Edward Woodward
Acting
Born 1930-06-01
Died 2009-11-16
Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
110 credits
BAFTA Awards 1
Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1
Awards
Won 1 BAFTA Award
BAFTA Awards 1 won
- 1970 Best Actor Won Callan
Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1 won
- — Officer of the Order of the British Empire Won
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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.
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Filmography
— top 60 of 110
Acting
55 credits
Play for Today
Golden Globe Awards
The Saint
BBC Play of the Month
The Equalizer
Theatre 625
The Defenders
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
ITV Playhouse
The Bill
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Hot Fuzz
The Wicker Man
Detective
NET Playhouse
Callan
Crusade
Mystery and Imagination
Five Days
Sir Francis Drake
In Suspicious Circumstances
Sergeant Cork
Gulliver's Travels
Murder in Suburbia
Armchair Mystery Theatre
Messiah
Laurence Olivier Presents
Becket
1990
Common As Muck
CI5: The New Professionals
Whodunnit?
A Christmas Carol
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
King David
Breaker Morant
Armchair Cinema
Who Dares Wins
Young Winston
Codename: Kyril
Trapped
The Root of All Evil?
Sword of Honour
Sitting Target
Mister Johnson
You Can't Win
Arthur the King
Armchair Theatre
The Ra Expeditions
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
The Man in the Brown Suit
Deadly Advice
The Bass Player and the Blonde
Love is Forever
Three for All
Other credits
5 credits
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