Richard Kiel

ActorWriter Sep 13 (died age 74) Detroit, Michigan, USA 1958–2019 (61 year career)

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Biography

Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 - September 10, 2014) was a European-American actor. He is 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 2 inches (2.18 m) tall and wore size 20 5E shoes. He f…

Known For

Film

Tangled

Vlad (voice)

Film

Happy Gilmore

Mr. Larson

Film

The Spy Who Loved Me

Jaws

Film

Pale Rider

Club

Film

Moonraker

Jaws

Film

The Nutty Professor

Man in Gym (uncredited)

Film

Silver Streak

Reace

Film

The Longest Yard

Samson

Filmography

Acting (79)

Movies (48)

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration

2019

as Kanamit (archive footage)

10.0

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

as Self

Tangled

as Vlad (voice)

Best Ever Bond

as Self / Jaws

Inside 'Moonraker'

as Self

Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'

2000

as Self

7.4

Inspector Gadget

1999

as Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth

The Secrets of 007

as Self

Happy Gilmore

as Mr. Larson

The World of James Bond

1995

as Self

6.0

The Giant of Thunder Mountain

as Eli Weaver

Think Big

as Irving

Pale Rider

as Club

Mob Busters

Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street

as Big G

Cannonball Run II

as Arnold

Hysterical

as Captain James Howdy

So Fine

as Eddie

Moonraker

as Jaws

The Humanoid

as Golob

Force 10 from Navarone

1978

as Drazak

6.2

They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way

as Duke

The Phoenix

as Grasshopper

The Spy Who Loved Me

as Jaws

Silver Streak

as Reace

Gus

as Tall Man

Flash and the Firecat

as Milo Pewett

The Longest Yard

as Samson

Deadhead Miles

as Big Dick

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

1970

as Blacksmith (uncredited)

6.7

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

as Luke Brown

A Man Called Dagger

as Otto

Skidoo

as Beany

Now You See It, Now You Don't

1968

as Nori

Las Vegas Hillbillys

1966

2.7

Two on a Guillotine

1965

as Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)

6.1

The Human Duplicators

1965

as Dr. Kolos

3.4

To Trap a Spy

1965

as Thug in Vulcan's Factory (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.7

Brainstorm

1965

as Asylum Inmate (uncredited)

The Nasty Rabbit

as Ranch Foreman

Roustabout

as Strongman (uncredited)

6.0

The Nutty Professor

1963

as Man in Gym (uncredited)

6.5

Lassie's Great Adventure

as Chinook Pete

House of the Damned

as The Giant

Lassie's Greatest Adventure

Eegah

as Eegah

The Phantom Planet

as The Solarite

The Phantom

as Big Mike

Television (31)

Welcome to Sweden

2007

E! True Hollywood Story

Superboy

Late Night with David Letterman

as Self

The Fall Guy

Simon & Simon

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Young Dan'l Boone

Starsky & Hutch

as Iggy

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self

Switch

as Loach

Barbary Coast

as Moose Moran

Van Dyke and Company

as Self

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

as The Monster

Am laufenden Band

as Self - Guest

Emergency!

It Takes a Thief

as Willy

The Monkees

as Monster

The Monroes

I Dream of Jeannie

as Ali

The Wild Wild West

as Voltaire

I Spy

as Tiny

Honey West

as Groalgo

My Mother the Car

Daniel Boone

as Lemouche

Gilligan's Island

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964

as Guard (uncredited)

7.1

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

Thriller

as Master Styx

The Twilight Zone

as Kanamit

The Rifleman

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

The Giant of Thunder Mountain

1990

Writer

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