Richard Kiel
Richard Kiel is an
American actor best known for his role as Jaws in the
James Bond movies
The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth novel in Ian Fleming [i]'s James Bond [i] series. ...
and
Moonraker is the third James Bond [i] novel [i] in Ian Fleming [i]'s James Bond [i] series. ...
.
He made his acting debut in an unaired TV-pilot featuring
Lee Falk's superhero
The Phantom is an American [i] comic strip [i] created by Lee Falk [i], recounting the ...
, where Kiel played an assassin called "Big Mike", doing his best to kill the Phantom.
Kiel broke into films in the early
1960s with the
B-movie Eegah . He also portrayed an
alien on a famous episode of
The Twilight Zone was a television [i] anthology series [i] created by its narrator and host Rod Serling [i] ...
titled "To Serve Man" , a
Frankenstein-style monster on an episode of
The Monkees , Dr.
Encyclopedia
Richard Kiel is an
American actor best known for his role as Jaws in the
James Bond movies
The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth novel in Ian Fleming [i]'s James Bond [i] series....
and
Moonraker is the third James Bond [i] novel [i] in Ian Fleming [i]'s James Bond [i] series. ...
.
He made his acting debut in an unaired TV-pilot featuring
Lee Falk's superhero
The Phantom is an American [i] comic strip [i] created by Lee Falk [i], recounting the ...
, where Kiel played an assassin called "Big Mike", doing his best to kill the Phantom.
Kiel broke into films in the early
1960s with the
B-movie Eegah . He also portrayed an
alien on a famous episode of
The Twilight Zone was a television [i] anthology series [i] created by its narrator and host Rod Serling [i] ...
titled "To Serve Man" , a
Frankenstein-style monster on an episode of
The Monkees , Dr. Lovelace's henchman Voltaire in several episodes of
The Wild Wild West was an American [i] television series that ran on CBS [i] for four ...
, a prison tough in Otto Preminger's
Skidoo and
The Longest Yard was a 1974 [i] movie [i] about inmates at a prison who play American football [i] ...
,
Reace, a tough-guy pastiche of his Jaws character in
Silver Streak , a humanoid robot in the
Italian movie
The Humanoid , a "race car driver" in
Cannonball Run II , a "tough guy" in
Pale Rider is a 1985 [i] Western [i] film [i], directed by and starring Clint Eastwood [i]. ...
, and an unlikely fan in the comedy
Happy Gilmore is a 1996 [i] sports [i] comedy film [i] starring Adam Sandler [i], Carl Weathers [i], ...
.
Kiel's distinctive height and features are a result of a hormonal condition known as acromegaly. Kiel stands at 7 ft and 1 ¾ inches . He notes in his 2002 autobiography,
Making It Big in the Movies , that he used to state that he was 7 ft and 2 inches because it was easier to remember.
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