The Complete File

With the film "adaptation" of the 1980's series The Equalizer released in September 2014 (starring Denzel Washington), I've had fun revisiting the series I remember fondly from my teens and learning more about the other work of its star, Edward Woodward.

 

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Edward Woodward as Flamineo in the National Theatre's 1969 production of The White Devil
Edward Woodward as Flamineo in the National Theatre's 1969 production of The White Devil

Theatre

This section shall simply be known as the woefully incomplete guide to Woodward's theatre performances - of which there were so many.


1953 The Happiest Days Of Your Life
as Rupert Billings
Grand Theatre (Croydon)
Cast: John Whyte, Miles Brown, Will Leighton, Marjorie Morris, Juno Stevas, James Verner, Patricia Heneghan, Margaret Alworthy, Jefferson Clifford, Constance Fraser, Deryck Barnes, Doris Yorke


1954 Where There's a Will
[Role unknown]
Garrick

1953 The Happiest Days Of Your Life
as Rupert Billings
Grand Theatre (Croydon)
Cast: John Whyte, Miles Brown, Will Leighton, Marjorie Morris, Juno Stevas, James Verner, Patricia Heneghan, Margaret Alworthy, Jefferson Clifford, Constance Fraser, Deryck Barnes, Doris Yorke



Approx. 1954 A Girl Called Jo



Approx. 1954 Doctor In The House



Approx. 1954 Salad Days


1957 The Queen And The Welshman
as Sir Own Tudor
Lyric Theatre (at at Edinburgh Festival)
Cast: Hilary Liddell, Raymond Mason, Ewan Hooper


1958 Much Ado About Nothing *
as Claudio
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon



1958 Hamlet *
as Laertes
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers, Eileen Atkins



1958 Romeo And Juliet*
as Mercutio
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon



1958 Pericles *
as Thaliard
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Cast: Roy Dotrice, Eileen Atkins, Zoe Caldwell



1962 Rattle Of A Simple Man
as Percy
Garick Theatre
Cast: Tammy Grimes



1964 High Spirits
as Charles Condomine
Alvin (New York)
Cast: Beatrice Lillie, Tammy Grimes, Louise Troy, Carol Arthur, Margaret Hall, Lawrence Keith



1969 Two Cities
as Sidney Carton
Palace Theatre



1969 The White Devil **
as Flamineo



Approx. 1969 Cyrano de Bergerac **
as title role



1972 Babes In The Wood [pantomime]
as Robin Hood
London Palladium
Cast: Derek Nimmo, Julian Orchard, Bill Maynard, Alan Curtis, Adrienne Posta, Rod Hull, David Bexon, Tom Chatto, Bertie Hare, Jack Francois, Bill Tasker



1973 The Wolf
as George Szabo
The Queen's Theatre, Apollo (Oxford Playhouse Company)
Cast: Judi Dench, Leo McKern, Valerie Lush, Gwen Nelson, Philip Voss, John York, Joan Ryan, Nicholas Amer



1974 The Male Of The Species
as Macneil/Sir Emlyn/Cornelius
Piccadilly Theatre
Cast: Michele Dotrice, Colin Farrell, Freddie Earlle, Anna Barry, Raymond Bowers, Sue Holderness, Alexandra Dane, Harry Meacher



1975 On Approval
[Role unknown]
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Jennie Linden, Edward Hardwicke


1979 The Beggar's Opera
as Macheath
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Cast: Michele Dotrice, Thelma Ruby, Cyril Shaps



1982 The Assassin
as Hoederer
Greenwich Theatre
Cast: Michele Dotrice, Shirley Cassedy, Stephen MacDonald, Richard Cubison, Michael Melia, Ray Float, Jon Rumney, Carl Forgione, James Simmons



1992 A Dead Secret
[Role unknown]
Richmond Theatre
Cast: Michele Dotrice



2002 Goodbye Gilbert Harding
as title role
Plymouth


* With the RSC (the following year, toured with the RSC in Russia and elsewhere)

** With the National Theatre