Stewart said: It looks a bit Uncle Remussy to me. This was a reference to the controversial fictional narrator of 19th century African-American folktales, who was later the main character in Disneys 1946 movie Song of the South a film that Disney does not make available today due to its racist stereotyping. Perseverance. If the money was right, I'd play Mickey Mouse.[3], Strode went to Europe to make Scipio the African (1971) and did some more Westerns: The Last Rebel (1971), and The Revengers (1972) (a "regular knockdown, dragout western said Strode[3]). On top of that, in the early 1930s, Ford also made several films with long-lambasted black character actor Stephin Fetchit, likeJudge Priest and Steamboat Around the Bend, in which he played degrading and embarrassing supporting roles, often as a slow-witted, lazy buffoon. Bob Rea . 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. The role set his Hollywood career in motion. Then, when the steeds had halted, he tried to pick a punch up with his younger co-star. In the late 1960s, he appeared in several episodes of the Ron Ely Tarzan television series. "We were unconscious of color. I make westerns.. [7], Along with Ray Bartlett, there were four Black Americans playing for the Bruins, when only a few dozen at all played on other college football teams. In the trailer below, Strode is given third billing, though hes the lead. And he said loudly, We have an actor here who objects to the costume on Woody Strode. He then proceeded to suggest that Stewart was prejudiced Strode, who also has since died, was African-American and added that he just wanted to share Stewarts objection to Strodes costume with the whole cast. John Ford and John Wayne together created much of the mythology of the Old West we carry in our minds. The narrative structure is told mainly in a series of flashbacks in which information is revealedin bits, leaving us guessing as to what really happened. He was an Indian in Shalako (1968) and played a gunslinger in the opening sequence of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). "And this is not being facetious, but Mr. Ford defended me; and I don't know that this is going on. When he walks into a bar to fetch Tom, the bartender won't serve him, and Tom slams hard on the bar: "Give him a drink." And strangely enough, Duke Wayne who, over the years, you know, has made lots of pictures with Ford Duke Wayne has been at the bottom of the list, in the barrel, more than anybody else. Four years Strode's junior, Washington scampered for a 92-yard touchdown in 1947 and spent three seasons with the Rams before retiring. He also did professional wrestling and reportedly tussled with the renowned Gorgeous George. Following Cat Ballou (Oscar) this is one of 4 Westerns . The one awkward movement in the film comes at the big climax when the real killer reveals himself during the trial, in a scene so overwrought and overacted that it produces more guffaws than shock. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," the New Yorker's Richard Brody writes, "is the greatest American political movie." As they were preparing to shoot, Ford came up to Stewart and asked, What do you think of Woodys costume?. I carried the whole black race across that river."[3]. And Ford, who was usually straightforward when it came to the visual aspects of his films, shows some real visual and dramatic creativity. Woody lived in a modest home overlooking Glendora and the San Gabriel Valley, north east of Los Angeles about 25 miles. On a road game in Chicago, hotel management gave he and Washington $100 each to find another hotel in the Black section of town. We used to sit in the best seats at the Coconut Grove (a nightclub in the Ambassador Hotel) listening to Donald Novis sing. Pompey actor Woody Strode remembered that Ford kept needling Duke about his failure to make it as afootballplayer, comparing him to Strode who was a former NFL player. Strodes best known role was the gladiator Draba in Stanley Kubricks Sparticus (1960). Ford had to accept those terms or not make the film.. "[20], During Ford's declining years Strode spent four months sleeping on the director's floor as his caregiver, and he was later present at Ford's death.[22]. The ban collapsed when the Rams, founded in Cleveland, uprooted to Los Angeles in 1946. Strode racked up 91 acting credits in six different decades, according to IMDb. In 1940, UCLA and USC battled in what is believed to be the first cross-town rivalry game with championship implications. Played for the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League from 1948-49 before moving back to the US and beginning his film career. "But the producers answered, 'Not necessary. I said, All right, where are the pluckers?" Then Strode realised, I was out in the world market with a bald head. Never thought of them as brothers though. Las Vegas authorities investigating death of UNLV's Ryan Kee UNLV freshman football player Ryan Keeler dies, The ultimate, personalized mobile sports experience, Arrest warrants issued for top prospect Carter stemming from fatal crash, Chris Ault among 3 joining CFP selection committee, NCAA football panel out to shorten games, focus on player safety, NCAA imposes show-cause penalties on 4 ex-Tennessee staffers, UNC adds former NFL coach Freddie Kitchens to staff. Woody Strode Tuesday, 28th July 1914 - Saturday, 31st December 1994 Los Angeles CA USA. And late Hollywood legend James Stewart got to watch their dynamic up close. I'm glad you made it.. "It took skill to do that fight scene without actually hurting myself or hurting Douglas.". Publicity Listings "Never used it, but I could walk into the White House with it now. As the two actors filmed an exterior shot on a horse-drawn cart, Wayne was close to losing control of the horses. He was interred with military honors at Riverside National Cemetery, east of his hometown. Strode was next cast in Spartacus (1960) as the Ethiopian gladiator Draba, in which he has to fight Spartacus (played by Kirk Douglas) to the death. Of these "Liberty Valance" was the most pensive and thoughtful. [7], With her he had two children, television director Kalai (a.k.a. He portrayed an assortment of African chiefs and guards until Cecil B. DeMille cast him in The Ten Commandments (1956), as the King of Ethiopia. Ford used him again in Two Rode Together (1962) but it was only a small part, as an Indian. But even worse is the poster for the film (above) on which Strode appears, although his name is listed fourth and in tiny letters even smaller that the third person billed actress Billie Burke, who has a small supporting role with just a few lines. Director John Ford Writers James Warner Bellah (novel) Willis Goldbeck Stars Jeffrey Hunter Woody Strode Constance Towers See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video Woody Strode was a Black Indian (his grandmother was Black Cherokee and his grandfather was Black Muscogee) and an outstanding athlete. | Years ago Shinbone was held in a grip of terror by the sadistic Liberty Valance (played by Lee Marvin in a performance evoking savage cruelty). Strode had an excellent support part in The Last Voyage (1960) playing a heroic stoker, though he was only billed fifth. "Race is not a factor in the world market," he said in 1981. In 1946, Woody Strode was one of the first four Black men to play in the NFL. (1978), Ravagers (1979), Jaguar Lives! Pompey/Strode physically carries and thereby saves a drunken, suicidal John Wayne from his burning home. Tom has long considered Hallie "my girl," and is adding a room to his farmhouse that has a nice porch with a rocking chair, in preparation for the day he has no doubt she will marry him. He had many murders on his conscience, and much enjoyed using a leather bullwhip. Someone's Got A Woody" Episode 804 -- Pictured: Kurt Fuller as Woody Strode, Peter Stormare as Cyrus Polk -- Ernest Borgnine with actor Woody Strode pose for the movie "The Revengers" in 1972. He films mostly on sets, but we're not particularly aware. Sergeant Rutledge is a 1960 western film from Warner Brothers and the director John Ford. Reveling in the win postgame, Strode rode a horse into the lobby of the team hotel. He wasan outstanding athlete before his entry into movies. [30], Strode was a dedicated martial artist under the direction of Frank Landers in the art of Seishindo Kenpo. Because, in his very long career as a film director, starting in the silent era in 1917, until Seven Women (his final film in 1965), he made more than his fair share of classics which still stand the test of time, like The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man. As we got out of the L.A. area we found these racial tensions. Broken ribs and an ailing shoulder spurred Strode to retire in 1949. Strode was in Storyville (1992), and Posse (1992), working with director Mario Van Peebles. Valance and his two sidekicks hold up a stagecoach on the way to town, and when one of the passengers, Ransom, stands up to him Liberty nearly whips him to death. His more modest and more successful western, also made for Warners, and released four years earlier, in 1960, Sergeant Rutledge is remarkable and pretty advanced for its period. Strode's Associated Press obituary praised his work in Westerns and period dramas, but didn't mention the trail he blazed on the gridiron. I'd do that if I could. [23], He did The Italian Connection (1972), for which he was paid $150,000. Two Rode Together is a 1961 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring James Stewart, Richard Widmark, and Shirley Jones. Pompey actor Woody Strode remembered that Ford "kept needling Duke about his failure to make it as a football player", comparing him to Strode who was a former NFL player. The filmmaker would ask his Western star: How rich did you get while Jimmy was risking his life?, According to Michael Munns John Wayne The Man Behind The Myth, Strode said that the directors constant ridiculing really p***ed Wayne off, but he would never take it out on Ford., The reason being that the filmmakers movies had made him a Hollywood star and the Pompey actor claimed: He ended up taking it out on me.. He later said his salary in Italy went up to $10,000 a week. And during the trial sequences, Ford frequently dims the courtroom lights, leaving only Rutledge lit, alone in the witness chair surrounded by darkness alone and helpless as many black men on trial have felt, accused of a crime they did not commit. I'd do that if I could. It deals with a black U.S. Calvary sergeant of a regiment of black troops played by Woody Strode (who appeared in several later Ford films, including his last film Seven Woman playing a Chinese warlord) who is court-marshaled for raping and killing a white woman and her father as well. '"[12] He also said, "On the Pacific Coast there wasn't anything we couldn't do. Strode was very close to the director. Caleb Williams: 'I'd probably go to the Dolphins' if given c LSU's Nabers won't face charges after weapon arrest, Willie Taggart hired as Ravens' RBs coach, Florida loses defensive coordinator Patrick Toney to NFL, LSU's Nabers charged with illegal carrying of a weapon, Revamped AAC releases 2023 slate with 6 new schools. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. However Warners obviously thought that, though a black man was the lead in their film, the audience wouldnt be able to handle it. He was drafted at age 27 and soon joined the United States Army Air Corps and spent the war unloading bombs in Guam and the Marianas, as well as playing on the Army football team at March Field in Riverside, California.[10]. I've done everything but play an Anglo-Saxon. Ford gave Strode the title role in Sergeant Rutledge (1960) as a member of the Ninth Cavalry, who is greatly admired by the other black soldiers in the unit and is falsely accused of the rape and murder of a white woman. Woody Strode was born in 1914 in Los Angeles. [33], Colo. It's been 15 years since Woody Strode's prime time in Hollywood ]: [4] "They are not household names like Jackie Robinson. . He was 80 years old. 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. Ransom Stoddard believes in the U. S. Constitution, the rule by law, the trust in government. After that I said thats all I needed. The film made Strode a major star in European cinema, increasing his salary to a minimum $150,000 per movie. Strode gave the Hollywood establishment what they demanded and appeared in some of the best and the worst of what they offered him. Berlinale 2023 Highlights, Part Two: Reality, Manodrome, The Adults, Inside, Golda, Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Feted at SBIFF 2023, Revisiting Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Tragically Common: Jamie Dack, Lily McInerny and Jonathan Tucker on Palm Trees and Power Lines. He did 1,000 push-ups, sit-ups, and knee bends daily. Which is sort of remarkable, because they love each other. Prueba a ver si Netflix, iTunes, Amazon o cualquier otro servicio te deja reproducirlo en streaming, alquilarlo o comprarlo! (1969) and supported Terence Hill and Bud Spencer in Boot Hill (1969) shot in Italy. Hell, we thought we were white. 20072023 Blackpast.org. Theyre like father and son.. Inducted into the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum and Hall of Fame in 2012-13. Strode also had a brief career as a professional gridiron football player and was among the first African . Additionally, the. The character was named after Woody Strode, the legendary Spartacus actor who starred in numerous Westerns throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Despite the lack of opportunities for actors of color in his era, Woody Strode left a legacy worth revisiting. In the article below independent historian Clarence Spigner analyzes Sergeant Rutledge and the other major films of the college football star, early National Football League player, and actor Woody Strode.. Woody Strode weighed 205 lbs (92 kg) when playing. The screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck contains one of the best-known lines of dialogue in any Ford movie, spoken to Stoddard years later by the town's new newspaper editor: "This is the West, sir. I had the greatest Glory Hallelujah ride across the Pecos River that any black man ever had on the screen. [3], "I got a cultural educationmajored in history and education," he said in a 1971 interview. He became part of Hollywood lore after meeting director John Ford and becoming a part of the Ford "family," appearing in four Ford motion pictures. He wrestled intermittently, once defeating Gorgeous George. Racial discrimination slowed their progress in the game. He was also a professional wrestler, wrestling the likes of Gorgeous George. Now Hallie has started to like this lawyer-man from the East, who starts up a one-room schoolhouse to teach people how to read. But he also was described once as a tough, two-fisted, hard-drinking Irish sonofabitch who was known to treat actors on his films horribly, by bullying, yelling and even mocking them. An old black cowboy named Pompey ( Woody Strode) takes Hallie on a buckboard ride into the countryside where they regard the burned-out remains of Doniphon's cottage. His illiterate students include Hallie. He was also in Key West (1973), Loaded Guns (1975), The Manhunter (1975), We Are No Angels (1975), Winterhawk (1975), Keoma (1976), episodes of The Quest (1976) and How the West Was Won (1977), Oil (1977), Martinelli, Outside Man (1977), Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), Cowboy-San! At the time Ford yelled: Dont hit him Woody! Now, I don't know if Mr Stewart has a prejudice against Negroes, but I just wanted you all to know about it., Stewart later said he wanted to crawl into a mouse hole after that and Wayne told him: Well, welcome to the club. They reunited 20 years later when he played the title role in Ford's rather neglected 1960 western 'Sergeant Rutledge', as a black Cavalry officer unfairly tried for the rape and murder of a white women and her father. Ford isn't making an anachronistic statement on racism, but he's being sure we notice it. Look instead at a debate that continues between the lawyer and the farmer about guns. Being married with two children, he needed steady work. He was in 87 movies over the length of his career, though Strode . What is it whats the idea? And I said, I dont know!, And I didnt know, Stewart added. A Los Angeles native, he excelled in athletics at UCLA in the late 1930s, where he was explosive as a decathlete as well as part of the college football team that also included Jackie Robinson - he, Robinson, and future NFL star Kenny Washington made up . He was the African antagonist in Tarzan Fights for Life (1958) and an Apache chief who took on Sean Connery in the western, Shalako (1968). Decathlete who also played football professionally in the CFL, and enjoyed a successful acting career. "It's heart and guts. He said, "Well, they're not tough enough to do what I want Sergeant Rutledge to be. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. "I've never gotten over 'Sergeant Rutledge,'" Strode told The New York Times years later. After the war, he worked at serving subpoenas and escorting prisoners for the L.A. County District Attorney's Office. The same thing will happen again to another black man, and he probably wont be as lucky as Rutledge was. The 6-foot, 4-inch Strode was a world-class decathlete with a body so toned that he posed nude for an exhibition of athletic portraits shown at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Waterfield laughs and says: You sons of bitches, youre living good., Strode by then was in his early 30s and his football days were numbered. The closing credits dedicate the film to Strode, who died shortly before its release. [citation needed], Strode's acting career was re-activated when producer Walter Mirisch spotted him wrestling and cast him as an African warrior in The Lion Hunters (1951), one of the Bomba the Jungle Boy series. It asks the question: Does a man need to carry a gun in order to disagree or state an opinion? Strode was a gladiator in Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) and was in Jungle Man-Eaters (1954), a Jungle Jim film. Lee Marvin moves into full blown stardom - becoming a legitimate box office titan - in one of the greatest Westerns ever made (My Favorite) starring along side Western Film Greats Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Claudia Cardinale, Ralph Belamy . Country. Strode was in City Beneath the Sea (1953) directed by Budd Boetticher, and The Royal African Rifles. Race is not a factor in the world market," Strode said. Played college football and broke color barrier at the same time as Kenny Washington. Strode also played the powerful gladiator who does battle with Kirk Douglas in Spartacus (1960). He guest starred on The Lieutenant, The Farmer's Daughter and Daniel Boone and had roles in the features Genghis Khan (1965) and 7 Women (1966), the latter the last film he made for Ford. His parents were from New Orleans; his grandmother was African-American and "part Cherokee" and his grandfather was an African-American who claimed his own grandmother was Creek. Even the final scene has an unexpected dramatic impact when, after Rutledge has been cleared of the crime, barely thanks his defense lawyer and goes straight back to leading his Buffalo Soldiers out for another tour of duty. Strode, the six-foot-four pioneering athlete turned movie star, was born in 1914, in South Central Los Angeles, to Black and Native American parents. Three men stand at the center of the story: Stoddard, Doniphon, and Valance. In town, he's nursed back to health by Nora and Peter Ericson, two recent Swedish immigrants who run the local chowhouse. 1942: Star Spangled Rhythm. He was both successful and a popular draw, but he gave up wrestling due to his popularity in motion pictures. Woody Strode spent decades in Hollywood working with larger-than-life names, including John Wayne, Elvis Presley and Kirk Douglas. Acting wasn't his first passion, however, as football at Jefferson High School and UCLA brought him initial fame. Woody Strode. Kalaeloa, 19462014), and a daughter, June. They were unable to find anyone to play the Ethiopian king so Strode was given that role too. [3], In 1941, Strode had dabbled for several months in professional wrestling. He served in the United States Army during World War II. "It had dignity. In 1980, Strode was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. More info, The cantankerous and eccentric John Ford had filmed other Westerns with John Wayne in colour from The Searchers to She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City last year enshrined him in the Hall of Great Western Performers. I'd play a Viking with blue contact lenses and a blond wig if I could. Im glad you made it.. German director Leni Riefenstahl called Strode the greatest physique of any athlete I have ever seen.. This past August in Canton, Ohio, family members accepted the Ralph Hay Pioneer Award on the players' behalf at the enshrinement gala that precedes the NFL season. Strodes riveting presence among a trio of hired gunslingers waiting at the train station in the spaghetti western, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), is unforgettable. Shinbone is the only Western town I've seen in a movie with no prostitutes. All three spend much of their time hanging out in the restaurant kitchen. But no pro team would draft African Americans. "I had a certain amount of crudeness that went back a hundred years, and that's what he liked. Strode encountered racism in the NFL. Strode had begun his association with Ford back in 1939, with an uncredited role in his classic western 'Stagecoach'. [11] UCLA teammate Jackie Robinson would go on to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball (in fact, Robinson, Strode, and Washington had all played in the semi-professional Pacific Coast Professional Football League earlier in the decade). Tom could stand up to Valance, but it would suit him to have Stoddard out of the way so that he could bring Hallie home to that porch with its rocking chair. Once dubbed "the Jackie Robinson of cinema" by Jet Magazine, Strode shared a backfield with Robinson and Washington in 1939. In the film, Strodes character recites the Declaration of Independence but apologizes for forgetting the phrase all men are created equal, a poignant line for the 1962 audience. "[13], In 1948 he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers of the AAFC, but was released before the season started,[14] whereupon he joined the Calgary Stampeders of the Western Interprovincial Football Union in Canada, where he was a member of Calgary's 1948 Grey Cup Championship team[15] before retiring due to injury in 1949. At UCLA he was a track star, a football phenomenon and a performer on the Royce stage. The Pompey actor assessed: What a miserable film to make.. Tom Doniphon is a local farmer, who observes, "Liberty Valance's the toughest man south of the Picketwire--next to me." The retired NFL wideout, in tandem with his co-author Bob Glauber, persuaded the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2022 to recognize the so-called Forgotten Four as pathfinders. My dream is to play a Mexican bandit in the international market."[20]. Acting wasnt his first passion, however, as football at Jefferson High School and UCLA brought him initial fame. 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