Edward Woodward. RIP

[poliphilo]

Edward Woodward deserved better material. He played a couple of TV hard-nuts and that branded him- and made it difficult for him to be accepted in other roles. I never watched Callan, but I remember it going down well in the playground. The Equalizer - an infantile fantasy about a good man with a gun- went down well in the playground too.

His reputation will rest on two very good, small films- the Wicker Man (obviously) and Breaker Morant- in which he plays a soldier who is left to carry the can for a war crime that is condoned from on high. If the dice had fallen right he could have been a major film star.

There's one more film to come- A Congregation of Ghosts- in which he plays a spectral vicar. It sounds promising.

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[sovay]

Edward Woodward. RIP

Argh!

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Callan is well worth watching - he's the anti-Bond. In Callan, the Cold War was horrible and brutish, and there was no glamour at all.

edward woodward

[nashey1888.livejournal.com]

I always remember John Sessions saying something about how if you remove all the Ds from his name he'd be ewar woowar!! In his way of saying it, it was really funny.
Jenny