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Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode was an American athlete, actor, and author. He was a decathlete and football star who was one of the first Black American players in the National Football League in the
Strode in The Italian Connection (1972)
UCLA football alumni Woody Strode (#34), Kenny Washington (#13), and others
Strode as Sergeant Rutledge
The Professionals is a 1966 American revisionist Western film written, directed, and produced by Richard Brooks and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode, with Jack Palance
Woody Strode
…Queen of Diamonds" and "Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds". Strode landed a major starring role as a Bounty Hunter and soldier of fortune in the 1966 Western The Professionals. His name was the only one of the four "professionals" which was left off the movie poster; nevertheless, the film was a major box-office success…
Theatrical release poster by Howard Terpning
The remains of the Mexican hacienda set for the film, at the Valley of Fire State Park, March 2012