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John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor best known for portraying Sallah in the Indiana Jones movies and Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. His other roles include Michael Malone in the 1993 TV series The Untouchables, Vasco Rodrigues in the mini-series Shōgun, Professor Maximillian Arturo in Sliders, King Richard I in Robin of Sherwood, General Leonid Pushkin in the James Bond film The Living Daylights, and Macro in I, Claudius. In voice acting, he portrayed Treebeard in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Cassim in Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Ranjan's father in The Jungle Book 2, Macbeth in Gargoyles, Man Ray in SpongeBob SquarePants, Hades in Justice League, and Tobias in Freelancer.

John Rhys-Davies
Rhys-Davies in February 2018
Born	(1944-05-05) 5 May 1944 (age 78) Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1964–present
Spouse	Suzanne Wilkinson ​ ​ (m. 1966; sep. 1985)​
Partner(s)	Lisa Manning (2004–present)
Children	3
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Early life

John Rhys-Davies was born in Salisbury on 5 May 1944,[1] the son of Welsh parents. His mother, Phyllis Jones, was a nurse, while his father, Rhys Davies, was a mechanical engineer and colonial officer.[2][3]

Due to his father's work as a colonial police officer, he was raised in Tanganyika (today part of Tanzania) before his family moved to the Welsh town of Ammanford.[1] While in Tanganyika, his family lived in places such as Dar es Salaam, Kongwa, Moshi, and Mwanza. He was educated at independent Truro School in Cornwall and then at the University of East Anglia, where he was one of the first 105 students admitted and became a co-founder of its drama club. After a stint teaching at a secondary school in Watton, Norfolk, he won a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Career

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Rhys-Davies appeared sporadically on UK television in the early 1970s, including his role as the gangster "Laughing Spam Fritter" opposite Adam Faith in Budgie. Later he played Praetorian officer Naevius Sutorius Macro in I, Claudius. He then began to appear more frequently, and not just in the UK, with roles as a Portuguese navigator Rodrigues in the 1980 television miniseries Shogun, based on the novel by James Clavell, and as Sallah in two of the Indiana Jones films.

In 1989, he played Marvel Comics character Kingpin in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk. Rhys-Davies also starred in another Clavell adaption, Noble House, set in Hong Kong, in which he plays Ian Dunross' corporate enemy, Quillian Gornt. He has since appeared in numerous television shows and miniseries, including Agent Michael Malone in the 1993 remake of the 1950s television series The Untouchables as well as a leading role in the television series Sliders as Professor Maximillian Arturo from 1995 to 1997.

He also appeared in Reilly, Ace of Spies in 1983, made several appearances in Star Trek: Voyager as a holodeck version of Leonardo da Vinci, starred as an ally of James Bond in The Living Daylights, and appeared in the film One Night with the King. Davies has played the character Porthos in two separate projects; a two-part episode of The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, and the Hallmark Channel film La Femme Musketeer. He appears in the full motion video cut scenes of computer games including Ripper (as Vigo Haman) (1996), Dune 2000 (as Noree Moneo) (1998), and the Wing Commander series (as James Taggart, doubling as the voice of Thrakhath nar Kiranka in the third game of the series).

In 2004, he narrated The Privileged Planet, a documentary that makes the case for intelligent design.[4] In 2013, he appeared in the family history programme Coming Home, in which he discovered information about his grandfather's life in the Carmarthenshire coal mines.[5]

In 2014, he joined the cast of the television show Metal Hurlant Chronicles to play Holgarth, an immortal alchemist.[6]

In 2015, he had a role in the single-player campaign of the PC game Star Citizen alongside Mark Hamill and Gary Oldman.[7] The work consisted of full body motion capture, including facial expressions and his voice; it was recorded primarily at the Imaginarium studios in the UK.[8]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Rhys-Davies appeared as 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).[9] 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.[10]

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, was offered the tattoo instead as Rhys-Davies was disinclined to get one himself and Beattie had spent so much time as his double that he almost received co-credit.[11][12]

Rhys-Davies suffered severe reactions to the prosthetics used during filming, and his eyes sometimes swelled shut. When asked whether he would consider returning to the role for the film version of The Hobbit, he said, "I have already completely ruled it out. There's a sentimental part of me that would love to be involved again. Really I am not sure my face can take that sort of punishment any more." He added that this time around "[t]hey've got a different set of problems ... because you've got 13 dwarves, a whole band of them ... You're trying to represent a whole race ... You're trying to do for dwarves what The Lord of the Rings did for hobbits."[13] He offered help as a dwarf advisor in 2011, but ruled out returning as Gimli in The Hobbit because of the punishing makeup required.[14]

Rhys-Davies, together with Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, Karl Urban, and Elijah Wood, plus writer Philippa Boyens and director Peter Jackson on 31 May 2020 joined Josh Gad's YouTube series Reunited Apart, which reunites the cast of popular movies through video-conferencing and promotes donations to non-profit charities.[15]

Voice work

In addition to voicing the Ent Treebeard in Lord of the Rings, Rhys-Davies has lent his distinctive voice to many video games and animated television series, including the role of Hades in Justice League, the original voice of Man Ray in SpongeBob SquarePants, and numerous times in Gargoyles (1994–1996), as the character Macbeth He also lent his vocal talents to the games Freelancer (as Richard Winston Tobias) and Lords of Everquest (both in 2003) and the game Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness, which was released with his narration on a CD-ROM version in 1995. He also had a voice role on Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance as the character Jherek, and narrated a documentary called The Glory of Macedonia.

John Rhys-Davies' voice can be heard on the 2009 documentary Reclaiming The Blade.[16] In the narration, Rhys-Davies explores swords, historical European swordsmanship and fight choreography on film, a topic very familiar to him from his experiences in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, where his character wielded an axe in many scenes.

In 2004, he was the unknowing subject of an internet prank that spread false rumours in several mainstream media sources that he was scheduled to play the role of General Grievous in Star Wars Episode III.[17]

Rhys-Davies is the narrator of The Truth & Life Dramatized audio New Testament Bible, a 22-hour, celebrity-voiced, fully dramatised audiobook version of the New Testament which uses the Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition translation. In 2011, he presented KJB: The Book That Changed The World, which features him reading diverse snippets from the King James Version.

John Rhys-Davies’ voice work also includes voice-over work with Breathe Bible.[18]

In 2016, he provided spoken words for Voices of Fire, the sixth album by a cappella power metal band van Canto.[19]

A resident of the Isle of Man since 1988, John Rhys-Davies provides the introductory voice-over to the Island's Castle Rushen, one of the best-preserved medieval fortresses in Britain. In 2018, he lent his voice to the Isle of Man's tourism commercial.

Rhys-Davies voice was recorded for some of the callouts in the 1993 Williams SuperPin Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure[20]

Personal life

Relationships

Rhys-Davies married Suzanne Wilkinson in December 1966, and they had two sons together. Although they legally separated in 1985, they remained married until her death from Alzheimer's disease in 2010. They remained friends, and he took care of her in her final years.[21]

In 2004, Rhys-Davies began dating Lisa Manning. They have a daughter together, and split their time between homes in the New Zealand region of Waikato[22] and on the Isle of Man.[23]

Religious views

Rhys-Davies is a self-described "rationalist" and "sceptic" when it comes to religion. However, he holds Christianity in high regard and has stated that "Christian civilisation has made the world a better place than it ever was".

In February 2020, Rhys-Davies stated, "All the things that we value, the right of free speech, the right of the individual conscience, these evolved in first and second century Roman Christendom, where the individual Christian said, 'I have a right to believe, [sic] what I believe and not what the Emperor tells me.' From that our whole idea of democracy and the equality that we have has developed. We owe Christianity the greatest debt of thanks that a generation can ever have, and to slight it and to dismiss it as being irrelevant is the detritus of rather ill-read minds, I think."[24][25]

Rhys-Davies has played roles in several Christian films, including Mordecai in One Night with the King (2006), Charles Kemp in Beyond the Mask (2015), Saint Peter in The Apostle Peter: Redemption (2016), the Evangelist in The Pilgrim's Progress (2019), and Saint Patrick in I Am Patrick (2020).

Political views

Rhys-Davies is not a member of any political party. He was a radical leftist as a university student in the 1960s, but changed his views when he went to heckle Margaret Thatcher, who he said "shot down the first two hecklers in such brilliant fashion that [he] decided [he] ought for once to shut up and listen".[26]

In 2004, Rhys-Davies said in an interview with World magazine, "There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should be. But there is a cultural thing as well. By 2020, 50% of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent."[27] In an interview with the conservative journal National Review, he said that he is opposed to Islamic extremism because he feels that it violates the "Western values" of equality, democracy, tolerance, and the abolition of slavery.[26]

Rhys-Davies was vocal about his support for Brexit.[28] On 25 April 2019, he appeared as a panellist on the BBC's Question Time, where his conduct was described as "thuggish and sexist" by some viewers after he shouted "oh, woman!" at Green Party politician Caroline Lucas when she commented on Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[29][30]

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1973	Penny Gold	Rugby Player
1974	The Black Windmill	Fake Military Policeman	Uncredited
1975	The Naked Civil Servant	Barndoor
1979	A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square	Solicitor
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Sallah
1982	Best Revenge	Mustapha
	Ivanhoe	Front-de-Bœuf
	Victor/Victoria	Andre Cassell
	The Island of Adventure	Smith
1983	Sahara	Rasoul
	Sadat	Gamal Abdel Nasser
1984	Sword of the Valiant	Baron Fortinbras
	Kim	Babu
1985	King Solomon's Mines	Dogati
1986	Firewalker	'Corky' Taylor
1987	The Living Daylights	General Leonid Pushkin
1988	Waxwork	Werewolf
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Sallah
	Rising Storm	Donwaldo
1991	The Unnamable Returns	Unknown
1992	The Double 0 Kid	Rudi Von Keseenbaum
	The Lost World	Professor Challenger
	Return to the Lost World	Professor Challenger
1993	Sunset Grill	Stockton
	Cyborg Cop	Kessel
	The Seventh Coin	Captain Galil
	The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter	Professor Warren
1994	The High Crusade	Bruder Parvus
	Robot in the Family	Eli Taki, Rashmud, Sashri
	Blood of the Innocent	Captain Shmuda
1996	The Great White Hype	Johnny Windsor
	Glory Daze	Luther
	Aladdin and the King of Thieves	Cassim (voice)	Direct-to-video
	Marquis de Sade	Inspector Marais
1997	Cats Don't Dance	Woolie the Mammoth (voice)
	Bloodsport III	Jacques Duvalier
	The Protector	Rasheed
1999	Secret of the Andes	Father Claver
2000	Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists	King Akron, Baraka (voice)
	Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol	Ivan
2001	Never Say Never Mind: The Swedish Bikini Team	Hakim
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Gimli	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2002	Sabretooth	Anthony Bricklin
	Endangered Species	Lieutenant Wyznowski
	Scorcher	Matthew Sallin
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Gimli, Treebeard	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King		Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
	Coronado	President Hugo Luis Ramos
	The Jungle Book 2	Ranjan's Father (voice)
	The Medallion	Commander Hammerstock-Smythe
2004	12 Days of Terror	Captain
	The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement	Viscount Mabrey
	La Femme Musketeer	Porthos
	The Lost Angel	Father Kevin
	The Privileged Planet	Narrator (voice)
2005	The Game of Their Lives	Bill Jeffrey
	Chupacabra Terror	Captain Randolph
	The King Maker	Phillippe
2006	Shark Bait	Thorton (voice)	English dub
	One Night with the King	Mordecai
	The Legend of Sasquatch	Ranger Steve	Voice
2007	In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale	Merick
	The Ferryman	The Greek
	Catching Kringle	Santa	Voice
2009	Reclaiming the Blade	Narrator	Voice
	31 North 62 East	John Hammond
2010	Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes	Dr. Watson (voice)	Direct-to-video
2011	KJB: The Book That Changed the World	Self / Presenter
	Sophie and Sheba	Alistair Winston
	Treasure Hunters	Nathan Pickett
	Ferocious Planet	Senator Jackson Crenshaw
2012	Escape	Malcolm Andrews
2013	100 Degrees Below Zero	Ralph Dillard
	Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map	Pirate Gnarlybeard (voice)	Direct-to-video
	Prisoners of the Sun	Professor Hayden Masterton
2014	Apocalypse Pompeii	Colonel Dillard
	Saul: The Journey to Damascus	Caiphas
	The Prophet	Yousef (voice)
2015	Beyond the Mask[31]	Charles Kemp
2016	The Apostle Peter: Redemption	Saint Peter
2017	Camera Store	'Pinky' Steuben
2018	Shemira	Myer
	Aquaman	Brine King (voice)
2019	The Pilgrim's Progress	Evangelist (voice)
	Valley of the Gods	Dr. Herrmann
	Santa Fake	Joe O'Brian
	Mosley	Warnie (voice)
2020	Grizzly II: Revenge	Captain	Released as "The Concert"; Filmed in 1983
	Tainted	Vladimir
	Shadowtown	Einar
	I Am Patrick: The Patron Saint of Ireland	Old Patrick	Documentary
	G-Lock	Henry
	Moments in Spacetime	Mason
	Silent Night: A Song for the World	General Haig
2021	Prick'd	Archie
2022	Kingslayer	William Marshal
2023	Untitled fifth Indiana Jones film	Sallah	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	Fall of Eagles	Zinoviev	Episode: "The Secret War"
1975	The Sweeney	Ron Brett	Episode: "Poppy"
1976	I, Claudius	Macro	2 episodes
	Warship	CPO Cook Mantell	Episode: "Heart of Oak"
1977	1990	Ivor Griffith	Episode: "Health Farm"
	Just William	Authority	Episode: "William and the Wonderful Present"
1978	Z Cars	Terry Larkin	Episode: "Fat Freddie B.A."
	The Nativity	Nestor	Television film
1979–80	BBC Television Shakespeare	Chapuys, Salerio	2 episodes
1979	The Danedyke Mystery	Armchair	6 episodes
1980	Shōgun	Vasco Rodrigues	Miniseries Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1981	Peter and Paul	Silas	Television film
1982	CHiPs	Nakura	Episode: "Force Seven"
	Ivanhoe	Front-de-Boeuf	Television film
1983	Reilly, Ace of Spies	Tanyatos
1984	Robin of Sherwood	King Richard	Episode: "The King's Fool"[32]
	Scarecrow and Mrs. King	Lord Bromfield	Episode: "Affair at Bromfield Hall"
1987	Marjorie and the Preacher Man[33]	Seymour	Television drama
	The Little Match Girl	Police Chief Murphy	Television film
1988–94	Murder, She Wrote	Harry Mordecai / Harry Waverly / Lancaster	3 episodes
1988	Noble House	Quillan Gornt	Miniseries
	War and Remembrance	Sammy Mutterperl	Miniseries
	Goddess of Love	Zeus	Television film
1989	The Trial of the Incredible Hulk	Wilson Fisk	Television film
	Great Expectations	Joe Gargery
1991	The Mystery of the Black Jungle	O'Connor	Miniseries
	Tales from the Crypt	Duval	Episode: "Dead Wait"
	The Strauss Dynasty	Gribov	Miniseries
1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Waclaw Jozek / Baron (voice)	Episode: "The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy"
	Perry Mason	Phillip Graff	Episode: "The Case of the Fatal Framing"
	Archaeology: Voyages of the Vikings	Narrator	Documentary series (TLC)
	Ring of the Musketeers	Maurice Treville	Television film
1992–93	The Legend of Prince Valiant	King Hugo, King Donovan (voice)	8 episodes
1993–94	The Untouchables	Agent Malone	15 episodes
1994	A Flintstones Christmas Carol	Charles Brickens	Television special
1995–96	Gargoyles	Macbeth (voice)	13 episodes
1995–97	Sliders	Professor Maximillian Arturo	40 episodes
1995	Fantastic Four	Thor (voice)	2 episodes
	Archaeology: Florida's Lost Empire	Host	Documentary series (TLC)
1996	The Incredible Hulk	Thor (voice)	Episode: "Mortal Bounds"
	Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh	Narrator (voice)	Halloween television special
	Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm	Asgarth	Episode: "Overthrown"
1997	Freakazoid!	Professor Beasthead	Episode: "Tomb of Invisibo"
	You Wish	Madman Mustapha	3 episodes
	Star Trek: Voyager	Leonardo da Vinci	2 episodes ("Scorpion, Part I" and "Concerning Flight")
1999	Au Pair	Nigel Kent	Television film
2000	Britannic	Captain Charles Bartlett	Television film
2002	Justice League	Hades (voice)	Episode: "Paradise Lost" Parts 1 and 2
	The Zeta Project	Edgar Mandragora (voice)	Episode: "Ro's Gift"
2000–02	SpongeBob SquarePants	Man Ray (voice)	2 episodes
2002	Fillmore!	Lenny	Episode: "Ingrid Third, Public Enemy #1"
2003	Helen of Troy	King Priam	Miniseries
2004	Dragon Storm	King Fastrad	Television film
2005	Revelations (Omnium Finis Imminet)	Professor Jonah Lampley	Miniseries
2006	Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!	Captain Proteus (voice)	Episode: "Demon of the Deep"
2008	Anaconda 3: Offspring	Murdoch	Television film
	Fire & Ice: The Dragon Chronicles	Sangimel	Television film
	Kiss Me Deadly	Yale Ericson	Television film
2009	Dark Days in Monkey City	Narrator	3 episodes
	Anacondas: Trail of Blood	Murdoch	Television film
	Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire	Grimshank	3 episodes
2010	Legend of the Seeker	Horace	Episode: "Vengeance"
	Three Wise Women	Archangel Green	Television film
	Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf	Elliot Carbon	Television film
2012	Psych	Museum curator	Episode: "Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger"
	Missing Christmas	Narrator, Santa Claus	Television special
2014	Let The Season In	Narrator	Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert Special (filmed in 2013)
	Once Upon a Time	Grand Pabbie (voice)	3 episodes
2015	Killing Jesus	Annas
	The Adventures of Puss in Boots	Goodsword (voice)	Episode: "Sword"
2016	The Shannara Chronicles	Eventine Elessedil	Regular
	Winter Thaw	Martin Avdeitch	Television film
	The Lion Guard	King Sokwe (voice)	Episode: "The Lost Gorillas"
2018	A Dickens Christmas (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)	Narrator	Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert Special
2019	Fresh Eggs	Cutter Anderson[28]
2020	Wizards: Tales of Arcadia	Galahad (voice)

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness	Narrator	Voice
	Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger	James Taggart / Prince Thrakhath
1996	Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom	James Taggart
	Ripper	Vigo Haman	Actor
1998	Dune 2000	Noree Moneo
2001	Forgotten Realms: Baldur's Gate - Dark Alliance	Jherek	Voice
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Gimli
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Gimli / Treebeard
	Freelancer	Richard Winston Tobias, Esq. ('Tobias')
2004	The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth	Gimli / Treebeard (Archive audio)
2006	The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II	Gimli / Treebeard (Archive audio)
2009	Risen	Don Esteban
2015	Lego Dimensions	Gimli (Archive audio)

Audiobooks

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989 Buena Vista Records)
• Rescued (2006)
• Sir Malcolm and the Missing Prince (2009)
• Affabel: Window of Eternity (2007 John Bevere, 2009 Bethany House)
• The Extraordinary Adventures of G. A. Henty: In the Reign of Terror (2016)
• The Trials of Saint Patrick (2017)

Podcast

• Batman Unburied (2022 Hugo Strange)

References

External links

• John Rhys-Davies at IMDb
• Article about controversial statements 18 January 2004.
• Andrew Leigh, "No Sean Penn". National Review. 5 March 2004.

На других языках

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[de] John Rhys-Davies

John Rhys-Davies (* 5. Mai 1944 in Ammanford, Wales) ist ein britischer Schauspieler. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine Darstellung des Sallah in Steven Spielbergs Indiana-Jones-Filmen und des Zwerges Gimli in der Herr-der-Ringe-Trilogie.

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- [en] John Rhys-Davies

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[es] John Rhys-Davies

John Rhys-Davies (Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Gales; 5 de mayo de 1944) es un actor británico, conocido principalmente por su papel de Sallah en las películas de Indiana Jones así como por su papel del enano Gimli en la trilogía cinematográfica de El Señor de los Anillos, y poniendo la voz de Bárbol en la misma.

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[ru] Рис-Дэвис, Джон

Джон Рис-Дэвис (англ. John Rhys-Davies; род. 5 мая 1944, Амманфорд) — валлийский актёр. Известен своими ролями в сериале «Скользящие» (Sliders), фильмах об Индиане Джонсе, трилогии «Властелин колец» и дилогии «Затерянный мир».

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