Edward Woodward
Birthday: 1930-06-01
Place of Birth: 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.
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Hot Fuzz
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the slee...
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Wet Job
S.I.S. agent David Callan is brought out of retirement for one last assignment....
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Breaker Morant
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though t...
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The Man in the Brown Suit
An American woman gets involved in a diamond theft in South Africa....
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The Wicker Man
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the local...
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Young Winston
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, inclu...
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The File of the Golden Goose
U.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to halt a ...
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Who Dares Wins
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary ...
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Sitting Target
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term...
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Blood Suckers
A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching ...
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Callan
David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assass...
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Mister Johnson
In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't r...
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The Shamrock Conspiracy
A retired Scotland Yard detective gets involved in a serial killer investigation whilst in New York....
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Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists....
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The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the...
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Hands of a Murderer
Sherlock Holmes must track down his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, after the villain kidnaps Holmes' b...
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Arthur the King
Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out t...
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The Appointment
Prophetic nightmares precede a family's confrontation with an evil, unseen force....
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Champions
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National...
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Deadly Advice
Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themsel...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with....
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The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
Made famous by the 1957 Hollywood movie, the bridges of the River Kwai emblematize one of the most m...
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Marcie's Dowry
Gus and Molly have spent all their money on their only daughter Marcie. Now she's getting married an...
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Ex-S: The Wicker Man
Cast and crew discuss the 1973 film The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy....
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Becket
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding w...
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Love Is Forever
Michael Landon stars in this real life story about a journalist in Laos, and the extent to which he ...
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A Christmas Reunion
Follows the story of grandfather and his grandson and what their generations had to go through which...
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A Desperate Fortune: Matthew Flinders' Australia
A documentary style drama depicting the life and times of one of Australia's greatest explorers. Mat...
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Harrison: Cry of the City
Harrison is an ex-Scotland yard detective hired to save an ex-convict accused of killing a New York ...
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The Bass Player and the Blonde
George Mangham is a former composer and bass player in a band struggling for money. Stuck in an enga...
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The Abduction Club
A group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming pries...
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A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
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Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
from a longer version of The Wicker Man script, an unused speech for Lord Summerisle is found with a...
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The Wicker Man At 50
Justin Hardy, the son of the films Director, Robin Hardy talks to various experts about his father's...
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A Congregation of Ghosts
After accepting the job as vicar at a remote parish, eccentric cleric Frederick Densham promptly ali...
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The RAF at War: Part One
Three part documentary of the history of the Royal Air Force during World War Two. They combine actu...
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The RAF at War: Part Two
Three part documentary of the history of the Royal Air Force during World War Two. They combine actu...
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The RAF at War: Part Three
Three part documentary of the history of the Royal Air Force during World War Two. They combine actu...
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Where There's a Will
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London ...
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their fr...
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Soccer Shoot-Out
Italia 90 was another fascinating tournament, a melting pot of different styles, culture and techniq...
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A Magnum for Schneider
Introducing David Callan, in his first case after being invalided out of the special services....
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Night Flight
Night Flight was a powerful drama set in 1943 and the present telling the story of two World War II ...
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Callan: This Man Alone
Nearly ten years in the making, This Man Alone is a brand-new feature-length documentary on one of t...
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The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Robert McCall is forced to work with a former terrorist turned monk by the name of Joseph Heiden(Tel...
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Hunted
A man holds an estate agent hostage in an office, threatening to shoot people from the window....
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Evelyn
'The Man' and 'The Woman' regularly meet for an extramarital affair whilst her husband works late. P...
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When Day Is Done
A determined wife tries to rescue her musician husband from mounting problems caused by his complica...
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Codename: Kyril
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reporte...
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Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
The cast and main players in the crew come together to discuss the making of cult British horror fil...
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The Wicker Man Enigma
Cast and Crew Members come together to discuss the troubled production and distribution of 'The Wick...
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Memories of Manon
Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who...
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Young Winston
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, inclu...
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The Ra Expeditions
Ra [also known as The Ra Expeditions] is a 1972 documentary film directed by Lennart Ehrenborg and T...
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Blunt Instrument
A former journalist begins to experience distressing flashbacks, to the alarm of people close to him...
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100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by ...
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The Trial of Lady Chatterley
A docudramatisation of the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books for publishin...
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Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Mr. Sloane is a murderer. But, as both his middle-aged landlady and her homosexual brother quickly n...
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