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Richard Kiel

Richard Kiel
Richard Kiel
Born: Sep 13, 1939 in Redford, Michigan
Occupation: Actor,
Active: '60s-'90s
Major Genres: Comedy, Action
Career Highlights: The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, They Went That-A-Way and That-A-Way
First Major Screen Credit: Eegah! (1962)
11 Videos for Richard Kiel
Happy Gilmore (1996) Cannonball Run II (1984) The Longest Yard (1974)
Giant of Thunder Mountain (1991) Moonraker (1979) The Human Duplicators (1964)
Think Big (1990) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Eegah! (1962)
Pale Rider (1985) Silver Streak (1976)
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Biography:

We shouldn't say it, but...at seven foot two, American actor Richard Kiel was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Making the cast-call rounds while working as a nightclub bouncer, Kiel began picking up bit roles in the early '60s. He was the misleadingly altruistic alien in the classic 1962 Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man (you'll remember that climactic line It's a cookbook!) and was less prestigiously starred in that masterpiece of bad cinema, Eegah! (1962).

Ambling through a series a tough-lug and town-bully roles, Kiel attained full stardom as the menacing, steel-dentured Jaws in the the 1977 James Bond flick The Spy Who Loved Me. So well-received was this appearance that the scriptwriters contrived to bring Jaws back from the dead in the next Bondfest, Moonraker (1979), wherein Kiel becomes a good guy before the end and even gets a girlfriend.

In 1992, Richard Kiel turned producer/director (in addition to starring) with the appropriately titled The Giant of Thunder Mountain, a four waller which was released on a city-by-city basis. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.