Lord of the Rings question...

[Granite]

Was just watching Return of the King EE the other day and was wondering -

Was the orc general in the Battle of Pelenor fields the same actor who played the deformed guy in "The Goonies"?

[Lafce]

Was the orc general in the Battle of Pelenor fields the same actor who played the deformed guy in "The Goonies"?

No (but Mikey and Sam are played by one actor )...

* The guy from "The Goonies", who played "Sloth" Fratelli, died in 1989.
John Matuzsak (IMDb info)

"Ex-football player turned actor.
Auutobiography: "Cruisin' With The Tooz."
Former defensive end for the Los Angeles Raiders.
Competed in the 1978 World's Strongest Man Competition weighing 308 lbs.
Hard-driving athlete who lived life in the fast lane.
Attended the University of Tampa.
He died of heart failure allegedly due to his long term use of steroid drugs. He was buried in Milwaukee, Wisconsin."

* The actor who played the "Orc general" (name is Gothmog) in ROTK is Lawrence Makoare (IMDb info); he also played the Witch King and Lurtz (the Uruk-hai) in FOTR.

Lawrence Makoare


Lurtz

Some info: "The deformed Orc leader Gothmog (Lawrence Makoare) does not appear in the original novel of "The Lord of the Rings". However, the name Gothmog comes from the name of the leader of the Balrogs in Morgoth's army in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Silmarillion", about the history of Middle-Earth centuries before the events in "The Lord of the Rings"."