Edward Woodward
Acting
- Born:
- 1930-06-01
- Died:
- 2009-11-16
- Place of birth:
- Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Biography
Edward Albert Arthur Woodward OBE (June 1, 1930 - November 16, 2009) was an English stage and screen actor and singer. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Woodward began his career on stage, and throughout his career he appeared in productions in both the West End in London and on Broadway in New York. He came to wider attention from 1967 in the title role of the British television spy drama Callan, earning him the 1970 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. Among his film credits, Woodward starred as Police Sergeant Howie in the 1973 cult British horror film The Wicker Man, and in the title role of the noted 1980 Australian biopic Breaker Morant. From 1985 Woodward starred as British ex-secret agent and vigilante Robert McCall in the American television series The Equalizer, earning him the 1986 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Drama Actor.
Known For
Filmography
The Wicker Man at 50
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
Callan: This Man Alone
A Congregation of Ghosts
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz
Five Days
Murder in Suburbia
The RAF at War: Part Three
The RAF at War: Part Two
The RAF at War: Part One
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
The Abduction Club
Night Flight
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man Enigma
Messiah
The Lone Gunmen
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
Marcie's Dowry
CI5: The New Professionals
Crusade
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
La Femme Nikita
Harrison: Cry of the City
Gulliver's Travels
The Shamrock Conspiracy
A Christmas Reunion
Common As Muck
Deadly Advice
Aladdin
In My Defence
Soccer Shoot-Out
In Suspicious Circumstances
Mister Johnson
Over My Dead Body
Hands of a Murderer
Memories of Manon
The Man in the Brown Suit
Codename: Kyril
A Desperate Fortune: Matthew Flinders' Australia
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Equalizer
Arthur the King
King David
The Bill
A Christmas Carol
Champions
Love is Forever
The Appointment
Who Dares Wins
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Wet Job
Blunt Instrument
Sunday Night Thriller
The Trial of Lady Chatterley
Nice Work
Breaker Morant
A Rod of Iron
The Bass Player and the Blonde
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1990
The Bass Player and the Blonde
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Laurence Olivier Presents
Three for All
When Day Is Done
Armchair Cinema
Callan
The Wicker Man
Whodunnit?
Young Winston
Sitting Target
The Ra Expeditions
Hunted
The Cherry Orchard
Evelyn
The Edward Woodward Hour
Blood Suckers
Prisoners
Play for Today
The File of the Golden Goose
Julius Caesar
The Root of All Evil?
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
ITV Playhouse
Trapped
Callan
A Magnum for Schneider
Sword of Honour
NET Playhouse
The Baron
You Can't Win
Ella
Mystery and Imagination
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Theatre 625
Detective
Becket
Sergeant Cork
The Saint
Sir Francis Drake
You Can't Win
The Defenders
Armchair Mystery Theatre
Armchair Theatre
Where There's a Will
Golden Globe Awards