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{{Person
|name = John Rhys-Davies
|image = Johnrhys.jpg
|birth = {{Time|May 5}}, {{Time|1944}} (age {{Age|1944|5|5}})<br>Salisbury, England
|gender = Male
|credits = Voice actor
|portrays = [[Man Ray]]
|years = {{Time|2001}} - {{Time|2002}}
|cast = yes
}}
'''John Rhys-Davies''' (born {{Time|May 5}}, {{Time|1944}}; age {{Age|1944|5|5}}) is a former cast member who was the original voice actor for [[Man Ray]] in "[[Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III]]" and "[[Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V]]."  [[Bob Joles]] took over the role in all future appearances.

==Biography==
John Rhys-Davies was born on May 5, 1944 in Salisbury, England, and was raised in Ammanford, Wales.  He 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 Shogun, based on the novel by James Clavell, and as Sallah in the first, third, and fifth Indiana Jones films. In 1989, he played Marvel Comics character Kingpin in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk. Rhys-Davies also starred in another Clavell adaption, Noble House, set in Hong Kong, in which he plays Ian Dunross' corporate enemy, Quillian 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 Sliders as Professor Maximillian Arturo from 1995 to 1997. 

He also appeared in Reilly, Ace of Spies in 1983, made several appearances in ''[[w:c:startrek:Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek: Voyager]]'' as a holodeck version of Leonardo da Vinci, starred as an ally of James Bond in The Living Daylights, 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 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 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). 

From 2001-2003, he portrayed the dwarf Gimli in the ''{{W|The Lord of the Rings (film series)|Lord of the Rings}} film trilogy.

In 2004, he narrated The Privileged Planet, a documentary that makes the case for intelligent design. 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 Mark Hamill and Gary Oldman. The work consisted of full body motion capture, including facial expressions and his voice; it was recorded primarily at the Imaginarium studios in the UK.

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==Credits==
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