Edward Woodward
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.
103 acting credits
Acting · 103
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Play for Today
1970
The Saint
1962
The Equalizer
1985
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The Bill
1984
The Defenders
1961
Theatre 625
1964
ITV Playhouse
1967
Hot Fuzz
2007
Mystery and Imagination
1966
Callan
1967
The Lone Gunmen
2001
Detective
1964
Five Days
2007
Crusade
1999
Sir Francis Drake
1961
Messiah
2001
Armchair Mystery Theatre
1960
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
Murder in Suburbia
2004
The Baron
1966
Gulliver's Travels
1996
1990
1977
The Wicker Man
1973
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991
Common As Muck
1994
Armchair Theatre
1956
CI5: The New Professionals
1999
A Christmas Carol
1984
Armchair Cinema
1974
Becket
1964
Over My Dead Body
1990
Who Dares Wins
1982
Breaker Morant
1980
Whodunnit?
1973
King David
1985
Champions
1984
You Can't Win
1966
Sword of Honour
1967
Codename: Kyril
1988
Sitting Target
1972
Young Winston
1972
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
The Man in the Brown Suit
1989
The Appointment
1983
Nice Work
1980
The Bass Player and the Blonde
1978
Night Flight
2002
Mister Johnson
1991
Codename: Kyril
1988
Arthur the King
1985
The Abduction Club
2002
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987
The Shamrock Conspiracy
1995
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1987
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
2007
The Trial of Lady Chatterley
1980
Three for All
1975
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
2001
Deadly Advice
1994
Blood Suckers
1971
Callan
1974
Where There's a Will
1955
Memories of Manon
1989
The File of the Golden Goose
1969
Aladdin
1992
Soccer Shoot-Out
1991
Love is Forever
1983
Harrison: Cry of the City
1996
The Cherry Orchard
1971
The Ra Expeditions
1972
Hands of a Murderer
1990
A Congregation of Ghosts
2009
The RAF at War: Part Three
2004
Evelyn
1971
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
1998
The Wicker Man At 50
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When Day Is Done
1975
The Bass Player and the Blonde
1977
A Christmas Reunion
1994
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
2000
The RAF at War: Part Two
2004
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977
The Wicker Man Enigma
2001
The Edward Woodward Hour
1971
Callan: This Man Alone
2016
Wet Job
1981
Marcie's Dowry
2000
Hunted
1972
Blunt Instrument
1981
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
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Julius Caesar
1969
A Rod of Iron
1980
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
1968
The RAF at War: Part One
2004
A Desperate Fortune: Matthew Flinders' Australia
1988
A Magnum for Schneider
1967
Prisoners
1971
Ella
1966