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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 also played Agent Michael Malone in the 1993 remake of the 1950s television series The Untouchables, Professor Maximillian Arturo in Sliders, King Richard I in Robin of Sherwood, General Leonid Pushkin in the James Bond film The Living Daylights, and Macro in I, Claudius. Additionally, he provided the voices of Cassim in Disney's Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Man Ray in SpongeBob SquarePants, and Tobias in the computer game Freelancer. He is also the narrator for the TV show Wildboyz. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Rhys-Davies, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

John Rhys-Davies

Sallah
for Sallah in Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny
Suggested by clownprinceofcasting

Retired archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter and a few old companions, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA, determined to change the course of history as well. Main Changes From Original Movie: * Helena is a kid, recently orphaned as her father Basil passes away. Taking away Teddy and making Helena younger in this version because Indy and Marion recently lost Mutt in Vietnam, and now they get a second chance at parenting, this time together * Marion, Sallah, and Short Round (Wan-Li) are actually involved in the adventure, with Antonion Banderas and Shaunette Renée Wilson's characters being major characters and actually surviving * Voller is a lot more ruthless and snake-like in his performance *Ke Huy Quan would have a cool hand-to-hand combat scene with Hauke, showing off his impressive martial arts skills *Indy decides to stay behind in the past with Marion and Helena, being able to watch history unfold right before him *The final shot shows a team of young archealogists in the 1930s, finding Indy's fedora