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Robert Leadam Eddison
Robert Eddison
Acting
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 Brothers Iron pipe manufacturers of Philadelphia. As his paternal great-grandfather Henry Billington Tatham…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
American Friends
as Rushden - The President
A TV Dante
as Charon
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Grail Knight
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
as Ferryman
Scoop
as Troutbeck
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Chorus
Theban Plays: Antigone
as Chorus
Henry IV Part 2
as Justice Robert Shallow
An Affinity with Dr. Still
as Dr. Still
Knots
TV Shows
Campion
as Robert Skinn · 1 ep.
The Storyteller
as Ferryman · 1 ep.
The Legend of King Arthur
as Merlin · 2 ep.
Sky
as Goodchild · 7 ep.
Playhouse
as Dr. Still · 1 ep.
Mystery and Imagination
as Silas Ruthyn · 1 ep.
BBC Play of the Month
as Duke · 1 ep.
Out of the Unknown
as Tzhilyantsi · 1 ep.
Theatre 625
as Teacher · 1 ep.
Armchair Theatre
1 ep.