Sam Wood

Sam Wood

1883-07-10 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 79 Credits

Biography

Samuel Grosvenor (Sam) Wood (July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was an American film director, and producer, who was best known for directing such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Pride of the Yankees. He was also involved in a few acting and writing projects. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Ambush

Ambush

1950

Director, Producer

5.1
Directing Producing

A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.

The Stratton Story

The Stratton Story

1949

Director

6.5
Directing

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.

Command Decision

Command Decision

1948

Director

6.4
Directing

High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties ...

Ivy

Ivy

1947

Director, Executive Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger...

Heartbeat

Heartbeat

1946

Director

4.9
Directing

A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.

Saratoga Trunk

Saratoga Trunk

1945

Director

5.7
Directing

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostra...

Guest Wife

Guest Wife

1945

Director

6.2
Directing

Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war corresp...

Casanova Brown

Casanova Brown

1944

Director

6.3
Directing

Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, C...

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943

Producer, Director

6.5
Producing Directing

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side t...

The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees

1942

Director

7.4
Directing

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

Kings Row

Kings Row

1942

Director

7.2
Directing

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

The Devil and Miss Jones

The Devil and Miss Jones

1941

Director

7.7
Directing

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store...

Kitty Foyle

Kitty Foyle

1940

Director

6.6
Directing

A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.

Rangers of Fortune

Rangers of Fortune

1940

Director

5.0
Directing

An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his youn...

Our Town

Our Town

1940

Director

5.7
Directing

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.

Raffles

Raffles

1939

Director

6.0
Directing

Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in lov...

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939

Director

7.4
Directing

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

Stablemates

Stablemates

1938

Director

4.5
Directing

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

Lord Jeff

Lord Jeff

1938

Director, Producer

7.1
Directing Producing

Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a ca...

Navy Blue and Gold

Navy Blue and Gold

1937

Director, Producer

5.9
Directing Producing

Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

Madame X

Madame X

1937

Director

6.2
Directing

An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her i...

A Day at the Races

A Day at the Races

1937

Director, Producer

7.1
Directing Producing

Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a hi...

The Unguarded Hour

The Unguarded Hour

1936

Director

6.2
Directing

A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.

Whipsaw

Whipsaw

1935

Director, Producer

6.2
Directing Producing

Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfri...

A Night at the Opera

A Night at the Opera

1935

Director

7.4
Directing

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera sin...

Rendezvous

Rendezvous

1935

Director

4.8
Directing

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

Let 'em Have It

Let 'em Have It

1935

Director

7.0
Directing

Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.

Stamboul Quest

Stamboul Quest

1934

Director, Producer

5.4
Directing Producing

In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish the...

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party

1934

Director

5.8
Directing

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real ...

Christopher Bean

Christopher Bean

1933

Director

Directing

When the painter Christopher Bean dies, some unscrupulous art dealers try to get several of his paintings cheaply from a family who have no idea of th...

Hold Your Man

Hold Your Man

1933

Director, Producer

6.1
Directing Producing

Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie take...

The Barbarian

The Barbarian

1933

Director, Music, Producer

4.9
Directing Producing

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.

Prosperity

Prosperity

1932

Director, Producer

4.7
Directing Producing

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

Huddle

Huddle

1932

Director, Producer

6.6
Directing Producing

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale ...

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford

1931

Director

5.0
Directing

Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has pl...

The Man in Possession

The Man in Possession

1931

Director, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.

A Tailor-Made Man

A Tailor-Made Man

1931

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs ...

Paid

Paid

1930

Director

6.8
Directing

Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her convi...

Way for a Sailor

Way for a Sailor

1930

Director, Producer

4.4
Directing Producing

A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.

The Sins of the Children

The Sins of the Children

1930

Director, Producer

4.4
Directing Producing

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.

The Girl Said No

The Girl Said No

1930

Director

5.5
Directing

A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plot...

They Learned About Women

They Learned About Women

1930

Director

4.0
Directing

Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.

It's a Great Life

It's a Great Life

1929

Director

4.0
Directing

Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act u...

So This Is College

So This Is College

1929

Director, Producer

4.2
Directing Producing

Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.

Telling the World

Telling the World

1928

Director

Directing

The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal arrive...

The Latest from Paris

The Latest from Paris

1928

Director

Directing

The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In ...

The Fair Co-Ed

The Fair Co-Ed

1927

Director

5.5
Directing

Marion go off to college where she joins the basketball team to be near the coach, Bob. She instantly makes a rival of Betty, who's also interested in...

A Racing Romeo

A Racing Romeo

1927

Director

Directing

When Red Walden loses out in the annual town motor race, Aunt Hattie Wayne and her niece Sally advise him to pay more attention to his garage.

Rookies

1927

Director

Directing

Greg, an arrogant entertainer, gets drafted into the army and runs up against tough drill sergeant Sgt. Diggs. Not wanting to stay in the army, Greg s...

One Minute to Play

One Minute to Play

1926

Director

4.5
Directing

"Red" Wade, a star high-school football player, has intentions of going to Claxton College, which has a powerhouse football team, but changes his mind...

Fascinating Youth

Fascinating Youth

1926

Director

Directing

Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases ...

The Re-Creation of Brian Kent

1925

Director

Directing

To support a demanding wife, bank clerk Brian Kent embezzles a large sum of money and, overcome with remorse, attempts to commit suicide by casting hi...

The Mine with the Iron Door

The Mine with the Iron Door

1924

Director

Directing

This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove and Bob Hill find an infant in the c...

The Female

The Female

1924

Director

Directing

A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad...and then happy ending. antic love triangle melo...

The Next Corner

The Next Corner

1924

Director

Directing

While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband mus...

His Children's Children

His Children's Children

1923

Director

Directing

Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil ...

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

1923

Director

Directing

John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when he is in Paris, Mona de Briac comes into his life...

Prodigal Daughters

Prodigal Daughters

1923

Director

1.0
Directing

Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her dau...

My American Wife

My American Wife

1922

Director

Directing

Manuel La Tessa, son of a wealthy South American family, meets Natalie Chester, a young Kentucky woman whose horse has won a race at a South American ...

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

1922

Director

Directing

Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when he finds Betty in the company of Jerry Woodruff t...

Beyond the Rocks

Beyond the Rocks

1922

Director

6.2
Directing

A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhapp...

Her Gilded Cage

Her Gilded Cage

1922

Director

Directing

A romance about a dancer seeking love and fame from Paris cabarets to New York society.

Her Husband’s Trademark

Her Husband’s Trademark

1922

Director

Directing

James Berkeley (who wants to get rich) and Allan Franklin (determined to be a great engineer) are rivals for the hand of Lois Miller. Berkeley marries...

Don't Tell Everything

Don't Tell Everything

1921

Director

Directing

Two men in love with the same woman are further complicated by the arrival of a second woman.

Under the Lash

Under the Lash

1921

Director

Directing

The wife of a tyrannical Boer husband discovers what life could be like when a handsome Englishmen visits their home.

The Great Moment

The Great Moment

1921

Director

Directing

Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Romani Russian, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin,...

Peck's Bad Boy

Peck's Bad Boy

1921

Director, Adaptation

3.5
Directing

This portrayal of small town life before the War is based on a small boys determination to get to see the circus, over all obstacles. Escaped lions, l...

The Outside Woman

The Outside Woman

1921

Director

Directing

The Outside Woman is a lost 1921 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood and written by Douglas Bronston.

The Snob

The Snob

1921

Director

Directing
Her Beloved Villain

Her Beloved Villain

1920

Director

Directing
Her First Elopement

Her First Elopement

1920

Director

Directing

Christina Elliott is concerned about her cousin's relationship with a snake dancer. Many complications ensue until a happy ending for almost all.

A City Sparrow

A City Sparrow

1920

Director

Directing

A drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis (Walt...

What's Your Hurry?

What's Your Hurry?

1920

Director

Directing

Truckdriver Dusty Rhoades leads a team of truckers over dangerous roads to deliver emergency supplies before a crucial dam breaks.

Sick Abed

Sick Abed

1920

Director

Directing

When showing a woman customer some ranch property, real estate agent John Weems's car is disabled by a terrible storm, and he and his client are force...

Why Change Your Wife?

Why Change Your Wife?

1920

Assistant Director

5.9
Directing

Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sal...

The Dancin' Fool

The Dancin' Fool

1920

Director

Directing

Sylvester Tibble is a clerk in his uncle's restaurant. Sylvester dreams of becoming a famous dancer and tries to inject a little of the jazz life into...

Excuse My Dust

Excuse My Dust

1920

Director

5.7
Directing

A top race-car driver leaves the sport to get married and settle down, because his new wife doesn't want him to race anymore. However, not long afterw...

Double Speed

Double Speed

1920

Director

Directing

Auto racer Speed Carr enters a marathon race across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles. He encounters numerous obstacles not related to t...

The Little American

The Little American

1917

as Wounded Soldier (uncredited)

6.3
Acting

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality fir...