Career: Woodward made his West End debut in 1954 and continued to work on the stage throughout his career. His first film was 1955's Where There's a Will, and he had a recurring role in early ITV soap opera Emergency Ward 10 during the late 1950s. Productions such as Magnolia Street and Becket followed before spy series Callan made him a household name. It ended after a five-year run and a spin-off movie. Other memorable roles came in the movies The Wicker Man (1973), Breaker Morant (1980) and Who Dares Wins (1982) and the TV series The Equalizer and Common as Muck. In the last few years of his life, he appeared on the big screen in Hot Fuzz (2007) and on the small screen in The Bill and EastEnders. He died at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro on November 16, 2009, at the age of 79. He had been suffering from several illnesses, including pneumonia.