Richard Dawson Kiel (born September 13, 1939) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the
James BondJames Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. The character has also been used in the longest running and most financially successful English language film franchise to date, starting in 1962 with Dr...
movies
The Spy Who Loved MeThe Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum...
(1977) and
MoonrakerMoonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film, directed by Lewis Gilbert, co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Clery, and Richard Kiel...
(1979) as well as the video game
Everything or NothingJames Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is a third-person shooter video game, where the player controls Ian Fleming's master spy, James Bond. Bond is modeled after and voiced by the former James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan...
, and Mr. Larson in
Happy GilmoreHappy Gilmore is a 1996 American sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the title character. This film is number 97 on Bravo's 100 funniest movies.-Plot:...
. He is 7 feet 1.5 inches (2.17 m) tall.
Life and career
Kiel was born in
Detroit, MichiganDetroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwest region of the United States. Located north of Windsor, Ontario, Detroit is the only major U.S. city that looks south to Canada. It was founded...
. He made his acting debut in a 1960
LaramieLaramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. 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.-Synopsis:The story...
episode called "Street of Hate." He also acted in an unaired TV-pilot featuring
Lee FalkLeon Harrison Gross, more known by the alias of Lee Falk , was an American 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...
's superhero
The PhantomThe 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. He also has a Son named Bennett Kiel and a grandson that goes by Bennett Kiel as well
Kiel broke into films in the early 1960s with the
B-movieA B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture conceived neither as an arthouse film nor as pornography. In its original usage, during the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double...
EegahEegah! is a 1962 horror film starring Arch Hall, Jr., Arch Hall, Sr., Marilyn Manning and Richard Kiel in the titular role. The movie was directed by Arch Hall, Sr...
(
1962The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the second longest-running motion picture franchise of all time , running more than 40 years.-Top grossing films :...
).
Eegah was later featured on the TV show
Mystery Science Theater 3000Mystery Science Theater 3000, often abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc...
. He also portrayed:
- a representative of a race of aliens
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life which does not originate from planet Earth. The existence of life outside the planet is theoretical and all assertions of such life remain disputed....
known as the Kanamits in a famous episode of The Twilight ZoneThe Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains syndicated to this day. The show consisted of unrelated vignettes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events, usually...
titled "To Serve Man"To Serve Man" is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.The story is based on a short story To Serve Man written by Damon Knight. The title is a play on the word serve having the dual meanings "assist" and "provide as a meal"...
" (1962)
- an uncredited bodybuilder in Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director, singer and humanitarian. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, screen, television, radio, recording and is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the...
' The Nutty ProfessorThe Nutty Professor is a Paramount Pictures feature film produced, directed, co-written and starring Jerry Lewis...
(1963The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City....
)
- Kiel swings a wrench at 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. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international law-enforcement agency called...
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 is a low budget film released in 1965 by independent company Woolner Brothers Pictures Inc.The plot involves a giant alien named Dr. Kolos who is dispatched to Earth from a faraway galaxy on orders to create android dopplegangers by employing the scientific services of...
(1965The year 1965 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1965.shtml- Awards :Academy Awards:*Boeing Boeing*Brainstorm...
), 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. Miguelito Quixote Loveless is a fictional character, a villain on the 1960s television series The Wild Wild West. He is a brilliant dwarf portrayed by Michael Dunn. As a mad scientist, and the arch-enemy of Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon, Dr. Loveless was involved in...
's henchman Voltaire in several episodes of The Wild Wild WestThe Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....
(1965–1966).
- a Frankenstein
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known simply as Frankenstein, is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Shelley started writing when she was 18 and the novel was published when she was 21. The first edition was published anonymously in London in . Shelley's name appears on the second...
-style monster (who sings and plays guitarThe guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
) on an episode of The MonkeesThe Monkees were a pop rock quartet assembled by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider in Los Angeles in 1966 for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to 1968...
(1966)
- The Gilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island is an American TV sitcom originally produced by United Artists Television. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964 to September 4, 1967. It was originally sponsored by Philip Morris & Company and Procter & Gamble...
episode "Ghost a-Go-Go", as a man masquerading as a ghostA ghost has been defined as the disembodied spirit or soul of a deceased person, although in popular usage the term refers only to the apparition of such a person...
to try and scare the castaways off of the island.
- I Dream of Jeannie
I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American sitcom with a fantasy premise. The show starred Barbara Eden as a 2000-year-old female genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries...
episode "My HeroMy Hero is a British BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson and directed by John Stroud. It sees the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon and later James Dreyfus, trying to cope with life on earth in the form of health store owner George Sunday, married to Janet Dawkins...
?", as a guard trying to execute Maj. Nelson.
- a prison tough in Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-born American film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel...
's SkidooSkidoo is a 1968 comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures. It satirizes the modern world and its creature comforts, technology, anti-technology, hippies and free love, and features the use of LSD.The movie featured a cast of stars...
(1968The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.* November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.-Top grossing films :...
)
- a paranoid, small-town, anti-government bully in the I Spy
I Spy is an American television secret agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott...
episode A Few Miles from Nowhere (1968)
- a spirit of an Amerindian medicine man
"Medicine man" or "Medicine woman" are English terms used to describe Native American healers and spiritual figures. Anthropologists tend to prefer the term "shaman."- Role in native society :...
, called a "Diablero", in one of the Kolchak: The Night StalkerKolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC 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. Each week...
episodes (1974)
- a slime covered boogie man creature, called "Peremalfait", in another of the Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC 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. Each week...
episodes (1974)
- Samson, a member of the prisoner football team in The Longest Yard (1974
The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in USA*May 1 - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope....
)
- Malak, the Cro-Magnon
The term Cro-Magnon refers to one of the main types of early modern humans of the European Upper Paleolithic. Current dating of Cro-Magnon bones point to more recent date 17,000 years. The earliest known remains of Cro-Magnon like humans are dated to 30,000 radiocarbon years...
"God" in the third season of Land of the LostLand 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 television network. It has since become a cult classic and is now available on DVD. It was shot in Los Angeles, California...
(1976)
- Reace, a tough guy with sharp gold teeth in Silver Streak
Silver Streak is a 1976 comedy, action and mystery film about murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train journey. It stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan and Ned Beatty and is directed by Arthur Hiller. The film score is by Henry Mancini. This film marked the first...
(1976The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...
)
- the steel-toothed Jaws in the 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. The character has also been used in the longest running and most financially successful English language film franchise to date, starting in 1962 with Dr...
movies The Spy Who Loved MeThe Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum...
(1977The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....
) and MoonrakerMoonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film, directed by Lewis Gilbert, co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Clery, and Richard Kiel...
(1979The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major Events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released....
)
- Capt. Drazak in Force 10 from Navarone (1978
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....
)
- a humanoid robot in the Italian
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. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
movie The Humanoid (1979The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major Events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released....
)
- a "race car driver" in Cannonball Run II
See also Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy DashCannonball Run II is a 1984 comedy film featuring Burt Reynolds and an all-star cast, released by Warner Bros. and Golden Harvest...
(1984-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.*Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
)
- "Club," a tough gold miner in Pale Rider
Pale Rider is a 1985 Western Technicolor 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-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.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.-Top grossing films :source:...
)
- Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore
Happy Gilmore is a 1996 American sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the title character. This film is number 97 on Bravo's 100 funniest movies.-Plot:...
(1996The 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.-Events:...
)
- himself in the Swedish TV-show Welcome to Sweden
Welcome to Sweden is a Swedish reality show starring American actors Richard Kiel and Verne Troyer...
together with Verne TroyerVerne J. Troyer is an American actor and stunt performer. Troyer is notable for his height of , the result of cartilage–hair hypoplasia 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 MountainThe Giant of Thunder Mountain is a 1991 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. Bart the Bear also appeared in the movie....
.
He and
Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the state of California....
were the original choices to play the title character in the 1977 TV series
The Incredible HulkThe Incredible Hulk is an American television series based on the Marvel comic book character of the same name. The pilot episodes were a pair of TV movies on the CBS network beginning on November 4, 1977; the series soon followed, airing from March 10, 1978 to June 2, 1982. It starred Bill Bixby...
. Schwarzenegger was turned down due to his height. He participated in the filming of two episodes, including the TV movie
pilotA 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 studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity, or pilot holes prepare the way for larger holes. Networks use pilots to...
. During the shoot, 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 interview at Den of geek, 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 FerrignoLouis "Lou" Jude Ferrigno is an American bodybuilder and actor. Ferrigno has appeared in such television series and movies as Bill Bixby's bulky alter ego, The Hulk, in The Incredible Hulk, Pumping Iron, Sinbad of the Seven Seas, Hercules, and most recently in the 2009 comedy I Love You, Man. He...
.
He is well known in the UK for his appearance in a commercial for
Shredded WheatShredded wheat is a breakfast cereal made from whole wheat. It comes in two sizes, bite sized , and full size, which may be broken into small pieces before milk is added....
(1980), which can be seen on
YouTubeYouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google...
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWLBuAW1lEE
He reprised his role of Jaws with voice and likeness in the 2004 game
Everything or NothingJames Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is a third-person shooter video game, where the player controls Ian Fleming's master spy, James Bond. Bond is modeled after and voiced by the former James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan...
.
Other
Kiel's distinctive height and features are a result of a hormonal condition known as
acromegalyAcromegaly is a syndrome that results when the pituitary gland produces excess growth hormone after epiphyseal plate closure at puberty...
. Kiel stands 7 feet 1.5 inches (217 cm) tall. He notes in his 2002
autobiographyAn autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
,
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, although he stands over seven foot tall, he suffers from
vertigoAcrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of heights. It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort that share both similar etiology and options for treatment.Acrophobia can be dangerous, as sufferers can experience a panic attack in a high place and become too...
, and during the cable car stunt scenes in
Moonraker, a stunt double was used because Kiel refused to be filmed on the top of a cable car at over 2000 ft. high.
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 GilmoreHappy Gilmore is a 1996 American sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the title character. This film is number 97 on Bravo's 100 funniest movies.-Plot:...
, where he is seen leaning on a person or a cane). He's also been seen using a
scooterA 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.-Description:...
or
wheelchairA 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 SwedenWelcome to Sweden is a Swedish reality show starring American actors Richard Kiel and Verne Troyer...
. 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, Kiel was invited by the Swiss watchmaker
SwatchSwatch 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".
He is also a born-again Christian and testifies on his official website how God saved him from alcoholism.
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|
| 1960 |
Laramie Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. 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.-Synopsis:The story...
|
unknown role |
episode Street of Hate |
| 1960 |
Klondike 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. It faced stiff competition from The Danny Thomas Show on CBS and the second half of the first-season detective series Surfside 6 starring Troy...
|
Duff Brannigan |
episode Bare Knuckles |
| 1961 |
The PhantomThe 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...
|
Big Mike |
|
| 1961 |
Thriller |
Master Styx |
episode Well of Doom |
| 1961 |
The Rifleman The Rifleman is an American Western television program that ran on ABC, from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963, a production of Four Star Television.-History:...
|
Carl Hazlitt |
episode The Decision |
| 1962 |
The Twilight ZoneThe Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...
|
Kanamit |
episode To Serve Man "To Serve Man" is a science fiction short story written by Damon Knight. It first appeared in the November 1950 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction and has been reprinted a number of times, including in Frontiers in Space , Far Out and The Best of Damon Knight .- Synopsis :The story is set in what...
|
| 1962 |
EegahEegah! is a 1962 horror film starring Arch Hall, Jr., Arch Hall, Sr., Marilyn Manning and Richard Kiel in the titular role. The movie was directed by Arch Hall, Sr...
|
Eegah |
|
| 1964 |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international law-enforcement agency called...
|
unknown role |
episode The Vulcan Affair, uncredited |
| 1965 |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international law-enforcement agency called...
|
Merry |
episode The Hong Kong Shilling Affair |
| 1965 |
I Dream of JeannieI Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American sitcom with a fantasy premise. The show starred Barbara Eden as a 2000-year-old female genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries...
|
Ali |
episode My Hero |
| 1966 |
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 novels by the duo....
|
Groalgo |
episode King of the Mountain |
| 1966 |
My Mother the Car My Mother the Car is an American television situation comedy which aired for a single season on NBC between September 14, 1965 and September 6, 1966. Thirty episodes were produced in all, produced by United Artists Television....
|
Cracks |
episode A Riddler on the Roof |
| 1966 |
The Wild Wild West The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....
|
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 IslandGilligan's Island is an American TV sitcom originally produced by United Artists Television. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964 to September 4, 1967. It was originally sponsored by Philip Morris & Company and Procter & Gamble...
|
Spook |
episode Ghost-a-Go-Go |
| 1967 |
The MonkeesThe Monkees is an American situation comedy that followed the adventures of the then-fictional pop-rock quartet of the same name. The stars were hired to play fictionalized versions of themselves and put a face on the records released to tie-in with the show...
|
Monster |
episode I Was a Teenage Monster |
| 1967 |
The Monroes The Monroes is a 26-segment Western television series which ran on ABC 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 in northwestern Wyoming.Michael Anderson, Jr., then 24,...
|
Casmir |
episode Ghosts of Paradox |
| 1968 |
I SpyI Spy is an American television secret agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott...
|
Tiny |
episode A Few Miles West of Nowhere |
| 1968 |
The Wild Wild West The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....
|
Dimas |
episode The Night of the Simian Terror |
| 1968 |
Skidoo Skidoo is a 1968 comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures. It satirizes the modern world and its creature comforts, technology, anti-technology, hippies and free love, and features the use of LSD.The movie featured a cast of stars...
|
Beany |
|
| 1968 |
It Takes a Thief |
Willie Trion |
episode The Galloping Skin Game |
| 1969 |
Daniel Boone Daniel Boone is an American 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. The title role was played by Fess Parker. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's American Indian friend, for...
|
Le Mouche |
episode Benvenuto...Who? |
| 1970 |
Disneyland |
Luke Brown |
episode The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 1 & 2 |
| 1974 |
Kolchak: The Night StalkerKolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC 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. Each week...
|
The Diablero |
episode Bad Medicine |
| 1974 |
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. It debuted as a midseason replacement on January 15, 1972, on NBC, replacing the short-lived series The Good Life, and ran until...
|
Carlo |
episode I'll Fix It |
| 1974 |
Kolchak: The Night StalkerKolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC 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. Each week...
|
Peremalfait, the swamp monster |
episode The Spanish Moss Murders |
| 1975 |
Switch Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who worked as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation...
|
unknown role |
episode Death Heist |
| 1976 |
Starsky and HutchStarsky and Hutch is a 1970s US television series that consisted of a 90-minute 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 ABC network; distributed by...
|
Iggy |
episode Omaha Tiger |
1975 -
1976 |
Barbary Coast |
Moose Moran |
unknown episode, 1975-1976) |
1974 -
1977 |
Land of the LostLand 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 television network. It has since become a cult classic and is now available on DVD. It was shot in Los Angeles, California...
|
Malak |
unknown episodes "Survival kit" |
| 1977 |
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew MysteriesThe Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC...
|
Manager - 'Haunted House' |
episode The Mystery of the Haunted House |
| 1977 |
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. His 3 companions were Peter Dawes, a 12-year-old English boy, a runaway slave named Hawk, and a...
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unknown role |
episode The Game |
| 1981 |
The Fall GuyThe Fall Guy is an American television program produced for ABC and originally broadcast from 1981 to 1986. It stars Lee Majors, Heather Thomas, and Douglas Barr.-Plot:...
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Animal |
episode That's Right, We're Bad |
| 1983 |
Simon & SimonSimon & Simon is a 1980s detective television series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker.-History:The original 1978 pilot called Pirate's Key was set in Florida...
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Mark Horton |
episode The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet |
| 1988 |
Out of This WorldOut Of This World is an American sitcom about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers. It first aired in U.S. syndication on September 17, 1987 and ended on May 25, 1991...
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Norman |
episode Go West, Young Mayor |
| 1989 |
SuperboySuperboy 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....
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Vlkabok |
episode Mr. and Mrs. Superboy |
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|
| 1961 |
The Phantom Planet The Phantom Planet is a science fiction film.- Plot :The lead character, astronaut Frank Chapman, played by Dean Fredericks, while traveling though space encounters a race of tiny people on a distant planet. Due to the planet's unusual atmosphere, he is shrunk to six inches in size...
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The Solarite |
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| 1962 |
The Magic Sword The Magic Sword is a 1962 live action fantasy film, mainly aimed at children, based loosely on the medieval legend of St. George and the Dragon.The film appeared on a 1992 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000...
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Pinhead |
uncredited |
| 1963 |
30 Minutes at Gunsight |
uncredited |
|
| 1963 |
House of the Damned |
The giant |
|
| 1963 |
The Nutty Professor The Nutty Professor is a Paramount Pictures feature film produced, directed, co-written and starring Jerry Lewis...
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Bodybuilder #1 |
uncredited |
| 1964 |
Roustabout |
Strong man |
uncredited |
| 1964 |
The Nasty Rabbit |
ranch foreman |
uncredited |
| 1965 |
Two on a Guillotine Two on a Guillotine is a 1965 American horror/thriller film produced and directed by William Conrad. The screenplay by John Kneubuhl and Henry Slesar is based on a story by Slesar.-Plot synopsis:...
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Tall man at funeral |
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| 1965 |
The Human DuplicatorsThe Human Duplicators is a low budget film released in 1965 by independent company Woolner Brothers Pictures Inc.The plot involves a giant alien named Dr. Kolos who is dispatched to Earth from a faraway galaxy on orders to create android dopplegangers by employing the scientific services of...
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Dr. Kolos |
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| 1965 |
Brainstorm A Brainstorm is a sudden realization, thought or idea. Brainstorming is a group or individual creativity exercise. The word may have originated in the trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White where it was argued that Mr. Thaw was temporarily insane because of a "brainstorm"...
|
Psychiatric hospital patient |
uncredited |
| 1965 |
Lassie's Great Adventure |
Chinook Pete |
|
| 1966 |
The Las Vegas Hillbillies |
unknown role |
|
| 1967 |
A Man Called Dagger |
Otto |
|
| 1968 |
Now You See It, Now You Don't |
Nori |
|
| 1970 |
On a Clear Day You Can See ForeverOn a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a musical with music by Burton Lane and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner based loosely on Berkeley Square, written in 1929 by John L. Balderston. It concerns a woman who has ESP and has been reincarnated....
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Blacksmith |
uncredited |
| 1972 |
Deadhead Miles |
unknown role |
|
| 1974 |
The Longest Yard |
Samson |
|
| 1975 |
Barbary Coast |
Moose Moran |
|
| 1976 |
Flash and the Firecat |
Tracker |
|
| 1976 |
GusGus is a 1976 movie by Walt Disney Productions. Its center character is Gus, a football-playing mule.- Synopsis :Gus is a film about a football-kicking mule and his trainer "Andy" ....
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Large man |
|
| 1976 |
Silver Streak |
Reace |
|
| 1977 |
The Spy Who Loved MeThe Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum...
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Jaws |
|
| 1977 |
The Incredible Hulk (TV series) |
The Hulk |
one scene |
| 1978 |
Force 10 from Navarone |
Capt. Drazak |
|
| 1978 |
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way |
Duke |
|
| 1979 |
l'Umanoide |
Golob |
|
| 1979 |
MoonrakerMoonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film, directed by Lewis Gilbert, co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Clery, and Richard Kiel...
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Jaws |
|
| 1981 |
So Fine So Fine is a 1981 comedy film written and directed by Andrew Bergman. The original music score was composed by Ennio Morricone.-Plot summary:Bobby Fine is an intellectual English professor who leaves his job when his father Jack appeals to him for help...
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Eddie |
|
| 1983 |
Hysterical |
Captain Howdy |
|
| 1983 |
Phoenix |
Steel Hand |
|
| 1984 |
Cannonball Run II See also Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy DashCannonball Run II is a 1984 comedy film featuring Burt Reynolds and an all-star cast, released by Warner Bros. and Golden Harvest...
|
Arnold, Mitsubishi driver |
|
| 1984 |
Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street |
Big G |
|
| 1985 |
Qing bao long hu men |
Laszlo |
|
| 1985 |
Pale RiderPale Rider is a 1985 Western Technicolor 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...
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Club |
|
| 1989 |
The Princess and the Dwarf |
unknown role |
|
| 1990 |
Think Big |
Irving |
|
| 1991 |
The Giant of Thunder Mountain The Giant of Thunder Mountain is a 1991 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. Bart the Bear also appeared in the movie....
|
Eli Weaver |
|
| 1996 |
Happy Gilmore Happy Gilmore is a 1996 American sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the title character. This film is number 97 on Bravo's 100 funniest movies.-Plot:...
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Mr. Larson |
|
| 1999 |
Inspector Gadget Inspector Gadget is a 1999 live-action film based on the animated cartoon series of the same name. It starred Matthew Broderick as the title character, along with Rupert Everett as Dr. Claw, and Michelle Trachtenberg as Penny. Two new characters were introduced, Brenda Bradford and the Gadgetmobile...
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Jaws, Famous Guy with Metal Teeth |
|
| 2000 |
BloodHounds, Inc. #5: Fangs for the Memories |
Mortimer |
Video |
See also
- Rondo Hatton
Rondo Hatton was an American 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.-Biography:Hatton was born Rondo K...
- Ted Cassidy
Theodore Crawford Cassidy , known as Ted Cassidy, was an American 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 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 is an actor in film, television, and stage. He is an exceptionally tall man at 2.13 metres and thus is often called upon to play character or comedic roles in which height plays a major part. Notably he was featured as Mr...
- The Great Khali
- John Aasen
John Aasen was an American silent film actor who was one of the tallest actors in history.-Early life:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Aasen's mother, Kristi from Rollag in Numedal, was an extremely tall Norwegian woman of around 2.20 m in height...
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