Lord of the Rings – starcontinuum.net http://starcontinuum.net/en/ Home of the VIPs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 15:55:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.21 John Rhys-Davies http://starcontinuum.net/en/photography/faces/john-rhys-davies/ Fri, 16 Sep 2016 06:25:18 +0000 http://starcontinuum.net/en/?p=1310 Born in Wales John Rhys-Davies spent his childhood in England, Wales and Africa before his parents moved with him to Tanzania, where his father was stationed as an officer. Later […]

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]]> Born in Wales John Rhys-Davies spent his childhood in England, Wales and Africa before his parents moved with him to Tanzania, where his father was stationed as an officer. Later Rhys-Davies attended a private school in England. At Truro School in Cornwall, he played with 13 years in Shakespeare plays. His enthusiasm for literature, he deepened a study of history and English literature at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, where he founded the University Dramatic Society and began his stage career at the Maddermarket Theatre. After a one-year interlude as a teacher, he studied acting at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, where he made its conclusion in 1969. As a result, John Rhys-Davies played in various theater groups and included, among other things several seasons the ensemble of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His repertoire included Shakespeare roles such as Falstaff, Othello and Macbeth.

Since the early 1970s, John Rhys-Davies, who has more than 1,200 appearances in film and television, counts to the industrious actors in Europe and the US. He had his first TV experience in 1964 in the British series Crossroads, followed by other roles on TV from 1971 on. His first and very brief appearance in a cinema movie he had in The Black Windmill followed by numerous guest appearances on television series, including Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Murder, She Wrote and Star Trek: Voyager as Leonardo da Vinci. Among his best known roles include that of Sallah in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones films Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the dwarf Gimli in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, the role of Professor Maximilian Arturo in Sci-Fi TV series Sliders and the role as General Leonid Pushkin (the successor to the General Gogol) in the movie James Bond 007 – The Living Daylights. For his role as Portuguese Captain Rodrigues in the mini-series Shogun, he was nominated in 1981 for Best Supporting Actor Emmy. In 2004 he received together with his castmates from Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Performance. Recently John Rhys-Davies starred in the MTV-produced television series The Shannara Chronicles as the elven king Eventine Elessedil.

John Rhys-Davies is missing a part of his left middle finger – see, for example, in the movie of the King, A Dungeon Siege Tale – which he lost when replacing a van engine. For his role as the dwarf Gimli they adheard a gelprothese.

Nowadays the actor lives in Los Angeles and on the Isle of Man, where he has built a film studio.

During his participation in the Medieval Fantasy Convention in Solingen we had the opportunity to invite John to one of our photo shoots and had a lot of fun with this rascal then…

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]]> Sean Astin http://starcontinuum.net/en/photography/faces/sean-astin/ Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:37:27 +0000 http://starcontinuum.net/?p=635 Wenn man einen Gefährten spielt, der so bekannt ist wie Samweis Gamdschie, hat man immer die Angst, auf diese Art von Rolle festgelegt zu werden. Aber den Kumpanen zu spielen […]

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]]> Wenn man einen Gefährten spielt, der so bekannt ist wie Samweis Gamdschie, hat man immer die Angst, auf diese Art von Rolle festgelegt zu werden. Aber den Kumpanen zu spielen hat sich für ihn auch ausgezahlt …

Sean Astin, geboren as Sean Patrick Duke, nannte es „sidekick business“ – aber wie sich herausstellte, musste er sich da gar keine Sorgen machen. Vor und nach Der Herr der Ringe spielte er eine Vielzahl von Rollen – und sicher nicht nur die guten Kumpels der Hautdarsteller.

Nach einer Ausbildung an der Crossroads Highschool for the Arts und am Stella Adler Conservatory in Los Angeles, war er das erste Mal 1981 in einem Fernsehfilm zu sehen: Please don’t hit me, Mom. Seinen Durchbruch hatte er dann mit nur 15 Jahren, als er in Die Goonies spielte. Es folgten weitere Filmrollen in The B.R.A.T. Patrol, Like Father, like Son und White Water Summer – um nur ein paar Beispiele zu nennen.

2001 war er das erste Mal als Sam zu sehen – dem treuen Gefolgsmann von Frodo auf dem Weg, den einen Ring zum Schicksalsberg zu bringen. Aber er blieb nicht nur als Handlanger im Gedächtnis – denn Sam ist einer der liebenswertesten Charaktere der Trilogie und hat eine große Fangemeinde. Auch nach Der Herr der Ringe ließ Hollywood Sean Astin nicht los: Er war unter anderem in 50 erste Dates, What Love is, Klick und Die Hexen von Oz – wo er wieder mit seinem Hobbit-Kollegen Billy Boyd zusammenarbeiten konnte.

Zusammen mit Billy Boyd war Sean Astin auf der RingCon zu Gast, wo dieses tolle Bild entstanden ist. Ganz zu schweigen von den wahnsinns Doppelbildern der beiden Gefährten.

Vielen Dank für die superlustige Zusammenarbeit.

 

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