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Edward Woodward

Edward Woodward

2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19801980

Born 1 June 1930 · Croydon, Surrey, England, UK · died 16 November 2009

Edward Albert Arthur Woodward OBE was an English stage and screen actor and singer. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Woodward began his career on stage, and throughout his career he appeared in productions in both the West End in London and on Broadway in New York. He came to wider attention from 1967 in the title role of the British television spy drama Callan, earning him the 1970 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. Among his film credits, Woodward starred as Police Sergeant Howie in the 1973 cult British horror film The Wicker Man, and in the title role of the noted 1980 Australian biopic Breaker Morant.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19801980

  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire

How their films are shot

Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Edward takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 73% of their frames are day, 73% natural — the look of the work Edward takes.

Time of day

Day73%
Night15%
Golden hour5%
Dusk4%

Lighting

Natural73%
Low key14%
High key8%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Wide38%
Medium32%
Closeup16%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level74%
Low angle11%
High angle10%

Mood

Neutral76%
Tense13%
Ominous5%
Lonely4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Edward Woodward's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.