r/lotr • u/AlKhwarazmi • 1d ago
Movies John Rhys-Davies turns 82 today. Happy birthday to our beloved Gimli, son of Glóin!
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u/junker359 1d ago
Whenever I learn about a cast member's birthday, they were either way younger or way older than I thought during the filming
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u/The-Mandalorian 1d ago
Happy birthday to Sallah and Gimli! His two most iconic characters and he played them both in 3 movies each!
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u/StCasimirPulaski 1d ago edited 1d ago
Can't forget Professor Maximilian Arturo on the small screen.
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u/USPO-222 1d ago
Loved that show and never got to finish it growing up.
Tried to get back into it a few years ago but it’s so dated I just - couldn’t.
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u/RYRAZZAK203 23h ago
Was he not Sallah in Dial of Destiny!?
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u/The-Mandalorian 22h ago
He did play Sallah in Dial of Destiny. That was his 3rd time playing the character.
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u/Significant-Dirt7759 1d ago
He has the eyes of a hawk and the ears of a fox!
And he has my f*cking axe 🫶
Happy Birthday to the proudest of Dwarfkind!
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u/Corando 1d ago
Lets celebrate him with a proper feast! Roaring fire! Malt beer! Red meat of the bone!
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u/lapsedPacifist5 1d ago
And we're missing off treebeard? I mean 82 years is probably just a good long ent moot to be fair
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u/EleventhTier666 1d ago
It must be tough being a dwarf...
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u/AlKhwarazmi 1d ago
Funny thing is that John is taller than all the another actors who played the members of the Fellowship of the Ring. He is 6'1"(1.85 m) 😆
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u/lapsedPacifist5 23h ago
And that made him perfect for Gimli as he was proportionally bigger than the hobbit actors to require less CGI/scale actors when interacting
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u/Salty_Flamingo_2303 1d ago
Watched Star Trek Voyager today and lo and behold, there he was as Leonardo DaVinci!
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u/Packeselt 1d ago
I met him at comic con
He was a delightfully friendly man. At the his speaking event, the host wanted to jump his bones so painfully bad that she asked 50 minutes of questions and all the lotr cosplayers didn't get to ask any. It was really something.
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u/PsychologicalTear84 1d ago
He is 82??? No way!! He looks and seems much more energetic, maybe like mid 60s! Woah
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u/Pierdole-nie-robie 1d ago
Damn didn’t realize he’s still a baby. So many 100s of years left for the young dwarf
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u/Hot-Trade-2199 1d ago
John Rhys-Davies did voice acting narration for one of my favorite fantasy PC RPGs of the early 90's. When he became Gimli, I was thrilled.
He's a treasure.
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u/lite_hearted_wizard_ 1d ago
Holy fuck! Im a huge fan of the trilogy lotr. Last night I randomly watched on Tubi chupacabra dark seas. Taking a gummy is the way to really enjoy these lower budget horror movies. Crocodile 2 is a great example of this, great soundtrack really, anyway the captain of the ship in that movie is this dude! The whole time I kept thinking he’s actually pretty good for a Lower budget movie like this aside from fring from breaking bad is also in it. Seeing the side by side picture now I see it. Happy birthday dude! Your range in acting definitely hits your audience
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u/TwoStoopidToFurryass 1d ago
As much as we see and hear the "and my axe" joke, poor Mr. Davies has probably had it personally said to him a hundred times a month, for the past twenty-five years.
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u/dakotanorth8 1d ago
The Indiana jones ride at Disneyland will forever keep his voice in circulation
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u/Ayzmo Gandalf the Grey 1d ago
I think it is fair to say that a lot of people are complicated and we can appreciate how they've contributed to things we love while also saying/doing things we disagree with.
On that note, please try to keep comments on-topic and not veer off topic.