Woody Strode
About
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1914-07-25
Place of BirthLos Angeles, California, USA
Death1994-12-31
Biography​An athlete turned actor, Strode was a top-notch decathlete and a football star at UCLA. 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. Strode also played the powerful gladiator who does battle with Kirk Douglas in Spartacus (1960).