For his part, the act made Belloq a contact with dealers on the black market.
This, coupled with Jones supposedly "stealing" credit for the Pu-Abi Harp's discovery, led a disgraced Uribe to blame Jones for his ruin and passed his hatred for the American on to his children Felipe and Francisca del Arco. In August 1922, the two met at an archaeological dig at Ur in Iraq on which Belloq absconded with several artifacts and sold them off, damaging the reputation of Doctor Andrés Silvio Uribe in the process. A student of history at France's most famous academies, Belloq grew up admiring France's most acclaimed archaeologists–such as Dominique Vivant, Jean-François Champollion and Auguste Mariette–and made it his mission to become one himself by enrolling at the Sorbonne where a fellow American student named Indiana Jones was studying linguistics while Belloq studied art and archaeology. He had a twin brother, and another sibling named Claude. René Emile Belloq was born around the 1890s in Marseilles, France to a wealthy wine-making family of noble French ancestry at Forteresse Malevil, and claimed to share blood ties with the Knights Templar and Jean Lafitte.
In 1936, after claiming a golden Chachapoyan fertility idol from Jones in Peru, Belloq was hired by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to assist in the Reich's search for the Ark of the Covenant, an expedition that would ultimately be his undoing. The involvement of his rival, however, managed to frustrate Belloq's plans on a number of occasions. Over the following years, Belloq embarked on several adventures in the pursuit of artifacts, often pre-empting or in the wake of Indiana Jones. A career at the Louvre was cut short when Belloq was suspected of funding a grave robbing expedition and afterwards became a mercenary archaeologist with increasingly unethical methods in carrying out his work. René Emile Belloq was a French archaeologist and rival of his American counterpart Indiana Jones.īorn in Marseilles as part of the prestigious Belloq family, Belloq studied archaeology at the Sorbonne where he met and befriended Jones but eventually plagiarized his work with which he went on to win the Archaeological Society Prize. What makes Gregg’s appearance even more fitting, however, is that the director of this particular segment is Joe Johnston, the man who later went on to direct Captain America: The First Avenger." So once again, Jones, what was briefly yours is now mine." ―René Emile Belloq While he does not play a major role in the episode, anyone watching it will immediately recognize him the minute he steps onto the screen. In The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Spring Break Adventure, Gregg played Dickinson, an electrical engineer working for Edison Laboratory. RELATED: Why Wasn’t Phil Coulson in Avengers: Endgame? So it probably shouldn’t be surprising to learn that he, too, has shown up in the Indiana Jones franchise. Artificial Intelligence and One Hour Photo to starring alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the television show The New Adventures of Old Christine, he has had a longer career than most would realize. From playing minor roles in films like A.I.
However, he had already been acting for two decades before taking on that role. Nowadays, Clark Gregg is known by fans for his role as Agent Phil Coulson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Agents of SHIELD.
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