Joan Woodbury

Acting

Joan Woodbury

Born — Died

1915-12-17 — 1989-02-22

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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 …

Known for

The Ten Commandments poster
7.8

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 quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.

The Ten Commandments

1956

Bride of Frankenstein poster
7.5

After recovering from injuries sustained in the mob attack upon himself and his creation, Dr. Henry Frankenstein falls under control of his former mentor, Dr. Pretorius, who insists the now-chastened doctor resume his experiments in creating new life. Meanwhile, the Monster remains on the run from those who wish to destroy him.

Bride of Frankenstein

1935

Call of the Wild poster
6.3

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, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.

Call of the Wild

1935

Go West poster
6.6

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 feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.

Go West

1940

The Desperadoes poster
5.9

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 when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.

The Desperadoes

1943

Blue Skies poster
6.2

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 compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.

Blue Skies

1946

Film credits

1940s · 30 titles

Go West poster
6.6

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 feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.

Go West

1940

The Desperadoes poster
5.9

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 when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.

The Desperadoes

1943

Blue Skies poster
6.2

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 compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.

Blue Skies

1946

Blue Skies poster
6.2

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 compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.

Blue Skies

1946

Flame of the West poster
7.0

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 casting of Douglass Dumbrille. Usually seen in villainous roles, Dumbrille herein offers a sincere, effective performance as a scrupulously honest US marshal named Nightlander. When he takes on a gang of crooked gamblers, Nightlander is shot down in cold blood, compelling frontier doctor John Poole (Johnny Mack Brown) to put his Hippocratic oath on the back burner and strap on the shootin' irons.

Flame of the West

1945

King of the Zombies poster
5.2

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, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.

King of the Zombies

1941

Dr. Broadway poster
6.0

A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

Dr. Broadway

1942

Bring on the Girls poster
6.2

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 hotel sets out to get him.

Bring on the Girls

1945

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat poster
6.6

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.

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

1944

Gangs Inc. poster
5.6

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 crime organization.

Gangs Inc.

1941

The Whistler poster
6.0

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 all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.

The Whistler

1944

Confessions of Boston Blackie poster
6.3

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 makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.

Confessions of Boston Blackie

1941

Shut My Big Mouth poster
8.3

A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

Shut My Big Mouth

1942

Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture poster
6.1

Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.

Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture

1949

The Arnelo Affair poster
5.2

A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.

The Arnelo Affair

1947

You Can't Beat the Law poster
5.4

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 hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.

You Can't Beat the Law

1943

The Hard Way poster
6.5

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

The Hard Way

1943

Ten Cents a Dance poster
6.0

Two privates on a 36 hour pass meet two dance hall dames, complications ensue!

Ten Cents a Dance

1945

Sauce for the Gander poster
5.0

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 tells the radio audience that he thinks men could do a better job running the household than women. When he arrives home, his infuriated wife Margaret proposes that her husband put his money where his mouth is. The couple switch roles, with Margaret going to the office and Tom cooking and cleaning. While Margaret becomes a successful entrepreneur, the man of the house comes dangerously close to having a nervous breakdown. Overwhelmed by a woman's work, Tom begs Margaret to go back to the way things were, but his now-independent wife isn't interested.

Sauce for the Gander

1940

I Killed That Man poster
6.7

A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.

I Killed That Man

1941

Phantom Killer poster
5.2

Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders.

Phantom Killer

1942

Two Latins from Manhattan poster
6.0

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 and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.

Two Latins from Manhattan

1941

I'll Sell My Life poster
7.5

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.

I'll Sell My Life

1941

Brenda Starr, Reporter poster
9.0

Reporter Brenda Starr and her photographer Chuck Allen get involved in a search for the loot from a payroll robbery. Cliffhanging action and adventure and a fair amount of comic relief follow them at every turn.

Brenda Starr, Reporter

1945

Yankee Fakir poster
6.0

A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona.

Yankee Fakir

1947

Here Comes Trouble poster
5.2

A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.

Here Comes Trouble

1948

Sunset Serenade poster
6.2

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. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."

Sunset Serenade

1942

In Old Cheyenne poster
4.6

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 bad guy is.

In Old Cheyenne

1941

The Living Ghost poster
4.2

A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.

The Living Ghost

1942

Northwest Trail poster
5.8

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 across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.

Northwest Trail

1945

1930s · 28 titles

Bride of Frankenstein poster
7.5

After recovering from injuries sustained in the mob attack upon himself and his creation, Dr. Henry Frankenstein falls under control of his former mentor, Dr. Pretorius, who insists the now-chastened doctor resume his experiments in creating new life. Meanwhile, the Monster remains on the run from those who wish to destroy him.

Bride of Frankenstein

1935

Call of the Wild poster
6.3

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, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.

Call of the Wild

1935

Anthony Adverse poster
5.7

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 his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.

Anthony Adverse

1936

Charlie Chan in Shanghai poster
6.7

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.

Charlie Chan in Shanghai

1935

Charlie Chan on Broadway poster
7.1

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.

Charlie Chan on Broadway

1937

The Eagle's Brood poster
5.8

When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.

The Eagle's Brood

1935

While New York Sleeps poster
7.0

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

While New York Sleeps

1938

Super-Sleuth poster
5.6

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

Super-Sleuth

1937

There Goes My Girl poster
7.5

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, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.

There Goes My Girl

1937

Algiers poster
6.4

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. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby, which arouses the jealousy of Ines.

Algiers

1938

Passport Husband poster
7.0

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 thieves, gives Conchita a diamond bracelet, he is arrested. After Tiger is deported, Duke Selton, of Tiger's gang, pays a visit to Conchita and tells her he believes that Blackie Bennet, the leader of a rival gang, is responsible for tipping off the police about Tiger's citizenship.

Passport Husband

1938

Mystery of the White Room poster
9.0

A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.

Mystery of the White Room

1939

They Gave Him a Gun poster
6.7

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

They Gave Him a Gun

1937

The Luck of Roaring Camp poster
5.2

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 diggings. But when they strike it rich the money is gambled away instead.

The Luck of Roaring Camp

1937

Chasing Danger poster
8.0

When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting desert warfare.

Chasing Danger

1939

Charlie Chan at the Opera poster
6.8

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 ago.

Charlie Chan at the Opera

1936

The Lion's Den poster
8.0

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 Merwin by being part of Welsh's gang he hires on as Single-Shot. But soon the real Single-Shot appears.

The Lion's Den

1936

Dangerous Waters poster
6.0

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.

Dangerous Waters

1936

One Exciting Adventure poster
8.0

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.

One Exciting Adventure

1934

Always in Trouble poster
7.3

Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.

Always in Trouble

1938

Bulldog Courage poster
6.0

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 to town to tangle with the banker.

Bulldog Courage

1935

Night Spot poster
4.6

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-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.

Night Spot

1938

Forty Naughty Girls poster
5.6

Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.

Forty Naughty Girls

1937

Crashing Hollywood poster
6.0

A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.

Crashing Hollywood

1938

Song of the Gringo poster
6.0

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 is sent to kill two more miners. When Estaban is killed, Tex is put on trial for all three murders.

Song of the Gringo

1936

Cipher Bureau poster
5.3

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.

Cipher Bureau

1938

No artwork available
8.0

Andy gets into hot water because of his frequent lodge meetings.

Lodge Night

1937

Midnight Court poster
5.1

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Midnight Court

1937