Tom Selleck

The Marion Ravenwood character in Raiders of the Lost Ark was named after screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan's wife's grandmother, Marion, as well as a Los Angeles street, Ravenwood Court. SS leader Heinrich Himmler actually created an organization called the Ahnenerbe in 1935, with the mission to scour the world for archeological evidence of the superiority of the Aryan race. He was intent on finding the Holy Grail, too.  In Raiders, viewers who watch carefully during the Well of Souls scene can see hieroglyphs of Star Wars robots R2-D2 and C-3P0. And in The Temple of Doom, the Shanghai night club in the opening sequence is called Club Obi-Wan, from the Star Wars character. The submarine used in the first film was constructed for the German war film Das Boot. The original title of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was to be Temple of Death.  Temple of Doom takes place in India but lack of co-operation from the Indian government moved the production to Sri Lanka. To get the required sound of slimy snakes, an audio technician ran his fingers through his wife's cheese casserole. Sean Connery played Indy's father in The Last Crusade but is actually only 12 years older than Harrison Ford. The temple sequence in Last Crusade was actually shot at Petra, the Nabatean ruins in Jordan known as "the rose-red city half as old as time." Although the actors are seen entering the ruins, in fact there is no interior, it is just a relief on the side of a rock cliff. For his screen test as Indy, Tom Selleck read with actress Sean Young. Tim Matheson, meanwhile, read with Karen Allen, who eventually played Marion in Raiders. Raiders was filmed in Tunisia, at the same locations used for Star Wars. Actor John Rhys-Davies, who played Sallah, admitted his strongest memory of the filming was the agonizing dysentery that struck the cast and crew.  Steven Spielberg admits that Temple of Doom was his least favorite of the Indy trilogy. But in the end he got the girl, marrying female lead Kate Capshaw.