Richard Kiel
Born: 1939-09-13 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: 2014-09-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 - September 10, 2014) was a huge, and intimidating, European-American character actor, voice artist, and producer. Best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), and as Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore. Other notable films include The Longest Yard (1974), Silver Streak (1976), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Cannonball Run II (1984), Pale Rider (1985) and Tangled (2010). Standing 7 feet 3 inches (221cm) tall and wore size 20 EEEEE shoes. He frequently played intimidating strongmen or gentle giants. Kiel was married to Diane Rogers from 1974 until his death in 2014; they had four children and nine grandchildren.
Filmography
2019
- The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration as Kanamit (archive footage)
2012
- Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars as Self
2010
- Tangled as Vlad (voice)
2007
2002
- Best Ever Bond as Self / Jaws
2000
- Inside 'Moonraker' as Self
- Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' as Self
1999
- Inspector Gadget as Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth
1997
- The Secrets of 007 as Self
1996
- Happy Gilmore as Mr. Larson
- E! True Hollywood Story
1995
- The World of James Bond as Self
1990
- The Giant of Thunder Mountain as Eli Weaver
1989
- Think Big as Irving
1988
1985
- Pale Rider as Club
- Mob Busters
1984
- Cannonball Run II as Arnold
- Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street as Big G
1982
- Late Night with David Letterman as Self
- Hysterical as Captain James Howdy
1981
- Simon & Simon
- The Fall Guy
- So Fine as Eddie
1979
- Moonraker as Jaws
- The Humanoid as Golob
1978
- Force 10 from Navarone as Drazak
- The Phoenix as Grasshopper
- They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way as Duke
1976
- Silver Streak as Reace
- Gus as Tall Man
1975
- Starsky & Hutch as Iggy
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Switch as Loach
- Barbary Coast as Moose Moran
- Van Dyke and Company as Self
- Flash and the Firecat as Milo Pewett
1974
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker as The Monster
- The Longest Yard as Samson
- Am laufenden Band as Self - Guest
1972
- Emergency!
- Deadhead Miles as Big Dick
1970
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever as Blacksmith (uncredited)
- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant as Luke Brown
1968
- It Takes a Thief as Willy
- Skidoo as Beany
- A Man Called Dagger as Otto
- Now You See It, Now You Don't as Nori
1966
- The Monkees as Monster
- The Monroes
- Las Vegas Hillbillys
1965
- The Wild Wild West
- I Dream of Jeannie as Ali
- I Spy as Tiny
- Honey West as Groalgo
- My Mother the Car
- To Trap a Spy as Thug in Vulcan's Factory (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Brainstorm as Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
- The Human Duplicators as Dr. Kolos
- Two on a Guillotine as Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)
1964
- Daniel Boone as Lemouche
- Gilligan's Island
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Guard (uncredited)
- Roustabout as Strongman (uncredited)
- The Nasty Rabbit as Ranch Foreman
1963
- The Nutty Professor as Man in Gym (uncredited)
- Lassie's Great Adventure as Chinook Pete
- House of the Damned as The Giant
- Lassie's Greatest Adventure
1962
- Eegah as Eegah
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- The Phantom Planet as The Solarite
- The Phantom as Big Mike
1960
- Thriller as Master Styx
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Kanamit