Edward Woods

Edward Woods was an American actor who came to the screen from the Broadway stage. Born in Menominee and educated at the University of Southern California, he acted at the old Salt Lake Theatre, playing Lionel Barrymore's son in The Copperhead, and then appeared in many Broadway productions in New York before beginning his movie career. His best known part was Matt Doyle, opposite James Cagney, in The Public Enemy (1931), and his films put him alongside performers such as Cary Grant, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, John Barrymore and Clark Gable. On Broadway he appeared in Speak Easy (1927), Trapped (1928), Zeppelin (1929), Houseparty (1929), One Good Year (1935) and Tortilla Flat (1938). He later worked in production, direction and theatrical management for the Schubert Organization and 20th Century Fox, and produced Buttrio Square on Broadway in 1952. He died in 1989.