Actor
· Acting
Richard Kiel
Born 1939-09-13
Died 2014-09-10
📍 Detroit, Michigan, USA
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 79
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
as Kanamit (archive footage)
2019
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
as Self
2012
Tangled
as Vlad (voice)
2010
Inside 'Moonraker'
as Self
2000
Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
as Self
2000
Inspector Gadget
as Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth
1999
The Secrets of 007
as Self
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Happy Gilmore
as Mr. Larson
1996
The World of James Bond
as Self
1995
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
as Eli Weaver
1990
Think Big
as Irving
1989
Superboy
1988
Pale Rider
as Club
1985
Mob Busters
1985
Cannonball Run II
as Arnold
1984
Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
as Big G
1984
Hysterical
as Captain James Howdy
1982
Late Night with David Letterman
as Self
1982
Simon & Simon
1981
The Fall Guy
1981
So Fine
as Eddie
1981
Moonraker
as Jaws
1979
The Humanoid
as Golob
1979
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
as Duke
1978
Force 10 from Navarone
as Drazak
1978
The Phoenix
as Grasshopper
1978
Young Dan'l Boone
1977
The Spy Who Loved Me
as Jaws
1977
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Silver Streak
as Reace
1976
Gus
as Tall Man
1976
Van Dyke and Company
as Self
1975
Starsky & Hutch
as Iggy
1975
Switch
as Loach
1975
Barbary Coast
as Moose Moran
1975
Flash and the Firecat
as Milo Pewett
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as The Monster
1974
The Longest Yard
as Samson
1974
Am laufenden Band
as Self - Guest
1974
Deadhead Miles
as Big Dick
1972
Emergency!
1972
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
as Luke Brown
1970
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
as Blacksmith (uncredited)
1970
Skidoo
as Beany
1968
Now You See It, Now You Don't
as Nori
1968
A Man Called Dagger
as Otto
1968
It Takes a Thief
as Willy
1968
The Monkees
as Monster
1966
The Monroes
1966
Las Vegas Hillbillys
1966
I Dream of Jeannie
as Ali
1965
The Wild Wild West
1965
Honey West
as Groalgo
1965
The Wild Wild West
as Voltaire
1965
I Spy
as Tiny
1965
My Mother the Car
1965
Brainstorm
as Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
1965
To Trap a Spy
as Thug in Vulcan's Factory (archive footage) (uncredited)
1965
The Human Duplicators
as Dr. Kolos
1965
Two on a Guillotine
as Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)
1965
The Nasty Rabbit
as Ranch Foreman
1964
Roustabout
as Strongman (uncredited)
1964
Gilligan's Island
1964
Daniel Boone
as Lemouche
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Guard (uncredited)
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Merry
1964
Lassie's Greatest Adventure
1963
Lassie's Great Adventure
as Chinook Pete
1963
The Nutty Professor
as Man in Gym (uncredited)
1963
House of the Damned
as The Giant
1963
Eegah
as Eegah
1962
The Phantom Planet
as The Solarite
1961
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
The Phantom
as Big Mike
1961
Thriller
as Master Styx
1960
The Twilight Zone
as Kanamit
1959
The Rifleman
1958