Richard Kiel
Acting • Born 1939-09-13 – Died 2014-09-10
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 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
81 credits
Inspector Gadget
Movie • 1999
Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth
The Spy Who Loved Me
Movie • 1977
Jaws
Moonraker
Movie • 1979
Jaws
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Movie • 2019
Kanamit (archive footage)
Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
Movie • 1984
Big G
Silver Streak
Movie • 1976
Reace
Eegah
Movie • 1962
Eegah
Cannonball Run II
Movie • 1984
Arnold
Pale Rider
Movie • 1985
Club
Skidoo
Movie • 1968
Beany
Happy Gilmore
Movie • 1996
Mr. Larson
The Phantom Planet
Movie • 1961
The Solarite
The Human Duplicators
Movie • 1965
Dr. Kolos
Think Big
Movie • 1989
Irving
Force 10 from Navarone
Movie • 1978
Drazak
Hysterical
Movie • 1982
Captain James Howdy
The Humanoid
Movie • 1979
Golob
So Fine
Movie • 1981
Eddie
House of the Damned
Movie • 1963
The Giant
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Movie • 1978
Duke
The Nasty Rabbit
Movie • 1964
Ranch Foreman
Now You See It, Now You Don't
Movie • 1968
Nori
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
Movie • 1990
Eli Weaver
A Man Called Dagger
Movie • 1968
Otto
The Phantom
Movie • 1961
Big Mike
Lassie's Great Adventure
Movie • 1963
Chinook Pete
Tangled
Movie • 2010
Vlad (voice)
Gus
Movie • 1976
Tall Man
Brainstorm
Movie • 1965
Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
Best Ever Bond
Movie • 2002
Self / Jaws
Flash and the Firecat
Movie • 1975
Milo Pewett
The Nutty Professor
Movie • 1963
Man in Gym (uncredited)
Mob Busters
Movie • 1985
The Phoenix
Movie • 1978
Grasshopper
The Longest Yard
Movie • 1974
Samson
Deadhead Miles
Movie • 1972
Big Dick
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Movie • 1970
Luke Brown
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Movie • 2012
Self
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Movie • 1970
Blacksmith (uncredited)
Las Vegas Hillbillys
Movie • 1966
Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
Movie • 2000
Self
Inside 'Moonraker'
Movie • 2000
Self
The World of James Bond
Movie • 1995
Self
The Secrets of 007
Movie • 1997
Self
Two on a Guillotine
Movie • 1965
Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)
Roustabout
Movie • 1964
Strongman (uncredited)
To Trap a Spy
Movie • 1965
Thug in Vulcan's Factory (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lassie's Greatest Adventure
Movie • 1963
I Dream of Jeannie
TV • 1965
Ali
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
Gilligan's Island
TV • 1964
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
TV • 1977
Emergency!
TV • 1972
Superboy
TV • 1988
Late Night with David Letterman
TV • 1982
Self
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Kanamit
The Fall Guy
TV • 1981
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV • 1974
The Monster
The Monroes
TV • 1966
The Monkees
TV • 1966
Monster
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Lemouche
Switch
TV • 1975
Loach
Young Dan'l Boone
TV • 1977
My Mother the Car
TV • 1965
Thriller
TV • 1960
Master Styx
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Barbary Coast
TV • 1975
Moose Moran
Honey West
TV • 1965
Groalgo
Van Dyke and Company
TV • 1975
Self
Am laufenden Band
TV • 1974
Self - Guest
Welcome to Sweden
TV • 2007
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Voltaire
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Guard (uncredited)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Merry
Starsky & Hutch
TV • 1975
Iggy
It Takes a Thief
TV • 1968
Willy
I Spy
TV • 1965
Tiny