Richard Kiel

Richard Kiel

Birthday: 1939-09-13

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

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Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget

John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion pl...

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The Spy Who Loved Me
The Spy Who Loved Me

Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace...

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Moonraker
Moonraker

After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to i...

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The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration

Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a specia...

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Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street

A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuab...

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Silver Streak
Silver Streak

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murder...

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Eegah
Eegah

Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage....

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Cannonball Run II
Cannonball Run II

When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one p...

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Pale Rider
Pale Rider

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to en...

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Skidoo
Skidoo

Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow m...

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Happy Gilmore
Happy Gilmore

Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on th...

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The Phantom Planet
The Phantom Planet

After an asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom ...

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The Human Duplicators
The Human Duplicators

An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and crea...

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Think Big
Think Big

Two truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who ...

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Force 10 from Navarone
Force 10 from Navarone

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Y...

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Hysterical
Hysterical

Frederic Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; ho...

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The Humanoid
The Humanoid

Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help o...

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So Fine
So Fine

While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into a...

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House of the Damned
House of the Damned

An architect and his wife are staying in an empty castle in California. They are joined by an unhapp...

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

Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison i...

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The Nasty Rabbit
The Nasty Rabbit

Russian spies secretly infect rabbits with a deadly bacteria, then let them loose in the U.S....

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Now You See It, Now You Don't
Now You See It, Now You Don't

A bumbling art expert, hired by an insurance company to protect a Rembrandt on loan from the Louvre,...

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The Giant of Thunder Mountain
The Giant of Thunder Mountain

A mountain man is falsely accused of the murder of his parents....

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A Man Called Dagger
A Man Called Dagger

An agent finds himself pitted against a former Nazi who plans to become ruler of the world through m...

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The Phantom
The Phantom

The Phantom, along with canine companion Devil, investigate wicked doings at the plantation of Mrs. ...

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Lassie's Great Adventure
Lassie's Great Adventure

While in Canada Timmy and Lassie encounter a downed hot air ballonist. By accident they end up in th...

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Tangled
Tangled

Feisty teenager Rapunzel, who has long and magical hair, wants to go and see sky lanterns on her eig...

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Gus
Gus

The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from tea...

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Brainstorm
Brainstorm

Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her....

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Best Ever Bond
Best Ever Bond

Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast...

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Flash and the Firecat
Flash and the Firecat

Gang of robbers use dune buggies for their big heist....

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The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor

A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suav...

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Mob Busters
Mob Busters

An American in Hong Kong battles mobsters....

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The Phoenix
The Phoenix

With the clash of steel from his mighty magic sword and the beat of the wings of the giant Phoenix, ...

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The Longest Yard
The Longest Yard

A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards...

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Deadhead Miles
Deadhead Miles

A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18...

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The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They ...

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Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

Richard Hammond celebrates 50 years of Bond's amazing history with cars revealing the entertaining b...

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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers,...

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Las Vegas Hillbillys
Las Vegas Hillbillys

A Hillbilly hits the big time in Las Vegas....

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Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me"...

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Inside 'Moonraker'
Inside 'Moonraker'

Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Moonraker'. Narated by Patrick Macnee...

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The World of James Bond
The World of James Bond

Elizabeth Hurley hosts a one hour documentary on the history of the James Bond film series to tie in...

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The Secrets of 007
The Secrets of 007

Behind-the-scenes look at more than three decades of the James Bond feature film series....

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Two on a Guillotine
Two on a Guillotine

The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a gui...

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Roustabout
Roustabout

After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his...

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To Trap a Spy
To Trap a Spy

The men from U.N.C.L.E. are off to Africa to stop the assassination of a president....

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Lassie's Greatest Adventure
Lassie's Greatest Adventure

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