Stacy Woodard

Stacy Woodard ( born June 11, 1902 in Salt Lake City, Utah; † January 27, 1942 in New York City, New York ) was an American film producer, director, editor, cinematographer and screenwriter who the at the Academy Awards 1935 Oscar for best short film received.

Biography

Woodard worked as cinematographer on King Kong and the white woman (1933 ) works. He got together with his younger brother Horace Woodard 1935 for City of Wax (1934 ) won the Oscar for best short film.

Other films in which he was involved as a producer, director, editor, cameraman or scriptwriter, were mostly short documentary films Born To Die (1934 ), Neptune Mysteries: The Struggle to Live Series ( 1935), Fang and Claw (1935 ) and Adventures of Chico (1938).

In his later years Stacy Woodard established a series of short films for Shell in Texas and Louisiana. Finally, he served as secretary and treasurer of the Woodard Productions Inc., whose president was Stacy's brother Horace. Stacy Woodard died 39 years old in Knickerbocker Village (New York) in the house of a friend of a natural death, as the coroner found.