He won the Australian Film Institute's Best Actor in Miniseries award in 1987 for Vietnam, in which he co-starred with Nicole Kidman and Barry Otto.

Eadie's final screen role was as Father John Brosnan in the 2011 TV film, Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away, the story of Australian drug smuggler David McMillan.

He appeared in leading roles in plays as diverse as Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie as The Gentleman Caller in a highly acclaimed performance in 1985, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick (opposite Victoria Longley as Maggie and Bud Tingwell as Big Daddy) in 1991.

He was in the world premiere productions of Michael Gow's Furious, Hannie Raison's Two Brothers, Tommy Murphy's Holding the Man and the highly acclaimed Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America by Stephen Sewell.

[3] In his later years, Eadie worked as an Uber driver, which he claimed to love, enjoying the freedom of being 'his own boss' – while also stating he did not miss acting.