Anecdotes

One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

First became a writer with American Mutoscope & Biograph [us] in 1908.

When at Amerian Mutoscope and Biograph Co., Woods was writer of the 1909 film The Redman's View (1909), for which a The Red Man's View remake is in development from the original film, by American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.

Co-founder of Allied Authors, a US film production company, in 1923.

During the filming of The Failure (1915), Christy Cabanne deliberately failed to call for extras at the appropriate time so that when they were required he had none, thereby forcing Woods to call everyone on the lot to take part, resulting in Henry B. Walthall, Charles Clary, Jack Conway, Sam De Grasse, Ralph Lewis, Spottiswoode Aitken, George Siegmann, George Beranger and around twenty other leading men and directors appearing in the movie as barflies.