thereby saves a drunken, suicidal John Wayne from his burning home. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. He is Tom's farmhand and seems to be his only confidant, a protective presence; he always has Tom's back. And he said loudly, We have an actor here who objects to the costume on Woody Strode. He then proceeded to suggest that Stewart was prejudiced Strode, who also has since died, was African-American and added that he just wanted to share Stewarts objection to Strodes costume with the whole cast. Keeping to one side, Tom Doniphon observes everything but is slow to act; his strength is silently coiled. No sentimentality or hopeful message. "I'll continue to work in Europe because I'm a star there," Strode said in 1982, per TCM. James Stewart Once Described What It Was Like Working with a Frequent John Wayne Collaborator, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5mcU74rHGM, James Stewart on what it was like to work with John Ford (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5mcU74rHGM). But the hotel we found was integratedand Count Basie was playing thereand we were fine. Then he asked someone to blow a whistle, which they did, and he called out, Everybody, would you please gather around? So they did. He was 80 years old. As they were preparing to shoot, Ford came up to Stewart and asked, What do you think of Woodys costume?. But when it came to shooting 1962s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance with Duke and Jimmy Stewart on the Paramount lot, the director opted for black and white instead. I couldn't do it. His mother was full-blooded Blackfoot, and he played often, Indians in John Ford's films. The two became friends, and Ford later gave Wayne his breakthrough role in Stagecoach, the film that launched Wayne to Hollywood stardom. He was a decathlete and football star who was one of the first Black American players in the National Football League in the postwar era. Hell, we thought we were white. German director Leni Riefenstahl called Strode the greatest physique of any athlete I have ever seen.. DON'T MISSJohn Wayne: The Searchers set revelation that saw John Ford speechless[THE SEARCHERS]How the West Was Won: Idiot drunk producer, near-death and more[HOW THE WEST WAS WON]John Wayne: Why Elvis turned down Dukes offer to co-star in Western[ELVIS]. I said, All right, where are the pluckers?" Then Strode realised, I was out in the world market with a bald head. Then he asked Stewart to come over. Tom Doniphon is a local farmer, who observes, "Liberty Valance's the toughest man south of the Picketwire--next to me." How tall was Woody Strode? In 1964, there was his penultimate work, the nearly three-hour-long roadshow western epic Cheyenne Autumn, complete with an intermission, a70MM Super Panavision print, released by Warners, which told the true story of a Cheyenne tribe who travel by foot across 1,500 miles back to their ancestral hunting grounds, while US Army troops are ordered to send them back by force if necessary. Tom Doniphon tells him that without a gun in his hand and the experience to use it, he will sooner or later certainly be killed by Valance. [11] UCLA teammate Jackie Robinson would go on to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball (in fact, Robinson, Strode, and Washington had all played in the semi-professional Pacific Coast Professional Football League earlier in the decade). "They are not household names like Jackie Robinson. Nick Faris is a features writer at theScore. He broke two ribs and a shoulder. February 11-March 6, 2022. John Ford and John Wayne together created much of the mythology of the Old West we carry in our minds. And he was dressed in blue overalls, a blue work shirt and boots. We used to sit in the best seats at the Coconut Grove (a nightclub in the Ambassador Hotel) listening to Donald Novis sing. As we got out of the L.A. area we found these racial tensions. Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks (New York: Continuum, 1992); Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) title search by key word; Woody Strode,; The Timeout Film Guide, edited by Tom Milne, Penguin Books, 3rd Edition, 1992. He arranges his characters within the frame to reflect power dynamics--or sometimes to suggest a balance is changing. Strode made his first appearance in Sundown (1941) playing a native policeman. Now Hallie has started to like this lawyer-man from the East, who starts up a one-room schoolhouse to teach people how to read. [2], He attended Thomas Jefferson High School in South East Los Angeles and college at UCLA, where he was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. I'd do that if I could. "I have the world market on my side even if I don't have the American market.". Following Cat Ballou (Oscar) this is one of 4 Westerns . Integrating the NFL was the low point of my life. Woody Strode spent decades in Hollywood working with larger-than-life names, including John Wayne, Elvis Presley and Kirk Douglas. John Ford's "Apology" Western 'Sergeant Rutledge' Starring Woody Strode Returning to DVD. In a few characters and a gripping story, Ford dramatizes the debate about guns that still continues in many Western states. "I once played a part written for an Irish prize fighter. 109 minutes. Lee Marvin moves into full blown stardom - becoming a legitimate box office titan - in one of the greatest Westerns ever made (My Favorite) starring along side Western Film Greats Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Claudia Cardinale, Ralph Belamy . Inducted into the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum and Hall of Fame in 2012-13. And on occasion, he was even known to actually physically attack them when he was not playing his patented sadistic practical jokes on them, or when he wasnt on one of his regular drinking binges, which would last for days. Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (July 25, 1914 - December 31, 1994) was an American athlete and actor. But Strode (who started his career in the early 1940s after a legendary athletic record at UCLA as a decathlete and a football star, and who died in 1994) is perfectly cast in the lead role as Rutledge and gives a powerful performance in one of the very few lead roles he ever played, among the 90+ films he appeared in, playing mostly supporting roles, sometimes even uncredited, during the early years of his film career. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Movie Images: My Favorite Film Characters of All-Time! Strode's later appearances included Cuba Crossing (1980),The Dukes of Hazzard (1980), Scream (1981), Fantasy Island (1981), Vigilante (1982), Invaders of the Lost Gold (1982), Angkor: Cambodia Express (1983), The Black Stallion Returns (1983), The Violent Breed (1984), Jungle Warriors (1984), The Cotton Club (1984), The Final Executioner (1984), Lust in the Dust (1985), On Fire (1987), and A Gathering of Old Men (1987). Inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. (One stylistic touch: In this film, he habitually calls Stoddard "Pilgrim," which expresses an insight into the lawyer's character.). Opponents from the Deep South resented having to share the field with Black men, the producer of a documentary film about the Forgotten Four, Ross Greenburg, told the UCLA newsroom in 2014. In Liberty Valance, a picture I did with Duke, Stewart recounted. Then, when the steeds had halted, he tried to pick a punch up with his younger co-star. | I make westerns.. Robinson played college football at UCLA before he shifted to baseball full time and made history. Woody lived in a modest home overlooking Glendora and the San Gabriel Valley, north east of Los Angeles about 25 miles. He broke this barrier with his teammate Kenny Washington and Cleveland Browns players Bill Willis and Marion Motley. Woody Strode was born in California. We both gotta be professionals. As James Stewart explained it, Woody Strode, the actor who was playing Waynes characters best friend, was part of the scene. Valance gives him a choice: Leave town, or face him in a shootout on Main Street. (1960's edition! Because, in his very long career as a film director, starting in the silent era in 1917, until Seven Women (his final film in 1965), he made more than his fair share of classics which still stand the test of time, like The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man. "Their actions on and off the field opened a door that allowed other people to follow.". In fact Ford started out his film career as a actor and stuntman in silent films, including D.W. Griffiths notorious The Birth of Nation as one of the Klansmen who comes to the rescue to save the lives of white people under threat by violent renegade black men. He was a decathlete and football star who was one of the first Black American players in the National Football League in the postwar era. Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his. He guest starred on The Man from Blackhawk (1960). Kalaeloa, 19462014), and a daughter, June. His big break came in 1960. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. When Ford cast Strode in Sergeant Rutledge (1960), the actor remembers the legendary director telling him: You know, Woody, its pretty rough to make a star out of you, but Im going to make you a character actor and youll make some money.. He was reluctant until they offered him $500 a week. In a long flashback involving most of the film, Ford recalls the events leading up to that day. I'd play a Viking with blue contact lenses and a blond wig.". But Ford had a cruel streak, PBS reports, and it emerged on the set of his movies. While some reviewers and historians claim he could have been a more well-known and cast minority actor if not for his size and physically strong appearance, more along the lines of Sidney Poitier, a near contemporary, Hollywood of the past and present still has few positive roles outside of the stereotypical for ethnic males. An able stuntman, Strode shot fire arrows and went so far as to bring his own 80-pound bows to set, he told The New York Times in 1971. I never got a close up in Hollywood, and Sergio framed me on the screen for five minutes. Racial discrimination slowed their progress in the game. Strode gave the Hollywood establishment what they demanded and appeared in some of the best and the worst of what they offered him. After football, he went on to become a film actor, where he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Spartacus in 1960. Sergeant Rutledge is a 1960 western film from Warner Brothers and the director John Ford. 20072023 Blackpast.org. He was an Indian in Shalako (1968) and played a gunslinger in the opening sequence of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Boston Globe December 20, 1981: 1. Ford passed away in 1974. Woody Strode. This story first appeared. While making Pork Chop Hill he became a close friend of director John Ford. Strode takes it up from there: Bob Waterfield and some guys came looking for us because theyd made arrangements for us back at the hotel, he explained. Ford discovered Wayne, then Marion Morrison, when the latter was a University of Southern California student with a summer job on a studio lot. "Sergeant Rutledge" boosted Strode's profile but didn't catapult him to superstardom, the Times wrote in 1971, surmising "he and the film, with its sympathies strongly on the side of the Black man, were ahead of their time." At 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds, Strode was an athletic marvel in his prime. Reveling in the win postgame, Strode rode a horse into the lobby of the team hotel. He served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II and later went on to have a successful career as an actor. Halfway through filming, Duke even asked Stewart why he wasnt being targeted by Fords insults too, which other members of the cast and crew had noticed. It was the only picture I did with Sergio Leonethe close ups were great, Strode said. "We were unconscious of color. Four years Strode's junior, Washington scampered for a 92-yard touchdown in 1947 and spent three seasons with the Rams before retiring. In town, he's nursed back to health by Nora and Peter Ericson, two recent Swedish immigrants who run the local chowhouse. He is a member of famous Actor with the age 80 years old group. Strode hauled in a pass while a teammate lay on the grass at the far sideline, which left that receiver wide open on the next snap. He did 1,000 push-ups, sit-ups, and knee bends daily. Strode was a college track and football star at UCLA, one of the first Blacks to integrate the NFL, a professional wrestler, a Golden Globe nominated actor, and a WWII veteran. ", - IMDb Mini Biography By: [20], He based himself in Europe from 1968 to 1971.[7]. Draba wins the contest, but instead of killing Spartacus, he attacks the Roman military commander who paid for the fight. [25], His first wife was Princess Luukialuana Kalaeloa (a.k.a. A Los Angeles native, he excelled in athletics at UCLA in the late 1930s, where he was explosive as a decathlete as well as part of the college football team that also included Jackie Robinson - he, Robinson, and future NFL star Kenny Washington made up . With a strong presence in the screen, he. "I had a certain amount of crudeness that went back a hundred years, and that's what he liked. [7], Along with Ray Bartlett, there were four Black Americans playing for the Bruins, when only a few dozen at all played on other college football teams. Strode had difficulty maintaining the momentum of these roles. UsefulNotes/Notable Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age. 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. When out on the road with the team, Strode had his first experience with racism, something he wasn't aware of growing up in Los Angeles. He could beat Glenn Morris, the 1936 Olympic gold-medal decathlete, in . I don't know if they ever will be. . And I did it myself. He was interred with military honors at Riverside National Cemetery, east of his hometown. Sam Raimi's Western "The Quick and The Dead," starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leonardo DiCaprio, is dedicated to him. We also meet Link Appleyard (Andy Devine), the drunken town marshal; Doc Willoughby (Ken Murray), the drunken town doctor, and Dutton Peabody (Edmond O'Brien), the editor of the paper. 1952: African. Woody Strode (1914-1994) Born July 28, 1914, in Los Angeles, California, Woody Strode (Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode) was first of the star football athletes to become a successful film actor. In the 1940s, at the beginning of the "Golden Age" of professional wrestling on television, Strode entered the game, campaigning as a "Baby Face" (hero) as opposed to the "Heel" (villain). Sheriff Woody, the beloved "Toy Story" protagonist, was said to be named after Strode. 1941:Sundown. And Ford, who was usually straightforward when it came to the visual aspects of his films, shows some real visual and dramatic creativity. He had a bigger role in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) for Ford, playing Pompey, John Wayne's hired hand. 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Finally, it became way of life.[3], He had roles in Bride of the Gorilla (1951), African Treasure (1951) (another Bomba film), an episode of Dangerous Assignment (1952), Caribbean (1952), and Androcles and the Lion (1952), playing the lion, "the toughest job I ever had" he said later.[20]. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Bob Rea <bobnray@concentric.net> - IMDb Mini Biography By: Do you find this information helpful? The newspaper editor prints the truth about Valance, and for his pains has his office trashed and is whipped nearly dead. He shared a story from the set of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Fords 1962 film about an attorney (Stewart) who, robbed and left for dead by a notorious outlaw, is saved by a rancher (Wayne) and has to start over from scratch. Race is not a factor in the world market," Strode said. "Never used it, but I could walk into the White House with it now. 9 ] it was like I had a cruel streak, PBS,. 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