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Robert Eddison

Robert Eddison

Actor · 1908 – 1991 · Yokohama, Japan

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 Brothers Iron pipe manufacturers of Philadelphia. As his paternal great-grandfather Henry Billington Tatham's name suggests, he was a descendant of the Billington family who came to America from England on the Mayflower. Eddison was known for his resonant, baritone voice and long, lean figure. He performed William Shakespeare and other classics, was noted for his Hamlet at the Old Vic, and later playing the comic roles of Feste and Sir Andrew Aguecheek inTwelfth Night, and King Lear on the New York stage. He was also a familiar figure in plays by Ibsen, Chekhov, andSophocles, and played Canon Chasuble in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Eddison also made his mark in radio, in countless BBC dramas through the decades, with some of his last roles includingDeath in The Canterbury Tales and parts in an adaptation of Japanese Noh plays. His film career was limited, but included a supporting role in Peter Ustinov's 1948 comedy Vice Versa, the electrical 'Nick' in The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972), the college president in American Friends (1991), and a notable cameo in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusadeas the ancient Grail Knight, warning adventurers to choose wisely.

Movies20

  • Movie7.9
  • Movie7.2

    Vice Versa

    1948 · 5 votes

  • Movie4.5
  • Movie8.5

    Henry IV Part 2

    1979 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Scoop

    1987 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.6
  • Movie6.3

    American Friends

    1991 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Sixty Glorious Years

    1938 · 3 votes

  • Movie10.0
  • Movie7.0
  • Movie10.0
  • Movie9.0

    Theban Plays: Antigone

    1986 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.5

    A TV Dante

    1990 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.4

    I Was Happy Here

    1966 · 9 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Edward II

    1970 · 7 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie
  • Movie7.0

    Uncle Silas

    1968 · 1 votes

  • Movie4.0

    Knots

    1975 · 3 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Selkirk of Red River

    1964 · 1 votes

Series12

  • TV5.2

    BBC Play of the Month

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV7.2

    Theatre 625

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV5.2

    The Wednesday Play

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    Playhouse

    1974 · 1 votes

  • TV5.8
  • TV7.1

    Out of the Unknown

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV8.2

    The Storyteller

    1988 · 243 votes

  • TV6.5

    Campion

    1989 · 11 votes

  • TV7.5
  • TV6.0

    Armchair Theatre

    1956 · 6 votes

  • TV6.4

    Sky

    1975 · 5 votes

  • TV