Richard Kiel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Dawson Kiel (born September 13, 1939) was an American actor best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) as well as the video game Everything or Nothing, and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore. He was 7 feet 1.5 inches (2.18 m) tall in his prime but now due to injury and age, he is slightly under 7 feet tall. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Kiel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Sep 13, 1939 In Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 72
- First Appeared:
- In the series The Rifleman 1958-09-30
- Latest Project:
- Movie Happy Gilmore 2 2025-07-25
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Happy Gilmore 2 | Mr. Larson (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2025-07-25 |
| Movie | The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration | Kanamit (archive footage) | 2019-11-14 |
| Movie | Tangled | Vlad (voice) | 2010-11-24 |
| Movie | The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made | Eegah (archive footage) | 2004-07-13 |
| Movie | Best Ever Bond | Self / Jaws | 2002-11-22 |
| Movie | Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Inside 'Moonraker' | Self | 2000-05-16 |
| Movie | Inspector Gadget | Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth | 1999-07-23 |
| Movie | The Secrets of 007 | Self | 1997-12-04 |
| Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-08-21 |
| Movie | Happy Gilmore | Mr. Larson | 1996-02-16 |
| Movie | The World of James Bond | 1995-10-29 | |
| Movie | The Giant of Thunder Mountain | Eli Weaver | 1990-12-25 |
| Movie | Think Big | Irving | 1989-09-30 |
| Series | Superboy | Unknown | 1988-10-08 |
| Movie | Mob Busters | 1985-01-01 | |
| Movie | Pale Rider | Club | 1985-06-28 |
| Movie | Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street | Big G | 1984-01-25 |
| Movie | Cannonball Run II | Arnold | 1984-06-29 |
| Movie | Hysterical | Captain James Howdy | 1982-12-22 |
| Series | Late Night with David Letterman | Unknown | 1982-02-01 |
| Movie | So Fine | Eddie | 1981-09-25 |
| Series | The Fall Guy | Unknown | 1981-11-04 |
| Series | Simon & Simon | Unknown | 1981-11-24 |
| Movie | The Humanoid | Golob | 1979-04-11 |
| Movie | Moonraker | Jaws | 1979-06-26 |
| Movie | The Phoenix | Grasshopper | 1978-01-01 |
| Movie | Force 10 from Navarone | Drazak | 1978-08-16 |
| Movie | They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way | Duke | 1978-12-01 |
| Movie | The Spy Who Loved Me | Jaws | 1977-07-07 |
| Series | The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown | 1977-01-30 |
| Series | Young Dan'l Boone | Unknown | 1977-09-12 |
| Movie | Gus | Tall Man | 1976-07-07 |
| Movie | Silver Streak | Reace | 1976-12-03 |
| Series | Barbary Coast | Moose Moran | 1975-09-08 |
| Movie | Flash and the Firecat | Milo Pewett | 1975-05-31 |
| Series | Starsky & Hutch | Unknown | 1975-09-10 |
| Series | Switch | Unknown | 1975-09-09 |
| Series | Van Dyke and Company | Self | 1975-10-30 |
| Movie | The Longest Yard | Samson | 1974-08-21 |
| Series | Am laufenden Band | Gast | 1974-04-27 |
| Series | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Unknown | 1974-09-13 |
| Series | Emergency! | Unknown | 1972-01-22 |
| Movie | Deadhead Miles | Big Dick | 1972-08-08 |
| Movie | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Blacksmith (uncredited) | 1970-06-17 |
| Movie | A Man Called Dagger | Otto | 1968-01-31 |
| Movie | Skidoo | Beany | 1968-12-19 |
| Movie | Now You See It, Now You Don't | Nori | 1968-11-11 |
| Series | The Monroes | Unknown | 1966-09-07 |
| Movie | Las Vegas Hillbillys | 1966-05-11 | |
| Series | The Monkees | Unknown | 1966-09-12 |
| Movie | Brainstorm | Asylum Inmate (uncredited) | 1965-05-05 |
| Movie | Two on a Guillotine | Photographer at Funeral (uncredited) | 1965-01-13 |
| Movie | The Human Duplicators | Dr. Kolos | 1965-03-03 |
| Series | My Mother the Car | Unknown | 1965-09-14 |
| Series | Honey West | Unknown | 1965-09-17 |
| Series | I Dream of Jeannie | Unknown | 1965-09-18 |
| Series | The Wild Wild West | Unknown | 1965-09-17 |
| Series | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown | 1964-09-22 |
| Series | Daniel Boone | Unknown | 1964-09-24 |
| Movie | To Trap a Spy | Thug in Vulcan's Factory (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1964-01-01 |
| Series | Gilligan's Island | Unknown | 1964-09-26 |
| Movie | The Nasty Rabbit | Ranch Foreman | 1964-12-01 |
| Movie | Roustabout | Strongman (uncredited) | 1964-11-11 |
| Movie | The Nutty Professor | Man in Gym (uncredited) | 1963-06-04 |
| Movie | House of the Damned | The Giant | 1963-03-01 |
| Movie | Lassie's Great Adventure | Chinook Pete | 1963-08-01 |
| Movie | Eegah | Eegah | 1962-04-17 |
| Movie | The Phantom Planet | The Solarite | 1961-12-13 |
| Series | Thriller | Unknown | 1960-09-13 |
| Series | The Twilight Zone | Unknown | 1959-10-02 |
| Series | The Rifleman | Unknown | 1958-09-30 |