Actor · Acting

Richard Kiley

Born 1922-03-31

Died 1999-03-05

📍 Chicago, Illinois, USA

Richard Paul Kiley (March 31, 1922 – March 5, 1999) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor In A Musical (for Redhead and Man of La Mancha). Kiley was also nominated for nine Emmy Awards, winning four, including for his roles on the series The Thorn Birds, A Year in the Life, and Picket Fences. Some notable film roles include Blackboard Jungle (1955), Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Endless Love (1981), Howard the Duck (1986), Phenomenon (1996), and Patch Adams (1998). Kiley is also remembered for his voice role as the tour guide in Jurassic Park (1993).

Filmography 167

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

as Don Quixote (segment "Man Of La Mancha")

Hugh Hefner: American Playboy

as Narrator (voice)

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

as Joey (archive footage)

Searching for Lost Worlds

as Jimmy Keating

The Gates of Jerusalem: A History of the Holy City

Wolves at Our Door

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

The Sonoran Desert: A Violent Eden

as Narrator (voice)

as Seymore Little

Time to Say Goodbye?

as Dr. Gerald Klooster

Tigers of the Snow

as Narrator (voice)

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

as Ron Melville

Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime

as Frank Dougherty

Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces

Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker

as Dr. Will Berter

30 Years of National Geographic Specials

as Self - Narrator

A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story

as Earl Clayburn

Mysteries of the Bible

The Visual Bible: Matthew

as Jurassic Park Tour Voice (voice)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Mysteries Underground

as Self - Narrator

as Archer Bowman

as Hayden Langston

Absolute Strangers

as Dr. RJ Cannon

Separate But Equal

as Chief Justice Earl Warren

Separate but Equal

as Chief Justice Earl Warren

National Geographic: Splendid Stones

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache

as Chalk Brighton

Bali: Masterpiece of the Gods

as The Magician

as J. Fred Buzhardt

as Sam Morrissey

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Australia's Twilight Of The Dreamtime

National Geographic: White Wolf

as Narrator (voice)

A Year in the Life

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

as Narrator (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

Lions of the African Night

Treasures From The Past

as Himself - Narrator

A Year in the Life

Howard the Duck

as The Cosmos (voice)

If Tomorrow Comes

as Gunther Hartog

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

as Col. Grangerford

The Twilight Zone

as Sir Lancelot du Lac (segment "The Last Defender of Camelot")

Do You Remember Love

as George Hollis

as Richard Bravo

Ballad of the Irish Horse

as Narrator (voice)

The Canterville Ghost

as Sir Simon De Canterville

George Washington

as George Mason

as Self - Narrator

Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983

The Thorn Birds

as Paddy Cleary

as Matt Carmichael

Night of 100 Stars

as Rev. Gus Keiffer

Isabel's Choice

as Thomas J. Kingsley

Angel on My Shoulder

The New Media Bible: The Gospel According to St. Luke

as Narrator/St. Luke

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

The Andros Targets

as Timothy Macahan

as Mark Kellerman

Friendly Persuasion

as Jess Birdwell

The Little Prince

as DA Dan Bellington

All the Way Home

Murder Once Removed

as Frank Manning

as Mark Halperin

Incident in San Francisco

as Robert Harmon

Great Performances

Great Performances

as Introduction Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

a.k.a. Cassius Clay

The Ceremony of Innocence

as King Ethelred

as SS-Gruppenführer Helmut Arndt / Josef Strobe

as Dr. Thomas Patton

as Woodrow Wilson King

as Vincent Warren

The Name of the Game

as Arlen McKittrick

The Name of the Game

as Dr. Judson Strode

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

The Carol Burnett Show

The Danny Thomas Hour

Judd, for the Defense

Garrison's Gorillas

as John Streyer

as Dr. Herbert Barth

as Frederic Oliver Scott

National Geographic Specials

Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Lou Franklin

The Great Adventure

as Col. Edwin L. Drake

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Mike Douglas Show

as Fred Carroll

as Doug Crawford

as George Helber

as Acting Governor White

as Harvey Slaughter

as Sheriff Gideon Yates

The Power of the Resurrection

as Merritt Blake

as Bob Lyttleton

The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Singer

as Self - Winner

as Self - Performer

as Self - Presenter

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Will Stambridge

The Phenix City Story

as John Patterson

Blackboard Jungle

as Joshua Y. Edwards

as Fred Staples

as Charley Kincaid

Medallion Theatre

Revlon Mirror Theatre

Pickup on South Street

General Electric Theater

as The Prosecuting Attorney

The Ford Television Theatre

as Walter Crandall

as James G. Kent

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Tales of Tomorrow

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Julian Hurst

as Ralph Johnson

as Richard Baker

The Ed Sullivan Show

Kraft Television Theatre

Kraft Television Theatre

as Fred Staples

Kraft Television Theatre

as Frederick Banting

Kraft Television Theatre

Kraft Television Theatre

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee