Veteran British actor passes away…
British actor Edward Woodward has today died aged 79 after a long battle with illness, his agent has announced. Woodward’s career began in 1955 and after treading the boards in the West End and making sporadic film appearances he rose to promenance as professional assassin David Callan in the ITV spy series Callan (1967 – 1972), a role that won him two Royal Television Society awards along with a Best Actor BAFTA.
In 1973 Woodward appeared as Police Sergeant Neil Howie alongside Christopher Lee in Robin Hardy’s classic British horror The Wicker Man, and later received a Golden Globe as Robert McCall in the classic 80s television show The Equalizer. With over 30 features and numerous television credits to his name, Woodward had made recent appearences in Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz (2007) and Eastenders, along with his final performance in the as yet unreleased British drama A Congregation of Ghosts.
Originally published November 16, 2009. Updated January 18, 2020.
