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.
Born: 01 June 1930 • Died: 16 November 2009
Played In
The Wicker Man at 50
Sgt Howie
Callan: This Man Alone
Himself (archive)
A Congregation of Ghosts
Reverend Densham
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
Self
Hot Fuzz
Tom Weaver
Five Days
Vic Marsham
Murder in Suburbia
Reg
The RAF at War: Part Three
himself (Presenter)
The RAF at War: Part Two
himself (Presenter)
The RAF at War: Part One
himself (Presenter)
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Self
The Abduction Club
Lord Fermoy
Night Flight
Vic Green
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
Himself
The Wicker Man Enigma
Himself
Messiah
Rev. Stephen Hedges
The Lone Gunmen
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
Himself - Narrator
Marcie's Dowry
Gus Wise
CI5: The New Professionals
Harry Malone
Crusade
Alwyn
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
Self
Harrison: Cry of the City
Edward 'Teddy' Harrison
Gulliver's Travels
Drunlo
The Shamrock Conspiracy
Edward Harrison
A Christmas Reunion
Colonel Phillips
Common As Muck
Nev
Deadly Advice
Maj. Herbert Armstrong
Aladdin
The Sultan (voice)
Soccer Shoot-Out
Commentator (Voice)
In Suspicious Circumstances
Storyteller
Mister Johnson
Sargy Gollup
Over My Dead Body
Hands of a Murderer
Sherlock Holmes
Memories of Manon
Robert McCall
The Man in the Brown Suit
Sir Eustace Pedler
Codename: Kyril
Michael Royston
Codename: Kyril
Michael Royston
A Desperate Fortune: Matthew Flinders' Australia
Narrator
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Robert McCall
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Simon Legree
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Drummond
The Equalizer
Robert McCall
Arthur the King
Merlin
King David
King Saul
The Bill
Johnnie Jackson
A Christmas Carol
Ghost of Christmas Present
Champions
Josh Gifford
Love is Forever
Derek McBracken
The Appointment
Ian
Who Dares Wins
Commander Powell
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Sir Samuel Hoare
Wet Job
David Callan
Blunt Instrument
Alex Logan
The Trial of Lady Chatterley
Mervyn Griffith-Jones
Nice Work
Breaker Morant
Harry 'Breaker' Morant
A Rod of Iron
Ian
The Bass Player and the Blonde
George Mangham
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Luigi
1990
Jim Kyle
The Bass Player and the Blonde
George Mangham
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Sgt. Wellbeloved
Laurence Olivier Presents
Luigi
Three for All
Roadsweeper
When Day Is Done
Philip Warne
Armchair Cinema
Philip Warne
Callan
David Callan
The Wicker Man
Sergeant Neil Howie
Whodunnit?
Host
Young Winston
Captain Aylmer Haldane
Young Winston
Aylmer Haldane
Sitting Target
Inspector Milton
The Ra Expeditions
Narrator (BBC version)
Hunted
John Drummond
The Cherry Orchard
Lopahkin
Evelyn
The Man
The Edward Woodward Hour
Blood Suckers
Dr. Holstrom
Prisoners
The Man
Play for Today
The Man
The File of the Golden Goose
Arthur Thompson
Julius Caesar
Cassius
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Ed
ITV Playhouse
Ed
ITV Playhouse
George Mangham
ITV Playhouse
Ian
Callan
David Callan
Trapped
Mark Frazier
A Magnum for Schneider
David Callan
Sword of Honour
Guy Crouchback
NET Playhouse
Caius Cassius
The Baron
You Can't Win
Ella
Arthur
Mystery and Imagination
Reeve
BBC Play of the Month
Caius Cassius
BBC Play of the Month
Lopakhin
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Arthur
Theatre 625
Guy Crouchback
Detective
Auguste Dupin
Becket
Clement (uncredited)
Sergeant Cork
Austen Carew
The Saint
Jack Liskard
Sir Francis Drake
Spanish Captain
You Can't Win
Paul Hayward
The Defenders
H.T. Harris
Armchair Mystery Theatre
Paul Danek
Armchair Mystery Theatre
Anstey
Armchair Theatre
Armchair Theatre
David Callan
Where There's a Will
Ralph Stokes
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
Sgt Howie