The movie starred American Oscar-winner George C Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge, as well as Edward Woodward and Welsh actor ... to be asked to stand in as the body double for Woodward’s Ghost of Christmas ...

Edward Woodward, who died on November 16 aged 79, was a fine actor whose talents tended sometimes to be obscured by the huge popular successes of his bleak television series, Callan and The Equalizer.