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Richard Kiel

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Richard Kiel

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American actor (1939–2014)

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Richard Dawson Kiel (1939–2014) was an American actor, television actor, film actor, and screenwriter. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he began his professional work period in 1960 and continued until 2011. Kiel was a Christian who spoke English and had four children. He stood 218 units tall and lived with the medical condition acromegaly.

Kiel’s published works include *Out without my rubbers* and *Making It Big in the Movies*. He passed away on September 10, 2014, in Fresno due to a myocardial infarction from natural causes.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1939
Works
2

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Film & TV

Acting · Detroit, Michigan, USA

Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 - September 10, 2014) was a huge, and intimidating, European-American character actor, voice artist, and producer. 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…

Known for

  • Happy Gilmore 2 — Mr. Larson (archive footage)2025
  • The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration — Kanamit (archive footage)2019
  • Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars — Self2012
  • Tangled — Vlad (voice)2010
  • Welcome to Sweden2007
  • Best Ever Bond — Self / Jaws2002
  • Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' — Self2000
  • Inside 'Moonraker' — Self2000
  • Inspector Gadget — Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth1999
  • The Secrets of 007 — Self1997

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

    · 1977 · cited 63,277x

  2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    · 2009 · cited 59,180x

  3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

    · 2009 · cited 47,611x

  4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

    · 2009 · cited 47,182x

  5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,472x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Detroit
Place of death
Fresno
Occupation
film producer
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Religion
Christianity
Official website
www.richardkiel.com
Image
Richard Kiel 2.JPG
Height
218
Number of children
4
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Commons category
Richard Kiel
date of birth
1939-09-13
date of death
2014-09-10
medical condition
acromegaly
cause of death
myocardial infarction
manner of death
natural causes
start of work period
1960-00-00
birth name
Richard Dawson Kiel
end of work period
2011-00-00
name in native language
Richard Kiel
writing language
English language
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Encyclopedic overview

Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 – September 10, 2014) was an American actor. Standing 7 feet 1.5 inches (2.17 m) tall, he was notable for portraying Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore (1996). 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). On television, he portrayed the giant alien in the highly regarded 1962 Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man".

Early life, family and education

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