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name: "Edward Adrian Wilson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edward-adrian-wilson"
fi1m_id: "edward-adrian-wilson"
tmdb_id: 1682668
roles: []
born: "23 July 1872"
died: "29 March 1912"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:04:28.156651+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Edward Adrian Wilson

## Identity

Edward Adrian Wilson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/edward-adrian-wilson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** edward-adrian-wilson
- **TMDB ID:** 1682668
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1682668

Actor. Born 23 July 1872 in Cheltenham, England. Died 29 March 1912.

## Details

- **Born:** 23 July 1872, Cheltenham, England
- **Died:** 29 March 1912
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1682668

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Great White Silence*](https://film.one/film/the-great-white-silence.md) (81)

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## Biography

Edward Adrian Wilson (1872–1912) was a British polar explorer, naturalist, physician and artist. He served as junior surgeon and zoologist on Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery expedition (1901–1904) and as chief of the scientific staff on the Terra Nova expedition (1910–1913).

Wilson reached the South Pole with Scott, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans on 17 January 1912, only to find that Roald Amundsen had arrived first. All five men died on the return journey; Wilson, Scott and Bowers perished in their tent around 29 March 1912.

Archival footage of Wilson from the expedition appears in the 1924 documentary *The Great White Silence*, directed by Herbert G. Ponting.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, en.wikisource.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Great White Silence* (1924), Fi1m 81, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-white-silence.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Gaumont Graphic: Captain Scott and Dr. Wilson with the Pony 'Nobby'* (1912), Actor

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