LONDON (AP) — Edward Woodward, the star of films including Breaker Morant and The Wicker Man, died Monday. He was 79.
Woodward, who starred at The Equalizer on television, died in a hospital in Cornwall after an illness, said Janet Glass of the Eric Glass Ltd. agency in London.
He won an Emmy Award in 1990 for Remembering World War II and a Golden Globe in 1987 for The Equalizer, which ran for 88 episodes from 1985 to 1989 on the U.S. network CBS.
In a career that began in 1946 in a regional production of A Kiss for Cinderella, Woodward played roles in productions ranging from the popular British soap opera Eastenders to productions of Shakespeare, and at least 40 films for theater or television.
His last film appearances were in Hot Fuzz in 2007 and Congregation of Ghosts, now in post-production.