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Richard Dawson Kiel (born September 13, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond
James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
 movies The Spy Who Loved Me
The Spy Who Loved Me (film)

The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
 (1977) and Moonraker
Moonraker (film)

Moonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
 (1979) as well as the video game Everything or Nothing
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing

James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is a third-person shooter video game, where the player controls Ian Fleming's master spy, James Bond....
, and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore
Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States List of sports films comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the title character....
. He is 7 feet 1.5 inches (2.18 m) tall.

made his acting debut in a 1960 Laramie
Laramie (TV series)

Laramie is an United States Western television series aired on NBC from 1959 in television to 1963 in television. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman....
 episode called "Street of Hate."

He also acted in an unaired TV-pilot featuring Lee Falk
Lee Falk

Leon Harrison Gross, more known by the alias of Lee Falk , was an United States writer, director and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strip superheroes The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, who at the height of their popularity secured him over a hundred million readers every day....
's superhero The Phantom
The Phantom

The Phantom is an American Adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many forms of media, including television and film, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the African jungle....
, where Kiel played an assassin called "Big Mike", who was hired to kill the title hero.

Kiel broke into films in the early 1960s with the B-movie
B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial film conceived neither as an art film nor as pornography. In its original usage, during the so-called Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
 Eegah
Eegah

Eegah! is a 1962 film starring Arch Hall Jr. as Tom Nelson, Arch Hall Sr. as Robert I. Miller, Richard Kiel as Eegah, and Marilyn Manning as Roxy Miller....
 (1962
1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some significant events....
).






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Richard Dawson Kiel (born September 13, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond
James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
 movies The Spy Who Loved Me
The Spy Who Loved Me (film)

The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
 (1977) and Moonraker
Moonraker (film)

Moonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
 (1979) as well as the video game Everything or Nothing
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing

James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is a third-person shooter video game, where the player controls Ian Fleming's master spy, James Bond....
, and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore
Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States List of sports films comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the title character....
. He is 7 feet 1.5 inches (2.18 m) tall.

Acting career

Kiel made his acting debut in a 1960 Laramie
Laramie (TV series)

Laramie is an United States Western television series aired on NBC from 1959 in television to 1963 in television. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman....
 episode called "Street of Hate."

He also acted in an unaired TV-pilot featuring Lee Falk
Lee Falk

Leon Harrison Gross, more known by the alias of Lee Falk , was an United States writer, director and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strip superheroes The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, who at the height of their popularity secured him over a hundred million readers every day....
's superhero The Phantom
The Phantom

The Phantom is an American Adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many forms of media, including television and film, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the African jungle....
, where Kiel played an assassin called "Big Mike", who was hired to kill the title hero.

Kiel broke into films in the early 1960s with the B-movie
B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial film conceived neither as an art film nor as pornography. In its original usage, during the so-called Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
 Eegah
Eegah

Eegah! is a 1962 film starring Arch Hall Jr. as Tom Nelson, Arch Hall Sr. as Robert I. Miller, Richard Kiel as Eegah, and Marilyn Manning as Roxy Miller....
 (1962
1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some significant events....
). Eegah was later featured on the TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an United States cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains that ran from 1988 in television to 1999 in television....
. He also portrayed:
  • a representative of a race of aliens
    Extraterrestrial life

    Extraterrestrial life is defined as life which does not originate from Earth. It is the subject of astrobiology and its existence remains hypothetical, because there is no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life which has been generally accepted by the mainstream scientific community....
     known as the Kanamits in a famous episode of The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

    The Twilight Zone is a science fiction anthology series United States television series created by Rod Serling. The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains television syndication to this day....
     titled "To Serve Man
    To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone)

    ?To Serve Man? is an List of The Twilight Zone episodes of the television series The Twilight Zone .The story is based on a short story To Serve Man written by Damon Knight....
    " (1962)
  • an uncredited bodybuilder in Jerry Lewis
    Jerry Lewis

    Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
    's The Nutty Professor
    The Nutty Professor

    The Nutty Professor is a Paramount Pictures feature film produced, directed, co-written and starring Jerry Lewis. The original music score was composed by Walter Scharf....
     (1963
    1963 in film

    The year 1963 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Kiel swings a wrench at Napoleon Solo
    Napoleon Solo

    Napoleon Solo is a fictional character from the 1960s TV spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The series was remarkable for pairing the American Solo and the Russian Illya Kuryakin as two spies who work together for an international espionage organisation at the height of The Cold War....
     just over 31 minutes into the The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television program that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968....
     pilot show (The Vulcan Affair). 22 Sept 1964. Blink and you may miss him. In episode 24, "The Hong Kong Shilling Affair" (15 March 1965), he had a substantial part as bodyguard "Merry", somewhat like his "Jaws" role in James Bond films.
  • a humanoid robot in the B-movie The Human Duplicators
    The Human Duplicators

    The Human Duplicators is a low budget film released in 1965 in film by independent company Woolner Brothers Pictures Inc.The plot involves a giant alien named Dr....
     (1965
    1965 in film

    The year 1965 in film involved some significant events....
    ), which was also later featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • The third episode of Wild, Wild West (Oct 1965), Kiel played the mute Voltaire, assistant to a murderous dwarf -Dr. Loveless
    Dr. Loveless

    Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless is a fictional character, a villain on the 1960s television series The Wild Wild West. He is a brilliant dwarfism portrayed by the late Michael Dunn....
    's henchman Voltaire in several episodes of The Wild Wild West
    The Wild Wild West

    The Wild Wild West is an United States television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." It was one of the first television...
     (1965–1966).
  • a Frankenstein
    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18 and finished when she was 19....
    -style monster (who sings and plays guitar
    Guitar

    The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
    ) on an episode of The Monkees
    The Monkees

    The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
     (1966)
  • the Gilligan's Island
    Gilligan's Island

    Gilligan's Island is an United States Television program Situation comedy originally produced by United Artists Television. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964 to September 4, 1967....
     episode "Ghost a-Go-Go", as a man masquerading as a ghost
    Ghost

    File:Henry Fuseli- Hamlet and his father's Ghost.JPGA ghost is popularly held to be the disembodied spirit or soul of a death person. Popularly described as insubstantial and partly transparent, ghosts are reported to haunt particular List of reportedly haunted locations that they were associated with in life or at time of death....
     to try and scare the castaways off of the island.
  • I Dream of Jeannie
    I Dream of Jeannie

    I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American situation comedy with a fantasy premise. Produced by Screen Gems, it originally aired from September 1965 to May 1970 with new episodes, and September 1970 with season repeats, on NBC....
     episode "My Hero?", as a guard trying to execute Maj. Nelson.
  • a prison tough in Otto Preminger
    Otto Preminger

    Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-born Jewish film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career....
    's Skidoo
    Skidoo (film)

    Skidoo is a 1968 in film comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures. It satirizes the modern world and its wiktionary:creature comforts, technology, anti-technology, hippies and free love, and features the use of LSD....
     (1968
    1968 in film

    The year 1968 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • a paranoid, small-town, anti-government bully in the I Spy
    I spy

    I spy is a guessing game usually played in families with young children, partly to assist in both observation and in alphabet familiarity. I spy is often played as a car game....
     episode A Few Miles from Nowhere (1968)
  • a spirit of an Amerindian medicine man
    Medicine man

    "Medicine man" or "Medicine woman" are English language terms used to describe Indigenous peoples of the Americas healers and spiritual figures....
    , called a "Diablero", in one of the Kolchak: The Night Stalker
    Kolchak: The Night Stalker

    Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company in 1974. It featured a newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities won't accept or pursue....
     episodes (1974)
  • a slime covered boogie man creature, called "Peremalfait", in another of the Kolchak: The Night Stalker
    Kolchak: The Night Stalker

    Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company in 1974. It featured a newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities won't accept or pursue....
     episodes (1974)
  • Samson, a member of the prisoner football team in The Longest Yard (1974
    1974 in film

    The year 1974 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Malak, the Cro-Magnon
    Cro-Magnon

    Cro-Magnon is one of the main types of archaic Homo sapiens of the Paleolithic Europe Upper Paleolithic, living approximately 40,000 to 10,000 years ago....
     "God" in the third season of Land of the Lost
    Land of the Lost (1974 TV series)

    Land of the Lost is a children's television series created and produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. During its original run, it was broadcast on the NBC....
     (1976)
  • Reace, a tough guy with sharp gold teeth in Silver Streak
    Silver Streak (1976 film)

    Silver Streak is a 1976 in film comedy film, action film and mystery film about murder on a Los Angeles, California-to-Chicago, Illinois train journey....
     (1976
    1976 in film

    The year 1976 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond
    James Bond

    James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
     movies The Spy Who Loved Me
    The Spy Who Loved Me (film)

    The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
     (1977
    1977 in film

    The year 1977 in film involved some significant events....
    ) and Moonraker
    Moonraker (film)

    Moonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
     (1979
    1979 in film

    The year 1979 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Capt. Drazak in Force 10 from Navarone (1978
    1978 in film

    The year 1978 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • a humanoid robot in the Italian
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
     movie The Humanoid (1979
    1979 in film

    The year 1979 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • a "race car driver" in Cannonball Run II
    Cannonball Run II

    See also Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy DashCannonball Run II is a 1984 comedy film released by Twentieth Century Fox....
     (1984
    1984 in film

    Events* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.*TriStar Entertainment, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
    )
  • "Club," a tough gold miner in Pale Rider
    Pale Rider

    Pale Rider is a 1985 in film Western film produced and directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. This movie has plot similarities to the classic Western Shane , including a final scene that is very similar to the famous final scene of the earlier movie....
     (1985
    1985 in film

    Events* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton....
    )
  • Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore
    Happy Gilmore

    Happy Gilmore is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States List of sports films comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the title character....
     (1996
    1996 in film

    The year '1996 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo , Trainspotting , The English Patient , Independence Day , Twister , Scream, Jerry Maguire and Madonna 's Evita ....
    )
  • himself in the Swedish TV-show Welcome to Sweden
    Welcome to Sweden

    Welcome to Sweden is a Sweden reality show starring American actors Richard Kiel and Verne Troyer . The show aired on Kanal 5 in early 2007....
     together with Verne Troyer
    Verne Troyer

    Verne J. Troyer is an United States actor and stunt performer. Verne is notable for his height of , the result of dwarfism making him one of the shortest men in the world....
     (2007)


Kiel also co-wrote, produced, and starred in the family friendly movie The Giant of Thunder Mountain
The Giant of Thunder Mountain

The Giant of Thunder Mountain is a 1991 in film film starring Richard Kiel. Kiel helped write the film, which was directed by James W. Roberson, and was filmed in Yosemite National Park and North Fork, California....
.

He was the original choice to play the title character in the 1977 TV series The Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Hulk (1977 TV series)

The Incredible Hulk is an United States television series based on the Marvel Comics comic book Hulk . The pilot episodes were a pair of TV movies on the CBS network beginning on November 4, 1977 in television; the series soon followed, airing from March 10, 1978 in television to June 2, 1982 in television....
. He participated in the filming of two episodes, including the TV movie pilot
Television pilot

A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. It is an early step in the development of a television series, much like pilot lights or pilot serve as precursors to the start of larger activity, or pilot holes prepare the way for larger holes....
. During the shoot
Filmmaking

Filmmaking is the process of making a film, from an initial story idea or commission through scriptwriting, shooting, editing and finally distribution to an audience....
, producers decided their Hulk needed to be muscular rather than just towering, and Kiel was dismissed because he possessed more body fat than the producers deemed necessary. According to an , Kiel, who sees properly out of only one eye, also reacted badly to the contact lenses used for the role, and found the green makeup difficult to remove, so he did not mind losing the part. All recognizable footage of Kiel was cut; the scenes were then reshot with Lou Ferrigno
Lou Ferrigno

Louis "Lou" Jude Ferrigno is an American bodybuilding and actor. Ferrigno has appeared in such television program and feature film as Bill Bixby's bulky giant, The Hulk, in The Incredible Hulk , Pumping Iron, Sinbad of the Seven Seas, and Hercules in 1983....
.

He is well known in the UK for his appearance in a commercial for Shredded Wheat
Shredded Wheat

Shredded Wheat is a breakfast cereal made from whole grain wheat. It comes in two sizes, bite sized , and normal size, which are sometimes broken into small pieces before milk is added....
 (1980), which can be seen on YouTube
YouTube

YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....
.

He reprised his role of Jaws with voice and likeness in the 2004 game Everything or Nothing
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing

James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is a third-person shooter video game, where the player controls Ian Fleming's master spy, James Bond....
.

Other


Kiel's distinctive height and features are a result of a hormonal condition known as acromegaly
Acromegaly

Acromegaly is a syndrome that results when the pituitary gland produces excess human growth hormone after epiphyseal plate closure. A number of disorders may affect the pituitary to create this circumstance, although most commonly it involves a GH producing tumor derived from a distinct type of cells and called pituitary adenoma....
. Kiel stands 7 feet 1.5 inches (217 cm) tall. He notes in his 2002 autobiography
Autobiography

An autobiography is a biography written by its subject . The term was first used by the poet Robert Southey in 1809 in the English language Periodical publication Quarterly Review, but the form goes back to antiquity....
, Making It Big in the Movies (ISBN 1-903111-31-5), that he used to state that he was 7 feet and 2 inches (218.44 cm) because it was easier to remember.

In 1992, Kiel suffered a severe head injury in a car accident which has affected his balance. He was, from then on, forced to walk with a cane to support himself (as shown in his appearance in the movie Happy Gilmore
Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States List of sports films comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the title character....
, where he is seen leaning on a person or a cane). He's also been seen using a scooter
Mobility scooter

A mobility scooter is a mobility aid similar to a wheelchair but configured like a motorscooter. It is often referred to as a power-operated vehicle/scooter or electric scooter as well....
 or wheelchair
Wheelchair

A wheelchair is a wheeled mobility device in which the user sits. The device is propelled either manually or via various automated systems. Wheelchairs are used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness , injury, or disability....
, e.g. in Welcome to Sweden
Welcome to Sweden

Welcome to Sweden is a Sweden reality show starring American actors Richard Kiel and Verne Troyer . The show aired on Kanal 5 in early 2007....
. He is largely retired from the movie business.

He recently co-authored a biography on the abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay called Kentucky Lion.

In 2008, Richard Kiel was invited by the Swiss watchmaker Swatch
Swatch

File:Swatch Bijoux Jewelry.JPGSwatch is a brand name for a line of wrist watches from the Swatch Group, a Swiss conglomerate with vertical control of the production of Swiss watches and related products....
 to Bregenz, Austria to present together with another James Bond Villain, Mads Mikkelsen, the Swatch 007 Villain Collection. One of the 22 models of the Collection is dedicated to "Jaws", the iron mouthed villain he played in "The Spy who Loved Me" and in "Moonraker".

Filmography


  • Laramie
    Laramie (TV series)

    Laramie is an United States Western television series aired on NBC from 1959 in television to 1963 in television. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman....
     (TV series) - unknown role (episode Street of Hate, 1960)
  • Klondike
    Klondike (TV series)

    Klondike is a 17-episode half-hour Western television series that aired on NBC. The series premiered on October 10, 1960 and ran until February 13, 1961....
     (TV series) - Duff Brannigan (episode Bare Knuckles, 1960)
  • The Phantom
    The Phantom

    The Phantom is an American Adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many forms of media, including television and film, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the African jungle....
     (TV movie, 1961) - Big Mike
  • Thriller (TV series) - Master Styx (episode Well of Doom, 1961)
  • The Rifleman
    The Rifleman

    The Rifleman is an United States Western television program that ran from on American Broadcasting Company, from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963, a production of Four Star Television....
     (TV series) - Carl Hazlitt (episode The Decision, 1961)
  • The Phantom Planet
    The Phantom Planet

    The Phantom Planet is a science fiction film....
     (1961) - The Solarite
  • The Magic Sword
    The Magic Sword (film)

    The Magic Sword is a 1962 in film live action fantasy film, mainly aimed at children, based loosely on the medieval legend of St. George and the Dragon....
     (1962) - Pinhead (uncredited)
  • The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone is an United States television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror fiction, often concluding with a macabre or Twist ending....
     (TV series) - Kanamit (episode To Serve Man
    To Serve Man

    "To Serve Man" is a science fiction short story written by Damon Knight, later adapted for use as To Serve Man of the 1960s television series The Twilight Zone ....
    , 1962)
  • Eegah
    Eegah

    Eegah! is a 1962 film starring Arch Hall Jr. as Tom Nelson, Arch Hall Sr. as Robert I. Miller, Richard Kiel as Eegah, and Marilyn Manning as Roxy Miller....
     (1962) - Eegah
  • 30 Minutes at Gunsight (TV movie, 1963) - uncredited
  • House of the Damned (1963) - The giant
  • The Nutty Professor
    The Nutty Professor

    The Nutty Professor is a Paramount Pictures feature film produced, directed, co-written and starring Jerry Lewis. The original music score was composed by Walter Scharf....
     (1963) - Bodybuilder #1 (uncredited)
  • Roustabout (1964) - Strong man (uncredited)
  • The Nasty Rabbit (1964) - ranch foreman (uncredited)
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television program that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968....
     (TV series) - unknown role (episode The Vulcan Affair, 1964, uncredited)
  • Two on a Guillotine
    Two on a Guillotine

    Two on a Guillotine is a 1965 in film United States Horror film produced and directed by William Conrad. The screenplay by John Kneubuhl and Henry Slesar is based on a story by Slesar....
     (1965) - Tall man at funeral
  • The Human Duplicators
    The Human Duplicators

    The Human Duplicators is a low budget film released in 1965 in film by independent company Woolner Brothers Pictures Inc.The plot involves a giant alien named Dr....
     (1965) - Dr. Kolos
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television program that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968....
     (TV series) - Merry (episode The Hong Kong Shilling Affair, 1965)
  • Brainstorm
    Brainstorm

    A Brainstorm is a sudden realization, thought or idea. Brainstorming is a group creativity exercise. The word may have originated in the trial of Harry K....
     (1965) - Psychiatric hospital patient (uncredited)
  • I Dream of Jeannie
    I Dream of Jeannie

    I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American situation comedy with a fantasy premise. Produced by Screen Gems, it originally aired from September 1965 to May 1970 with new episodes, and September 1970 with season repeats, on NBC....
     (TV series) - Ali (episode My Hero, 1965)
  • Lassie's Great Adventure (1965) - Chinook Pete
  • Honey West
    Honey West

    Honey West is a fictional character created by Gloria and Forest Fickling under the pseudonym "G.G. Fickling", and appearing in numerous Mystery fiction novels by the duo....
     (TV series) - Groalgo (episode King of the Mountain, 1966)
  • My Mother the Car
    My Mother the Car

    My Mother the Car was an United States television situation comedy which aired for a single season on NBC between September 14, 1965 and September 6, 1966....
     (TV series) - Cracks (episode A Riddler on the Roof, 1966)
  • The Wild Wild West
    The Wild Wild West

    The Wild Wild West is an United States television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." It was one of the first television...
     (TV series) - Voltaire (episodes The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth, 1965; The Night That Terror Stalked the Town, 1965; The Night of the Whirring Death, 1966)
  • Gilligan's Island
    Gilligan's Island

    Gilligan's Island is an United States Television program Situation comedy originally produced by United Artists Television. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964 to September 4, 1967....
     (TV series) - Spook (episode Ghost-a-Go-Go, 1966)
  • The Las Vegas Hillbillies (1966) - unknown role
  • A Man Called Dagger (1967) - Otto
  • The Monkees
    The Monkees (TV series)

    The Monkees is an United States situation comedy that followed the adventures of the then-fictional pop-rock quartet The Monkees. The stars were hired to play fictionalized versions of themselves and put a face on the records released to tie-in with the show....
     (TV series) - Monster (episode I Was a Teenage Monster, 1967)
  • The Monroes
    The Monroes (1966 TV series)

    The Monroes is a 26-segment Western television series which ran on American Broadcasting Company during the 1966-1967 season ? the story of five orphans trying to survive as a family on the frontier in the area about what is now Grand Teton National Park near Jackson, Wyoming in northwestern Wyoming....
     (TV series) - Casmir (episode Ghosts of Paradox, 1967)
  • I Spy
    I spy

    I spy is a guessing game usually played in families with young children, partly to assist in both observation and in alphabet familiarity. I spy is often played as a car game....
     (TV series) - Tiny (episode A Few Miles West of Nowhere, 1968)
  • The Wild Wild West
    The Wild Wild West

    The Wild Wild West is an United States television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." It was one of the first television...
     (TV series) - Dimas (episode The Night of the Simian Terror, 1968)
  • Now You See It, Now You Don't (TV movie, 1968) - Nori
  • Skidoo
    Skidoo (film)

    Skidoo is a 1968 in film comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures. It satirizes the modern world and its wiktionary:creature comforts, technology, anti-technology, hippies and free love, and features the use of LSD....
     (1968) - Beany
  • It Takes a Thief (TV series) - Willie Trion (episode The Galloping Skin Game, 1968)
  • Daniel Boone
    Daniel Boone (TV series)

    Daniel Boone is an United States Action /Adventure television series that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television....
     (TV series) - Le Mouche (episode Benvenuto...Who?, 1969)
  • On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
    On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

    On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a musical theatre with music by Burton Lane and a Libretto and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner based loosely on Berkeley Square, written in 1929 by John L....
     (1970) - Blacksmith (uncredited)
  • Disneyland (TV series) - Luke Brown (episode The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 1 & 2, 1970)
  • Deadhead Miles (1972) - unknown role
  • The Longest Yard (1974) - Samson
  • Kolchak: The Night Stalker
    Kolchak: The Night Stalker

    Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company in 1974. It featured a newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities won't accept or pursue....
     (TV series) - The Diablero (episode Bad Medicine, 1974)
  • Emergency!
    Emergency!

    Emergency! is a television series, combining the medical drama and action-adventure genres, that was produced by Mark VII Limited and distributed by Universal Studios....
     (TV series) - Carlo (episode I'll Fix It, 1974)
  • Kolchak: The Night Stalker
    Kolchak: The Night Stalker

    Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company in 1974. It featured a newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities won't accept or pursue....
     (TV series) - Peremalfait, the swamp monster (episode The Spanish Moss Murders, 1974)
  • Barbary Coast (TV movie, 1975) - Moose Moran
  • Switch
    Switch (TV series)

    Switch is an United States action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek Detective fiction starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who worked as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation....
     (TV series) - unknown role (episode Death Heist, 1975)
  • Starsky and Hutch
    Starsky and Hutch

    Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s United States television series that consisted of a 90-minute television pilot movie and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30 1975 and May 15 1979 on the American Broadcasting Company network; distributed by Sony P...
     (TV series) - Iggy (episode Omaha Tiger, 1976)
  • Barbary Coast (TV series) - Moose Moran (unknown episode, 1975-1976)
  • Flash and the Firecat (1976) - Tracker
  • Gus
    Gus (film)

    Gus is a 1976 movie by Walt Disney Productions. Its center character is Gus, a football-playing mule....
     (1976) - Large man
  • Silver Streak (1976) - Reace
  • Land of the Lost
    Land of the Lost (1974 TV series)

    Land of the Lost is a children's television series created and produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. During its original run, it was broadcast on the NBC....
     (TV series) - Malak (unknown episode, 1974-1977)
  • The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
    The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

    The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on American Broadcasting Company. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy , respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew....
     (TV series) - Manager - 'Haunted House' (episode The Mystery of the Haunted House, 1977)
  • The Spy Who Loved Me
    The Spy Who Loved Me (film)

    The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
     (1977) - Jaws
  • Young Dan'l Boone
    Young Dan'l Boone

    Young Dan'l Boone was a short-lived TV series broadcast on CBS for only 4 episodes from September 12 to October 10, 1977. The series followed Daniel Boone on his adventures before he was married....
     (TV series) - unknown role (episode The Game, 1977)
  • The Incredible Hulk (TV series)The Incredible Hulk (TV movie, 1977) - The Hulk (one scene)
  • Force 10 from Navarone (1978) - Capt. Drazak
  • They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978) - Duke
  • l'Umanoide (1979) - Golob
  • Moonraker
    Moonraker (film)

    Moonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
     (1979) - Jaws
  • So Fine (1981) - Eddie
  • The Fall Guy
    The Fall Guy

    The Fall Guy was an United States television program produced for American Broadcasting Company and originally broadcast from 1981 in television to 1986 in television....
     (TV series) - Animal (episode That's Right, We're Bad, 1981)
  • Hysterical (1983) - Captain Howdy
  • Simon & Simon
    Simon & Simon

    Simon & Simon is a 1980s detective television series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker....
     (TV series) - Mark Horton (episode The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet, 1983)
  • Phoenix
    Phoenix (film)

    Phoenix is an American crime film directed by Briton Danny Cannon in 1998 in film.Karl Williams, writing for Allmovie, describes ?Phoenix? as a ?noir crime drama set in Arizona and updated for post-modern sensibilities is similar in tone to other hip B-movie homages such as Bad Lieutenant , Pulp Fiction and the previous year's award w...
     (1983) - Steel Hand
  • Cannonball Run II
    Cannonball Run II

    See also Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy DashCannonball Run II is a 1984 comedy film released by Twentieth Century Fox....
     (1984) - Arnold, Mitsubishi driver
  • Zuijia paidang zhi nuhuang miling (1984) - Big G
  • Qing bao long hu men (1985) - Laszlo
  • Pale Rider
    Pale Rider

    Pale Rider is a 1985 in film Western film produced and directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. This movie has plot similarities to the classic Western Shane , including a final scene that is very similar to the famous final scene of the earlier movie....
     (1985) - Club
  • Out of This World
    Out of This World (TV series)

    Out Of This World is a children's television comedy series about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers....
     (TV series) - Norman (episode Go West, Young Mayor, 1988)
  • The Princess and the Dwarf (1989) - unknown role
  • Superboy
    Superboy

    Superboy is the name of several fictional characters that have been published by DC Comics, most of them youthful incarnations of Superman. These characters have also been the main characters of four ongoing Superboy comic book series published by DC....
     (TV series) - Vlkabok (episode Mr. and Mrs. Superboy, 1989)
  • Think Big (1990) - Irving
  • The Giant of Thunder Mountain
    The Giant of Thunder Mountain

    The Giant of Thunder Mountain is a 1991 in film film starring Richard Kiel. Kiel helped write the film, which was directed by James W. Roberson, and was filmed in Yosemite National Park and North Fork, California....
     (1991) - Eli Weaver
  • Happy Gilmore
    Happy Gilmore

    Happy Gilmore is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States List of sports films comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the title character....
     (1996) - Mr. Larson
  • Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget (film)

    Inspector Gadget is a 1999 in video gaming live-action film based on the popular animated cartoon series Inspector Gadget. It starred Matthew Broderick as the title character, along with Rupert Everett as Dr....
     (1999) - Jaws, Famous Guy with Metal Teeth
  • BloodHounds, Inc. #5: Fangs for the Memories (Video, 2000) - Mortimer
  • James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
    James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing

    James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is a third-person shooter video game, where the player controls Ian Fleming's master spy, James Bond....
     (video game, 2004) - Jaws (voice)


See also


  • Rondo Hatton
    Rondo Hatton

    Rondo Hatton was an United States actor who had a brief, but prolific career playing thuggish bit parts in many Hollywood B-movies. He was known for his brutish facial features which were the result of acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland....
  • Ted Cassidy
    Ted Cassidy

    Theodore Crawford Cassidy , known as Ted Cassidy, was an United States actor and voice actor who performed in television and films. Extremely tall at 6 feet 9 inches, he tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction series such as Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie....
  • Lock Martin
    Lock Martin

    Lock Martin was the stage name of American actor Joseph Lockard Martin Jr. He is best remembered for playing the robot Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still ....
  • Carel Struycken
    Carel Struycken

    Carel Struycken is an actor in film, television, and stage. He is an exceptionally tall man at 7 feet and thus is often called upon to play character or comedy roles in which height plays a major part....
  • The Great Khali


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