Phil Eason

Phil Eason is the actor who played Yaddle in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

An experienced puppetteer with lots of credits on TV commercials and series, he is mainly remembered for his puppets in Little Shop of Horrors, Labyrinth, The Never Ending Story III, The Muppets Treasure Island or Lost In Space.

He has also appeared as a human actor in Diabolical Properties and New Adventures of Pinocchio, but returned to puppet work on 1999 for both George Orwell's Animal Farm and George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, where he puppets Jedi Master Yoda. Yaddle does not appear in any further movie, nor Eason was called again to play a different character.

Since then, Eason has been voice actor and puppeteer for the two first Harry Potter movies (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 2001; and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2002), and for Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy.