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John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor known for portraying Sallah in the Indiana Jones franchise and Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He has received three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, with one win, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
John Rhys-Davies. Actor: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies was born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, to Mary Margaretta Phyllis (nee Jones), a nurse, and Rhys Davies, a mechanical engineer and Colonial Officer. He graduated from the University of East Anglia and is probably best known to film ...
- Actor, Sound Department, Producer
- May 5, 1944
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John Rhys-Davies. Actor: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies was born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, to Mary Margaretta Phyllis (nee Jones), a nurse, and Rhys Davies, a mechanical engineer and Colonial Officer. He graduated from the University of East Anglia and is probably best known to film audiences for his roles in the blockbuster hits Raiders ...
- May 5, 1944
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- WILSON FISK. Before there was Vincent D'Onofrio's acclaimed appearance as Wilson Fisk in Netflix's Daredevil series, John Rhys-Davies was the first to play the criminal Kingpin in the 1989 classic The Trial of the Incredible Hulk.
- AGENT MICHAEL MALONE. After the success of the 1987 film The Untouchables starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery, a series was greenlit in 1993. Tom Amandes took over Costner's part of Eliot Ness, while John Rhys-Davies assumed the role of Agent Michael Malone, based on Connery's Jimmy Malone.
- QUILLIAN GORNT. Appearing in a second James Clavell adaptation, Noble House, Rhys-Davies once again was placed among top-tier British talent in a mini-series that proved just as popular as Shogun.
- PROFESSOR MAXIMILLIAN ARTURO. From 1995 until 2000, Rhys-Davies appeared as Professor Maximillian Arturo in Sliders, the sci-fi fantasy series about a group of time travelers who used a device to "slide" between parallel universes using an inter-dimensional wormhole.
Steven D. Greydanus Movies March 16, 2020. John Rhys-Davies is never at a loss for words. Equal parts raconteur and provocateur, he holds forth in conversation like his most famous character ...
John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor and vocal artist. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which he also voiced the ent, Treebeard. He also played Agent Michael Malone in the 1993 remake of the 1950s television series The Untouchables, Professor Maximillian ...
I left RADA Sunday night, started work at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Monday morning (July 27, 1969). Did 13 years in reparatory, the Royal Shakespeare Company and did a lot of good TV. I got an Emmy nomination for my part in Shogun which led to Victor Victoria, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. I spent the next 20 years in LA where an industry ...
