Edward Woodward
Acting
1930-06-01 · Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
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
The Wicker Man at 50
2023 · Movie
Callan: This Man Alone
2016 · Movie
A Congregation of Ghosts
2009 · Movie
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
2007 · Movie
Hot Fuzz
2007 · Movie
Five Days
2007 · Series
Murder in Suburbia
2004 · Series
The RAF at War: Part Three
2004 · Movie
The RAF at War: Part Two
2004 · Movie
The RAF at War: Part One
2004 · Movie
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003 · Movie
The Abduction Club
2002 · Movie
Night Flight
2002 · Movie
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
2001 · Movie
The Wicker Man Enigma
2001 · Movie
Messiah
2001 · Series
The Lone Gunmen
2001 · Series
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
2000 · Movie
Marcie's Dowry
2000 · Movie
CI5: The New Professionals
1999 · Series
Crusade
1999 · Series
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
1998 · Movie
Harrison: Cry of the City
1996 · Movie
Gulliver's Travels
1996 · Series
The Shamrock Conspiracy
1995 · Movie
A Christmas Reunion
1994 · Movie
Common As Muck
1994 · Series
Deadly Advice
1994 · Movie
Aladdin
1992 · Movie
In My Defence
1991 · Series
Soccer Shoot-Out
1991 · Movie
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991 · Series
Mister Johnson
1991 · Movie
Over My Dead Body
1990 · Series
Hands of a Murderer
1990 · Movie
Memories of Manon
1989 · Movie
The Man in the Brown Suit
1989 · Movie
Codename: Kyril
1988 · Series
A Desperate Fortune: Matthew Flinders' Australia
1988 · Movie
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987 · Movie
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1987 · Movie
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985 · Series
The Equalizer
1985 · Series
Arthur the King
1985 · Movie
King David
1985 · Movie
The Bill
1984 · Series
A Christmas Carol
1984 · Movie
Champions
1984 · Movie
Love is Forever
1983 · Movie
The Appointment
1983 · Movie
Who Dares Wins
1982 · Movie
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981 · Series
Wet Job
1981 · Movie
Blunt Instrument
1981 · Movie
Sunday Night Thriller
1981 · Series
The Trial of Lady Chatterley
1980 · Movie
Nice Work
1980 · Series
Breaker Morant
1980 · Movie
A Rod of Iron
1980 · Movie
The Bass Player and the Blonde
1978 · Series
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978 · Movie
1990
1977 · Series
The Bass Player and the Blonde
1977 · Movie
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977 · Movie
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976 · Series
Three for All
1975 · Movie
When Day Is Done
1975 · Movie
Armchair Cinema
1974 · Series
Callan
1974 · Movie
The Wicker Man
1973 · Movie
Whodunnit?
1973 · Series
Young Winston
1972 · Movie
Sitting Target
1972 · Movie
The Ra Expeditions
1972 · Movie
Hunted
1972 · Movie
The Cherry Orchard
1971 · Movie
Evelyn
1971 · Movie
The Edward Woodward Hour
1971 · Series
Blood Suckers
1971 · Movie
Prisoners
1971 · Movie
Play for Today
1970 · Series
The File of the Golden Goose
1969 · Movie
Julius Caesar
1969 · Movie
The Root of All Evil?
1968 · Series
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
1968 · Movie
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Series
Trapped
1967 · Series
Callan
1967 · Series
A Magnum for Schneider
1967 · Movie
Sword of Honour
1967 · Series
NET Playhouse
1966 · Series
The Baron
1966 · Series
You Can't Win
1966 · Series
Ella
1966 · Movie
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · Series
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Series
Theatre 625
1964 · Series
Detective
1964 · Series
Becket
1964 · Movie
Sergeant Cork
1963 · Series
The Saint
1962 · Series
Sir Francis Drake
1961 · Series
You Can't Win
1961 · Series
The Defenders
1961 · Series
Armchair Mystery Theatre
1960 · Series
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
Where There's a Will
1955 · Movie
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
Movie