John: I'm burying my career so substantially in these interviews that it's painful. But I think that there are some questions that demand honest answers. I think that Tolkien says that some generations will be challenged. And if they do not rise to meet that challenge, they will lose their civilization ... There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about ... By 2020, fifty percent of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent.
John Rhys-Davies: I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbor; I salute him occasionally.
John Rhys-Davies: (on shooting Fellowship of The Ring) One of my abiding memories is being halfway up a mountain and watching two men carrying a basket with my clothes up to me, and another two carrying my armour and axe, then a woman carrying my helmut up, and finally another with my big, heavy boots to give that dwarfish trouser-look. Then they put it all on me and the director said 'now run up that hill.'
John provided the voice for the narrator in Sierra's Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness.
In 2004, John & co. won the BFCA Award for Best Acting Ensemble for: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
In March 2004, John attended The Scandinavian Sci-Fi, Game & Film Convention in G?teborg, Sweden.
John's son urged him to accept the role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
While playing the role of Gimli in Lord of the Rings trilogy, it was discovered that John Rhys-Davies was allergic to the prosthetics. During the first week, it burned off the skin under his eyes. After that he only put the prosthetics on every third day.
John did the voice for "Jherek" in Forgotten Realms: Baldur's Gate - Dark Alliance on the PS2.
John did not get along with the new Sliders (1995) executive producer David Peckinpah, who came in on the third season of the show - which resulted in his character getting a brain tumor, then shot, then finally blown up.
Ironically, John is actually taller than Lord of the Rings trilogy co-stars Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, and Ian McKellen. Yet he plays the Dwarf.
John divides his time between Los Angeles, CA and the Isle of Man.
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