Woody Strode

Woody Strode

Date of Birth: 25 Jul 1914

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 58 (Actor)

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    Once Upon a Time in the West
    Sergio Leone's monumental epic is as big as its Monument Valley locations, as grand as its fine, distinguished cast, as tough and bawdy as every kid imagines the Old West.
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    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
    A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns to a funeral of a homeless man and tells the truth about his deed. (imdb)
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    The Ten Commandments
    The Egyptian Prince, Moses, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people. (imdb)
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    The Professionals
    A rich Texan, J.W. Grant, selects three men and invites them to his private train to offer them a contract:... (imdb)
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    Kingdom of the Spiders
    Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of towns folk in a remote hotel. (imdb)
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    Bride of the Gorilla
    Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). However, an old native witch witnesses the crime and puts a curse on Barney, who soon after finds himself turning nightly into a rampaging gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head? (imdb)
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    Keoma
    Half-breed Keoma (Franco Nero) returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with Caldwell, and make it painfully clear that his return is an unwelcome one. Determined to break Caldwell and his brothers' grip on the town, Keoma partners with his father's former ranch hand to exact violent revenge. (imdb)
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    Vigilante
    Eddie Marino is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie and a son named Scott. Eddie's friend and co-worker Nick and some of the factory's other workers have formed a vigilante group because Nick and the group are fed up with the pimps, gangs, and drug dealers who keep taking over the neighborhoods... (imdb)
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    7 Women
    In a mission in China in 1935, Agatha Andrews (Margaret Leighton) is a rigid missionary beset by Mongolian bandits led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan (Mike Mazurki). (imdb)
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    Lust in the Dust
    A group of unscrupulous characters seek buried treasure in the old west.
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    Pork Chop Hill
    American GI's must retake a barren hill in Korea that has been overrun by Red Chinese troops. The ensuing battle becomes a meat grinder for American and Chinese alike. This story of a an actual battle is all grit. (imdb)
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    Sergeant Rutledge
    Lieutenant Tom Cantrell is sent to defend Sergeant Braxton Rutledge a black cavalry soldier on a charge of rape and murder. The story begins in a courtroom and the story is told through flashbacks. This is a story of how a black soldier in the face of danger from the Indians can be so easily mistaken as a criminal. (imdb)
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    Shalako
    A fairly standard Louis Lamour western. Shalako, the hunter and tracker has to save a party of European hunters who are in danger from an Indian uprising. (imdb)
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    Che!
    Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that government and Castro's taking over of Cuba. The film covers Guevara's life from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in an ambush by government troops in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967. (imdb)
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    Genghis Khan
    Temujin raises a Mongol army and revenges himself on his old enemy Jamuga. (variety)
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    The Buccaneer
    The Buccaneer is a 1958 film, made by Paramount Pictures and shot in Technicolor and VistaVision. It takes place during the War of 1812, and tells a heavily fictionalized version of how the pirate Jean Lafitte helped in the Battle of New Orleans and how he had to choose between fighting for America or for the side most likely to win, Great Britain. (Wikipedia.org)
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    The Deserter
    Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. But when marauding Apaches set up a stronghold just out of the cavalry's reach in Mexico, Kaleb is given amnesty in exchange for leading a small band of especially trained soldiers to wipe out the Indian stronghold. (imdb)
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    The Last Voyage
    After a boiler explosion aboard an aging ocean liner, a man struggles to free his injured wife from the wreckage of their cabin and ensure the safety of their four-year-old daughter as the ship begins to sink. (imdb)
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    Boot Hill
    Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers. (imdb)
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    Demetrius and the Gladiators
    The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-keeping, but the emperor Caligula wants it back to benefit from its powers. Marcellus' former slave Demetrius seeks to prevent this, and catches the eye of Messalina, wife to Caligula's uncle Claudius. Messalina tempts Demetrius, he winds up fighting in the arena, and wavers in his faith. (imdb)
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    The Unholy Four
    A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives, and things come to a dramatic end. (imdb)
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    Androcles and the Lion
    Androcles is a Christian who follows that religion's teachings even as they apply to the treatment of animals. Seeing a lion in pain, he removes a huge thorn from the beast's paw, creating a friend for life. Androcles and a number of other Christians are evenutally arrested and condemned to death in the arena. They are to die by being eaten by lions. Is it too much to hope that one of the lions may have a paw that has healed recently and might remember who helped heal it? (imdb)
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    The Silver Chalice
    A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks. (imdb)
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    Storyville
    A young candidate for the senate is filmed with a hooker as blackmail. As he investigates, he discovers some family secrets involving his father and their political careers. (imdb)
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    Horror Safari
    A group of Japanese soldiers are transporting a large shipment of gold through the jungles of the Phillipines when they are captured by a cannibal tribe. After a large battle with the cannibals, several members of the group are dismembered and killed. A few of the soldiers survive and successfully hide the treasure in the jungle. Thirty six years later, an expedition heads into the jungle to locate the lost treasure, and wind up in a battle against the elements. (imdb)
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    African Treasure
    Story of Jungle Boy's adventures in capturing diamond smugglers and rescuing a Portuguese girl's father from a smuggler's mine. (BFI)
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    Angkor: Cambodia Express
    An American journalist returns to Cambodia to bring out the girlfriend he was forced to leave behind when the murderous Khmer Rouge took over the country. (imdb)
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    The Revengers
    The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict (William Holden) is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones. (imdb)
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    City Beneath the Sea
    Two American divers are distracted by fair ladies and skulduggery while trying to salvage a gold ship off Jamaica. (imdb)
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    The Italian Connection
    When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man. When the pimp's wife and daughter are murdered in the course of the "manhunt", he swears revenge on everyone who had anything to do with it. (imdb)
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    Son of Sinbad
    Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder. (imdb)
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    Loaded Guns
    An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs. (imdb)
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    Il giustiziere del Bronx
    In a futuristic New York City, a cyborg goes on a killing spree. (imdb)
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    The Longest Drive
    Two brothers search the west for their sister, who was kidnapped as a child and is now living with a tribe of Indians. (imdb)
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    Tarzan\
    Dr. Sturdy is trying to establish a modern hospital in the jungle. His efforts are strongly opposed by Futa, the witch doctor, and Ramo, a native warrior. There are kidnappings, a race against time for serum, capture of Tarzan, the struggle of modern medicine against magic, etc. (imdb)
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    Tarzan\
    The spiritual leader of an oriental country is dying. The leader's evil brother Khan is plotting to prevent Kashi, the youthful heir, from assuming his rightful position. Tarzan is summoned to protect Kashi and, in doing so, he must face Khan in three tests of strength. The final test is a sword fight which takes place on a wide-mesh net stretched over cauldrons of boiling oil. Jeweled elephants lead grand processions, and a thousand girls perform the "dance of the candles"... (imdb)
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    Black Jesus
    A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi. (imdb)
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    Winterhawk
    The tribe of Chief Winterhawk are ill. His friend trapper Guthrie suggests to ask the white men in a near village for help - but they kill Winterhawk's companion. (imdb)
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    Jungle Man-Eaters
    Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe. (imdb)
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    The Sins of Rachel Cade
    While the Nazis regime subjugates European Nations, in Belgian Congo the doctor Rachel Cade tries to cure those troubled people. The colonel Derode falls in love with her but a young American injured pilot upsets his plans. (imdb)
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    The Gatling Gun
    Doctor Gatling invented a war machine to beat all arrows, and guns. (imdb)
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    A Gathering of Old Men
    A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white racist, whom one of their members has shot.
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    Scipione detto anche l\
    Rome, 187 b.C. Marcus Porcius Cato wants the brothers Scipio Africanus and Scipio Asiaticus to answer for the disappearance of five hundred talents during their campaign in Syria.
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    Jaguar Lives!
    A world's new kung-fu hero (Joe Lewis) is out to stop drug dealers, gangs and help save the world from an evil con (Christopher Lee). (imdb)
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    Ravagers
    In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis. (imdb)
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    The Gambler from Natchez
    Returning to New Orleans,following four years of army service in Texas in the 1840s,Captain Vance Colby finds his father,a professional gambler,has been killed.The police tell him his father was killed while caught cheating in a card game by Andre Rivage, an arrogant young dilettante.Vance protests that his father was an honest gambler and never used marked cards.Aided by a riverboat owner, Captain Barbee, and his daughter,Melanie,Vance sets out to clear his father's name and avenge his death. (imdb)
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    How the West Was Won
    In 1865, the Macahans are heading west from Virginia to Oregon. Mrs. Kate Macahan is waiting with her children Laura, Jessie and Josh on a farm they have built for her husband and her oldest son Luke to return from the civil war. Luke comes back when he defects from the army with the news that their father is dead. An army officer comes to the farm to arrest Luke but luckily their uncle Zeb, a frontiersman, saves the day. But Luke must leave them and hides among a Simonite community. (imdb)
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    We Are No Angels
    A gigantic Scotsman and his stepbrother set out to get rich, with disastrous results! (spaghetti-western.net)
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    Jungle Warriors
    A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same time, the Mafia's representative arrive to negotiate future collaboration. (imdb)
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    Caribbean
    Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter,Christine. Complications arise as the man thought to be a nephew of one man may not be, and the daughter one one man may be the other man's daughter. (imdb)
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    The Final Executioner
    After a nuclear holocaust, as the rest of society regresses to primitivism, a small, "elite" group that has managed to escape radioactive contamination takes it upon itself to exterminate those it sees as "unfit", including certain members of its own group. (imdb)
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    The Violent Breed
    Action film. Three commandos have a mission to rescue children in Southeast Asia. One of the commandos leaves to join forces with the KGB and the mafia, running drugs and arms. This finally leads to a confrontation and a deal is struck. (bfi)
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    Kill Castro
    Adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro. (imdb)
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    The Lion Hunters
    Bomba the Jungle Boy informs ne'er-do-well lion hunters that the lions were meant to roam the jungle freely. Since they pay him no attention, Bomba must save the lions (and Jean, incidentally). (imdb)
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    The Last Rebel
    It's 1865 in Missouri and the Civil War has just ended. Reb soldiers Hollis and Matt flee from Union soldiers that want to imprison them. Hollis then frees a black man named Duncan from a lynching and they become a trio. Later when Holllis wins a lot of money at the pool table and Matt doesn't get any, the two soldiers become enemies. This leads to a showdown between Hollis and Duncan against Matt and the men he has brought in to get that money. (imdb)
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    The Royal African Rifles
    A shipment of Vickers machine guns is stolen from a British warship in Bombasa Harbor, Africa, in 1914, and Denham is assigned to track them down. He poses as a hunter and follows a trail that leads him to Cunningham, a trader, who intends to sell the rifles to the Germans, and whose daughter, Jennifer, Denham loves.
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    Black Rodeo
    Documentary about a rodeo that takes place, for the most part, in Harlem, New York City.
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    Rawhide
    Rawhide (1959) - TV Series
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