Edward Woodward
Born: 1930-06-01 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Died: 2009-11-16
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2023
- The Wicker Man at 50 as Sgt Howie
2016
- Callan: This Man Alone as Himself (archive)
2009
- A Congregation of Ghosts as Reverend Densham
2007
- Hot Fuzz as Tom Weaver
- Five Days as Vic Marsham
- Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz as Self
2004
- Murder in Suburbia as Reg
- The RAF at War: Part One as himself (Presenter)
- The RAF at War: Part Three as himself (Presenter)
- The RAF at War: Part Two as himself (Presenter)
2003
- 100 Greatest Sexy Moments as Self
2002
- Night Flight as Vic Green
- The Abduction Club as Lord Fermoy
2001
- The Lone Gunmen
- Messiah as Rev. Stephen Hedges
- Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man as Himself
- The Wicker Man Enigma as Himself
2000
- Marcie's Dowry as Gus Wise
- The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai as Himself - Narrator
1999
- Crusade as Alwyn
- CI5: The New Professionals as Harry Malone
1998
- Ex-S: The Wicker Man as Self
1996
- Gulliver's Travels as Drunlo
- Harrison: Cry of the City as Edward 'Teddy' Harrison
1995
- The Shamrock Conspiracy as Edward Harrison
1994
- Common As Muck as Nev
- Deadly Advice as Maj. Herbert Armstrong
- A Christmas Reunion as Colonel Phillips
1992
- Aladdin as The Sultan (voice)
1991
- In Suspicious Circumstances as Storyteller
- Mister Johnson as Sargy Gollup
- Soccer Shoot-Out as Commentator (Voice)
1990
- Over My Dead Body
- Hands of a Murderer as Sherlock Holmes
1989
- The Man in the Brown Suit as Sir Eustace Pedler
- Memories of Manon as Robert McCall
1988
- Codename: Kyril as Michael Royston
- Codename: Kyril as Michael Royston
- A Desperate Fortune: Matthew Flinders' Australia as Narrator
1987
- Uncle Tom's Cabin as Simon Legree
- The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine as Robert McCall
1985
- The Equalizer as Robert McCall
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Drummond
- King David as King Saul
- Arthur the King as Merlin
1984
- The Bill as Johnnie Jackson
- A Christmas Carol as Ghost of Christmas Present
- Champions as Josh Gifford
1983
- Love is Forever as Derek McBracken
- The Appointment as Ian
1982
- Who Dares Wins as Commander Powell
1981
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years as Sir Samuel Hoare
- Wet Job as David Callan
- Blunt Instrument as Alex Logan
- Sunday Night Thriller as Alex Logan
1980
- Breaker Morant as Harry 'Breaker' Morant
- Nice Work
- The Trial of Lady Chatterley as Mervyn Griffith-Jones
- A Rod of Iron as Ian
1978
- The Bass Player and the Blonde as George Mangham
- Saturday, Sunday, Monday as Luigi
1977
- 1990 as Jim Kyle
- Stand up, Virgin Soldiers as Sgt. Wellbeloved
- The Bass Player and the Blonde as George Mangham
1976
- Laurence Olivier Presents as Luigi
1975
- Three for All as Roadsweeper
- When Day Is Done as Philip Warne
1974
- Armchair Cinema as Philip Warne
- Callan as David Callan
1973
- The Wicker Man as Sergeant Neil Howie
- Whodunnit? as Host
1972
- Young Winston as Captain Aylmer Haldane
- Sitting Target as Inspector Milton
- The Ra Expeditions as Narrator (BBC version)
- Hunted as John Drummond
1971
- The Cherry Orchard as Lopahkin
- Blood Suckers as Dr. Holstrom
- Evelyn as The Man
- The Edward Woodward Hour
- Prisoners as The Man
1970
- Play for Today as The Man
1969
- Julius Caesar as Cassius
- The File of the Golden Goose as Arthur Thompson
1968
- Entertaining Mr. Sloane as Ed
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Ed
- Callan as David Callan
- Trapped as Mark Frazier
- Sword of Honour as Guy Crouchback
- A Magnum for Schneider as David Callan
1966
- Mystery and Imagination as Reeve
- NET Playhouse as Caius Cassius
- The Baron
- You Can't Win
- Ella as Arthur
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Caius Cassius
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as Arthur
1964
- Theatre 625 as Guy Crouchback
- Detective as Auguste Dupin
- Becket as Clement (uncredited)
1963
- Sergeant Cork as Austen Carew
1962
- The Saint as Jack Liskard
1961
- The Defenders as H.T. Harris
- Sir Francis Drake as Spanish Captain
- You Can't Win as Paul Hayward
1960
- Armchair Mystery Theatre as Paul Danek
1956
1955
- Where There's a Will as Ralph Stokes
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee