1919 secretary/treasurer of Otis B. Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company in Denver. 1920 sales manager of Otis B. Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company in Denver. 1921 vice president of Otis B. Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company in Denver. From 1919 through 1921, Art-o-Graf produced the following films: "Miss Arizona ", "Wolves of the Street ", "The Desert Scorpion", "Finders Keepers ", and Out of the Depths. 1922 President of the "Mountain Plains Enterprise Film Company" in Denver. There were plans by the "Mountain Plains Enterprise Company" to build "Sunshine Studios" at Tim McCoy's Owl CreekDude ranch in order to shoot a film titled, "The Dude Wrangler" written by Caroline Lockhart. The project was abandoned. He was also still listed as a scenario writer for Art-O-Graf Film company. His work with MGM: 1927 "Frisco Sally Levy", "Tillie the Toiler", "Foreign Devils ", "Spring Fever ", "The Bugle Call", "The Callahans and the Murphys", "Rookies ", "Slide, Kelly, Slide", "The Taxi Dancer", "Winners of the Wilderness"
1933 "The Prizefighter and the Lady" 1934 "You Can't Buy Everything", "The Show-Off" "Death on the Diamond", "Hide-Out", "Murder in the Private Car", "The Thin Man " 1935 "China Seas ", "Murder in the Fleet", "The Winning Ticket" 1936 "The Robin Hood of El Dorado"
David Wood Townsend was born in Hoskins, Wayne County, Nebraska, the son of Glenn Eli Townsend and Bertha A. Townsend. Grandson of David Wood Townsend and Mary Ellen Townsend. Great-grandson of Eli Townsend and Abigial Mosher Townsend.
In 1910, at the age of 19, Townsend was living with his parents and grandfather whom he was named after in Dallas, South Dakota. In 1913, Townsend married Lillian Francis Rennick in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He and Lillian had two children together, Edward Glenn Townsend and Harriet L. Pim Ayers. In 1915 he was secretary/treasurer for his father's company, G. E. Construction in Norfolk, Nebraska and was still living in that area by 1917. In 1919 he worked for the Art-O-Graf Film Company of Colorado. In 1922 he President of the "Mountain Plains Enterprise Film Company" in Denver. In 1926, he moved to Los Angeles, California and began work for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios as an art director and set designer.
On August 5, 1935 while scouting locations at Sonora Pass for the film, "The Robin Hood of El Dorado," the car he was riding in with Lowell L. Ralph, Mrs. Lottie Mundello, and Miss Agnes McMullen, went off the road and plunged 200 feet below. Townsend was killed instantly, while the other three passengers, who were thrown from the car, survived.
