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Dateline: 16th November, 2009
Edward Woodward (1930 - 2009) Actor Edward Woodward has died at the age of 79. He had been suffering from a number of illnesses, including pneumonia. He had had a triple bypass operationafter two heart attacks in 1996 and was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2003. He died in the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro today. Born in Croydon, he began his career at the the Castle Theatre, Farnham, in 1946 and then he attended RADA. After graduating he worked in rep throughout England and Scotland, making his London debut in Where There's A Will in 1955. He is best known, however, as a film and TV actor. In film, his portrayal of the policeman Sergeant Howie in the cult classic The Whicker Man (1974) made him a star, a status which was cemented in 1980 when he played the lead in Breaker Morant. However his first major success was in television when he played David Callan in the Armchair Theatre play A Magnum for Schneider, which became the long-running ITV show Callan from 1967 to 1972. He won the BAFTA Best Actor award for his performance in 1970. He was later to play a similar character in the American TV series The Equalizer (1985 - 1989), for which he won the Golden Globes Best Actor in a Dramatic TV Series in 1987. His career encompassed over 2,000 productions for TV, including as a singer on the BBC's musical Hall show, The Good Old Days. He was awarded the OBE in 1978. Married twice, he leaves three children by his first wife, Venetia Barrett, all of whom became actors (Tim, Peter and the Tony-nominated Sarah), and one, Emily Beth, by his second, Michelle Dotrice.
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