John Rhys-Davies

At 79 years old, John Rhys-Davies has this physical status:

Career

In the early 1970s, Rhys-Davies appeared on UK television frequently, including his appearance on "Laughing Spam Fritter" opposite Adam Faith in Budgie. In I, Claudius, he later played Praetorian officer Naevius Macro. He continued to appear in the 1980 television miniseries Shogun, based on James Clavell's book, and as Sallah in two of Indiana Jones films, but not just in the United Kingdom.

In 1989, he appeared in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk as the Marvel Comics Kingpin. Quillian Gornt, Rhys-Davies' corporate competitor, appeared in another Clavell adaptation, Noble House, which is set in Hong Kong. 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 lead role in the television series Sliders as Professor Maximillian Arturo from 1995 to 1997.

In 1983, he appeared in Reilly, Ace of Spies, as a holodeck of Leonardo da Vinci, starred as an ally of James Bond in The Living Daylights, and appeared in One Night with the King. Davies has appeared in two separate projects; a two-part episode of The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne; and the Hallmark Channel film La Femme Musketeer. He appears in the full motion video cut scenes of computer games, including Ripper (as Vigo Haman) (1996), Dune 2000 (as No. 5) (1998), and the Wing Commander series (as James Taggart) (1998), and the third game in the series's third game.

He narrated The Privileged Planet, a documentary that supports intelligent design in 2004. He appeared on the family history show Coming Home, in which he discovered traces of his grandfather's life in the Carmarthenshire coal mines.

In 2014, he joined the cast of Metal Hurlant Chronicles to portray Holgarth, an immortal alchemist.

He was involved in the single-player campaign of PC game Star Citizen in 2015 alongside Mark Hamill and Gary Oldman. The project consisted of complete body motion recording, including facial expressions and his voice; it was mostly shot at the Imaginarium studios in the United Kingdom.

In The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Rhys-Davies appeared as the dwarf Gimli. The cinematography of the films was aided in that Rhys-Davies is tall (6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), as opposed to the actors playing hobbits at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m). Therefore, although his character was supposed to be short, he was still in proportion when compared to the hobbit actors. Had he been of a more resembled height, photographs of the entire fellowship might have required three camera passes rather than two.

Rhys-Davies is the only one of the nine Fellowship of the Ring actors with a tattoo of the word "nine" in the Tengwar script; his stunt double, Brett Beattie, was offered the tattoo instead, but Beattie had been disinclined to get one himself, and Beattie had spent so long as his double that he almost earned co-credit.

Rhys-Davies had severe reactions to the prosthetics used during filming, and his eyes sometimes swelled shut. When asked whether he'd like to reprise his role in The Hobbit's film version, he replied, "I have already completely ruled it out." I'm a sentimental person who would like to be involved again. Well, I'm not positive that my face will withstand this kind of punishment any more." This time around, he said, "You've got a different set of challenges, because you've got 13 dwarves, a whole band of them... You're trying to do for dwarves what The Lord of the Rings did for hobbits." In 2011, he offered his assistance as a dwarf advisor, but he was refused to return as Gimli in The Hobbit due to the punishing makeup required.

Rhys-Davies, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Dominic Monaghan, Miranda Otto, Matthew Hamilton, Karl Urban, and Elijah Wood, alongside writer Philippa Boyens and director Peter Jackson, reunites the cast of famous films through videoconferencing and promotes non-profit charities.

Rhys-Davies has appeared in many video games and animated television series, including those of Man Ray in SpongeBob SquarePants' origins and many times in Gargoyles (1994–1996) as the character Macbeth, as the character Macbeth. He also appeared in The Legends of Shadows of Darkness, as the actor in Lord of the Rings. He appeared on Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance as Jherek, and narrated a film called The Glory of Macedonia.

On the 2009 film Reclaim The Blade, John Rhys-Davies' voice can be heard. Rhys-Davies discusses swords, historical European swordsmanship, and fight choreography on film, a subject that is all familiar to him from his time in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which his character wielded an axe in several scenes.

He was the unknowing subject of a internet prank that spread debunked myths in several mainstream media outlets that he was supposed to appear in Star Wars Episode III.

Rhys-Davies is the narrator of The Truth & Life Dramatized audiobook version of the New Testament, which is a 22-hour, celebrity-voiced, fully dramatised audiobook version of the New Testament that uses the Revised Standard Version-Catholic Version translation. He released KJB: The Book That Changed the World in 2011, which featured him reading various excerpts from King James' Book.

Voice-over work with Breathe Bible is also included in John Rhys-Davies' voice.

He wrote the first word for Voices of Fire, the sixth album by a cappella power metal band van Canto, in 2016.

John Rhys-Davies, a resident of the Isle of Man since 1988, gives the island's Castle Rushen, one of Britain's oldest medieval fortresses. He lent his voice to the Isle of Man's tourism industry in 2018.

In the 1993 Williams SuperPin Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure, Rhys-Davies' voice was recorded for some of the callouts.

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