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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.
One of the most prolific Welsh prose writers of the 20th century, Davies wrote approximately one hundred short stories, as well as twenty novels, three novellas, two books about Wales and an autobiography.
Feb 2, 2022 · John Rhys-Davies is best known for playing Sallah in "Indiana Jones" and Gimli in "Lord of the Rings," and one of these iconic roles left him physically ill.
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.
Dec 4, 2019 · 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.
Aug 23, 2020 · Story-writer and novelist Rhys Davies was at the forefront of the remarkable wave of Welsh writing in English that had its roots in a geographically small area of industrial South Wales – notably the Rhondda Valley and its environs – in the last century.
John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor, voice actor and producer best known for his roles of Gimli and Treebeard in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. Being a son of a colonial police officer, he spent his childhood in Africa and England, where he studied in local schools.
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.
Mar 12, 2018 · A new selection of stories by Rhys Davies has been published in the 40 th anniversary year of his death. Nigel Jarrett, a former winner of the Rhys Davies Prize, takes another look at the work of a writer who left the South Wales valleys to live exclusively by his pen in literary London.
