 Woodd was one of his favourite roles; others included Sergeant Jones in Robertson's "Ours", Colonel Berners in They're Smith's "Cut off with a Shilling", Adonis Evergreen in Charles Mathews's "My Awful Dad", Autolycus in "The Winter's Tale", and Private Saunders in "Bootles' Baby", an adaptation by Hugh Moss of a popular novelette by J. S. Winter.He was often referred to as the "soldier-actor"; not only did he play a large number of military men, there was, "The Times" said, "no mistaking that he had been in the Army.Tall and upright, with a broad chest and shoulders, he looked even when quite old the perfect type of a healthy Englishman."