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One year ago: Edward Woodward

By Claire Noland
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Edward Woodward, a British actor who died one year ago, may have been best known in the United States for his role as Robert McCall on ‘The Equalizer,’ a detective TV series that ran from 1985 to 1989 on CBS. The character, a disillusioned former secret agent, was the last stop for people seeking justice. His newspaper ad read, ‘Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer.’

Woodward also starred in the gripping 1980 Australian film ‘Breaker Morant,’ about three Australian officers on trial for murdering Boer prisoners during the Boer War in South Africa. Spoiler alert: Click here only if you have already seen the movie. If you don’t know the movie, you should. Find it and watch it today.

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For more on the actor, read the Edward Woodward obituary by Dennis McLellan that appeared in The Times.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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