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Robert Leadam Eddison, OBE (10 June 1908 – 14 December 1991) was an English actor, who despite his lengthy career as a classical stage actor, is probably most widely remembered in the role of the Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, based on a story by George Lucas and Menno Meyjes. It is the third installment in the Indiana Jones film series and the sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
Lacey was cast as Toht, as he reminded Spielberg of Peter Lorre. [30] Klaus Kinski turned down the role, as he hated the script. [34] Lacey later made a cameo appearance in The Last Crusade as Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, opposite Michael Sheard (who himself auditioned for Toht) as Adolf Hitler. [35]
Mamluk or Mamaluk (/ ˈ m æ m l uː k /; Arabic: مملوك, romanized: mamlūk (singular), مماليك, mamālīk (plural); [2] translated as "one who is owned", [5] meaning "slave") [7] were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-soldiers, and freed slaves who were assigned high-ranking military and ...
It features an ensemble cast including Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Marton Csokas, and Liam Neeson. The film is a heavily fictionalised portrayal of the events leading to the Third Crusade , focusing mainly on Balian of Ibelin who fights to defend the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem from the Ayyubid ...
Richard Young (born December 17, 1955) is an American character actor, independent filmmaker, screenwriter, photographer and artist.Active from the early 1970s, he gained prominence starring in the opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
The last was the Mamluks' most lucrative policy and was accomplished by cultivating trade ties with Venice, Genoa and Barcelona, and increasing tariffs on commodities. [258] At this time, the long-established trade between Europe and the Islamic world began to make up a significant part of state revenues as the Mamluks taxed the merchants ...
Sultans of the Mamluk Sultanate The Cairo Citadel, the seat of power of the Mamluk sultans Details Last monarch Tuman bay II Formation 1250 Abolition 1517 Residence Cairo The following is a list of Mamluk sultans. The Mamluk Sultanate was founded in 1250 by mamluks of the Ayyubid sultan as-Salih Ayyub and it succeeded the Ayyubid state. It was based in Cairo and for much of its history, the ...