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Robert Leadam Eddison, OBE 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 Merlin in the BBC television series The Legend of King Arthur, and the tragic ferryman in The Storyteller episode "The Luck Child."
Birth Name
Robert Leadam Eddison
Born
Wednesday, 10 June 1908
Died
Saturday, 14 December 1991
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| American Friends | Rushden - The President | 1991 |
| A TV Dante | Charon | 1990 |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Grail Knight | 1989 |
| Mystery!: Campion | Robert Skinn | 1989 |
| Porterhouse Blue | Old Master | 1987 |
| Scoop | The Country - Troutbeck / Troutbeck | 1987 |
| The Storyteller | Ferryman | 1987 |
| The Lady's Not for Burning | The Chaplain | 1987 |
| The Theban Plays by Sophocles | Chorus | 1986 |
| Henry IV Part II | Justice Robert Shallow | 1979 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| American Friends | Rushden - The President | 1991 |
| A TV Dante | Charon | 1990 |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Grail Knight | 1989 |
| Mystery!: Campion | Robert Skinn | 1989 |
| Porterhouse Blue | Old Master | 1987 |
| Scoop | The Country - Troutbeck / Troutbeck | 1987 |
| The Storyteller | Ferryman | 1987 |
| The Lady's Not for Burning | The Chaplain | 1987 |
| The Theban Plays by Sophocles | Chorus | 1986 |
| Henry IV Part II | Justice Robert Shallow | 1979 |
| Knots | 1975 | |
| BBC2 Playhouse | Dr. Still | 1974 |
| The Boy Who Turned Yellow | Nick | 1972 |
| Edward II | Lightborn / Archbishop of Canterbury / Lightborn/Archbishop of Canterbury | 1970 |
| Time Lost and Time Remembered | 1966 | |
| Mystery and Imagination | Silas Ruthyn / Karswell | 1966 |
| BBC Play of the Month | Duke / Prince Andronikov | 1965 |
| Out of the Unknown | Tzhilyantsi | 1965 |
| The Wednesday Play | Arch-Vicar | 1964 |
| Theatre 625 | Duchemin / Skuratov / Teacher | 1964 |
| Maupassant | Henri d'Apreval | 1963 |
| Shakespeare: Soul of an Age | Undetermined role | 1962 |
| Ordeal by Fire | King Charles VII | 1957 |
| ITV Play of the Week | Don Pedro de Miura / King Priam / Mr. Arcularis | 1955 |
| The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp | The Voice | 1954 |
| Vice Versa | Mr. Blinkhorn | 1948 |
| The Anatomist | Raby | 1939 |
| Queen of Destiny | Lanternist Professor | 1938 |
