About Richard Kiel: Wedding, Age, Ethnicity, Relationship, Net Worth

Known for movies

Short Info

Net Worth	$1 million
Date Of Birth	September 13, 1939
Died	September 10, 2014, Fresno, California, United States
Spouse	Diane Rogers (m. 1974–2014), Faye Daniels (m. 1960–1973)
Mark	Towering height and menacing frame
Fact	Wrote his autobiography "Making It BIG In The Movies. Published by Reynolds & Hearne of London, England. [2002]

Richard Kiel was born on September 13, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were both of German descent. Kiel had two older brothers. Kiel’s father was a plant superintendent for the Ford Motor Company. Kiel’s early education took place in Detroit public schools.

Kiel began his acting career in the early 1960s. His first film role was in the 1962 film The Longest Day. Kiel’s most famous role was as the villain Jaws in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Kiel also appeared in the Bond films Moonraker (1979) and GoldenEye (1995).

Kiel’s other film roles include The Phantom (1996), The Nutty Professor (1996), and Happy Gilmore (1996). Kiel also had a recurring role on the television series The Fall Guy (1981-1982).

Kiel’s final film role was in the 2014 film Tangled. He died on September 10, 2014 at the age of 74.

Kiel was married twice. His first marriage was to Diane Rogers from 1960 to 1974. They had two children together. Kiel’s second marriage was to Faye Daniels from 1974 to his death in 2014. They had one child together.

Kiel was 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) tall and weighed 119 kg (262 lb).

General Info

Full Name	Richard Kiel
Net Worth	$1 million
Date Of Birth	September 13, 1939
Died	September 10, 2014, Fresno, California, United States
Height	2.18 m
Profession	Security guard, Voice Actor, Author, Salesman, Teacher
Nationality	American

Family

Spouse	Diane Rogers (m. 1974–2014), Faye Daniels (m. 1960–1973)
Children	Bennett Kiel, Richard George Kiel, Jennifer Kiel, Christopher Kiel

Accomplishments

Movies	Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me, Happy Gilmore, Tangled, Eegah, Pale Rider, The Longest Yard, Force 10 from Navarone, Inspector Gadget, Cannonball Run II, The Giant of Thunder Mountain, The Human Duplicators, The Phantom Planet, So Fine, The Humanoid, They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way, Aces Go Place...
TV Shows	Barbary Coast, Van Dyke and Company

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0001423

Marks

#	Marks / Signs
1	Towering height and menacing frame

Quotes

#	Quote
1	It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
2	Once a Bond fan, always a Bond fan.
3	I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really 'big' weighing around 350 pounds.
4	Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.
5	To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

Facts

#	Fact
1	Died 3 days before his 75th birthday after a fall at home in which he broke his leg. He may have died from the amount of anaesthetic because of his height.
2	Was very good friends with Roger Moore. Between his friendship with Moore and the popularity of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me(1977), he was asked to come back for Moonraker(1979).
3	Despite often playing big, scary people in his career, he was well-known for being a very kind and friendly man who was friends with many people he worked with.
4	He died three days shy of his 75th birthday.
5	Lived in a custom built house with the floor a few feet below ground level.
6	In Spain, he is known as "Tiburón".
7	Signed autographs at The Mad Monster Party in Charlotte, NC on March 21-23, 2014. Was also on a Twilight Zone Panel on March 22nd with William Shatner and Anne Serling, Rod Serling's daughter.
8	Signed autographs and sold books at OmegaCon. [March 2008]
9	Walnut Creek, CA: Attended the Vintage Toys & Memorabilia Show [April 2013]
10	Attended The Scandinavian Sci-Fi, Game & Film Convention in Helsingborg, Sweden [October 2009]
11	Signing autographs at the Sims and Hankow Astronaut Autograph Show in Burbank, California, due to his portrayal of "Ali" in I Dream of Jeannie (1965). Uses a walking stick normally, but at convention he uses a battery powered scooter. [September 2004]
12	Wrote his autobiography "Making It BIG In The Movies. Published by Reynolds & Hearne of London, England. [2002]
13	Attended The Scandinavian Sci-Fi, Game & Film Convention in Stockholm, Sweden. [October 2003]
14	Autograph session at Bally's Hotel/Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada. [December 2006]
15	Completed Kentucky Lion, The Cassius Marcellus Clay Story, a historical novel which is co-authored by Pamela Wallace who co-wrote the Academy Award winning screenplay for the movie, Witness (1985), with Harrison Ford. [2003]
16	Beaulieu, Hampshire, UK: Selling books and signing autographs at the Motor Museum [May 2013]
17	Attended Wondercon in San Francisco, signing autographs. [February 2009]
18	Signing autographs at a DVD-Trading market in Cologne, Germany. [January 2004]
19	Attended The Scandinavian Sci-Fi, Game & Film Convention in Malmö, Sweden. [May 2000]
20	Working on his third book which is "You can be a supersalesman using Christian principles." [2003]
21	He was terrified of heights, something not helped by Kiel's gigantic size. He often shuddered at some of the stunts he had to perform as Jaws, so Martin Grace, Roger Moore's stunt double, would fill in for him. He did a superb job of capturing Kiel's movements even though he was a foot shorter, but when watching the films, nobody could tell them apart.
22	Offered the role of Chewbacca, but turned it down in favor of playing Jaws. He preferred Jaws because he felt he could bring more to the role whereas Chewbacca required a full costume. Taking the role also meant working for scale and Kiel had been working for so long that he felt such a low salary was beneath him.
23	Interviewed in Tom Weaver's books "Eye on Science Fiction" (McFarland & Co., 2003) and "A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde" (McFarland & Co., 2010).
24	His son "Richard George" appears in the film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). He is the little boy on the beach pointing to the upcoming car that "James Bond" is driving from the water.
25	Appeared in a National Geographic special produced by David L. Wolper in which he portrayed Big Foot.
26	Owns a film production company in Oakhurst, California.
27	Worked as a bouncer at a Los Angeles nightclub, before being recruited by Arch Hall Sr. for the lead role in Eegah (1962).
28	In 1992 he was in a serious automobile accident that affected his auto-balance, and he now walks using a walking stick or rides a battery-powered scooter around if he has to go very far. In Happy Gilmore (1996) he is never seen walking and almost all of his scenes are from the waist up. There are only two full body scenes and both times he is leaning on something. The first is a post, the second is a man.
29	Once said that people are always confusing him with André the Giant, Fred Gwynne ("Herman Munster" from The Munsters (1964)), or Ted Cassidy ("Lurch" from The Addams Family (1964)), all of whom are deceased.
30	Original choice to play the title character in the television series The Incredible Hulk (1978). After 2 days of filming it was decided that he was not "bulky" enough for the role. He was paid for the two movies of the week and replaced by Lou Ferrigno. He was happy this happened because he only had sight in one eye and the full contact lenses were bothering him.
31	He is best known for playing Jaws, a giant and seemingly unstoppable assassin with steel teeth who battled James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

Pictures

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Movies

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Engagement Ring		announced	Patterson
BloodHounds, Inc	2011	TV Series	Giant
Tangled	2010		Vlad (voice)
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing	2003	Video Game	Jaws (voice)
BloodHounds, Inc. #5: Fangs for the Memories	2000	Video	Mortimer
Inspector Gadget	1999		Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth
Happy Gilmore	1996		Mr. Larson
The Giant of Thunder Mountain	1991		Eli Weaver
The Princess and the Dwarf	1989
Superboy	1989	TV Series	Vlkabok
Think Big	1989		Irving
Out of This World	1988	TV Series	Norman
Qing bao long hu men	1985		Laszlo
Pale Rider	1985		Club
Cannonball Run II	1984		Arnold, Mitsubishi Driver
Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street	1984		Big G
Phoenix	1983		Steel Hand
Simon & Simon	1983	TV Series	Mark Horton
Hysterical	1983		Captain Howdy
The Fall Guy	1981	TV Series	Animal
So Fine	1981		Eddie
Moonraker	1979		Jaws
The Humanoid	1979		Golob
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way	1978		Duke
Force 10 from Navarone	1978		Drazak
The Incredible Hulk	1977	TV Series	The Hulk (one scene only)
Young Dan'l Boone	1977	TV Series	Grimm
The Spy Who Loved Me	1977		Jaws
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries	1977	TV Series	Manager - 'Haunted House'
Silver Streak	1976		Reace
Land of the Lost	1976	TV Series	Malak
Gus	1976		Tall Man
Starsky and Hutch	1976	TV Series	Iggy
Barbary Coast	1975-1976	TV Series	Moose Moran
Switch	1975	TV Series	Loach
Flash and the Firecat	1975		Milo Pewett
Kolchak: The Night Stalker	1974	TV Series	The Monster / The Diablero
Emergency!	1974	TV Series	Carlo
The Longest Yard	1974		Samson (as Dick Kiel)
Deadhead Miles	1973		Big Dick
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color	1970	TV Series	Luke Brown
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant	1970	TV Movie	Luke Brown
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever	1970		Blacksmith (uncredited)
Daniel Boone	1969	TV Series	Lemouche
It Takes a Thief	1968	TV Series	Willy
Skidoo	1968		Beany
Now You See It, Now You Don't	1968	TV Movie	Nori
A Man Called Dagger	1968		Otto
The Wild Wild West	1965-1968	TV Series	Voltaire / Dimas
I Spy	1968	TV Series	Tiny
The Monroes	1967	TV Series	Casmir
The Monkees	1967	TV Series	Monster
Lassie	1963-1966	TV Series	Chinook Pete / Dinny
The Las Vegas Hillbillys	1966		Moose
Gilligan's Island	1966	TV Series	The Ghost Russian Agent
My Mother the Car	1966	TV Series	Cracks
Honey West	1966	TV Series	Groalgo
I Dream of Jeannie	1965	TV Series	Ali
Brainstorm	1965		Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	1964-1965	TV Series	Merry / Thug in Vulcan's Factory
The Human Duplicators	1965		Dr. Kolos
Two on a Guillotine	1965		Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)
The Nasty Rabbit	1964		Ranch foreman (uncredited)
Roustabout	1964		Strongman (uncredited)
30 Minutes at Gunsight	1963	TV Short
Lassie's Great Adventure	1963		Chinook Pete
The Nutty Professor	1963		Man in Gym (uncredited)
House of the Damned	1963		The Giant
Eegah	1962		Eegah
The Twilight Zone	1962	TV Series	Kanamit
The Phantom	1961	TV Movie	Big Mike
The Phantom Planet	1961		The Solarite
The Rifleman	1961	TV Series	Carl Hazlitt
King of Diamonds	1961	TV Series	Doorman
Laramie	1961	TV Series	Rake - Tolan's helper
Thriller	1961	TV Series	Master Styx
Klondike	1960	TV Series	Duff Brannigan
The D.I.	1957		Ugly Marine (uncredited)

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Giant of Thunder Mountain	1991	screenplay

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Giant of Thunder Mountain	1991	executive producer

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Freddy Jenkins Show	2014	TV Mini-Series short in memory of - 1 episode
Edición Especial Coleccionista	2014	TV Series in memory of - 1 episode

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Legends	2000	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files	1997	TV Movie documentary	Himself / Jaws
The World of James Bond	1995	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Gottschalk Late Night	1993	TV Series	Himself
30 Years of James Bond	1992	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Praise the Lord	1986	TV Series	Himself
Late Night with David Letterman	1985	TV Series	Himself
The 54th Annual Academy Awards	1982	TV Special documentary	Jaws: For Your Eyes Only musical segment
The New Battlestars	1981	TV Series	Himself
The 1980 Sci-Fi Awards	1980	TV Special	Himself
The Mike Douglas Show	1977-1980	TV Series	Himself - Actor / Himself
Circus of the Stars #4	1979	TV Special documentary	Himself - Performer
Am laufenden Band	1979	TV Series	Himself
The Hollywood Squares	1979	TV Series	Guest Appearance
Good Morning America	1979	TV Series	Himself
La nuit des Césars	1979	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Making of James Bond - 007	1977	TV Series documentary	Himself
Van Dyke and Company	1976	TV Series	Himself / Ventriloquist
Van Dyke and Company	1975	TV Special	Himself
This Morning	2013	TV Series	Himself
Soccer AM	2012	TV Series	Himself
Piers Morgan's Life Stories	2012	TV Series	Himself / Jaws
Totally Tracked Down	2010	TV Series	Himself
Welcome to Sweden	2007	TV Series	Himself
Gylne tider	2006-2007	TV Series documentary	Himself
007 in Egypt	2006	Video documentary short	Himself
Circus Footage	2006	Video documentary short	Himself / Jaws
After They Were Famous	2005	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Ultimate Film	2004	TV Movie documentary	Himself
James Bond: A BAFTA Tribute	2002	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Best Ever Bond	2002	TV Movie documentary	Himself
E! True Hollywood Story	2002	TV Series documentary	Himself
Inside 'Moonraker'	2000	Video documentary short	Himself
Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'	2000	Video documentary short	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
No Small Parts	2015	TV Series documentary	Himself
The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards	2015	TV Special	Himself - In Memoriam
Top Gear	2012	TV Series	Jaws
My Invisible Friend	2010	Short	Jaws
Cable Car Alternative: Storyboard 1	2006	Video	Himself
Cable Car Alternative: Storyboard 2	2006	Video	Himself
Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond	2002	TV Movie documentary	Jaws
Double-O Stunts	2000	Video documentary short	Jaws
Inside 'A View to a Kill'	2000	Video documentary short	Jaws
Ken Adam: Designing Bond	2000	Video documentary short	Jaws (uncredited)
007 Racing	2000	Video Game	Jaws
Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond	1987	TV Movie documentary	Jaws
James Bond: The First 21 Years	1983	TV Movie documentary	Jaws
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color	1977	TV Series	Tall Man
To Trap a Spy	1964		Thug in Vulcan's Factory (uncredited)