Edward Woodward
Acting
Born: 1930-06-01 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
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.
Known For
Play for Today
The Man
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
BBC Play of the Month
Caius Cassius
BBC Play of the Month
Lopakhin
The Saint
Jack Liskard
The Bill
Johnnie Jackson
The Equalizer
Robert McCall
The Defenders
H.T. Harris
ITV Playhouse
Ed
ITV Playhouse
George Mangham
ITV Playhouse
Ian
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Arthur
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Alan
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Drummond
Theatre 625
Guy Crouchback
Hot Fuzz
Tom Weaver
Five Days
Vic Marsham
The Wicker Man
Sergeant Neil Howie
Detective
Auguste Dupin
NET Playhouse
Caius Cassius
Sergeant Cork
Austen Carew
Crusade
Alwyn
Mystery and Imagination
Reeve
The Lone Gunmen
Callan
David Callan
In Suspicious Circumstances
Storyteller
Sir Francis Drake
Spanish Captain
Gulliver's Travels
Drunlo
The Baron
Murder in Suburbia
Reg
CI5: The New Professionals
Harry Malone
Messiah
Rev. Stephen Hedges
1990
Jim Kyle
A Christmas Carol
Ghost of Christmas Present
Whodunnit?
Host
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Sir Samuel Hoare