- Reclusive in later years, it was believed at one point that he had died in Wimbledon in July 2004, homeless and in frail health due to his heavy drinking. The fact, at least about him being homeless, was proved incorrect. Apparently, he lived at a retirement home in Mitcham in his final years.
- A best friend of Michael Caine. The two first met while shooting an Army recruitment documentary at the Clubland youth club in South England. Michael can be seen in a small part in Edward's first starring vehicle, The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961).
- Best known to a certain generation in the UK as the face of a famous 1970s "Public Information Film", in which he urges car drivers to be more aware of motorbikes. "Think once... think twice... think BIKE!!!".
- Born in Shanghai, he and his English father and Russian mother fled after the Japanese attacked China five years later. They moved to Britain, where he studied at the newly opened Bolton's Theatre Club in Kensington, west London.
- Performed in repertory in Windsor and Nottingham in the early years. Later on the West End stage, he appeared in "The Long and the Short and the Tall" with an up-and-coming Peter O'Toole and returned there in 1973 for a role in the Tennessee Williams play "Small Craft Warnings" co-starring Elaine Stritch.
- Judd's first wife, actress Gene Anderson, who appeared with him in a couple of films, including The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) and The Shakedown (1960), died at age 34 of a brain hemorrhage. His second wife, actress Norma Ronald bore him two daughters, one of them named Deborah. She died in 1993.
- After his retirement in the early 1990s, it was reported that he became a credit officer for a Canadian Investment bank.
- Edward spent his early years in the Far East where he was educated. On his return to Britain, he was attracted by the lure of the stage and became a drama student at a theatre club where he progressed to minor roles then to leads.
- His father was a representative of a British company in the Far East and his mother was from Soviet Byelorussia (now Belarus).
- Has an orange belt in karate.
- Daughter Fenella.
- Studied art before turning to acting.
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