Occupation Screenwriter Years active 1908-1925 | Name Frank Woods Role Screenwriter | |
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Born 1860 Linesville, Pennsylvania, USA Died May 1, 1939, Hollywood, California, United States Spouse Ella Carter Woods (m. ?–1937) Movies The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, A Corner in Wheat, The Sealed Room, The Life of General Villa Similar People Billy Bitzer, Miriam Cooper, George Siegmann, Ralph Lewis, Joseph Carl Breil | ||
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.
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