![]() (Courtesy of Les Adams) | ![]() | Bob Woodward Full name: Robert Donald Woodward 1909 - 1972 Bob Woodward began his film work in the mid 1930s doubling for Buck Jones, Kermit Maynard, Dick Foran, and others, as well as doing various acting jobs and stunts in scores of films. And he also drove stages. For example - in CALIFORNIA MAIL (Warners, 1936), you can spot Woodward doubling hero Dick Foran and well as portraying a short-lived henchman who gets trampled by Foran's palomino Smoke/Smoky. |
California Death Index has a record for Robert D. Woodward, born March 5, 1909 in Oklahoma, and he passed away February 7, 1972 in the Los Angeles area: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPHJ-DBK ProQuest obituaries had a funeral notice on Woodward in the February 10, 1972 issue of the Los Angeles (California) Times newspaper. Excerpt: "WOODWARD, Robert D. (Bob), beloved husband of Mrs. Alice M. Woodward ...". There's mention of his two married daughters and his interment at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills. Find A Grave website confirms that Robert Donald Woodward is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85958775/robert-donald-woodward |
![]() (Courtesy of Les Adams) Bob Woodward takes a fall in the Whip Wilson oater NEVADA BADMEN (Monogram, 1951). Looks like he's wearing Allan 'Rocky' Lane's range costume. |