- Toward the end of the Korean Campaign he joined the Navy and served for nearly four years, from the beginning of 1954 until mid 1957, and was honorably discharged. He the attended San Diego State College.
- He is noted for extensive work in Spaghetti Westerns and in the European film industry in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Robert Woods went to Hollywood in 1962, and then to New York. He studied acting in New York with Boris Marshalov and worked briefly at the famed 'Circle In The Square', before traveling to Paris in 1963, to work in 'The American Theater', on the Quay D'Orsey.
- He began the stage of his western career in 1964, starring in a film entitled, "Five Thousand Dollars on the Ace". It was the first 'Western' done at the newly constructed 'Balcazar Studios' in Barcelona and though it was not the first to be done in Europe... It was the first ever 'EuroWestern' to be sold to the illusive American market (MGM- 1964). "Five Thousand Dollars on the Ace" historically became the unheralded grandfather of the genre, currently known as the 'Spaghetti Western'.
- At the end of 2013 the famed Almeria Annual Western Film Festival brought him to Spain to honor him for his body of work.
- He began his film career after being selected by George Hamilton to be his stand-in in Where the Boys Are (1960) where he had an uncredited role.
- Shortly after the successful sale and release of the movie "Five Thousand Dollars on the Ace", Clint Eastwood arrived in Italy and Spain to begin filming Sergio Leone's "Fist Full Of Dollars"(1965). His break-through Spaghetti Western was also purchased by MGM and 'Europe's Golden Age Of Cinema' had officially begun. During that period, Clint became the most popular icon on the planet and Robert was blessed with the good fortune to travel all over the World to star in over fifty International features, most of them Westerns, before returning to America...
- In 2014 Robert Woods did a role in Los Angeles in a film called, "Threshold". Shortly afterward, he was flown to Italy to star in a romantic and uplifting feature entitled "Romanzo Calabrese", which was filmed in Morano Calabria and Rome. Immediately after the 'Calabrese' film was wrapped, he returned to America to do a featured role in the wonderfully cinematic, eclectic "Of Fortune and Gold , a modern Western, filmed at the Grand Canyon, The Mojave Desert and Los Angeles.
- He was placed in an orphanage, called 'The Colorado Home For Abused & Abandoned Children' by his single teen aged mother, Doris, who was unable to provide for him.
- While doing an adaptation of Chekhov's 'Seagull', in Paris, he was seen by Spanish producer Alfonso Balcazar who requested him to fly to Barcelona, Spain to do a screen test for a Western film. Robert, originally a Colorado cowboy, passed it with flying colors and subsequently signed a contract to work as a leading actor in five more Western features.
- Raised initially on a ranch near Great Divide Colorado, he was ultimately brought to Boulder, where he attended Boulder High School.
- He was adopted at ten months old.
- He is an expert fly-fisherman, a horseman and a gourmet chef.
- His numerous credits include parts in over 50 films, including 42 in which he was top-billed.
- Robert Woods, sometimes credited as Robert Wood, is an American film and television actor.
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