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4 unusual facts about Arthur B. Woods


Arthur B. Woods

As was the case with many non-prestige British films of the 1930s, little attention or care was given to Woods' films after their original cinema run, and most of his films from the mid-1930s are now considered lost.

This was a thriller, but Woods spent the next four years making comedies and musical films (including three with popular singer Keith Falkner which represented Falkner's entire screen output) before starting also to take on crime films, starting with The Dark Stairway, made in 1937 and released in early 1938.

Many of his films involved collaborations with producer Irving Asher, cinematographer Basil Emmott and screenwriter Brock Williams, while another frequent association was with actress Chili Bouchier.

Reginald Purdell

He tried his hand at film directing in 1937 with two comedies Don't Get Me Wrong, a Max Miller vehicle co-directed with Arthur B. Woods, and Patricia Gets Her Man.


Alphonse Roy

He successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Arthur B. Jenks to the Seventy-fifth Congress and served from June 9, 1938, to January 3, 1939.

Arthur Addison

A son Walter C. Addison, a champion rifle shooter of Orroroo, married Gertrude Madeleine Woods (19 Oct 1872 – ), daughter of E. J. Woods, on 8 May 1900.

Arthur B. Hancock III

Through H-G-W Partners, Hancock owned and raced 1989 U.S. Horse of the Year Sunday Silence whose wins included the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Breeders' Cup Classic.

After graduating from Vanderbilt University, Hancock moved to the New York City area where he worked as an apprentice under future Hall of Fame trainer Edward A. Neloy.

Arthur B. Hancock, Jr.

He was educated at two prep schools: St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and Woodberry Forest School in Virginia.

Arthur B. Jenks

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.

Arthur B. McBride

He moved to Cleveland in 1913, when he was in his mid-twenties, to be circulation manager for the Cleveland News.

Arthur B. McDonald

Theoretical models of the Sun predict that neutrinos should be made in staggering numbers.

McDonald and Yoji Totsuka were awarded the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics "for discovering that the three known types of elementary particles called neutrinos change into one another when traveling over sufficiently long distances, and that neutrinos have mass".

Arthur B. Patten

Tragedy struck the family on July 8, 1903, when A.B.'s son Roger aged one year and a half was drowned while they were vacationing at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.

Arthur B. Rouse

Rouse was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1927).

Arthur B. Rubinstein

He has frequently been hired by film director John Badham, and the majority of his movie soundtracks are to be found in Badham's work.

Arthur Chapman

Arthur B. Chapman (1908–2004), British-American animal genetic researcher

Arthur Ellis

Arthur B. English, Canada's official hangman who used the pseudonym Arthur Ellis, as did some of his successors

Arthur Hancock

Arthur B. Hancock, Jr., Arthur B. "Bull" Hancock (1910–1972), American horse breeder

Arthur Jenks

Arthur B. Jenks (1866–1947), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire

Consolidated P-30

When the Detroit Aircraft Corporation failed, the chief designer of the YP-24, Robert J. Woods was hired by Consolidated Aircraft.

Crime Writers of Canada

The awards are named for Arthur B. English, a British expatriate who, under the pseudonym Arthur Ellis, became Canada’s official hangman in 1913.

David Woods

David B. Woods, USN Admiral, former commandant Guantanamo prison camp

Edmond Butler

During 1869, while assigned to guard the Fort WallaceDenver stage route, Butler volunteered to join an expedition under Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Woods against the Pawnees.

Frank Woods

Frank P. Woods (1868–1944), member of the United States House of Representatives

Frank E. Woods (1860–1939), screenwriter and one of the 36 founders of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Hadley Peak

The name was proposed by Peter Bermel and Arthur B. Ford, co-leaders of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Thiel Mountains party which surveyed these mountains in 1960–61.

Harry McGregor

Harry M. Woods (Henry MacGregor Woods, 1896–1970), Tin Pan Alley songwriter and pianist

James B. Woods

He was a business partner with his brother-in-law J. Shannon Clift in a commission merchant and ship brokerage business in St. John's.

James P. Woods

Woods was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation of Carter Glass.

He was reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served from February 25, 1919, to March 3, 1923.

Jeffrey Colwell

In late 2011 newly appointed camp commander David B. Woods, the officer who controlled the captive's daily life, ordered new, highly restrictive rules on lawyers communicating with their clients.

Johann Reichhart

He cooperated with Allied chief executioner Master Sergeant John C. Woods in the preparations for further executions of those found guilty and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials.

John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke

The Mowbray-Clarkes lived in Rockland County, New York at a farm and studio called Brocken, just six miles from Arthur B. Davies.

Louis E. Woods

In 1944, Wood also had the distinction of sending off to war a 42-year-old pilot named Charles Lindbergh.

Mail privileges of Guantanamo Bay detainees

According to the United Press International an unnamed military official attributed the change in policy to the recent appointment of the new camp commandant Rear Admiral David B. Woods.

Max E. Youngstein

In 1951, Youngstein joined Arthur Krim, Robert Benjamin, Arnold Picker and Bill Heineman in purchasing the then financially troubled United Artists studio from Charles Chaplin and Mary Pickford.

Max Neal

According to a June 24, 1922 article in The New York Times titled "Woods Back with 40 Foreign Plays", producers Albert H. Woods and Charles B. Dillingham traveled to Europe to collect plays to re-produce in the States, of which Parquette No. 6 by Max Neal and Hans Gerbeck were one.

Nutt Bluff

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) at the suggestion of Arthur B. Ford, leader of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) geological party in the Dufek Massif, 1976–77, after Constance J. Nutt, geologist, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, a member of the USGS party.

Princequillo

Retired after his four-year-old racing season, Princequillo was purchased by Arthur B. Hancock and sent to the Hancock family's Ellerslie Stud in Albemarle County, Virginia and later to their Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky.

Samuel D. Woods

He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and served from December 3, 1900, to March 3, 1903.

Woods was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Marion De Vries.

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress.

Thomas H. Woods

He also served as the first president of Citizens National Bank, also known as Citizens Savings Bank which was started in 1888.

Viper of Melody

# "Midnight Stars and You" - 3:22 (James Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry Woods)

Walter Pach

With painters Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn, he brought together leading contemporary European and American artists.

William Haggin Perry

In 1960, through his Gamely Corporation William Perry entered into an annual foal sharing partnership with Arthur Hancock of Claiborne Farm.


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