Often typecast as a physical specimen, commentators tended to dwell on Strode's athleticism and chiseled figure, ignoring his acting prowess, the film scholar Frank Manchel once wrote in the Journal of Black Studies. So why would actors put up with him? Everyone in Shinbone hates Liberty Valance, but they're powerless against him and his two sidekicks, one of them a giggling fool. "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." "I would have lost that role if I hadn't been in shape, and if I hadn't had a lot of experience as a wrestler," Strode told the Pittsburgh Courier after the film's release, according to Slam Wrestling. 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. He attended UCLA, where he played multiple sports and starred for the track and field team. Indeed Hallie and Nora Ericson (Jeanette Nolan) are the only two noticeable women in town; little wonder Tom's love for Hallie is intense. 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. He guest starred on The Lieutenant, The Farmer's Daughter and Daniel Boone and had roles in the features Genghis Khan (1965) and 7 Women (1966), the latter the last film he made for Ford. He was the African antagonist in Tarzan Fights for Life (1958) and an Apache chief who took on Sean Connery in the western, Shalako (1968). 109 minutes. 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). 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). When Strode tried to help him, Duke knocked his co-star away. Valance and his two sidekicks hold up a stagecoach on the way to town, and when one of the passengers, Ransom, stands up to him Liberty nearly whips him to death. "We were unconscious of color. "To me, it's truly the beginning of more awareness of who they were, what they did, and why they were so important," Glauber told The New York Times ahead of the Canton ceremony in August. As the film opens, U. S. Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) arrives in Shinbone by the new railroad with his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) to attend the funeral of a man named Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). He said, "Well, they're not tough enough to do what I want Sergeant Rutledge to be. The drunken marshal won't protect him. Look instead at a debate that continues between the lawyer and the farmer about guns. [3] He called it "the first dramatic thing that I had done."[7]. Ford used him again in Two Rode Together (1962) but it was only a small part, as an Indian. [17] He later teamed up with both Bobo Brazil[18] and Bearcat Wright. But even worse is the poster for the film (above) on which Strode appears, although his name is listed fourth and in tiny letters even smaller that the third person billed actress Billie Burke, who has a small supporting role with just a few lines. Local sportswriter Halley Harding, a retired Negro Leagues shortstop, led a civic campaign that pressured the Rams to integrate as a condition of playing in the publicly funded L.A. Strode's performance in "Spartacus" as the gladiator Draba - who fells Douglas' titular character in a duel, but spares his life to defy the Roman elite - secured him a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor. Cuenta con una puntuacin bastante buena en IMDb: 7.8 estrellas de 10. He films mostly on sets, but we're not particularly aware. Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (July 25, 1914 December 31, 1994) was an American athlete and actor. Sam Raimi's Western "The Quick and The Dead," starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leonardo DiCaprio, is dedicated to him. Though the film is an ambitious attempt to deal with one aspect of how this country has historically handled Native Americans (and there are several impressive scenes in the film), Cheyenne Autumn is seriously undercut by Fords ponderous direction, a wobbly, meandering script, his stilted wooden Indian characters who, a lot of the time, are standing like stoic statues, with the major speaking parts played by either Latino or Italian-American actors, and too many boring side stories involving white characters. He did 1,000 push-ups, sit-ups, and knee bends daily. While making Pork Chop Hill he became a close friend of director John Ford. 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. Not surprisingly, the film is considered one of Fords most overlooked and underrated films, and given the subject matter as well as the era in which it was made and released, it was not a box office success either. He was also a professional wrestler, wrestling the likes of Gorgeous George. According to Woody, he's even less in control of himself, and all of his faculties, when tickling is involved. "I once played a part written for an Irish prize fighter. [31], Sheriff Woody of the Toy Story series of animated films is named after Strode,[32] as was the recurring character of the Santa Barbara Coroner in the television series Psych. English. Publicity Listings Western icon John Wayne had a legendary collaboration with director John Ford that lasted five decades and transformed both mens careers. More tributes followed. 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. [6] They became famous nationally as "the Gold Dust gang". Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. " [20], Strode was in Che! Valuing his toughness, Ford cast Strode as Rutledge over future Oscar winners Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte. Had a longtime affair with troubled actress. He had a bigger role in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) for Ford, playing Pompey, John Wayne's hired hand. In comparison, Ford had made combat documentaries for the Office of Strategic Services and had been wounded at the Battle of Midway, while Ranse star Stewart had been a bomber pilot who served with distinction. The corpse is being held in a plain pine box, and when he views it Stoddard is angered to see the boots have been stolen. 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. "They suffered on the field. (Whats a brother got to do to get some respect around here?). 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. Strodes riveting presence among a trio of hired gunslingers waiting at the train station in the spaghetti western, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), is unforgettable. 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. "The big studios wanted an actor like Sidney [Poitier] or [Harry] Belafonte," recalled Strode. Waterfield laughs and says: You sons of bitches, youre living good., Strode by then was in his early 30s and his football days were numbered. 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. He and Kenny Washington integrated the National Football League (NFL), and Strode played for the Los Angeles Rams in 1946 before moving to the Canadian Football League in 1948. 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. 1952: African. The club signed Washington and Strode that spring. When World War II began, Strode was playing for the Hollywood Bears football team, but soon joined the Air Force and spent much of the war unloading bombs in Guam and the Marianas, as well as playing on the Army football team at March Field in Riverside. His parents were from New Orleans; his grandmother was African-American and "part Cherokee" and his grandfather was an African-American who claimed his own grandmother was Creek. (1969) and supported Terence Hill and Bud Spencer in Boot Hill (1969) shot in Italy. Though he made films in every genre, from dramas to historical epics, romances and even comedies, Ford has been justifiably associated with the western film and is considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in that genre, directing so many that Ford once said of himself, My Name is John Ford. Sergeant Rutledge is a 1960 western film from Warner Brothers and the director John Ford. Strode's Associated Press obituary praised his work in Westerns and period dramas, but didn't mention the trail he blazed on the gridiron. He signed with the Los Angeles Rams in 1946 alongside Kenny Washington, an electrifying rusher and college teammate at UCLA. When he walks into a bar to fetch Tom, the bartender won't serve him, and Tom slams hard on the bar: "Give him a drink." 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It was "one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to address racism frankly," the Hollywood Reporter's Seth Abramovitch wrote last year. 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. 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. He stayed in Europe to make another Western The Unholy Four (1970) and went back to Hollywood to do a TV movie Breakout (1970) and two Westerns The Deserter (also known as "The Devil's Backbone") (1971), and The Gatling Gun (1971). Otherwise, we would have been inMonument ValleyorBrackettvilleand we would have had colour stock. I carried the whole black race across that river."[3]. In an interview given before he died, Stewart once described the toll that Fords meanness took on Wayne. The retired NFL wideout, in tandem with his co-author Bob Glauber, persuaded the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2022 to recognize the so-called Forgotten Four as pathfinders. On a road game in Chicago, hotel management gave he and Washington $100 each to find another hotel in the Black section of town. Three men stand at the center of the story: Stoddard, Doniphon, and Valance. As they were preparing to shoot, Ford came up to Stewart and asked, "What do you think of Woody's costume?" Stewart said that he didn't like it. Woody Strode was born in California. Sheriff Woody, the beloved "Toy Story" protagonist, was said to be named after Strode. 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But he also was described once as a tough, two-fisted, hard-drinking Irish sonofabitch who was known to treat actors on his films horribly, by bullying, yelling and even mocking them. They reunited 20 years later when he played the title role in Ford's rather neglected 1960 western . You can unsubscribe at any time. "I have the world market on my side even if I don't have the American market.". It featured African American athlete turned actor Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Strode in his major . When a meeting is held to vote on statehood, Pompey sits outside on the porch. What is it whats the idea? And I said, I dont know!, And I didnt know, Stewart added. [3], "I got a cultural educationmajored in history and education," he said in a 1971 interview. As James Stewart explained it, Woody Strode, the actor who was playing Wayne's character's best friend, was part of the scene. Strode racked up 91 acting credits in six different decades, according to IMDb. (One stylistic touch: In this film, he habitually calls Stoddard "Pilgrim," which expresses an insight into the lawyer's character.). [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. Additionally, the. Woodrow Wilson Strode, known as Woody, was a big man on campus. He wrestled professionally before rapt audiences. This story first appeared. Prior to 1946, he played semi-pro football. 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). After his football career, he went on to . It asks the question: Does a man need to carry a gun in order to disagree or state an opinion? Woody Strode spent decades in Hollywood working with larger-than-life names, including John Wayne, Elvis Presley and Kirk Douglas. He wrestled intermittently, once defeating Gorgeous George. Strode and teammate Kenny Washington were among the best-known college football players in the nation. He arranges his characters within the frame to reflect power dynamics--or sometimes to suggest a balance is changing. 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 . Strode gave the Hollywood establishment what they demanded and appeared in some of the best and the worst of what they offered him. Luana Strode), a distant relative of Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii. The film was based upon the 1959 novel Comanche Captives by Will Cook . Woody Strode was a respected actor with strong African and Native American ancestry. However, by the early 1960s, when Ford was in his late 60s and nearing the end of his long career, the director seemed to have mellowed with age, discovering and exploring a more humanist side to himself. Berlinale 2023 Highlights, Part Two: Reality, Manodrome, The Adults, Inside, Golda, Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Feted at SBIFF 2023, Revisiting Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Tragically Common: Jamie Dack, Lily McInerny and Jonathan Tucker on Palm Trees and Power Lines. The film makes it clear that, though a black man was found innocent, racial tensions will always exist; so what is the use of pretending that all is suddenly well? The Legend of Woody Strode. Strode was in Storyville (1992), and Posse (1992), working with director Mario Van Peebles. Canton called this summer, feting Strode and the rest of the Forgotten Four at Johnson and Glauber's urging. I've done everything but play an Anglo-Saxon. He had many murders on his conscience, and much enjoyed using a leather bullwhip. In response, Ford said: Whats wrong with Uncle Remus? The director then called the crews attention and shouted: One of ourplayersdoesn't like Woody's costume. Actor William Holden and Ernest Borgnine and Woody Strode pose for the movie "The Revengers" in 1972. He decided to stay in Europe. | The picture was about, oh, more than halfway finished. Is Woody Strode in the Hall of Fame? In a film with Lee Marvin's snarl, Andy Devine's squeaky voice and the accent of the Swedes, John Wayne as usual provides the calm center, never trying for an effect. In the late 1960s, he appeared in several episodes of the Ron Ely Tarzan television series. He portrayed an assortment of African chiefs and guards until Cecil B. DeMille cast him in The Ten Commandments (1956), as the King of Ethiopia. Ray Hamel. Stoddard has come to town with a satchel full of law books, and hangs out his shingle at the newspaper office. "Never used it, but I could walk into the White House with it now. Red Haircrow, Other Works "But the producers answered, 'Not necessary. This is all to be seen: The role of a free press, the function of a town meeting, the debate about statehood, the civilizing influence of education. In 1959 he portrayed the conflicted, some would say cowardly, Private Franklin in Pork Chop Hill, which brought him critical acclaim. Thankfully, the show never subjected Woody - or viewers - to that possibility. 1942: Star Spangled Rhythm. The two became friends, and Ford later gave Wayne his breakthrough role in Stagecoach, the film that launched Wayne to Hollywood stardom. I never got a close up in Hollywood, and Sergio framed me on the screen for five minutes. Then he asked someone to blow a whistle, which they did, and he called out, Everybody, would you please gather around? So they did. 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