John Wood (11 November 1909 – 1 March 1965)[1] was an Australian who acted on the stage and briefly became a film star in Hollywood and Britain in the late 1930s.

He performed on stage for the J. C. Williamson Company in Australia between 1929 and 1933, earning good reviews as a "talented juvenile" and handsome young actor "with promise.

[5] He also appeared with Bette Davis in the radio play Just Suppose, a fantasy drama about an English king marrying an American woman.

Two busy years of stage and film work followed, including Over She Goes (1937) in which he sang and danced with co-stars Stanley Lupino and Laddie Cliff.

Official Australian war artist and fellow POW Murray Griffin painted Wood's portrait and sketched performances and players.

Russell Braddon another POW, described Wood as "the greatest source of stage anecdotes and comic songs that Changi knew.

[14] He married British actress Phil Buchanan in Melbourne in July 1946[15] and performed in The Hasty Heart and While the Sun Shines for occupying forces in Japan in 1947.