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Edward Woodward

Edward Albert Arthur Woodward OBE 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Croydon, Surrey, England, UK, 1930-06-01

Died: 2009-11-16

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Becket	Clement (uncredited)	71
2	1969	The File of the Golden Goose	Arthur Thompson	55
3	1971	Prisoners	The Man	0
4	1971	Blood Suckers	Dr. Holstrom	39
5	1971	The Cherry Orchard	Lopahkin	0
6	1972	Sitting Target	Inspector Milton	61
7	1972	Young Winston	Captain Aylmer Haldane	62
8	1973	The Wicker Man	Sergeant Neil Howie	73
9	1974	Callan	David Callan	69
10	1977	Stand up, Virgin Soldiers	Sgt. Wellbeloved	48
11	1977	The Bass Player and the Blonde	George Mangham	0
12	1980	A Rod of Iron	Ian	0
13	1980	Breaker Morant	Harry 'Breaker' Morant	71
14	1981	Wet Job	David Callan	45
15	1982	Who Dares Wins	Commander Powell	62
16	1983	The Appointment	Ian	63
17	1983	Love is Forever	Derek McBracken	46
18	1984	Champions	Josh Gifford	68
19	1984	A Christmas Carol	Ghost of Christmas Present	75
20	1985	King David	King Saul	56
21	1985	Arthur the King	Merlin	33
22	1987	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Simon Legree	70
23	1988	A Desperate Fortune: Matthew Flinders' Australia	Narrator	0
24	1989	The Man in the Brown Suit	Sir Eustace Pedler	50
25	1990	Hands of a Murderer	Sherlock Holmes	68
26	1991	Mister Johnson	Sargy Gollup	62
27	1994	Aladdin	The Sultan (voice)	52
28	1994	Deadly Advice	Maj. Herbert Armstrong	46
29	1994	A Christmas Reunion	Colonel Phillips	60
30	1995	The Shamrock Conspiracy	Edward Harrison	40
31	1996	Harrison: Cry of the City	Edward 'Teddy' Harrison	10
32	1998	Ex-S: The Wicker Man	Self	0
33	2000	Marcie's Dowry	Gus Wise	0
34	2000	The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai	Himself - Narrator	80
35	2002	The Abduction Club	Lord Fermoy	58
36	2007	Hot Fuzz	Tom Weaver	76
37		The Wicker Man At 50	Sgt Howie	0
38		Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending	Sgt Howie	0
39	1955	Where There's a Will	Ralph Stokes	64
40	1967	A Magnum for Schneider	David Callan	0
41	1969	Julius Caesar	Cassius	80
42	1971	Evelyn	The Man	60
43	1972	Hunted	John Drummond	60
44	1972	The Ra Expeditions	Narrator (BBC version)	70
45	1972	Young Winston	Aylmer Haldane	62
46	1975	When Day Is Done	Philip Warne	0
47	1975	Three for All	Roadsweeper	10
48	1978	Saturday, Sunday, Monday	Luigi	0
49	1980	The Trial of Lady Chatterley	Mervyn Griffith-Jones	0
50	1981	Blunt Instrument	Alex Logan	0
51	1987	The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine	Robert McCall	87
52	1988	Codename: Kyril	Michael Royston	0
53	1989	Memories of Manon	Robert McCall	83
54	1991	Soccer Shoot-Out	Commentator (Voice)	80
55	2001	The Wicker Man Enigma	Himself	60
56	2001	Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man	Himself	70
57	2002	Night Flight	Vic Green	60
58	2003	100 Greatest Sexy Moments	Self	50
59	2004	The RAF at War: Part One	himself (Presenter)	0
60	2004	The RAF at War: Part Two	himself (Presenter)	0
61	2004	The RAF at War: Part Three	himself (Presenter)	0
62	2007	Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz	Self	0
63	2009	A Congregation of Ghosts	Reverend Densham	95
64	2016	Callan: This Man Alone	Himself (archive)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
3	1956	Armchair Theatre		58
4	1961	The Defenders	H.T. Harris	62
5	1961	Sir Francis Drake	Spanish Captain	45
6	1962	The Saint	Jack Liskard	73
7	1964	Detective	Auguste Dupin	0
8	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Caius Cassius	50
9	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Lopakhin	50
10	1966	Mystery and Imagination		55
11	1966	You Can't Win		0
12	1966	The Baron		54
13	1967	Sword of Honour	Guy Crouchback	0
14	1967	Callan	David Callan	70
15	1970	Play for Today	The Man	63
16	1971	The Edward Woodward Hour		0
17	1973	Whodunnit?	Host	73
18	1976	Laurence Olivier Presents	Luigi	70
19	1977	1990	Jim Kyle	60
20	1978	The Bass Player and the Blonde	George Mangham	0
21	1980	Nice Work		40
22	1981	Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years	Sir Samuel Hoare	50
23	1985	The Equalizer	Robert McCall	72
24	1985	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Drummond	72
25	1990	Over My Dead Body		55
26	1991	In Suspicious Circumstances	Storyteller	60
27	1994	Common As Muck	Nev	75
28	1996	Gulliver's Travels	Drunlo	71
29	1999	Crusade	Alwyn	67
30	1999	CI5: The New Professionals	Harry Malone	65
31	2001	The Lone Gunmen		68
32	2001	Messiah	Rev. Stephen Hedges	72
33	2004	Murder in Suburbia		71
34	2006	The One Show	Self - Guest	45
35	2007	Five Days	Vic Marsham	57