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