Lesley Woods

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Lesley Woods
Born(1910-08-22)August 22, 1910
Berwick, Iowa, U.S.
DiedAugust 2, 2003(2003-08-02) (aged 92)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1936–2001
SpouseRichard McMurray
ChildrenSam McMurray (stepson)

Lesley Woods (August 22, 1910 – August 2, 2003) was an American radio, stage and television actress. She was a graduate of the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.[1]

Personal life

Woods was married to actor Richard McMurray. Sam McMurray is her stepson.[2]

Death

Woods died on August 2, 2003, 20 days before her 93rd birthday. [3]

Stage

Woods' acting on Broadway included being in Double Dummy (1936), Excursion (1937), Comes the Revelation (1942), The Assassin (1945), and A Case of Libel (1963–64).[4] She was a member of Theatre West. A Billboard review of Comes the Revelation summarized Woods' acting as follows: "Small, blond and attractive, Miss Woods plays with an honesty and restraint that are as rare as they are commendable. Quiet, sincere and tremendously effective, she does one of the finest jobs of the entire season."[5]

Radio

Woods' roles on radio programs included those shown in the table below.

Program Role
Backstage Wife Maida[6]
Boston Blackie Mary Wesley[2]
Bright Horizon Rosie[7]
Margaret Anderson McCarey[6]
Bulldog Drummond "heroine roles"[8]
"the feminine lead"[9]
Casey, Crime Photographer
 Ann Williams[10]
Guiding Light Helene Cunningham[11]
Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne Margot Sherwood[6]
The Man I Married Evelyn Waring[12]
Midstream Meredith Conway[6]
Portia Faces Life Elaine Arden[13]
Road of Life
 Carol Martin[1]
The Romance of Helen Trent Tember Adams[6]
Rosemary Audrey Roberts[6]
The Shadow Margo Lane[14]
This Is Nora Drake Peg Martinson[6]
We Love and Learn Mickey[6]
Woman in White Janet Munson Adams[6]

Other programs on which Woods was a regular included Crime and Peter Chambers,[15] Inner Sanctum Mystery,[16] The Private Files of Rex Saunders,[17] Treasury Star Parade,[18] and It Can Be Done.[19]

Television

A veteran of at least 10 daytime serials, Woods' daytime debut was as Claire Bannister Steele on

Helen Logan from 1987 to 1989, and again in 2001, when her character was a great-great-grandmother.[2]

Television appearances

Year Program Episode/source
1956 Robert Montgomery Presents -----[20]

References

  1. ^
    Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ a b c "Lesley Woods". Variety. August 19, 2003. Retrieved 2008-03-14. Actress Lesley Woods died Aug. 2 of natural causes in Los Angeles. She was 90.
  3. ISBN 9780786452088
    – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Lesley Woods". Playbill Vault. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  5. ^ Burr, Eugene (June 6, 1942). "New Plays on Broadway: Comes the Revelation". Billboard. pp. 9–10. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i Buxton, Frank and Owen, Bill (1972). The Big Broadcast: 1920-1950. The Viking Press. SBN 670-16240-x. Pp. 23, 40, 127, 160, 203, 204, 238, 253, 258.
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  13. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3
    . Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  14. ISBN 978-0-7864-5149-4
    . P. 596.
  15. ^ Dunning, op. cit., "Crime and Peter Chambers" p. 184
  16. ^ Dunning, op. cit., "Inner Sanctum Mystery" pp.346-347
  17. ^ Dunning, op. cit., "The Private Files of Rex Saunders" p. 554
  18. ^ Dunning, op. cit., "Treasury Star Parade" p. 680-681
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