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Biography

Acclaimed Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies graduated from the University of East Anglia and is probably best known to film audiences for his roles in…more

Born

Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK

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Star (7)

Role
- Revelations
  Star
  - S 1: Ep 6 Hour Six
    5/18/05
  - S 1: Ep 4 Hour Four
    5/4/05
  - S 1: Ep 2 Hour Two
    4/20/05
- Sliders
  Professor Maximillian P. Arturo
  - S 3: Ep 26 The Making of Sliders
    6/8/98
  - S 3: Ep 20 The Last of Eden
    3/28/97
  - S 3: Ep 17 The Exodus (2)
    2/28/97
  - S 3: Ep 16 The Exodus (1)
    2/21/97
  - S 3: Ep 15 Paradise Lost
    1/31/97
  - + 37 More Credits
- The Untouchables (1993)
  Agent Michael Malone
  - S 2: Ep 24 Death and Taxes (2)
    5/22/94
  - S 2: Ep 23 Death and Taxes (1)
    5/15/94
  - S 2: Ep 22 Bury My Heart at Starved Rock
    5/8/94
  - S 2: Ep 21 Apocalypse in Chicago
    5/1/94
  - S 2: Ep 20 Omerta
    4/24/94
  - + 37 More Credits
- Under Cover
  Flynn
  - S 1: Ep 10 The Wall [as part 2 of "Spy Games"]
    7/20/91
  - S 1: Ep 9 Close to Home [as part 1 of "Spy Games"]
    7/20/91
  - S 1: Ep 8 Sacrifices (2) [as part 2 of "Before the Storm"]
    7/13/91
  - S 1: Ep 7 Mr. Butterfly
    2/16/91
  - S 1: Ep 6 Family Album
    2/9/91
  - + 9 More Credits
- The Incredible Hulk
  The Kingpin
  - S 6: Ep 0 Trial of the Incredible Hulk
    5/7/89
- The Quest (1982)
  Sir Edward
  - S 1: Ep 6 Escape from a Velvet Box
    11/19/82
  - S 1: Ep 5 His Majesty, I Presume?
    11/12/82
  - S 1: Ep 4 He Stole-a My Art
    11/5/82
  - S 1: Ep 3 Last One There Is a Rotten Heir
    10/29/82
  - S 1: Ep 2 pilot (2)
    10/22/82
  - + 5 More Credits
- I, Claudius
  Macro
  - S 1: Ep 9 Zeus, By Jove!
    11/8/76
  - S 1: Ep 8 Reign of Terror
    11/1/76
Recurring Role (7)

Role
- Gargoyles
  MacBeth
  - S 3: Ep 1 The Journey
    9/7/96
  - S 2: Ep 35 Pendragon
    2/12/96
  - S 2: Ep 28 Sanctuary
    12/18/95
  - S 2: Ep 15 The Price
    10/12/95
  - S 2: Ep 13 High Noon
    9/25/95
  - + 3 More Credits
- Gargoyles
  MacBeth (MacDuff)
  - S 3: Ep 1 The Journey
    9/7/96
- Gargoyles
  MacBeth / Findlaech
  - S 2: Ep 10 City of Stone, Part Two
    9/19/95
- Gargoyles
  MacBeth / Morwood-Smith
  - S 2: Ep 4 A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time
    9/7/95
- Legend of Prince Valiant
  Voice of King Hugo
  - S 2: Ep 36 A New Dawn
    1/2/94
  - S 2: Ep 18 The Rescue
  - S 2: Ep 17 Mordred's Return
  - S 2: Ep 16 The Voyage
  - S 2: Ep 15 The Princess Aleta
- Budgie
  Laughing Spam Fritter
  - S 2: Ep 13 Run Rabbit, Run Rabbit, Run, Run, Run
    7/14/72
  - S 2: Ep 12 Brief Encounter
    7/7/72
  - S 2: Ep 11 The Man Outside
    6/30/72
  - S 2: Ep 9 King for a Day
    6/16/72
  - S 2: Ep 5 Our Story So Far
    5/19/72
- Legend of Prince Valiant
  Voice of King Donovan
  - S 2: Ep 5 The Flute
Guest Star (59)

Role
- Psych
  Christopher Home
  - S 6: Ep 10 Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger
    2/29/12
- Legend of the Seeker
  Horace
  - S 2: Ep 17 Vengeance
    4/17/10
- Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
  Grimshank
  - S 1: Ep 4 O Biclops, Where Art Thou?
    4/23/09
- Revelations
  Professor Lampley
  - S 1: Ep 5 Hour Five
    5/11/05
- GMTV Today
  Himself
  - S 5: Ep 61 Thursday 25th March
    3/25/04
- Jungle Cubs
  Ranjan's father
  - — The Jungle Book 2
    2/14/03
- Fillmore!
  Lenny
  - S 1: Ep 8 Ingrid Third, Public Enemy #1
    11/16/02
- Arli$$
  Unknown
  - S 7: Ep 11 All That Glitters
    9/8/02
- Disney's House of Mouse
  Oberon
  - S 3: Ep 7 House of Scrooge
    9/2/02
- SpongeBob SquarePants
  ManRay
  - S 3: Ep 11 Chocolate With Nuts / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V
    6/1/02
  - S 2: Ep 4 Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III / Squirrel Jokes
    11/27/00
- The Zeta Project
  Edgar
  - S 2: Ep 6 Ro's Gift
    4/27/02
- Justice League Unlimited
  Lord Hades
  - S 1: Ep 9 Paradise Lost (2)
    1/28/02
  - S 1: Ep 8 Paradise Lost (1)
    1/21/02
- The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
  Alexandre Dumas/Porthos
  - S 1: Ep 5 The Cardinal's Revenge (2)
    7/16/00
- The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
  Alexandre Dumas
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Cardinal's Design (1)
    7/9/00
- Mickey Mouse Works
  voice of Oberon
  - S 2: Ep 3 Episode 11
    9/25/99
- Pinky and the Brain
  voice of Narrator
  - S 3: Ep 37 The Megalomaniacal Adventures Of Brainie The Poo
    2/7/98
- Star Trek: Voyager
  Leonardo Da Vinci
  - S 4: Ep 11 Concerning Flight
    11/26/97
  - S 4: Ep 1 Scorpion (2)
    9/3/97
  - S 3: Ep 26 Scorpion (1)
    5/21/97
- You Wish
  Madman Mustafa
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Big Ride
    10/10/97
  - S 1: Ep 2 Jillions of Gillians
    10/3/97
  - S 1: Ep 1 Pilot
    9/26/97
- The Incredible Hulk (1996)
  voice of Thor
  - S 1: Ep 9 Mortal Bounds
    11/17/96
- Duckman
  Voice of Unknown
  - S 3: Ep 16 The Road to Dendron
    5/11/96
- The Fantastic Four
  Thor
  - S 2: Ep 8 When Calls Galactus
    11/18/95
  - S 2: Ep 6 To Battle the Living Planet
    11/4/95
- Gargoyles
  Findlaech
  - S 2: Ep 9 City of Stone, Part One
    9/18/95
- Freakazoid!
  Professor Beasthead
- The Flintstones
  Charles Brickens
  - S 7: Ep 14 A Flintstones Christmas Carol
    11/21/94
- A Mind to Kill
  Roderick Tate
  - S 1: Ep 1 Black Silence
    11/20/94
- Murder, She Wrote
  Harry Mordecai
  - S 11: Ep 5 Dear Deadly
    10/23/94
- Animaniacs
  voice of Tympannini
  - S 1: Ep 30 Piano Rag
    9/21/93
- Batman: The Animated Series
  Waclaw Jozek
  - S 1: Ep 25 The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy
    10/14/92
- Perry Mason
  Phillip Graff
  - S 11: Ep 12 The Case of the Fatal Framing
    3/1/92
- James Bond, Jr.
  General Leonid Pushkin
- Legend of Prince Valiant
  the voice of King Donovan
- Tales from the Crypt
  Emil Duval
  - S 3: Ep 6 Dead Wait
    7/3/91
- Murder, She Wrote
  Harry Waverly
  - S 6: Ep 7 Night Of The Tarantula
    11/12/89
- The Incredible Hulk
  Wilson Fisk
  - — Trial of the Incredible Hulk (2 hrs)
    5/7/89
- Murder, She Wrote
  Lancaster
  - S 5: Ep 1 J.B.. As In Jailbird
    10/23/88
- Perry Mason
  Edward Tremain
  - S 10: Ep 6 The Case of the Murdered Madam
    10/4/87
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King
  Lord Ralph Bromfield
  - S 2: Ep 8 An Affair at Bromfield Hall
    11/26/84
- Robin of Sherwood
  King Richard the Lionhearted
  - S 1: Ep 6 The King's Fool
    5/26/84
- Mystery!
  Tanyatos
  - S 4: Ep 1 Reilly, Ace of Spies (1) An Affair with a Married Woman
    1/22/84
- Reilly: Ace of Spies
  Tanyatos
  - S 1: Ep 1 An Affair with a Married Woman
    9/5/83
- CHiPs
  Nakura
  - S 5: Ep 27 Force Seven
    5/23/82
- Fox
  Warleigh
  - S 1: Ep 9 Fox Big F------ Family
    5/5/80
- BBC Television Shakespeare
  Salerio
  - S 1: Ep 14 The Merchant of Venice
    2/17/80
- Enemy at the Door
  George Trenett
  - S 2: Ep 5 Committee Man
    2/2/80
- Target
  Hecht
  - S 2: Ep 4 Fringe Banking
    10/13/78
- Z Cars
  Terry Larkin
  - S 12: Ep 7 Fat Freddie, BA
    8/9/78
- Hazell
  Graves
  - S 1: Ep 4 Hazell Settles the Accounts
    2/6/78
- Just William (1977)
  Authority
  - S 1: Ep 8 William and the Wonderful Present
    3/27/77
- Beasts
  Peter Newell
  - S 1: Ep 2 During Barty's Party
    10/23/76
- Hunter's Walk
  Roger Jenkins
  - S 3: Ep 1 Intent
    6/1/76
- Warship
  Chief Petty Officer Cook Mantell
  - S 3: Ep 12 Heart of Oak
    3/23/76
- Quiller
  Leindorf
  - S 1: Ep 12 Thundersky
    11/21/75
- Within These Walls
  Inspector Jay
  - S 3: Ep 10 Getting Out
    11/8/75
- The Sweeney
  Brett
  - S 2: Ep 8 Poppy
    10/20/75
- Zodiac
  Aikman
  - S 1: Ep 1 Death of a Crab
    2/25/74
- New Scotland Yard
  Detective Sgt. Hill
  - S 3: Ep 6 Property, Dogs and Women
    7/28/73
- Dixon of Dock Green
  Dunlop
  - S 19: Ep 4 Trial and Error
    10/14/72
- Drama Playhouse
  Caleb Selling
  - S 3: Ep 3 The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night
    10/2/72
- The Guardians
  First Guardian
  - S 1: Ep 7 This Is Quarmby
    8/21/71
Special Guest Star (1)

Role
- Aladdin
  voice of Cassim, the King of Thieves
  - S 3: Ep 9 Aladdin and the King of Thieves
    8/18/96
Story (1)

Role
- Sliders
  Story
  - S 3: Ep 16 The Exodus (1)
    2/21/97

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Trivia
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- John attended Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England.
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- John Rhys-Davies develops a new hobby during the shooting of each film he is in. This keeps his mind sharp and prevents him from getting bored on the set.
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- John Rhys-Davies has enjoyed good health through most of his film career. He reports that he was only sick during two of his movies: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (where he had sciatica) and The Raiders of the Lost Ark (when he had cholera and "nearly died on the set").
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- John Rhys-Davies: (Defending some of his controversial interviews) If Tolkien's got a message, it's that "Sometimes you've got to stand up and fight for what you believe in."
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- John Rhys-Davies: (Responding to the filming of The Lord of the Rings) I am proud to say that within two weeks of being the great skeptic, I think I was the first to say "Gentlemen, we are making a masterpiece."
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- John Rhys-Davies: (Commenting on not getting a tattoo after filming Lord of the Rings) You think I'm going to be tattooed by some drunken Maori with a dirty needle? Think again. If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard.
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