From a cast of hundreds of local actors, Joseph McManners and Thomas James Longley also featured with smaller speaking roles. Most memorable, though, was Russell Hunter in the role of the the petty thief Lonely, the spy's snivelling, smelly accomplice. Woodward was finally granted some attention in the States at age 55, earning his own popular series, the noirish espionage series The Equalizer (1985). He also appeared in the 1982 film Who Dares Wins, also known as The Final Option [ citation needed] on the film's release history.

citation needed] During this period, he also starred in the Cold War espionage thriller, Codename: Kyril (1988), as an MI6 double agent.

His work in the medium included The Bass Player and the Blonde (1978); Winston Churchill – The Wilderness Years (1981), in which he was Sir Samuel Hoare; and the Cold War thriller Codename: Kyril (1988). Later, at the National Theatre, he played Flamineo in The White Devil (1969) and the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac (1970). Edward Albert Arthur Woodward, OBE (1 June 1930 – 16 November 2009) was an English actor and singer. His second wife is Michele Dotrice, whom he married in 1987, and he is the father of Timothy Woodward. A gifted singer who produced over a dozen musical recordings, Edward displayed his excellent singing pipes on Broadway as Charles Condomine in "High Spirits" (1963), the musical adaptation of Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit," that also starred Tammy Grimes, Louise Troy and the legendary Beatrice Lillie.

This black-and-white TV dramatisation is now much less well known than a more lavish 2001 colour version with Daniel Craig playing the part of Crouchback.The film, which co-starred Christopher Lee as the island's formidable lord, had a troubled production and was heavily cut for its release.

On the big screen he also played Sergeant Neil Howie, alongside Christopher Lee and Diane Cilento, in The Wicker Man (1973); Commander Powell in Who Dares Wins (1982); Saul in King David; the Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol; Merlin in Merlin and the Sword; Captain Haldane in The Young Winston; the racehorse trainer Josh Gifford in Champions; and Sergeant Wellbeloved in Stand Up Virgin Soldiers. A wonderful examples of utilitarian glassware, where crazing, small chips, marks and areas of discolouration along with staining should be considered normal and an addition to its character, this does not detract from its appeal or display value. After leaving school at the age of 15, Woodward wanted to train as a journalist, but took work in a sanitary engineer's office and then at the age of 16 entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). For several episodes, additional actors were brought in to reduce the workload on Woodward as he recovered from the condition.F. Delderfield's Where There's a Will in 1955 [6] and also appeared in the film adaptation that same year, his first film, and then Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet (1955). Following years in repertory theatre across Britain, he made his first West End appearance as Ralph Stokes in Where There's a Will (Garrick Theatre, 1954) and reprised the role in the B-film remake the following year.