Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994) was an American athlete and actor.
He served in the United States Army during World War II. 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.
After his football career, he went on to become a film actor, where he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Spartacus in 1960.
Woody Strode works with TV Tropes pages:
- Stagecoach (1939) (uncredited)
- Androcles and the Lion (1952) as The Lion
- The Ten Commandments (1956) as King of Ethiopia
- Pork Chop Hill (1959) as Pvt. Franklin
- The Last Voyage (1960) as Hank Lawson
- Sergeant Rutledge (1960) as 1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge
- Spartacus (1960) as Draba
- Two Rode Together (1961) as Stone Calf
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) as Pompey
- Genghis Khan (1965) as Sengal
- 7 Women (1966) as Lean Warrior
- The Professionals (1966) as Jake
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) as Stony
- Shalako (1968) as Chato
- The Deserter (1971) as Cpl. Jackson
- The Gatling Gun (1971) as Runner the Scout
- The Revengers (1972) as Job
- Keoma (1976) as George
- Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) as Walter Colby
- Scream (1981) as Charlie Winters
- The Black Stallion Returns (1983) as Meslar
- The Cotton Club (1984) as Holmes
- Posse (1993) as Storyteller
- The Quick and the Dead (1995) as Charlie Moonlight (posthumous)