Edward Albert Arthur Woodward OBE (1 June 1930 – 16 November 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.
Movie | Callan: This Man Alone | Himself (archive) | 2016-02-01 |
Movie | A Congregation of Ghosts | Reverend Densham | 2009-01-01 |
Series | Five Days | Vic Marsham | 2007-01-23 |
Movie | Hot Fuzz | Tom Weaver | 2007-02-14 |
Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
Series | Murder in Suburbia | Unknown | 2004-03-13 |
Movie | Night Flight | Vic Green | 2002-02-02 |
Movie | The Abduction Club | Lord Fermoy | 2002-07-19 |
Series | The Lone Gunmen | Unknown | 2001-03-04 |
Series | Messiah | Unknown | 2001-05-26 |
Movie | Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man | Himself | 2001-12-29 |
Movie | The Wicker Man Enigma | Himself | 2001-10-01 |
Movie | The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai | Himself - Narrator | 2000-09-26 |
Series | Crusade | Unknown | 1999-06-09 |
Series | CI5: The New Professionals | Harry Malone | 1999-09-19 |
Series | Gulliver's Travels | Drunlo | 1996-02-04 |
Movie | Harrison: Cry of the City | Edward 'Teddy' Harrison | 1996-02-27 |
Movie | The Shamrock Conspiracy | Edward Harrison | 1995-12-12 |
Movie | Aladdin | The Sultan (voice) | 1994-01-01 |
Movie | Deadly Advice | Maj. Herbert Armstrong | 1994-04-29 |
Movie | A Christmas Reunion | Colonel Phillips | 1994-11-30 |
Series | Common As Muck | Nev | 1994-09-07 |
Series | In Suspicious Circumstances | Storyteller | 1991-06-03 |
Movie | Soccer Shoot-Out | Commentator (Voice) | 1991-06-06 |
Movie | Hands of a Murderer | Sherlock Holmes | 1990-05-16 |
Series | Over My Dead Body | 1990-10-26 | |
Movie | Mister Johnson | Sargy Gollup | 1990-09-08 |
Movie | The Man in the Brown Suit | Sir Eustace Pedler | 1989-01-04 |
Movie | A Desperate Fortune: Matthew Flinders' Australia | Narrator | 1988-01-01 |
Movie | Codename: Kyril | Michael Royston | 1988-03-29 |
Movie | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Simon Legree | 1987-06-14 |
Movie | The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine | Robert McCall | 1987-09-23 |
Movie | Arthur the King | Merlin | 1985-04-26 |
Movie | King David | King Saul | 1985-03-29 |
Series | The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1985-09-29 |
Series | The Equalizer | Robert McCall | 1985-09-18 |
Movie | Champions | Josh Gifford | 1984-04-20 |
Movie | A Christmas Carol | Ghost of Christmas Present | 1984-10-09 |
Movie | Love is Forever | Derek McBracken | 1983-04-03 |
Movie | Who Dares Wins | Commander Powell | 1982-08-26 |
Movie | Wet Job | David Callan | 1981-09-02 |
Movie | The Appointment | Ian | 1981-06-07 |
Series | Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years | Unknown | 1981-09-06 |
Movie | Breaker Morant | Harry 'Breaker' Morant | 1980-06-11 |
Series | Nice Work | 1980-10-15 | |
Movie | Saturday, Sunday, Monday | Luigi | 1978-01-01 |
Movie | Stand up, Virgin Soldiers | Sgt. Wellbeloved | 1977-04-04 |
Series | 1990 | Jim Kyle | 1977-09-18 |
Series | Laurence Olivier Presents | Luigi | 1976-12-05 |
Movie | When Day Is Done | Philip Warne | 1975-01-07 |
Movie | Three for All | Roadsweeper | 1975-05-01 |
Movie | Callan | David Callan | 1974-05-23 |
Movie | The Wicker Man | Sergeant Neil Howie | 1973-12-06 |
Movie | Young Winston | Captain Aylmer Haldane | 1972-07-20 |
Movie | Sitting Target | Inspector Milton | 1972-05-01 |
Movie | Prisoners | 1971-04-07 | |
Movie | Incense for the Damned | Dr. Holstrom | 1971-05-14 |
Movie | Julius Caesar | Cassius | 1969-04-13 |
Movie | The File of the Golden Goose | Arthur Thompson | 1969-10-13 |
Series | Callan | David Callan | 1967-07-08 |
Movie | A Magnum for Schneider | David Callan | 1967-02-04 |
Series | Mystery and Imagination | Unknown | 1966-01-29 |
Series | The Baron | Unknown | 1966-09-28 |
Series | You Can't Win | Unknown | 1966-07-07 |
Series | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Unknown | 1965-10-07 |
Series | BBC Play of the Month | Unknown | 1965-10-19 |
Movie | Becket | Clement (uncredited) | 1964-03-11 |
Series | Detective | Unknown | 1964-03-30 |
Series | The Saint | Unknown | 1962-10-04 |
Movie | Where There's a Will | Ralph Stokes | 1955-03-01 |
Series | This Is Your Life | Unknown | 1955-07-29 |