Robert Eddison
Born in Yokohama, Japan — Jun 10 1908• Died Dec 14 1991
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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 g…
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BBC Play of the Month
Prince Andronikov
Playhouse
Dr. Still
Theatre 625
Skuratov
Out of the Unknown
Tzhilyantsi
The Storyteller
Ferryman
Mystery and Imagination
Karswell
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Grail Knight
Campion
Robert Skinn
Sky
Goodchild
Armchair Theatre
The Legend of King Arthur
Merlin
Edward II
Lightborn/Archbishop of Canterbury
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Chorus
Vice Versa
Mr. Blinkhorn
American Friends
Rushden - The President
The Tragedy of King Richard II
Duke of York
A TV Dante
Charon
Scoop
Troutbeck
Henry IV Part 2
Justice Robert Shallow
An Affinity with Dr. Still
Dr. Still
Theban Plays: Antigone
Chorus
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Duke
Knots
Sixty Glorious Years
Lanternist Professor
Uncle Silas
Silas Ruthyn
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
Ferryman
Ordeal by Fire
King Charles VII
The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
Nick
Selkirk of Red River
Lord Selkirk
I Was Happy Here
Andover and the Android
Tzhilyantsi