John Rhys-Davies

John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England) is a Welsh actor best known for portraying Sallah in the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03). Other films include the Cannon productions Sahara (1983), Sword of the Valiant (1984), King Solomon's Mines (1985), Firewalker (1985) as well as the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights.

I met Mr Rhys-Davies at Comic Con Scotland North East in Aberdeen on 13 March 2022.

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Sean Patrick Flanery

Sean Patrick Flanery (born 11 October 1965 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA) is an American actor, author and martial artist. He is known for playing Connor MacManus in The Boondock Saints (1999) and its sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009), Greg Stillson in the USA Network television series The Dead Zone (2002-2007), Jeremy "Powder" Reed in Powder (1995), Indiana Jones in the ABC television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-1996), as well as Bobby Dagen in Saw: The Final Chapter (2010).

I met Sean Patrick at the Entertainment Media Show in London in October 2011.

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Douglas Tait

Douglas Tait (born 17 December 1978 in Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actor, stuntman and independent filmmaker. Tait has appeared in several films, including Freddy vs. Jason (2003), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Star Trek (2009), Thor (2011) and Hellboy (2019).

I met Douglas at the Entertainment Media Show in London in October 2011.

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John Hurt

Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE (born 22 January 1940 in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England; died 25 January 2017 in Cromer, Norfolk, England) was a celebrated English actor whose career spanned more than 50 years.

Hurt's performance in the prison drama Midnight Express (1978) brought him international renown and earned Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, along with an Academy Award nomination. His BAFTA-nominated portrayal of astronaut Kane, in the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), contained a scene in which an alien creature burst out of his chest. Hurt earned his third competitive BAFTA, along with his second Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, as John Merrick in David Lynch's biopic The Elephant Man (1980).

Other significant roles during the 1980s included Bob Champion in biopic Champions (1984), Mr. Braddock in the Stephen Frears drama The Hit (1984), Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) and Stephen Ward in the drama depicting the Profumo affair, Scandal (1989). Hurt was again BAFTA-nominated for his work in Irish drama The Field (1990) and played the primary villain, James Graham, in the epic adventure Rob Roy (1995). His later films include the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011), the Hellboy films (2004 and 2008), The Skeleton Key (2005), The Proposition (2005), V for Vendetta (2005), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). In 2012, he was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Award, in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to cinema". He was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama.

I met John Hurt at the Entertainment Media Show in London in October 2011.

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Sonny Caldinez

Sonny Caldinez (born 1 July 1932 in Trinidad; died 12 April 2022 in La Push, Washington,  USA) was a Trinidadian actor and professional wrestler. He was often cast in television and films for his great height and muscular physique. He appeared in films such as The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Arabian Adventure (1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Fifth Element (1997) and Ali G Indahouse (2002).

I met Mr Caldinez at Collectormania Glasgow in August 2012.

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Bradley Gregg

Bradley Gregg (born 8 November 1966 in Hollywood, California, USA) is an American actor, director, writer and producer. He is best known for his supporting roles in Stand by Me (1986), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

I met Bradley at the Entertainment Media Show in London in October 2012.

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Trevor Butterfield

Trevor Anthony Butterfield is a British actor and special effects technician.. He played several different roles in the Star Wars movies. He played an Imperial Officer and a Stormtrooper in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Bossk (filling in for Alan Harris), Lieutenant Blount, a Stormtrooper, Calamari Warrior and Giran in Return of the Jedi (1983).

He was credited as a (senior) special effects technician for many major film productions including Aliens (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Hudson Hawk (1991), Mission: Impossible (1996), Daylight (1996), Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), Legionnaire (1998), Prometheus (2012) and six of the Harry Potter films (2003-11).

I met Trevor at the Something Bl**dy Awesome convention in Edinburgh in April 2014.

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Trevor Butterfield as Lt. Blount in Return of the Jedi

Julian Glover

Julian Wyatt Glover CBE (born 27 March 1935 in Hampstead, London, England) is an English classical actor, with many stage, television and film roles since commencing his career in the 1950s. He is a recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award and has performed many times for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Glover is known for portraying major characters in many popular movie and television franchises. His film roles have included General Maximilian Veers in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Aristotle Kristatos in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). He also voiced the giant spider Aragog in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).

Glover has also appeared frequently on television, especially in the UK, including guest appearances on such series as The Avengers, The Saint, Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Remington Steele. From 2011-16, he played the recurring supporting role of Grand Maester Pycelle in HBO's Game of Thrones. In January 2013, he appeared as General Beauvilliers in the BBC drama Spies of Warsaw.

I met Mr Glover at the 2014 editions of Film & Comic Con Newcastle (March) and Collectormania Glasgow (August) and at Film & Comic Con Glasgow in August 2022.

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As Grand Maester Pycelle in Game of Thrones

At Film & Comic Con Newcastle in March 2014

As Aris Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only

Signing at Film & Comic Con Glasgow in August 2014

As Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Signing at Film & Comic Con Glasgow in August 2022

Paul Freeman

Paul Freeman (born 18 January 1943 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England) is an English actor who has appeared in theatre, television and film. I know him for playing Indiana Jones's rival archaeologist René Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and his parts in Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992) and Double Team (1997).

I met Paul at Collectormania Glasgow in August 2010.

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Jonathan Ke Quan

Jonathan Ke Quan (born Quan Kế Huy on 20 August 1971 in Saigon, South Vietnam (now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)) is a Vietnamese-born American actor and stunt choreographer of Chinese descent. He is best known for his parts as Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Richard "Data" Wang in The Goonies.

I met Jonathan at the Film & Comic Con Glasgow in August 2016. The Goonies was one of the first films I saw in the cinema without my parents when I was 11 and remains a favourite of mine.

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