Eddie Tagoe

Active - 1977 - 1987  |   Genres - Drama, Action-Adventure, Comedy, Family, Thriller | Subgenres - Black Comedy Film, Blaxploitation Film, Buddy Film, Comedy Drama, Musical

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Eddie Tagoe is a Ghanaian actor best known in the UK for playing "Presuming Ed" in the 1987 film production of Withnail and I, a role that he resumed in 2000 in a stage production of the same work. Internationally, he may be better recognized for his brief appearance in the 1981 hit movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Billed only as the "Messenger Pirate", his character was sent to find Indiana Jones in advance of Nazis boarding the ship on which Jones was travelling. Initially unable to find Jones, he was instructed by the captain to look again, and immediately replied, "I found him!", pointing to Jones swimming to the Nazi submarine.

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