John Woods

Wood, John (b. 1930), actor. The tall, gaunt British performer, who brings a dark shadow of menace to his many comic roles, has made only sporadic appearances on Broadway but usually earns raves. He was born in Derbyshire, educated at Oxford, and appeared with the Old Vic and on the West End before making his New York debut playing the confused pawn Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967). On subsequent visits Wood also shone as Sherlock Holmes (1974), the senile civil servant Henry Carr in Travesties (1975), the con man Tartuffe (1977), the scheming mystery writer Sidney Bruhl in Deathtrap (1978), a replacement for the diabolical Salieri in Amadeus (1981), and the seasoned traveling Player in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1987), twenty years after his Broadway debut in the same play.

Wood, John Taylor (1830-1904) Confederate naval officer. Born at Fort Snelling, in what would become Minnesota, John Taylor Wood graduated from the Naval Academy in 1853. He gave up his commission in April 1861, and accepted an appointment as a lieutenant in the Confederate States navy in October. He served on the Virginia during its battles in Hampton Roads in 1862. In January 1863 Wood was appointed as the naval aide to his uncle, President Jefferson Davis. In August Wood led a daring raid in the Chesapeake that captured five federal schooners. A year later he ran the blockade in the raider Tallahassee, capturing 33 vessels in one 19 day cruise. In February 1865 he was promoted to captain, but two months later he had to flee Richmond. He made his way to Cuba and later to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he engaged in business until his death.

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Wood, John Muir (1805-92), Scottish amateur photographer who worked in the family music business as a pianist, musicologist, publisher, and impresario. He lived in Edinburgh until 1848, then in Glasgow. Wood started photography some time in the 1840s, and his first dated photographs were recorded on a tour in 1847, starting at York and visiting towns in Belgium. He also took views in Germany and France, perhaps on the same tour. He continued to photograph in the 1850s, principally in the Scottish landscape. His collection, which includes work by Joseph Cundell (b. 1802), brother of George Smith Cundell (1798-1882), and Hugh Owen (1808-97), indicates that he exchanged information and pictures with other amateurs. His sophisticated knowledge of chemistry suggests contact with the prolific photographic experimenter Charles John Burnett (1820-1907).

Wood's photographs explore portraiture, groups, and sculpture, but mostly landscape. His approach was appropriately lyrical and often mysterious. He apparently regarded the prints as a variable idea, like different performances of music, and experimented with various printing methods from the paper calotype negative. He is particularly remarkable for his use of metals in toning, working with the chrysotype (gold and uranium), tin, and copper.

— Sara F. Stevenson

Bibliography

• Stevenson, S., Lawson, J., and Gray, M., The Photography of John Muir Wood (1988)

John Woods may refer to:

• John C. Woods, executioner at the Nuremberg Trials
• John E. Woods, translator of literature from German to English
• John Levene (born 1941), actor whose birth name was John Woods
• John Thomas Archer Woods, 19th century cricket player and footballer
• John Woods (baseball) (1898-1946), MLB player for the Boston Red Sox
• John Woods (Islamic Scholar), Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History, University of Chicago
• John Woods (MMA), mixed martial arts fighter
• John Woods (New Zealand) (1849–1934), composer of music for national anthem of New Zealand
• John Woods (Ohio politician) (1794–1845), U.S. Representative from Ohio
• John Woods (Pennsylvania), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
• John Woods (rugby league born circa-1910), rugby league footballer of the 1930s for Barrow, England, and Great Britain
• John Woods (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1970s, '80s and '90s for Great Britain, England, Leigh, Bradford, Warrington, and Rochdale
• Jon Woods (programmer) - Ocean Software founder

See also

• Jon Woods, U.S. politician from Arkansas
• John Wood (disambiguation)

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