Samuel Grosvenor (Sam) Wood (July 10 1883 – September 22 1949) was a prolific Hollywood director, he also did some production, writing, and to a lesser extent, acting work.

Born in Philadelphia, Wood worked for Cecil B. De Mille as an assistant in 1915. A solo director by 1919, Wood worked throughout the 1920s directing some of Paramount Pictures's biggest stars, among them Gloria Swanson and Wallace Reid. He began working for MGM in 1927, working with Marion Davies, Clark Gable, and Jimmy Durante. In the 1940s, Wood directed Ginger Rogers through her Oscar-winning performance in Kitty Foyle (1940). Woods daughter was film and television actress K. T. Stevens who first started her career in one of her fathers films, Peck's Bad Boy.

At one point, he served as president of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals.

Wood died from a heart attack, in Hollywood, at the age of 66.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6718 Hollywood Blvd.

Before becoming a director, Wood had worked on pipelines for an oil company.

Former real estate broker.

Appeared as actor in the early part of the century under the name Chad Applegate.

Late in his life, he served as the President of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a right-wing political organization whose aim was to ferret out "subversives" in Hollywood. In this capacity, he provided key testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, helping to fan fears of Communist influence in the U.S. film industry.

Father of actress K.T. Stevens.

Father of actress Jeane Wood.

Directed 11 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Martha Scott, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Gary Cooper (I), Teresa Wright (I), Katina Paxinou, Akim Tamiroff, Ingrid Bergman (I) and Flora Robson. Donat, Paxinou and Rogers won Oscars for their performances in one of Wood's movies.