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Joan Woodbury
Born: 17th Dec 1915 Los Angeles, California, USA - Died 22nd Feb 1989
Dept: Acting
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Joan Woodbury (December 17, 1915 – February 22, 1989) was an American actress beginning in the 1930s and continuing well into the 1960s.
Woodbury received her first acting role in the 1934 film Eight Girls in a Boat, which was uncredited. Another uncredited role followed, with her first credited role being in the 1934 film One Exciting Adventure, which starred Binnie Barnes. Her first major role, billed as Nana Martinez, was in a Hopalong Cassidy movie The Eagle's Brood. Woodbury appeared in 15 films from 1934 through 1935, of which 10 were uncredited.
In 1936, her career began to become more successful, with appearances in eight films that year, of which five were uncredited. However, of the three roles that were credited, Woodbury made an impact, and caught the attention of studios. Her mixture of Danish, British, and Native American heritage gave her an exotic appearance, and allowed her to be cast in many different ethnicities, from Hispanic to French and Asian. By 1937, her career had taken off, mostly in B-movies such as Living on Love and Bulldog Courage, but also with her receiving many credited roles.
In 1937, Woodbury starred in her first of several credited Charlie Chan films, titled Charlie Chan on Broadway. She also began appearing in numerous Westerns, portraying the heroine opposite some of the 1930s' biggest cowboy actors, to include William Boyd of Hopalong Cassidy fame, Roy Rogers, and Johnny Mack Brown. Woodbury appeared in 50 films from 1937 to 1945, almost all of which were credited. Her most memorable of that period was her lead role in the serial Brenda Starr, Reporter, in 1945. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Woodbury, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 67
Film: 67 (100%)
Remaining genres not in graph: History, War
Filmography
1964
Research scientists experimenting with time warps are accidentally propelled forward into an unbearable future. ... view
Character:
Gadra
1956
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal qu ... view
Character:
Korah's Wife
1949
Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown. ... view
Character:
Red, the Bar-Girl
1948
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat. ... view
Character:
Bubbles LaRue
1947
A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona. ... view
Character:
Mary Mason
1947
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder. ... view
Character:
Claire Lorrison
1946
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves com ... view
Character:
Flo (uncredited)
1946
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves com ... view
Character:
Flo
1945
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold ... view
Character:
Katherine Owens
1945
Flame of the West has always attracted more attention than most of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns, if for no other reason than the offbeat cast ... view
Character:
Poppy Rand
1945
Two privates on a 36 hour pass meet two dance hall dames, complications ensue! ... view
Character:
Babe
1945
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hote ... view
Character:
Gloria
1945
Reporter Brenda Starr and her photographer Chuck Allen get involved in a search for the loot from a payroll robbery. Cliffhanging action and adventure ... view
Character:
Brenda Starr
1944
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces. ... view
Character:
Leah Manning
1944
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at al ... view
Character:
Antoinette 'Toni' Vigran (Uncredited)
1943
Cocky Kelly's girlfriend helps him straighten up enough to get a job as a process server. ... view
Character:
Margie Burke
1943
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and wh ... view
Character:
Sundown
1943
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardene ... view
Character:
Amy Duncan
1943
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty. ... view
Character:
Maria (Uncredited)
1942
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there ... view
Character:
Barbara Mason
1942
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Son ... view
Character:
Vera Martin
1942
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie. ... view
Character:
Billie Hilton
1942
American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Lybia. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes re ... view
Character:
Nancy Brooks-Graham
1942
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers. ... view
Character:
Margie Dove
1942
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west. ... view
Character:
Maria
1942
A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the W ... view
Character:
Ann Weston
1941
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law ... view
Character:
Mona
1941
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion. ... view
Character:
Geri Reynolds
1941
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela ... view
Character:
Lois Morgan
1941
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds herself implicated in a nightclub murder. ... view
Character:
Valencia Duncan
Original title: Paper Bullets
1941
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local cr ... view
Character:
Rita Adams
1941
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, t ... view
Character:
Barbara Winslow
1941
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real ba ... view
Character:
Della Casey / Dolores Casino
1940
A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a fe ... view
Character:
Melody (uncredited)
1940
Working stiff Tom Tupper is stopped by a 'man on the spot' reporter during his daily commute. Asked for his opinion on male/female relations, Tom tell ... view
Character:
Mrs. Tupper
1939
When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting deser ... view
Character:
Hazila
1939
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder. ... view
Character:
Lila Haines
1938
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers). ... view
Character:
Nora Parker
1938
Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife. ... view
Character:
Pearl Mussendorfer
1938
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent. ... view
Character:
Therese Brahm
1938
At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita Montez. As Tiger Martin, the leader of a gang of th ... view
Character:
Conchita Montez
1938
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-pol ... view
Character:
Marge Dexter
1938
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. ... view
Character:
Aicha
1938
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood. ... view
Character:
Barbara Lang
1937
When the miners of Roaring Camp become Godfathers to a motherless baby, they name the boy Luck and promise to set aside money for him from their diggi ... view
Character:
Elsie
1937
A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts. ... view
Character:
Edith Crumwell
1937
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show. ... view
Character:
Rita Marlowe
1937
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insur ... view
Character:
Marie Collins / Mrs. Thomas Mitchell
1937
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes. ... view
Character:
Doris Duane, a film actress
Character:
Lola
1937
Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, ... view
Character:
Margot Whitney
1937
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use. ... view
Character:
Toto - French Girl (uncredited)
1937
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves. ... view
Character:
Chiquita
1936
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years a ... view
Character:
Dancer in Opera (uncredited)
1936
In his film debut Ritter is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang, he ... view
Character:
Lolita Valle
1936
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by ... view
Character:
Half-Caste Dancing Girl
1936
Merwin hires Barton to fight Welsh, but when Barton arrives in town, Welsh mistakes him for the hired killer Single-Shot Smith. Figuring he can help M ... view
Character:
Ann Mervin
1936
A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night. ... view
Character:
Gloria Robloff
1936
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend. ... view
Character:
Valparaiso Bar Girl - Facing Wall (uncredited)
1935
A miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked down and killed, his son comes t ... view
Character:
Helen Brennan
Character:
Dancer
1935
When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson. ... view
Character:
Dolores
1935
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring. ... view
Character:
Dancer in Versailles Cafe (uncredited)
1935
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck ... view
Character:
Show Girl (uncredited)
1935
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his pa ... view
Character:
Queen Homunculus (uncredited)
1935
Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadv ... view
Character:
Secretary (uncredited)
1934
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream. ... view
Character:
Girl