Edward Woodward
Edward Albert Arthur Woodward OBE (1 June 1930 – 16 November 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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
The One Show
4.538
Crusade
6.676
Whodunnit?
7.3
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.2
Five Days
5.7
The Equalizer
7.2
The Saint
7.3
Callan
7
The Lone Gunmen
6.818
The Baron
5.4
Over My Dead Body
5.5
CI5: The New Professionals
5.3
Messiah
7.196
Gulliver's Travels
7.1
Nice Work
4
Mystery and Imagination
5.5
BBC Play of the Month
5
The Defenders
6.2
In Suspicious Circumstances
6
You Can't Win
0
BBC Play of the Month
5
The Edward Woodward Hour
0
Laurence Olivier Presents
7
Sir Francis Drake
4.5
Murder in Suburbia
7.083
1990
6
Sword of Honour
0
Play for Today
6.333
Common As Muck
7.5
Golden Globe Awards
7
Armchair Theatre
5.8
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
5
Golden Globe Awards
7
The Bass Player and the Blonde
0
Detective
0
Movies
Hot Fuzz
7.562
Wet Job
4.5
Breaker Morant
7.102
The Man in the Brown Suit
5
King David
5.6
The Wicker Man
7.34
Young Winston
6.2
The File of the Golden Goose
5.5
Who Dares Wins
6.2
Sitting Target
6.1
Blood Suckers
3.9
Callan
6.9
Mister Johnson
6.226
The Shamrock Conspiracy
4
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
4.8
The Cherry Orchard
0
Hands of a Murderer
6.8
Arthur the King
3.273
The Appointment
6.271
Champions
6.8
Deadly Advice
4.6
Uncle Tom's Cabin
6.958
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
8
Marcie's Dowry
0
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
0
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
0
Becket
7.141
Love is Forever
4.6
A Christmas Reunion
6
A Desperate Fortune: Matthew Flinders' Australia
0
Harrison: Cry of the City
1
Prisoners
0
A Rod of Iron
0
The Bass Player and the Blonde
0
The Abduction Club
5.8
A Christmas Carol
7.5
The Wicker Man At 50
0
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
0
Aladdin
5.2
A Congregation of Ghosts
9.5
The RAF at War: Part One
0
The RAF at War: Part Two
0
The RAF at War: Part Three
0
Julius Caesar
8
Where There's a Will
6.4
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
0
Soccer Shoot-Out
8
A Magnum for Schneider
0
Night Flight
6
Callan: This Man Alone
0
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
8
Hunted
6
Evelyn
6
When Day Is Done
0
Codename: Kyril
0
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
7
Three for All
1
The Wicker Man Enigma
6
Memories of Manon
7.5
Young Winston
6.2
The Ra Expeditions
7
Blunt Instrument
0
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
5