- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- June 10, 1908
- Place of Birth
- Yokohama, Japan
- Died
- December 14, 1991
Robert Eddison
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…
Filmography
movieAmerican Friends
1991 · Rushden - The President
movieA TV Dante
1990 · Charon
movieIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Grail Knight
tvCampion
1989 · Robert Skinn
movieThe Storyteller: The Luck Child
1988 · Ferryman
tvThe Storyteller
1988 · Ferryman
movieScoop
1987 · Troutbeck
movieTheban Plays: Antigone
1986 · Chorus
movieTheban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986 · Chorus
movieHenry IV Part 2
1979 · Justice Robert Shallow
movieAn Affinity with Dr. Still
1979 · Dr. Still
tvThe Legend of King Arthur
1979 · Merlin
The Velvet Glove
tvThe Velvet Glove
1977 · Father Andrew
tvSky
1975 · Goodchild
Knots
movieKnots
1975
tvPlayhouse
1974 · Dr. Still
movieThe Adventures Of Don Quixote
1973 · Duke
movieThe Boy Who Turned Yellow
1972 · Nick
movieEdward II
1970 · Lightborn/Archbishop of Canterbury
movieThe Tragedy of King Richard II
1970 · Duke of York
movieUncle Silas
1968 · Silas Ruthyn
movieI Was Happy Here
1966
tvMystery and Imagination
1966 · Karswell, Silas Ruthyn
movieAndover and the Android
1965 · Tzhilyantsi
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965 · Prince Andronikov, Duke
tvOut of the Unknown
1965 · Tzhilyantsi
tvThe Wednesday Play
1964 · Arch-Vicar
tvTheatre 625
1964 · Skuratov, Duchemin, Teacher
movieSelkirk of Red River
1964 · Lord Selkirk
movieOrdeal by Fire
1957 · King Charles VII
tvArmchair Theatre
1956
movieThe Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
1954
movieVice Versa
1948 · Mr. Blinkhorn
movieSixty Glorious Years
1938 · Lanternist Professor