Career
He wrote for 90 films between 1908 and 1925, and first became a writer with American Mutoscope and Biograph. Woods was also a pioneering film reviewer. As a writer His contributions to film criticism are discussed in the documentary, Foreign the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.
He was also known for his screenplay collaborations with Doctorate. West. Griffith, including the co-scripting of The Birth of a Nation.
He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.