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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.
- May 5, 1944
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.
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John Rhys-Davies was born on 5 May 1944, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, to Phyllis Jones and Rhys Davies. His mother was a nurse and his father was a mechanical engineer and colonial officer. He grew up in Tanganyika and Ammanford, Wales.
Actor & Storyteller. I was conceived in Wales and my parents wanted me born there. But I arrived prematurely in Salisbury during an air raid. My mother famously said: ‘Good God Rhys, they’re going to bomb the gas works!' The heart’s birthplace is not necessarily geographical. I was born a Welshman. I shall die one.
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.
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