

Cast & creator
Best known for Golden Globe Awards, Play for Today, The Bill
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.
Also known as: Edward Albert Arthur Woodward, Эдвард Альберт Артур Вудвард, Эдвард Вудвард
65
film credits
53
television credits
118
1944–2023 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Across film & television
Showing 118 of 118 credits

Self - Nominee
1944
The Man
1970
Johnnie Jackson
1984
Jack Liskard
1962
H.T. Harris
1961
Robert McCall
1985
Caius Cassius
1965
Lopakhin
1965
Ed
1967
George Mangham
1967
Ian
1967
Mr. Jones
1997
Drummond
1985
Guy Crouchback
1964
Arthur
1965
Alan
1965
Caius Cassius
1966
Tom Weaver
2007
David Callan
1967
Austen Carew
1963
Storyteller
1991
Sergeant Neil Howie
1973
Spanish Captain
1961
Alwyn
1999

Auguste Dupin
1964Paul Danek
1960Anstey
1960
Vic Marsham
2007
Reg
2004
Reeve
1966
Rev. Stephen Hedges
2001
Drunlo
1996
Harry Malone
1999

Sir Samuel Hoare
1981
Nev
1994

David Callan
1956
Jim Kyle
1977
Luigi
1976Mark Frazier
1967Designi
1968

Host
1973
Ghost of Christmas Present
1984
Commander Powell
1982Guy Crouchback
1967
Michael Royston
1988
Clement (uncredited)
1964
King Saul
1985Paul Hayward
1961
Philip Warne
1974
Harry 'Breaker' Morant
1980
Merlin
1985
himself (Presenter)
2004
Sir Eustace Pedler
1989
Captain Aylmer Haldane
1972
Aylmer Haldane
1972
Arthur Thompson
1969
Self
2003Alex Logan
1981
Cassius
1969
Sherlock Holmes
1990
Sargy Gollup
1991George Mangham
1978
Inspector Milton
1972Gourgen Yanikian
1991
Simon Legree
1987
Derek McBracken
1983Edward 'Teddy' Harrison
1996
Roadsweeper
1975
Lord Fermoy
2002
The Sultan (voice)
1992Arthur
1966
Robert McCall
1987
Ian
1983
Commentator (Voice)
1991
Robert McCall
1989
Sgt. Wellbeloved
1977
Mervyn Griffith-Jones
1980
Josh Gifford
1984
Lopahkin
1971
Himself
2001
Maj. Herbert Armstrong
1994
Ralph Stokes
1955George Mangham
1977
Philip Warne
1975
Narrator (BBC version)
1972Reverend Densham
2009
Colonel Phillips
1994
Self
2007Vic Green
2002
Edward Harrison
1995
Himself (archive)
2016
David Callan
1967
Self
1998
John Drummond
1972Ian
1980
David Callan
1974
Himself
2001
Dr. Holstrom
1971
Luigi
1978
Sgt Howie
2023Sgt Howie
2023
David Callan
1981Himself - Narrator
2000Narrator
1988Gus Wise
2000
himself (Presenter)
2004
himself (Presenter)
2004
The Man
1971
Ed
1968Alex Logan
1981
The Man
1971