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John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor best known for portraying Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Sallah in the Indiana Jones franchise. He has received three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, with one win, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Spielberg saw John Rhys-Davies in Shōgun, and changed the role accordingly, advising the actor to portray Sallah as a cross between his role in Shōgun and John Falstaff. [11] Kevork Malikyan, who played Kazim in Last Crusade, also expressed interest in the role, but a traffic jam caused him to miss his audition. [12]
In Peter Jackson's film trilogy, Gimli is played by the Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies. Brian Sibley has asserted that Rhys-Davies used "his distinctive Welsh-derived accent" for the character. [8] Several other sources state, however, that Rhys-Davies uses a Scottish accent; the Scottish The Press and Journal praises him for the "convincing ...
Patrick Warburton (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Rules of Engagement) and John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings trilogy, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) have been tapped to star in Darwin in ...
The film stars John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli the dwarf in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Amcomri’s 101 Films Intl. will handle global sales. The film is set in London in the 1890s.
Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir [31] (John Rhys-Davies) is an Egyptian excavator and a friend of Indiana. He reappeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He also appeared in a Marvel comic, [33] a Young Indiana Jones book (which detailed his first meeting with Indiana in 1913), and two Bantam novels. [37] [38] [39]
Victor/Victoria is a 1982 musical comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Tony Adams and scored by Henry Mancini, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
Actor John Rhys-Davies guest stars as a holographic Leonardo da Vinci. Plot. An enemy uses a high-energy transporter beam to steal items of technological value from ...