Robert Eddison
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Acting Credits
Biography
Robert Leadam Eddison, OBE (10 June 1908 – 14 December 1991) was an English actor, who is probably most widely remembered in the role of the Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He also played the tragic ferryman in The Storyteller episode "The Luck Child". Born in Japan to English parents, Edwin Eddison and Hilda Muriel Leadham, he had a twin brother Talbot Leadam Eddison. Through his paternal grandmother, Anna Paulina Tatham of Philadelphia, he was related to the Tatham Brother...
Known For
Filmography
American Friends
1991
as Rushden - The President
A TV Dante
1990
as Charon
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
as Grail Knight
Campion
1989
as Robert Skinn
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
1988
as Ferryman
The Storyteller
1988
as Ferryman
Scoop
1987
as Troutbeck
The Lady's Not For Burning
1987
as The Chaplin
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
as Chorus
Theban Plays: Antigone
1986
as Chorus
Henry IV Part 2
1979
as Justice Robert Shallow
An Affinity with Dr. Still
1979
as Dr. Still
The Legend of King Arthur
1979
as Merlin
The Velvet Glove
1977
as Father Andrew
Knots
1975
Sky
1975
as Goodchild
Playhouse
1974
as Dr. Still
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
1973
as Duke
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
1972
as Nick
Edward II
1970
as Lightborn/Archbishop of Canterbury
The Tragedy of King Richard II
1970
as Duke of York
Uncle Silas
1968
as Silas Ruthyn
I Was Happy Here
1966
Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Karswell
Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Silas Ruthyn
Andover and the Android
1965
as Tzhilyantsi
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Prince Andronikov
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Duke
Out of the Unknown
1965
as Tzhilyantsi
Selkirk of Red River
1964
as Lord Selkirk
Theatre 625
1964
as Skuratov
Theatre 625
1964
as Duchemin
Theatre 625
1964
as Teacher
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Arch-Vicar
Ordeal by Fire
1957
as King Charles VII
Armchair Theatre
1956
The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
1954
Vice Versa
1948
as Mr. Blinkhorn
Sixty Glorious Years
1938
as Lanternist Professor