Sam Wood Net Worth is
$10 Million

Mini Biography

After a two-year apprenticeship under Cecil B. DeMille mainly because assistant movie director, Samuel Grosvenor Solid wood had the nice fortune to possess designated to him two of the largest celebrities at Paramount throughout their heyday: Wallace Reid, between 1919 and 1920; and Gloria Swanson, from 1921 to 1923. By enough time his seven-year agreement with Paramount expired, the previous real estate seller had founded himself as you of Hollywood’s most dependable (if not really individualistic) feature directors. Pretty good for a previous property broker and small-time theatrical thesp. In 1927, Solid wood became a member of MGM and continued to be under agreement there until 1939, quite definitely in sync using the studio’s common style of creation. He reliabbly proved between two and three movies a year, which the majority had been routine productions. The majority of his movies in the 1920’s were program fare, and it had been not until he directed two gems from the Marx Brothers, A Night time in the Opera (1935) and A Trip to the Races (1937) that his profession picked up once again. Taking a look at the completed product, it really is hard to reconcile this to Groucho Marx obtaining Solid wood “rigid and humourless” (observe p. 131. “The Groucho Phile”,1977). Nevertheless, Solid wood was vociferously right-wing in his personal sights and this wouldn’t normally have got sat well using the well-known comedian. His testimonies in 1947 prior to the Home Un-American Actions Committee probably gained Timber fewer close friends than enemies inside the industry. Irrespective of his personality, or his habitually shooting scenes 20 times over, Timber proved some very effective dramatic films over the last a decade of his life, you start with Farewell, Mr. Potato chips (1939). This well-known melodrama gained him his first Academy Award nomination. At RKO, he coaxed an Oscar-winning efficiency out of Ginger Rogers (and was once again nominated himself) for Kitty Foyle (1940). Ronald Reagan provided, arguably, his greatest efficiency in Kings Row (1942) under Wood’s path. His priciest (and longest, at 170 mins) assignment got him back again to Paramount. This is Ernest Hemingway’s Spanish Civil Battle crisis For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), bought for $150,000, with De Mille originally slated as movie director. Regardless of editorial incongruities as well as the fairly uneven pace from the picture, it ended up being the largest (and last) strike of Wood’s profession. Wood includes a star for the Walk of Popularity on Hollywood Boulevard.

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Quick Facts

Died	September 22, 1949, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Height	1.83 m
Profession	Actor, Real Estate Broker, Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
Spouse	Clara L. Roush
Children	K. T. Stevens, Jeane Wood
Parents	William H. Wood, Catharine (Corn) Wood
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Director
Movies	Gone with the Wind, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Night at the Opera, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, A Day at the Races, The Pride of the Yankees, Kings Row, Kitty Foyle, Saratoga Trunk, Our Town, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Stratton Story, Casanova Brown, Beyond the Rocks, Command Decision, Hold Your Man, Guest Wife, Stamboul Quest, The Man in Possession, They Learned About Women, Under the Lash, Madame X, The Barbarian, Double Speed, Whipsaw, Raffles, The Great Moment, Navy Blue and Gold, Excuse My Dust, Fascinating Youth, The Next Corner, The Sins of the Children, The Unguarded Hour, The Girl Said No, So This Is College, Stablemates, New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford, My American Wife, Let 'em Have It, Way for a Sailor, Rangers of Fortune, Christopher Bean, Lord Jeff, Her Husband's Trademark, His Children's Children, The Fair Co-Ed, Bluebeard's 8th Wife, The Latest from Paris, Prodigal Daughters, Telling the World, The Dancin' Fool