Rene Belloq is a fictional archeologist from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark. He is played by Paul Freeman.
Rene Emile Belloq met Indiana Jones during their studies at the Sorbonne during the 1920s, while Belloq was completing his Masters in Archeology. Belloq managed to win the Archaeological Society Prize with a paper on stratigraphy, which plagiarized Jones's work.
Following completion of his Masters, Belloq began working for the Lou...
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Rene Belloq is a fictional archeologist from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark. He is played by Paul Freeman.
Rene Emile Belloq met Indiana Jones during their studies at the Sorbonne during the 1920s, while Belloq was completing his Masters in Archeology. Belloq managed to win the Archaeological Society Prize with a paper on stratigraphy, which plagiarized Jones's work.
Following completion of his Masters, Belloq began working for the Louvre. He became involved in an unsavory incident involving the acquisition of several medieval Persian artifacts from a site in Iran. The incident involved several deaths, including those of Belloq's assistants and the murder of another archeologist from the British Museum. An inquest never materialized, and no charges were brought; however Belloq was immediately fired from the Louvre, and became a mercenary, working exclusively for private collectors.
At some point he meets a Wehrmacht officer named Dietrich, who would come to hire him again...
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