having registered as a conscientious objector, eddington began his acting career as a teenager with entertainments national service association (ensa) during the second world war. he worked for a repertory theatre company in sheffield and made his first tv appearance in 1956 as a regular cast member of "the adventures of robin hood". initially he played minor characters, but in the fourth season (1959–60), he played will scarlet. he had roles in episodes of "the avengers" (1963), "the prisoner" (1967) and the final episode of "the champions" (1969). he also had a supporting role in hammer films' "the devil rides out" (1968), an episode of "van der valk" in 1972, and appeared as a "straight man" (substituting for regular stooge henry mcgee) in a 1976 episode of "the benny hill show". he also appeared in most episodes of the atv series "hine" (1971). in this he played astor harris, a member of an arms-dealing firm named pendles. eddington appeared as civil servant strand in the last series of "special branch" (1974).