1908-06-10 ( 116 years old ) in 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.
Movies
American Friends
1991-03-22
A TV Dante
1990-06-13
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989-05-24
Scoop
1987-04-26
Theban Plays: Antigone
1986-09-19
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986-09-16
Henry IV Part 2
1979-12-16
An Affinity with Dr. Still
1979-11-28
Knots
1975-01-01
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
1973-01-07
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
1972-09-16
Edward II
1970-08-06
The Tragedy of King Richard II
1970-07-30
Uncle Silas
1968-11-04
I Was Happy Here
1966-04-01
Selkirk of Red River
1964-01-01
The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
1954-09-09
Vice Versa
1948-01-28
Sixty Glorious Years
1938-11-18
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