David Buck (October 17, 1936—January 27, 1989) was an English actor. He died of cancer in 1989. His most famous role was in the 1978 animated The Lord of the Rings movie. He was the voice of Gimli. J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings is the title of an animated film produced and directed by Ralph Bakshi, and released to theaters in 1978. ... In J. R. R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings, Gimli is a Dwarf of Durins Folk who is chosen to accompany Frodo Baggins as a member of the Fellowship of the Ring on the quest to destroy the One Ring. ...
DavidBuck has successfully balanced a career of conducting both symphony and opera in academic and in professional environments.
Buck returned to Germany in the summer of 1996 as a special guest of Wolfgang Wagner to study Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger once again with Maestro Barenboim at the Bayreuth Festival.
Buck studied in 1968, and 1970 with Maestro Richard Lert in the American Symphony Orchestra League Conducting Institutes at Asilomar, California, and Orkney Springs, Virginia.
DavidBuck (1936-1989) was a British actor and playwright who voiced SkekNa the slave master in The Dark Crystal.
Trained with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Buck performed in the classics on-stage, but soon became a familiar presence on film and television, with his rakishly handsome looks typing him as adventurers in horror and gothic films.
Buck's movie stardom was confined to a brief spate of leading and secondary lead roles in the 1960s films The Mummy's Shroud, Deadfall (with Michael Caine)), and A Taste of Excitement.