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Rhys-Davies is also known for his performances in the films Victor/Victoria (1982), The Living Daylights (1987), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), Aquaman (2018) and its sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023).
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 graduated from the University of East Anglia and is probably best known to film audiences for his roles in the blockbuster hits Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
- January 1, 1
- 1.85 m
- Ammanford, Wales, UK
- Gimli
- Sallah
- Vasco Rodrigues
- Treebeard
- Naevius Sutorius Macro
- General Leonid Pushkin
- Professor Maximillian Arturo
- Quillian Gornt
- Agent Michael Malone
- Wilson Fisk
John Rhys-Davies played arguably one of his most widely recognized roles when he was in his '50s as the dwarf Gimli in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. As part of the nine individuals selected by Lord Elrond to take the One Ring to Mordor and destroy it, he offered both his mighty battle ax and his sharp tongue. At over 6 feet tall, R...
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark was one of Rhys-Davies' first films in a Hollywood blockbuster, though he'd already been performing on stage and television throughout the UK in the '70s and '80s. He instantly stood out thanks to the jocular hilarity of his character, Sallah, who also reappeared inIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Sa...
When the popular James Clavell novel Shogun was turned into an NBC mini-series in 1980, John Rhys-Davies was cast as Vasco Rodrigues, a Portuguese ship pilot of the Black Shipwho strikes up a begrudging friendship with the series hero, John Blackthorne (Richard Chamberlain). Blackthorne is the English pilot of the Dutch merchant ship Erasmus, blown...
The second character to be played by John Rhys-Davies in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Treebeard the Ent, appeared in The Two Towers, protecting the Hobbits Merry and Pippinafter they escaped capture from Orcs. One of the oldest living things in Middle-Earth, he resides in Fangorn Forest, at the foot of the Misty Mountains. Ents were the Shepherds...
Rhys-Davies was one of many British thespians (Patrick Stewart, Brian Blessed, John Hurt, and Derek Jacobi to name a few) who found fame after the sprawling epic I, Claudius, a BBC produced serial from 1976. He portrayed real-life Roman Prefect Naevius Sutorius Marco of the Praetorian Guard. He served under both the Roman Emperor Tiberius and Calig...
Fellow character actors Christopher Lee and Mads Mikkelsen were both actors who appeared in the Star Wars franchise andthe James Bond franchise as villains, but John Rhys-Davies has the distinction of appearing in the Indiana Jones films and the James Bond franchise as an ally of 007. He portrayed General Leonid Pushkin in the fifteenth Bond film, ...
From 1995 until 2000, Rhys-Davies appeared as Professor Maximillian Arturo in Sliders, the sci-fi fantasy series about a group oftime travelers who used a device to "slide" between parallel universesusing an inter-dimensional wormhole. Professor Arturo is the mentor of the main character Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell) who invented the device. Duri...
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. It starred a young Pierce Brosnanas Tai-Pan Ian Dunross, the head of the international trading company Struan's, and Rhys-Davies as his rival in business, Quillian Gornt...
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. Combining the film as well as the 1959 tv show of the same name, this series...
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. It was a made-for-tv superhero film based on the hit series which ran from 1978 to 1982. The film features David Banner (Bill Bixby)...
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