Equalizer to the Casket

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Got a Problem? Odds Against You? Well, You’re on Your Own This Time
Edward Woodward, the coolest vigilante since Bernie Goetz, has died at the age of 79 of complications from pneumonia. The classically trained actor showed amazing range in his career, from playing a British counterintelligence agent and assassin in the BBC series Callan, to playing Robert McCall, a world-weary former spy helping New York’s little guys in The Equalizer. Other notable roles included a police sergeant investigating Scottish pagans in the occult thriller The Wicker Man, the Australian historical courtroom drama Breaker Morant about three lieutenants who murdered prisoners during the Boer War, and the 1990 CBS series Over My Dead Body, about a mystery writer helping to solve crimes, which somehow failed to succeed on the ground well trod by Jessica Fletcher and currently inhabited by Rick Castle. Earlier this year, he completed work on A Congregation of Ghosts, playing a reverend who so pissed off his flock that he was left preaching to cardboard cutouts.