Edward Woodward

Edward Woodward (1930–2009)[1] was a British actor, singer and director.

Biography

Born Edward Albert Arthur Woodward in Croydon, Surrey, and attended various schools in Surrey, before going to Kingston College. He then went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to train as a performer. After graduation from RADA, he worked extensively in repertory companies as a Shakespearean actor throughout England and Scotland, making his London stage debut in R. F. Delderfield's Where There's a Will in 1955[

In 1957 Edward Woodward starred in The Queen and the Welshman Edinburgh Festival, where he received rave notices, and performed in the 1958 season at Stratford. In May 1960 he played the lead in The Art of Living at the Criterion Theatre, London, and went on tour a tour with Margaret Rutherford.

1960: He came to South Africa to star in an imported British production of Rattle of a Simple Man, presented by Taubie Kushlick, with Pauline Stroud, Kerry Jordan and stage director Valda Blumberg.

Sources

Programme notes of Rattle of a Simple Man in 1961.

Tucker, 1997

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