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Edward Woodward
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 (RAD…
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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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2023
The Wicker Man at 50
Movie Sgt Howie
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2023
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
Movie Sgt Howie
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2016
Callan: This Man Alone
Movie Himself (archive)
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2009
A Congregation of Ghosts
Movie Reverend Densham
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2007
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
Movie Self
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2007
Hot Fuzz
Movie Tom Weaver
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2007
Five Days
TV show Vic Marsham
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2004
Murder in Suburbia
TV show Reg
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2004
The RAF at War: Part Three
Movie himself (Presenter)
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2004
The RAF at War: Part Two
Movie himself (Presenter)
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2004
The RAF at War: Part One
Movie himself (Presenter)
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2003
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Movie Self
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2002
The Abduction Club
Movie Lord Fermoy
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2002
Night Flight
Movie Vic Green
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2001
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
Movie Himself
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2001
The Wicker Man Enigma
Movie Himself
More credits
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2001
Messiah
TV show Rev. Stephen Hedges
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2001
The Lone Gunmen
TV show
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2000
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
Movie Himself - Narrator
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2000
Marcie's Dowry
Movie Gus Wise
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1999
CI5: The New Professionals
TV show Harry Malone
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1999
Crusade
TV show Alwyn
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1998
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
Movie Self
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1997
La Femme Nikita
TV show Mr. Jones
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1996
Harrison: Cry of the City
Movie Edward 'Teddy' Harrison
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1996
Gulliver's Travels
TV show Drunlo
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1995
The Shamrock Conspiracy
Movie Edward Harrison
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1994
A Christmas Reunion
Movie Colonel Phillips
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1994
Common As Muck
TV show Nev
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1994
Deadly Advice
Movie Maj. Herbert Armstrong
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1992
Aladdin
Movie The Sultan (voice)
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1991
In My Defence
TV show Gourgen Yanikian
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1991
Soccer Shoot-Out
Movie Commentator (Voice)
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1991
In Suspicious Circumstances
TV show Storyteller
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1991
Mister Johnson
Movie Sargy Gollup
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1990
Over My Dead Body
TV show
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1990
Hands of a Murderer
Movie Sherlock Holmes
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1989
Memories of Manon
Movie Robert McCall
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1989
The Man in the Brown Suit
Movie Sir Eustace Pedler
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1988
Codename: Kyril
TV show Michael Royston
