Julian Richings

Actor Aug 30 (age 69) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK 1986–2026 (40 year career)

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Biography

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 …

Known For

Film

Man of Steel

Lor-Em

Film

The Witch

Governor

Film

X-Men: The Last Stand

Mutant Theatre Organizer

Film

Cube

Alderson

Film

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Ferryman

Film

Chaos Walking

Gault

Film

Saw IV

Vagrant

Film

Wrong Turn

Three Finger

Filmography

Acting (211)

Movies (142)

Honey Bunch

2026

as Delwyn

6.4

Man Eating Pussy

2026

as Freddie

It Feeds

2025

as Dr. Ronald Whittaker

6.7

The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide

2025

as Horror Film Expert

Secrets of Wickensburg

2025

as Mr. Hexenmeister

Campton Manor

2024

as Edward

6.1

Scared Shitless

2024

as Professor Cummings

5.4

A Thousand Cuts

2024

as Webster

5.0

Return to Wickensburg

as Mr. Hexenmeister

Beau Is Afraid

as Strange Man

Relax, I'm from the Future

2023

as Percy

6.0

T-Bone

2023

as Chris

Time Traveling Through Time

2022

as Narrator

7.5

Oldtimers

2022

as Richard

Wickensburg

2022

as Mr Hexenmeister

5.2

Charlotte

2022

as Dr. Kurt Singer / Policeman #1 / SS Soldier #2 (voice)

Hall

as Julian

Salvation

as John

Chaos Walking

as Gault

Stanleyville

as Homunculus

Vicious Fun

as Fritz

Stardust

as Tony Defries

Anything for Jackson

as Henry Walsh

Spare Parts

as The Emperor

Business Ethics

as Martin Abacus

Polar

as Lomas

The Christmas Temp

as Luca

True Fiction

as Lenny Rupert

Sailor

as The Magistrate

The Space Between

2017

as Stash

7.0

Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End

2017

as Hooded Leader / Malian Trader (voice)

Midnight Confession

as Grass (voice)

The Witch

as Governor

Blood Hunters

as Father Stewart

The Rainbow Kid

as Elvis Grimes

Prisoner X

as Jefferson

Regression

as Tom

All Hallows' Eve 2

as Chatterbox (segment "The Last Halloween") (archive footage)

4.7

A Christmas Horror Story

2015

as Gerhardt

5.8

Reign

2015

as Mr. Ian

She Stoops to Conquer

Patch Town

as Yuri

Ejecta

as William Cassidy

Hellmouth

as Smiley

Man of Steel

as Lor-Em

The Colony

as Leland

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

as Ricky

We Are Not Here

as Monday

Victims

as Gatling

Septic Man

as Phil Prosser

The Last Halloween

as Chatterbox

The Conspiracy

as Green Man

The Tape

as Jack

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

2012

as Rahn Brothers / Neither Man Nor Woman / Bill Phillips

Dave vs Death

as Death

Collaborator

as Maurice LeFont

Patch Town

as Child Catcher

Three Inches

as Ethan

Animal Control

as Larry

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

as Ferryman

Trigger

as Bucky

Survival of the Dead

as James O'Flynn

Hard Core Logo 2

as Bucky Haight

Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols

as Kneeling Man

The Timekeeper

as Grease

Sea Wolf

as Mugridge

You Might As Well Live

as Dr. Pooseby

Elegy

as Actor in Play #1

Jack and Jill vs. The World

2008

as Mr. Smith

5.2

The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow

2008

as Kneeling Man

5.8

Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween

as Mr. Tibers

Toronto Stories

as Leather Jacket

Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid

as Mr. Tibers

Dead Silence

as Bos

Shoot 'Em Up

as Hertz's Driver

Saw IV

as Vagrant

Nature of the Beast

as Dr. Chamberlain

The Tracey Fragments

as Dr. Heker

Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost

as Mr. Tibers

The Third Eye

as Charlie Rabbit

Skinwalkers

as Sad Looking Man

A Lobster Tale

as Hank Perkins

The Last Sect

as Karpov

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006

as Mutant Theatre Organizer

6.4

Drive Time Murders

2006

as 'The Doc'

Black Widow

as Dr. Deadman

The Limb Salesman

as Contact

Being Julia

as Mr. Turnbull

Kingdom Hospital

as Otto

The Last Casino

as Orr

Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn'

2004

as Self

Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill

2004

as William Cattermole

4.0

Some Things That Stay

as Minister

Wrong Turn

as Three Finger

Open Range

as Wylie

Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil

2003

as Satan

5.5

Eloise at Christmastime

as Patrice the Chef

My Life Without Me

as Dr. Thompson

Eloise at the Plaza

as Patrice the Chef

Salem Witch Trials

as Jonathan Walcott

Between Strangers

as Nigel

I Shout Love

as Cab Driver

On Their Knees

as Pappy

Treed Murray

as Homeless Man

Prince Charming

as Wacktazar

The Pretender: Island of the Haunted

as Brother Clote

Century Hotel

as Waiter

Two Thousand and None

as Curator

The Claim

as Francis Bellanger

The Crossing

as McKenzie

The Hustle

as Detective Walsh

The Time Shifters

as Murray Trevor, Time-Traveling Tourist

Detroit Rock City

as Ticket Taker

Cube

as Alderson

Once a Thief: Family Business

as Camier

Urban Legend

as Weird Janitor

The Red Violin

as Nicolas Olsberg (Montréal)

7.4

Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms

as Bix

Motel

as Tenant

The Show: Stories Within a Film

1998

as The Lead Actor

Mimic

1997

as Workman

6.1

Ms. Scrooge

1997

as Christmas Yet to Come

5.6

Pale Saints

1997

as Einstein

2.0

Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother

1997

as Camier

5.8

Heritage Minutes: Winnie

1997

as A.A. Milne

Hard Core Logo

as Buck Haight

The Boys Club

as Officer Cole

The Song Spinner

as Callo

Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time

1995

as Bono

Love Child

1995

as Tom Sr.

5.2

Moonlight and Valentino

1995

as Hair Stylist

5.5

The Shamrock Conspiracy

1995

as Reader

4.0

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

1994

as Sir George's Servant

6.7

Giant Steps

1992

as Danceband Teacher

Naked Lunch

1991

as Exterminator #4

7.0

Heritage Minutes: John Cabot

1991

as King Henry VII

Clarence

as Reynolds

The Top of His Head

as Robert (henchman)

Love at Stake

as Town Crier

The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood

1986

5.5

Keeper of the Cup

as Rick

The Asylum

as Dr. Raymond

Television (69)

The Institute

2025

as Stackhouse

7.6

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2023

as Procrustes

7.3

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

as Dooley

Reginald the Vampire

as Logan

Chapelwaite

as Phillip Boone

The Umbrella Academy

as Chet Rodo

Doom Patrol

as Heinrich Von Fuchs

7.5

Blood & Treasure

2019

as Alessandro LaLande

Perpetual Grace LTD

as Jonathan Joy

Talent Drivers

as Vincent

Carter

as Ray Understone

American Gods

as Iktomi

Creeped Out

as Zephaniah

Frontier

as Mr. Pickersgill

Channel Zero

as The Gardener

The Expanse

as Vargas

12 Monkeys

as Adviser to the Witness

The Magicians

as Asteroth

Killjoys

as Ancient Scarback

Patriot

as Peter Icabod

Patriot

as Peter Icabod

Whatever, Linda

as Aloysius Finkle

Orphan Black

as Benjamin Kertland

Hannibal

as Caged Man

Hemlock Grove

as Swiss Doctor

Transporter: The Series

as Edouard Orlande

Hell on Wheels

as SLC Records Clerk

Bag of Bones

as Elmer Durgin

Rookie Blue

as Cedric

Lost Girl

as Arval

Republic of Doyle

as Lionel Harris

Todd and the Book of Pure Evil

2010

as Hooded Leader / Atticus Murphy Sr.

6.9

Todd and the Book of Pure Evil

2010

as Hooded Leader / Atticus Murphy Sr.

6.9

Wingin' It

2010

as William Shakespeare

5.8

Storm Worlds

2010

as Narrator (voice)

The Listener

as Miles Mellini

Sea Wolf

as Mugridge

Murdoch Mysteries

as Phillip Uxbridge

The Border

as Professor Adrian Maguire

XIII

as Mr. Cody

The Trojan Horse

as Barrie

Heartland

as Mr. Hanley

Grossology

as Darko Crevasse (voice)

7.4

At the Hotel

2006

as Baby Man

Supernatural

2005

as Death

8.3

Finding the Fallen

2005

as Narrator

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital

as Otto

Missing

as Doc

Slings & Arrows

as Reg Mortimer

Puppets Who Kill

as French Painter

A Nero Wolfe Mystery

as Poet

Tracker

as Max

MythQuest

as Loki

The Zack Files

as The Mad Hatter

I Was a Sixth Grade Alien

1999

as Meenom

Amazon

1999

as Elder Malakai

7.9

Highlander: The Raven

as Basil Morgan

La Femme Nikita

as Errol Sparks

The Adventures of Shirley Holmes

1997

as Doctor Saul Sprockett

6.9

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

1996

as Earl Cornell

6.9

Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years

as Logan’s Henchman

Due South

as Miles Emery

Forever Knight

as Dr. Paul Dana

The Valour and the Horror

1992

as John Crocker

Heritage Minutes

as King Henry VII

Counterstrike

as Rettie

Maniac Mansion

as Tax Man

War of the Worlds

as Man with Hat

Adderly