Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-09-13

Deathday

2014-09-10 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also Known As

李察基路
Richard Dawson Kiel

Richard Kiel

Biography

Richard Dawson Kiel 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.

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Known For

7.6%

Tangled

Nov 24, 2010

6.6%

Happy Gilmore

Feb 16, 1996

6.8%

The Spy Who Loved Me

Jul 7, 1977

6.2%

Moonraker

Jun 26, 1979

4.5%

Inspector Gadget

Jul 23, 1999

7.2%

Pale Rider

Jun 28, 1985

8.4%

The Twilight Zone

Oct 2, 1959

7.8%

I Dream of Jeannie

Sep 18, 1965

6.6%

The Nutty Professor

Jun 4, 1963

6.7%

Silver Streak

Dec 3, 1976

5.4%

Cannonball Run II

Jun 29, 1984

6.2%

Force 10 from Navarone

Aug 16, 1978

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Acting

2019

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration as Kanamit (archive footage)

2012

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars as Self

2010

Tangled as Vlad (voice)

2007

Welcome to Sweden

2004

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made as Eegah (archive footage)

2002

Best Ever Bond as Self / Jaws

2000		Inside 'Moonraker' as Self
2000		Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' as Self

1999

Inspector Gadget as Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth

1997

The Secrets of 007 as Self

1996		E! True Hollywood Story
1996		Happy Gilmore as Mr. Larson

1995

The World of James Bond

1990

The Giant of Thunder Mountain as Eli Weaver

1989

Think Big as Irving

1988

Superboy

1985		Pale Rider as Club
1985		Mob Busters

1984		Cannonball Run II as Arnold
1984		Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street as Big G

1982		Hysterical as Captain James Howdy
1982		Late Night with David Letterman as Self

1981		Simon & Simon
1981		The Fall Guy
1981		So Fine as Eddie

1979		Moonraker as Jaws
1979		The Humanoid as Golob

1978		They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way as Duke
1978		Force 10 from Navarone as Drazak
1978		The Phoenix as Grasshopper

1977		Young Dan'l Boone
1977		The Spy Who Loved Me as Jaws
1977		The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

1976		Silver Streak as Reace
1976		Gus as Tall Man

1975		Van Dyke and Company as Self
1975		Starsky & Hutch
1975		Switch as Loach
1975		Barbary Coast as Moose Moran
1975		Flash and the Firecat as Milo Pewett
1975		Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self

1974		Kolchak: The Night Stalker as The Monster
1974		The Longest Yard as Samson
1974		Am laufenden Band as Self - Guest

1972		Deadhead Miles as Big Dick
1972		Emergency!

1970		The Boy Who Stole the Elephant as Luke Brown
1970		On a Clear Day You Can See Forever as Blacksmith (uncredited)

1968		Skidoo as Beany
1968		Now You See It, Now You Don't as Nori
1968		A Man Called Dagger as Otto

1966		The Monkees as Monster
1966		The Monroes
1966		Las Vegas Hillbillys

1965		I Dream of Jeannie as Ali
1965		The Wild Wild West
1965		Honey West as Groalgo
1965		My Mother the Car
1965		Brainstorm as Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
1965		The Human Duplicators as Dr. Kolos
1965		Two on a Guillotine as Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)

1964		The Nasty Rabbit as Ranch Foreman
1964		Gilligan's Island
1964		Daniel Boone as Lemouche
1964		The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1963		Lassie's Great Adventure as Chinook Pete
1963		The Nutty Professor as Man in Gym (uncredited)
1963		House of the Damned as The Giant

1962

Eegah as Eegah

1961		The Phantom Planet as The Solarite
1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		The Phantom as Big Mike

1960

Thriller as Master Styx

1959

The Twilight Zone as Kanamit

1958

The Rifleman

Writing

1990

The Giant of Thunder Mountain as Writer