<P> In 2014, he joined the cast of the television show Metal Hurlant Chronicles to play Holgarth, an immortal alchemist . </P> <P> 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 consists of full body Motion capture, including facial expressions and his voice and was recorded primarily at the Imaginarium studios in the UK . </P> <P> He is also known for his popular portrayal of the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy . The cinematography of the films was aided in that Rhys - Davies is tall--6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), compared to the actors playing hobbits at around 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m). Therefore, although his character was supposed to be short, he was properly in proportion compared to the hobbit actors . Had he been of more similar height, shots of the entire fellowship would have required three camera passes rather than two . </P> <P> Rhys - Davies is the only one of the nine Fellowship of the Ring actors who did not receive a tattoo of the word "nine" written in the Tengwar script; his stunt double, Brett Beattie, got the tattoo instead as Rhys - Davies was disinclined to get one himself . The other members of the cast--Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen, and Elijah Wood--got the same tattoo . </P>

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