Eddie Tagoe

Eddie Tagoe

Eddie Tagoe is a Ghanaian actor best known in the U.K. for playing "Presuming Ed" in the 1986 film production of Withnail and I, a role which he resumed in 2000 in a stage production of the same work. Internationally, he may be better recognized for his brief appearance in the 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. Tagoe had a significantly larger part as "Chocolate Mousse" in the 1984 farce, Top Secret!, and appeared in various other roles such as Sgt. Gwambe in Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, as well as in The Dogs of War and Pink Floyd The Wall. The son of a Ghanaian chief, Tagoe travelled to London to study reflexology prior to pursuing acting. In 1995, however, he returned to his reflexology career when he was recruited to serve as team reflexologist for Newcastle United F.C.

Movies for Eddie Tagoe...

The Bill: Target
Title: The Bill: Target
Character: Mr. Henry
Released: March 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Feature length episode of the popular TV series. WPC Ackland finds herself the target of an assassin's bullet.
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Ama
Title: Ama
Character: Brother Josh
Released: September 6, 1991
Type: Movie
A golden floppy disk becomes a prophetic device through which a young Ghanaian girl living in England, Ama, rediscovers her African identity. She learns its contents at the office where her mother cleans. The disk, through magic realism and by way of ancestors, warns her of the dangers of forgetting one's heritage.
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Withnail & I
Title: Withnail & I
Character: Presuming Ed
Released: June 19, 1987
Type: Movie
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
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Drums Along Balmoral Drive
Title: Drums Along Balmoral Drive
Character: Waiter
Released: August 6, 1986
Type: Movie
'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn't. They were just there.'
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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
Title: Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
Character: Sgt. Gambwe
Released: March 22, 1985
Type: Movie
A paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
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Top Secret!
Title: Top Secret!
Character: Chocolate Mousse
Released: June 8, 1984
Type: Movie
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
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Spaghetti House
Title: Spaghetti House
Character: Bill
Released: October 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
Title: Pink Floyd: The Wall
Character: Minder
Released: July 14, 1982
Type: Movie
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Title: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Character: Messenger Pirate
Released: June 12, 1981
Type: Movie
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
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Arabian Adventure
Title: Arabian Adventure
Character: The Nubian
Released: July 8, 1979
Type: Movie
An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet, Prince Hasan (Oliver Tobias), has to overcome genies, fire breathing monsters and treacherous swamps to reach his prize and claim the hand of the Princess Zuleira (Emma Samms).
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Black Joy
Title: Black Joy
Character: African Dustman
Released: November 6, 1977
Type: Movie
An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the Brixton ghetto.