Frank E. Woods
Screenwriter

Frank E. Woods

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Screenwriter
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Male
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United States of America
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Screenwriter
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Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Birth:
1 January 1860(Linesville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Death:
1 May 1939(Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California)
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Frank E. Woods (1860 – 1 May 1939) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for 90 films between 1908 and 1925, and first became a writer with American Mutoscope and Biograph. Woods was also a pioneering film reviewer. As a writer His contributions to film criticism are discussed in the documentary, For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism. He was also known for his screenplay collaborations with D. W. Griffith, including the co-scripting of The Birth of a Nation. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.

Woods was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Selected filmography

  • Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923)
  • The Children Pay (1916)
  • Man's Enemy (1914)
  • Judith of Bethulia (1914)
  • The Stopped Clock (1913)
  • The Mirror (1913)
  • In Diplomatic Circles (1913)
  • The Left-Handed Man (1913)
  • The White Rose of the Wilds (1911)
  • The Country Lovers (1911)
  • Priscilla and the Umbrella (1911)
  • Priscilla's April Fool Joke (1911)
  • Nursing a Viper (1909)
  • In Little Italy (1909)
  • A Corner in Wheat (1909)
  • The Red Man's View (1909)
  • The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period (1909)
  • Fools of Fate (1909)
  • The Hessian Renegades (1909)
  • The Sealed Room (1909)
  • Resurrection (1909)
  • Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909)
  • Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)
  • Edgar Allan Poe (1909)
  • After Many Years (1908)