> John Rhys-Davies, who had played Indiana Jones’s sidekick Sallah in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (he would go on to enjoy something of a late-career renaissance when he was cast as Gimli the dwarf in the Lord of the Rings films) ...

Blown away as I was by this ("What? Sallah and Gimli ... wow") ...

... it is even nicer/weirder to find him here.-

(He shows up in the most onexpected places ...)

  He was also, allegedly "taller than any of his fellow [LoTR] castmates"

(Then again, that whole franchise plays very well with heights and perspective, effects, etc ...)

See:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/7kd163/til_t...