Edward Woodward
9 titles
Filmography
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The Wicker Man
(1973)A police sergeant's search for a missing girl leads him to investigate the rituals of a sinister pagan cult on a remote Scottish island.

Breaker Morant
(1980)During the Boer War, an English-Australian lieutenant is tried for war crimes after executing captured Boers and a German missionary.

The Appointment
(1983)Walking through some woods a girl is seized by an unseen malevolent force. The authorities erect an iron fence around the woods. Later, another girl and her family are affected by the same force. First in dreams and then in more real ways.

King David
(1985)A cinematic retelling the life of Israel's King David.

Blood Suckers
(1971)Psychedelic 70s vampire horror.

Mister Johnson
(1991)A decade after he broke through with Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford made another acclaimed film about the effects of colonialism on the individual. In a performance that earned him the Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear for best actor, Maynard Eziashi plays the title character, a Nigerian villager eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer (Pierce Brosnan), in the hope that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson,based on the 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.

Who Dares Wins
(1982)Led by a radical chief, terrorists take over the American Embassy in London and make impossible demands that jeopardize the safety of the hostages.

A Christmas Carol
(1984)An old miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when 3 ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.

Where There's a Will
(1955)1955. A Cockney family. (3 sisters, a brother-in-law and a niece) inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family doesn't want to leave London, but one of the male relatives insists and off they go to face the unknown.