Edward Woodward
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.
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Full filmography
- Play for Today (1970) as The Man
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Nominee
- The Saint (1962) as Jack Liskard
- The Equalizer (1985) as Robert McCall
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Caius Cassius
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Lopakhin
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) as Drummond
- The Bill (1984) as Johnnie Jackson
- The Defenders (1961) as H.T. Harris
- ITV Playhouse (1967) as Ed
- ITV Playhouse (1967) as George Mangham
- ITV Playhouse (1967) as Ian
- Theatre 625 (1964) as Guy Crouchback
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as Arthur
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as Alan
- Hot Fuzz (2007) as Tom Weaver
- Callan (1967) as David Callan
- Crusade (1999) as Alwyn
- The Lone Gunmen (2001)
- Five Days (2007) as Vic Marsham
- Mystery and Imagination (1966) as Reeve
- Sir Francis Drake (1961) as Spanish Captain
- Messiah (2001) as Rev. Stephen Hedges
- Detective (1964) as Auguste Dupin