Other works

(1960) Unsold pilot: Co-starred with Charles Aidman in a pilot for a series to be called "Henry D".

CD: "Country Music Hall of Fame" (USP)

(1952) Had a hit song with "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin')"

(1961) Had a hit song with "I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven"

(1948) Had a hit song with "Deck of Cards"

(1934) Stage: Appeared (as "Red Dog" / "A Man"; final Broadway role) in "Mother Lode" on Broadway. Drama. Written by Dan Totheroh and George O'Neil. Directed by Melvyn Douglas (also in cast as "Cary Ried"). Cort Theatre: 22 Dec 1934-Dec 1934 (closing date unknown/9 performances). Cast: Ivan Arbuckle (as "Yank"), Frank Baer (as "Ensemble"), Dorothy Bayley (as "Ensemble"), Louise Beaudet (as "Mrs. Schiller"), Beulah Bondi (as "Mrs. Kate Hawkins"), Roland Bottomley (as "Lord Berkeley Beresfield"), Barbara Brown (as "Ensemble"), Orrin Burke (as "Irish Johnnie "), Dorothea Cadwallader (as "Ensemble"), Frank Camp (as "Thomas Carter"), Thomas Chalmers (as "Frank O'Malley"), Cynthia Dane (as "Ensemble"), Clifford Dempsey (as "Whiskey Truman, Later Sen. Truman"), Alice Dowd (as "Ensemble"), Willis Duncan (as "Ensemble"), Edythe Elliott (as "Mrs. Thomas Carter"), Gertrude Flynn (as "Julia Musette"), William Franklin (as "Cassius, A Sailor"), Helen Freeman (as "Madame Lorska"), Helen Gahagan (as "Hannah Hawkins "), Al Guin (as "Ensemble"), Carolyn Hun (as "Ensemble"), J. James (as "Ensemble"), Lida Kane (as "Mother O'Brien"), Robert Kellard (as "A Young Man" / "Slim"), George Lamar (as "Curley" / "Dick Condon"), Frank Lambert (as "Ensemble"), Lenore Lonergan (as "Clarissa Ried"), Lester Lonergan III (as "Little Breeches"), Jean Marwood (as "Ensemble"), Barbara O'Neil (as "A Woman "), Arvid Paulson (as "Sing"), Paul Porter (as "Ensemble"), Franklin Reber (as "Ensemble"), Mary Reilly (as "Ensemble"), C. Russell Sage (as "Speed Jake" / "Mike"), Robert Shayne (as "Horace Fields"), Einar Svalbe (as "Swede, A Lieutenant"), Valerie Tempest (as "Ensemble"), Robert Thorne (as "Pious Pete"), John Troughton (as "Brutus"), Rosalie Van der Stucken (as "Ensemble"), Lillian Walker (as "A Young Woman" / "Another Woman"), Kate Warriner (as "Evelyn"), Sam Worth (as "Ensemble"). Produced by George Bushar and John Tuerk.

(1932) Stage: Appeared in "The Round Up" on Broadway.

(1931) Stage: Appeared (credited as Woodward Ritter; Broadway debut; as "Cowboy") in "Green Grow the Lilacs" on Broadway. Written by Lynn Riggs. Directed by Herbert J. Biberman. Guild Theatre: 26 Jan 1931-Mar 1931 (closing date unknown/64 performances). Cast: Jane Alden, A.L. Bartolot, Carl Beasley, Gordon Bryant, Elmo Carr, Slim Cavanaugh (as "Cowboy"), Everett Cheetham, Ruth Chorpenning (as "Ado Annie Carnes"), William Chosnyk, Tex Cooper, Alice Frost, Richard Hale (as "Jeeter Fry"), Chick Hannan, Peggy Hannan, William T. Hays, John Hibbard, Faith Hope, Roy Ketcham, Orlando Lee, Lois Lindon, Jack Miller, Tommy Pladget, Eleanor Powers, Paul Ravell, Pete Schwartz, Lee Strasberg (as "Peddler"), Franchot Tone (as "Curly McClain"), June Walker (as "Laurey Williams"), Helen Westley (as "Aunt Eller Murphy"), Joe Wilson, Jean Wood, Hank Worden (credited as Norton Worden). Produced by The Theatre Guild. NOTE: Although a flop, this served as the basis for the monster 1943 hit musical "Oklahoma!"

(1/18/56) Guested on the daytime television program "The Red Rowe Show".

(1930s) Radio: Appeared as a regular on the "Bobby Benson" serial on CBS Radio.