Actor
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Julian Richings
Born 1956-08-30
📍 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Julian Richings (born 30 August 1956) is a British-Canadian character actor. Richings has appeared in over 225 films and television series. He trained in drama at the University of Exeter and worked as an actor for several years in the United Kingdom before moving to Toronto in 1984. In the popular series Todd and the Book of Pure Evil he played the dual characters of the Hooded Leader and Atticus Murphy Senior. When not on screen, Richings is a busy stage actor. In February of 2016 he appeared in a play titled Mustard by rising star Kat Sandler at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre. He played the role of Peter Icabod in 15 episodes of Patriot between 2015 and 2018.
Filmography 211
Turn It Up!
as Dr. Pretorious
2026
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
as Larry Poole
2026
Man Eating Pussy
as Freddie
2026
Honey Bunch
as Delwyn
2026
Secrets of Wickensburg
as Mr. Hexenmeister
2025
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
as Horror Film Expert
2025
The Institute
as Stackhouse
2025
It Feeds
as Dr. Ronald Whittaker
2025
Return to Wickensburg
as Mr. Hexenmeister
2024
A Thousand Cuts
as Webster
2024
Scared Shitless
as Professor Cummings
2024
Campton Manor
as Edward
2024
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
as Procrustes
2023
Relax, I'm from the Future
as Percy
2023
T-Bone
as Chris
2023
Beau Is Afraid
as Strange Man
2023
Time Traveling Through Time
as Narrator
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
as Dooley
2022
Reginald the Vampire
as Logan
2022
Wickensburg
as Mr Hexenmeister
2022
Salvation
as John
2022
Charlotte
as Dr. Kurt Singer / Policeman #1 / SS Soldier #2 (voice)
2022
Hall
as Julian
2022
Vicious Fun
as Fritz
2021
Chapelwaite
as Phillip Boone
2021
Stanleyville
as Homunculus
2021
Chaos Walking
as Gault
2021
Stardust
as Tony Defries
2020
Business Ethics
as Martin Abacus
2020
Spare Parts
as The Emperor
2020
Anything for Jackson
as Henry Walsh
2020
The Christmas Temp
as Luca
2019
Sailor
as The Magistrate
2019
Perpetual Grace LTD
as Jonathan Joy
2019
True Fiction
as Lenny Rupert
2019
Blood & Treasure
as Alessandro LaLande
2019
Talent Drivers
as Vincent
2019
The Umbrella Academy
as Chet Rodo
2019
Doom Patrol
as Heinrich Von Fuchs
2019
Polar
as Lomas
2019
Carter
as Ray Understone
2018
Creeped Out
as Zephaniah
2017
Midnight Confession
as Grass (voice)
2017
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End
as Hooded Leader / Malian Trader (voice)
2017
American Gods
as Iktomi
2017
The Space Between
as Stash
2017
Frontier
as Mr. Pickersgill
2016
Channel Zero
as The Gardener
2016
Blood Hunters
as Father Stewart
2016
The Rainbow Kid
as Elvis Grimes
2016
Prisoner X
as Jefferson
2016
The Witch
as Governor
2016
The Magicians
as Asteroth
2015
The Expanse
as Vargas
2015
Patriot
as Peter Icabod
2015
All Hallows' Eve 2
as Chatterbox (segment "The Last Halloween") (archive footage)
2015
Regression
as Tom
2015
She Stoops to Conquer
2015
A Christmas Horror Story
as Gerhardt
2015
Killjoys
as Ancient Scarback
2015
Reign
as Mr. Ian
2015
12 Monkeys
as Adviser to the Witness
2015
Hellmouth
as Smiley
2014
Ejecta
as William Cassidy
2014
Patch Town
as Yuri
2014
The Last Halloween
as Chatterbox
2013
We Are Not Here
as Monday
2013
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Ricky
2013
Septic Man
as Phil Prosser
2013
Man of Steel
as Lor-Em
2013
Hemlock Grove
as Swiss Doctor
2013
The Colony
as Leland
2013
Hannibal
as Caged Man
2013
Orphan Black
as Benjamin Kertland
2013
Victims
as Gatling
2013
Transporter: The Series
as Edouard Orlande
2013
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
as Rahn Brothers / Neither Man Nor Woman / Bill Phillips
2012
The Conspiracy
as Green Man
2012
The Tape
as Jack
2012
Three Inches
as Ethan
2011
Bag of Bones
as Elmer Durgin
2011
Hell on Wheels
as SLC Records Clerk
2011
Collaborator
as Maurice LeFont
2011
Patch Town
as Child Catcher
2011
Dave vs Death
as Death
2011
Animal Control
as Larry
2011
Hard Core Logo 2
as Bucky Haight
2010
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
as Hooded Leader / Atticus Murphy Sr.
2010
Trigger
as Bucky
2010
Lost Girl
as Arval
2010
Rookie Blue
as Cedric
2010
Storm Worlds
as Narrator (voice)
2010
Survival of the Dead
as James O'Flynn
2010
Wingin' It
as William Shakespeare
2010
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
as Ferryman
2010
Republic of Doyle
as Lionel Harris
2010
Sea Wolf
as Mugridge
2009
Sea Wolf
as Mugridge
2009
Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols
as Kneeling Man
2009
The Timekeeper
as Grease
2009
The Listener
as Miles Mellini
2009
You Might As Well Live
as Dr. Pooseby
2009
Toronto Stories
as Leather Jacket
2008
XIII
as Mr. Cody
2008
Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween
as Mr. Tibers
2008
Elegy
as Actor in Play #1
2008
The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow
as Kneeling Man
2008
Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid
as Mr. Tibers
2008
Jack and Jill vs. The World
as Mr. Smith
2008
The Trojan Horse
as Barrie
2008
Murdoch Mysteries
as Phillip Uxbridge
2008
The Border
as Professor Adrian Maguire
2008
Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost
as Mr. Tibers
2007
Saw IV
as Vagrant
2007
Nature of the Beast
as Dr. Chamberlain
2007
Heartland
as Mr. Hanley
2007
Heartland
as Levon Hanley
2007
The Tracey Fragments
as Dr. Heker
2007
Shoot 'Em Up
as Hertz's Driver
2007
Dead Silence
as Bos
2007
The Third Eye
as Charlie Rabbit
2007
Grossology
as Darko Crevasse (voice)
2006
The Last Sect
as Karpov
2006
X-Men: The Last Stand
as Mutant Theatre Organizer
2006
Skinwalkers
as Sad Looking Man
2006
Drive Time Murders
as 'The Doc'
2006
A Lobster Tale
as Hank Perkins
2006
Supernatural
as Death
2005
Finding the Fallen
as Narrator
2005
Some Things That Stay
as Minister
2004
The Limb Salesman
as Contact
2004
Being Julia
as Mr. Turnbull
2004
The Last Casino
as Orr
2004
Kingdom Hospital
as Otto
2004
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
as Otto
2004
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
as William Cattermole
2004
Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn'
as Self
2004
Eloise at Christmastime
as Patrice the Chef
2003
Slings & Arrows
as Reg Mortimer
2003
Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil
as Satan
2003
Open Range
as Wylie
2003
Missing
as Doc
2003
Wrong Turn
as Three Finger
2003
Eloise at the Plaza
as Patrice the Chef
2003
My Life Without Me
as Dr. Thompson
2003
Salem Witch Trials
as Jonathan Walcott
2002
Puppets Who Kill
as French Painter
2002
Puppets Who Kill
as Mr. Portnoy
2002
Between Strangers
as Nigel
2002
I Shout Love
as Cab Driver
2002
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
as Brother Clote
2001
Tracker
as Max
2001
Treed Murray
as Homeless Man
2001
Century Hotel
as Waiter
2001
MythQuest
as Loki
2001
Prince Charming
as Wacktazar
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Poet
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Jerome Aland
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Peter Jay
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Alger Kates
2001
The Claim
as Francis Bellanger
2000
The Claim
as Bellanger
2000
The Zack Files
as The Mad Hatter
2000
Two Thousand and None
as Curator
2000
The Hustle
as Detective Walsh
2000
The Crossing
as McKenzie
2000
The Time Shifters
as Murray Trevor, Time-Traveling Tourist
1999
Amazon
as Elder Malakai
1999
Detroit Rock City
as Ticket Taker
1999
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien
as Meenom
1999
The Red Violin
as Nicolas Olsberg (Montréal)
1998
Motel
as Tenant
1998
Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms
as Bix
1998
Highlander: The Raven
as Basil Morgan
1998
Urban Legend
as Weird Janitor
1998
Cube
as Alderson
1998
Once a Thief: Family Business
as Camier
1998
Ms. Scrooge
as Christmas Yet to Come
1997
Mimic
as Workman
1997
Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother
as Camier
1997
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes
as Doctor Saul Sprockett
1997
La Femme Nikita
as Errol Sparks
1997
Heritage Minutes: Winnie
as A.A. Milne
1997
Hard Core Logo
as Buck Haight
1996
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
as Earl Cornell
1996
The Boys Club
as Officer Cole
1996
The Shamrock Conspiracy
as Reader
1995
The Song Spinner
as Callo
1995
Moonlight and Valentino
as Hair Stylist
1995
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
as Logan’s Henchman
1995
Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time
as Bono
1995
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
as Sir George's Servant
1994
Due South
as Miles Emery
1994
Giant Steps
as Danceband Teacher
1992
Forever Knight
as Dr. Paul Dana
1992
The Valour and the Horror
as John Crocker
1992
Naked Lunch
as Exterminator #4
1991
Heritage Minutes: John Cabot
as King Henry VII
1991
Heritage Minutes
as A.A. Milne
1991
Heritage Minutes
as King Henry VII
1991
Clarence
as Reynolds
1990
Maniac Mansion
as Tax Man
1990
Counterstrike
as Rettie
1990
The Top of His Head
as Robert (henchman)
1989
War of the Worlds
as Man with Hat
1988
War of the Worlds
as Alien Scientist
1988
War of the Worlds
as Ardix
1988
Love at Stake
as Town Crier
1987
Adderly
1986
The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
1986
Keeper of the Cup
as Rick