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 | The Wicker Man At 50 | Sgt Howie | 2025 |
Movie | Callan: This Man Alone | Himself (archive) | 2016-02-01 |
Movie | A Congregation of Ghosts | Reverend Densham | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | Hot Fuzz | Tom Weaver | 2007-02-14 |
Series | Five Days | Vic Marsham | 2007-01-23 |
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 |
Movie | The Wicker Man Enigma | Himself | 2001-10-01 |
Series | Messiah | Unknown | 2001-05-26 |
Movie | Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man | Himself | 2001-12-29 |
Movie | The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai | Himself - Narrator | 2000-09-26 |
Series | CI5: The New Professionals | Harry Malone | 1999-09-19 |
Series | Crusade | Unknown | 1999-06-09 |
Movie | Harrison: Cry of the City | Edward 'Teddy' Harrison | 1996-02-27 |
Series | Gulliver's Travels | Drunlo | 1996-02-04 |
Movie | The Shamrock Conspiracy | Edward Harrison | 1995-12-12 |
Movie | Aladdin | The Sultan (voice) | 1994-01-01 |
Movie | A Christmas Reunion | Colonel Phillips | 1994-11-30 |
Movie | Deadly Advice | Maj. Herbert Armstrong | 1994-04-29 |
Series | Common As Muck | Nev | 1994-09-07 |
Movie | Mister Johnson | Sargy Gollup | 1991-03-22 |
Series | In Suspicious Circumstances | Storyteller | 1991-06-03 |
Movie | Soccer Shoot-Out | Commentator (Voice) | 1991-06-06 |
Series | Over My Dead Body | 1990-10-26 | |
Movie | Hands of a Murderer | Sherlock Holmes | 1990-05-16 |
Movie | The Man in the Brown Suit | Sir Eustace Pedler | 1989-01-04 |
Movie | Memories of Manon | Robert McCall | 1989-02-13 |
Movie | Codename: Kyril | Michael Royston | 1988-03-29 |
Movie | A Desperate Fortune: Matthew Flinders' Australia | Narrator | 1988-01-01 |
Movie | The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine | Robert McCall | 1987-09-23 |
Movie | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Simon Legree | 1987-06-14 |
Movie | King David | King Saul | 1985-03-29 |
Series | The Equalizer | Robert McCall | 1985-09-18 |
Series | The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1985-09-29 |
Movie | Arthur the King | Merlin | 1985-04-26 |
Movie | A Christmas Carol | Ghost of Christmas Present | 1984-10-09 |
Movie | Champions | Josh Gifford | 1984-04-20 |
Movie | The Appointment | Ian | 1983-01-15 |
Movie | Love is Forever | Derek McBracken | 1983-10-20 |
Movie | Who Dares Wins | Commander Powell | 1982-08-26 |
Movie | Wet Job | David Callan | 1981-09-02 |
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 | Hunted | John Drummond | 1972-02-10 |
Movie | Sitting Target | Inspector Milton | 1972-05-01 |
Movie | Prisoners | The Man | 1971-04-07 |
Movie | Evelyn | The Man | 1971-10-28 |
Movie | Blood Suckers | Dr. Holstrom | 1971-05-14 |
Movie | The File of the Golden Goose | Arthur Thompson | 1969-10-13 |
Movie | Julius Caesar | Cassius | 1969-04-13 |
Series | Sword of Honour | Guy Crouchback | 1967-01-02 |
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 | You Can't Win | Unknown | 1966-07-07 |
Series | The Baron | Unknown | 1966-09-28 |
Series | BBC Play of the Month | Unknown | 1965-10-19 |
Series | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Unknown | 1965-10-07 |
Movie | Becket | Clement (uncredited) | 1964-03-11 |
Series | Detective | Unknown | 1964-03-30 |
Series | The Saint | Unknown | 1962-10-04 |
Series | This Is Your Life | Unknown | 1955-07-29 |
Movie | Where There's a Will | Ralph Stokes | 1955-03-01 |