Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/10/1908
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Japan
Also Known As
Robert Leadam Eddison
Robert Eddison
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
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Grail Knight
Edward II
as Lightborn/Archbishop of Canterbury
American Friends
as Rushden - The President
Uncle Silas
as Silas Ruthyn
Vice Versa
as Mr. Blinkhorn
Scoop
as Troutbeck
Selkirk of Red River
as Lord Selkirk
A TV Dante
as Charon
Sixty Glorious Years
as Lanternist Professor
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
as Duke
The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
Unknown Role
Theban Plays: Antigone
as Chorus
The Tragedy of King Richard II
as Duke of York
Henry IV Part 2
as Justice Robert Shallow
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Chorus
An Affinity with Dr. Still
as Dr. Still
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
as Nick
I Was Happy Here
Unknown Role
Ordeal by Fire
as King Charles VII