Samuel Grosvenor (Sam) Wood (July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was a prolific Hollywood director, he also did some production, writing, and to a lesser exetnt, acting work. Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. Year 1883 ( MDCCCLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Born in Philadelphia, Wood worked for Cecil B. De Mille as an assistant in 1915. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an Academy Award -winning American Film director A solo director by 1919, Wood worked throughout the 1920s directing some of Paramount Pictures's biggest stars, among them Gloria Swanson and Wallace Reid. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Gloria Swanson (March 27 1899 – April 4 1983 was an Academy Award -nominated Golden Globe -winning American Hollywood Wallace Reid ( April 15, 1891 – January 18, 1923) was an actor in Silent film referred to by Motion Picture Magazine He began working for MGM in 1927, working with Marion Davies, Clark Gable, and Jimmy Durante. Marion Davies ( January 3, 1897 &ndash September 22, 1961) was an American film Actress. Clark Gable (February 1 &ndashNovember 16) was an iconic American Actor nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday In the 1940s, Wood directed Ginger Rogers through her Oscar-winning performance in Kitty Foyle (1940). Ginger Rogers ( July 16, 1911 &ndash April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award -winning American film and stage actress Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a film starring Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Woods daughter was film and television actress K. T. Stevens who first started her career in one of her fathers films, Peck's Bad Boy. K T Stevens ( July 20, 1919 &ndash June 13, 1994) born Gloria Wood in Los Angeles California, was an American

At one point, he served as president of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals ( MPA) was an American organization of politically conservative movie workers who wanted

Wood died from a heart attack, in Hollywood, at the age of 66. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6718 Hollywood Blvd. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a Sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood Los Angeles California, USA, that

External links

• Sam Wood at the Internet Movie Database