19 Facts About Sallah

Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir is a fictional character played by Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies in three of the Indiana Jones films: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, as well as the upcoming fifth film of the series.

Sallah appears in various comics and novels, and is featured in the Disney theme park attractions, the Indiana Jones Adventure and The Great Movie Ride.

Sallah lives in Cairo and is a close friend of Indiana Jones.

Sallah is a dedicated family man with a wife named Fayah and nine children, all of whom seem to have a fondness for Indiana.

Sallah seems to be extremely strong, although he is apparently unaware of his enormous strength.

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Sallah has a strong baritone voice and he seems to have an affinity for Gilbert and Sullivan.

Sallah appears in Raiders of the Lost Ark, where he helps Jones decipher the inscription on the back of Marion Ravenwood's medallion by taking him to an old wise man (identified as "Old Imam", although it is uncertain as to whether that is the name of the character or he is an imam) who is a friend of his.

Sallah reluctantly joins Jones in the snake-infested tomb, and they move the Ark to the surface.

Sallah makes a deal with the captain of the Bantu Wind, a tramp steamer, for bringing Jones, Marion, and the Ark back to the States, referring to the two of them as his family.

Sallah reappeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where he fails in stopping Marcus Brody from being captured by the Nazis at Iskenderun.

Sallah later takes Jones and his father, Henry to the Nazi convoy near the location of the Holy Grail.

Sallah borrows his brother-in-law's car, which is destroyed in the ensuing battle between the Nazis and the Grail's guardians.

Sallah appeared in Marvel Comics's The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones, where he helps Indiana recover the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol in Marrakech.

Sallah reappeared in the ninth and twelfth Bantam Books novels set before the films: in 1933 Sallah helped Indiana find the philosopher's stone, and the following year he provides sanctuary for Jones on his way to the Great Sphinx of Giza.

Sallah offered the role to Danny DeVito, who passed because of his commitment to Taxi.

When Davies reprised his role for Last Crusade, he imagined Sallah had become richer since Raiders, leaving excavation in favor of selling antiques.

Sallah wanted to convey that Sallah "has gotten older and a little fatter.

One is an extension of the scene where Sallah loses the rope into the map room, after two Nazi soldiers demand help from him in freeing their truck from the sand.

Sallah was included in a TSR, Inc collection of metal miniatures the following year.