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Edward Albert Arthur Woodward is a British actor and officer of the Order of the British Empire (1978).

Biography

Early years
He was born in Croydon (then a city in Surrey), in the family of locksmith Edward Oliver Woodward and his wife Violet Edith Woodward (née Smith). He survived three German bombings as a child. He attended Elmwood High School in Huckbridge and then attended Kingston School of Art.

Theatre
After World War II, he became an associate member of the School of Art. He was a member of the football clubs Leyton Orient and Brentford, three times playing for the hornets in the Football League, but received a knee injury.

He made his stage debut at the Castle Theater in 1946. After graduating from art school, he performed in theater companies that staged plays by William Shakespeare. He made his London stage debut in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet (1955). He worked in the Broadway theater in New York and Australia, appeared in the production of “The Flame of the Common Man” (1963) and the comedy “Elevated Mood” (1965), which received three Tony Awards, In 1970, after the role of Sidney Carton in the musical “Two Cities”, patronized by Laurence Olivier, made his debut at the Royal National Theatre (1971).

In 1983, he played the role of Dr. Watson in Murder, Dear Watson.

Music.
He appeared several times in the BBC’s Edwardian-era music hall programme.

Woodward's albums charted next in the UK; This Man Alone (#53 in 1970) and The Edward Woodward Album (#20 in 1972), the single The Way You Look Tonight (#42 in 1971).

Personal life
Married twice. His first wife was actress Venetia Barrett (née Venice Mary Collett) (1952-1986) and had two sons: (born 1953) and (born 1956), both actors, and a daughter (1963), a Tony Award nominee. The second wife was an actress, and the marriage took place in New York City in January 1987. Daughter: Emily Beth Woodward (born 1983).

During the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the island was evacuated by a Royal Navy aircraft carrier.

In the 1970 general election, he supported the Labour Party, appeared in several commercials, and later declared support for the SPD.

During the filming of the third season (1987), he suffered his first heart attack (the second occurred in 1994). In 2003, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Awards and nominations

Filmography
Beckett - 1964

Young Winston - 1972
The Wicker Man - 1973
Rover Morant - 1980
Champions - 1983
King David - 1985
Like, cool cops, 2007.

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