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Sam Wood

Highest Rated: 100% Double Speed (1920)

Lowest Rated: 20% Peck's Bad Boy (1921)

Birthday: Jul 10, 1883

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Began his career as an actor, moved behind the camera as assistant to Cecil B. DeMille in 1915 and made his directorial debut in 1920 with "Double Speed." Wood displayed a certain flair for complementing the talents of whatever stars he was handed, turning out a number of Gloria Swanson vehicles at Paramount in the early 1920s ("Bluebeard's Eight Wife" 1923 etc.), and hitting his modest stride at MGM in the 30s. His output includes two Marx Brothers films, the durable soap opera "Madame X" (1937), the unjustly overlooked "Lord Jeff" (1938) and "Ivy" (1947), the poignant dramas "Goodbye Mr. Chips" (1939) and "Kitty Foyle" (1940), and the literary adaptations "Our Town" (1940) and "Kings Row" (1942). A number of Wood's films stand largely on the strength of their casts and production crews, and he did occasionally have the out-and-out stinker (e.g., "For Whom the Bell Tolls" 1943).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% Double Speed
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100% 79% Kings Row
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97% 90% A Night at the Opera
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95% 89% A Day at the Races
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94% 89% The Pride of the Yankees
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90% 80% The Devil and Miss Jones
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89% 80% The Stratton Story
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86% 47% Our Town
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86% 64% Beyond the Rocks
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81% 87% Goodbye, Mr. Chips
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Sam Wood

Sam Wood THE BARBARIAN, from left: Reginald Denny, Ramon Novarro, Myrna Loy (seated), director Sam Wood on set, 1933 FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, director Sam Wood, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman filming a scene on set, 1943 HOLD YOUR MAN, Jean Harlow, director Sam Wood on set, 1933 THE STRATTON STORY, James Stewart, June Allyson, director Sam Wood on set, 1949 COMMAND DECISION, Clark Gable, director Sam Wood, producer Sidney Franklin on set, 1948 COMMAND DECISION, Clark Gable (seated), director Sam Wood (right) on set, 1948 IVY, director Sam Wood, Joan Fontaine on set, 1947 FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, director Sam Wood, Gary Cooper, Vera Zorina preparing to shoot a test scene, 1943 HEARTBEAT, Ginger Rogers, director Sam Wood on set, 1946 View more photos

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Ambush 73% 1949 Director The Stratton Story 89% 80% 1949 Director Command Decision 81% 1948 Director Ivy 54% 1947 Director Heartbeat 36% 1946 Director Guest Wife 25% 1945 Director Saratoga Trunk 60% 1945 Director Casanova Brown 36% 1944 Director For Whom the Bell Tolls 64% 61% 1943 Director, Producer The Pride of the Yankees 94% 89% 1942 Director Kings Row 100% 79% 1942 Director The Devil and Miss Jones 90% 80% 1941 Director Kitty Foyle 75% 73% 1940 Director Our Town 86% 47% 1940 Director Raffles 56% 1940 Director Rangers of Fortune 1940 Director Goodbye, Mr. Chips 81% 87% 1939 Director Stablemates 1938 Director Lord Jeff 30% 1938 Director, Producer Navy Blue and Gold 57% 1937 Director Madame X 60% 50% 1937 Director A Day at the Races 95% 89% 1937 Director, Producer The Unguarded Hour 1936 Director Let 'Em Have It 20% 1935 Director Whipsaw 38% 1935 Director, Producer
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