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John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor best known for portraying Sallah in the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise and Gimli in ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy. His other roles include Michael Malone in the 1993 series ''The Untouchables'', Vasco Rodrigues in the miniseries ''
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'', and Macro in '' I, Claudius''. In voice acting, he portrayed Treebeard in ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy, Cassim in ''
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'', Ranjan's father in '' The Jungle Book 2'', Macbeth in '' Gargoyles'',
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Early life

John Rhys-Davies was born in
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on 5 May 1944, the son of Welsh parents. His mother, Phyllis Jones, was a nurse, while his father, Rhys Davies, was a mechanical engineer and colonial officer. Due to his father's work as a colonial police officer, he was raised in
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) before his family moved to the Welsh town of
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. While in Tanganyika, his family lived in places such as
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, Kongwa, Moshi, and
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. He was educated at
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Truro School in
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and then at the
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, where he was one of the first 105 students admitted and became a co-founder of its drama club. After a stint teaching at a secondary school in
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, he won a place at the
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in
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.


Career

Rhys-Davies appeared sporadically on UK television in the early 1970s, including his role as the gangster "Laughing Spam Fritter" opposite Adam Faith in '' Budgie''. Later he played Praetorian officer Naevius Sutorius Macro in '' I, Claudius''. He then began to appear more frequently, and not just in the UK, with roles as a Portuguese navigator Rodrigues in the 1980 television miniseries ''
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'', based on the novel by
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, and as Sallah in the 1981 film ''
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.'' He reprised the role of Sallah in two subsequent ''
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'' films. In 1989, he played Marvel Comics character Kingpin in ''
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''. Rhys-Davies also starred in another Clavell adaption, '' Noble House'', set in Hong Kong, in which he plays Ian Dunross' corporate enemy, Quillan Gornt. He has since appeared in numerous television shows and miniseries, including Agent Michael Malone in the 1993 remake of the 1950s television series '' The Untouchables'' as well as a leading role in the television series ''
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'' as Professor Maximillian Arturo from 1995 to 1997. He also appeared in '' Reilly, Ace of Spies'' in 1983, made several appearances in '' Star Trek: Voyager'' as a holodeck version of
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, starred as an ally of
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in ''
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'', and appeared in the film '' One Night with the King''. Davies has played the character Porthos in two separate projects; a two-part episode of ''
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'', and the Hallmark Channel film ''
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''. He appears in the
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cut scenes of computer games including '' Ripper'' (as Vigo Haman) (1996), '' Dune 2000'' (as Noree Moneo) (1998), and the '' Wing Commander'' series (as James Taggart, doubling as the voice of Thrakhath nar Kiranka in the third game of the series). In 2004, he narrated ''The Privileged Planet'', a documentary that makes the case for
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. In 2013, he appeared in the family history programme '' Coming Home'', in which he discovered information about his grandfather's life in the Carmarthenshire coal mines. In 2014, he joined the cast of the television show '' Metal Hurlant Chronicles'' to play Holgarth, an immortal alchemist. In 2015, he had a role in the single-player campaign of the PC game '' Star Citizen'' alongside
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and
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. The work consisted of full body
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, including facial expressions and his voice; it was recorded primarily at
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studios in the UK.


''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy

Rhys-Davies appeared as the dwarf Gimli in ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy. The cinematography of the films was aided in that Rhys-Davies is tall – , compared to the actors playing hobbits at around . Therefore, although his character was supposed to be short, he was properly in proportion compared to the hobbit actors. Had he been of more similar height, shots of the entire fellowship would have required three camera passes rather than two. Rhys-Davies is the only one of the nine Fellowship of the Ring actors who did not receive a tattoo of the word "nine" written in the
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script; his stunt double, Brett Beattie, was offered the tattoo instead as Rhys-Davies was disinclined to get one himself and Beattie had spent so much time as his double that he almost received co-credit. Rhys-Davies suffered severe reactions to the prosthetics used during filming, and his eyes sometimes swelled shut. When asked whether he would consider returning to the role for the film version of ''The Hobbit'', he said, "I have already completely ruled it out. There's a sentimental part of me that would love to be involved again. Really I am not sure my face can take that sort of punishment any more." He added that this time around " ey've got a different set of problems... because you've got 13 dwarves, a whole band of them... You're trying to represent a whole race... You're trying to do for dwarves what ''The Lord of the Rings'' did for hobbits." He offered help as a dwarf advisor in 2011, but ruled out returning as Gimli in ''The Hobbit'' because of the punishing makeup required. Rhys-Davies, together with Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, Karl Urban, and Elijah Wood, plus writer Philippa Boyens and director Peter Jackson on 31 May 2020 joined Josh Gad's
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series ''Reunited Apart'', which reunites the cast of popular movies through video-conferencing and promotes donations to non-profit charities.


Voice work

In addition to voicing the Ent Treebeard in ''Lord of the Rings'', Rhys-Davies has lent his distinctive voice to many video games and animated television series, including the role of
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in '' Justice League'', the original voice of
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in ''
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'', and numerous times in '' Gargoyles'' (1994–1996), as the character
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He also lent his vocal talents to the games ''
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'' (as Richard Winston Tobias) and ''
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'' (both in 2003) and the game '' Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness'', which was released with his narration on a CD-ROM version in 1995. He also had a voice role on '' Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance'' as the character Jherek, and narrated a documentary called ''The Glory of Macedonia''. John Rhys-Davies' voice can be heard on the 2009 documentary ''
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''. In the narration, Rhys-Davies explores swords, historical European swordsmanship and fight choreography on film, a topic very familiar to him from his experiences in ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy, where his character wielded an axe in many scenes. In 2004, he was the unknowing subject of an internet prank that spread false rumours in several mainstream media sources that he was scheduled to play the role of General Grievous in '' Star Wars Episode III''. Rhys-Davies is the narrator of ''The Truth & Life Dramatized audio New Testament Bible'', a 22-hour, celebrity-voiced, fully dramatised
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version of the New Testament which uses the Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition translation. In 2011, he presented ''KJB: The Book That Changed The World'', which features him reading diverse snippets from the King James Version. John Rhys-Davies’ voice work also includes voice-over work with ''Breathe Bible''. In 2016, he provided spoken words for '' Voices of Fire'', the sixth album by
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band van Canto. A resident of the
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since 1988, John Rhys-Davies provides the introductory voice-over to the Island's Castle Rushen, one of the best-preserved medieval fortresses in Britain. In 2018, he lent his voice to the Isle of Man's tourism commercial. Rhys-Davies voice was recorded for some of the callouts in the 1993 Williams SuperPin ''Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure''


Personal life


Relationships

Rhys-Davies married Suzanne Wilkinson in December 1966, and they had two sons together. Although they legally separated in 1985, they remained married until her death from
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in 2010. They remained friends, and he took care of her in her final years. In 2004, Rhys-Davies began dating Lisa Manning. They have a daughter together, and split their time between homes in the New Zealand region of Waikato and on the
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.


Religious views

Rhys-Davies is a self-described " rationalist" and " sceptic" when it comes to religion. However, he holds Christianity in high regard and has stated that " Christian civilisation has made the world a better place than it ever was." In February 2020, Rhys-Davies stated, "All the things that we value, the right of free speech, the right of the individual conscience, these evolved in first and second century
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Christendom, where the individual Christian said, 'I have a right to believe, icwhat I believe and not what the Emperor tells me.' From that our whole idea of
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and the equality that we have has developed. We owe Christianity the greatest debt of thanks that a generation can ever have, and to slight it and to dismiss it as being irrelevant is the detritus of rather ill-read minds, I think." Rhys-Davies has played roles in several Christian films, including Mordecai in '' One Night with the King'' (2006), Charles Kemp in '' Beyond the Mask'' (2015),
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in ''The Apostle Peter: Redemption'' (2016), the Evangelist in ''
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'' (2019), and
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in ''I Am Patrick'' (2020).


Political views

Rhys-Davies is not a member of any political party. He was a
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as a university student in the 1960s, but changed his views when he went to heckle
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, who he said "shot down the first two hecklers in such brilliant fashion that edecided eought for once to shut up and listen". In 2004, Rhys-Davies said in an interview with ''World'' magazine, "There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should be. But there is a cultural thing as well. By 2020, 50% of the children in
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under the age of 18 will be of
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descent." In an interview with the conservative journal ''
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'', he said that he is opposed to
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because he feels that it violates the "Western values" of equality, democracy, tolerance, and the abolition of slavery. Rhys-Davies was vocal about his support for
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. On 25 April 2019, he appeared as a panellist on the BBC's '' Question Time'', where his conduct was described as "thuggish and sexist" by some viewers after he shouted "oh, woman!" at
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when she commented on
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's victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.


Filmography


Film


Television


Video games


Audiobooks

*''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (1989 Buena Vista Records) *''Rescued'' (2006) *''Sir Malcolm and the Missing Prince'' (2009) *''Affabel: Window of Eternity'' (2007 John Bevere, 2009 Bethany House) *''The Extraordinary Adventures of G. A. Henty: In the Reign of Terror'' (2016) *''The Trials of Saint Patrick'' (2017)


Podcasts

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'' (2022, as Hugo Strange)


References


External links

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