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Topics => The Departed => Topic started by: ChrstnHsbndFthr on September 10, 2014, 10:20:37 PM
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/10/actor-richard-kiel-who-portrayed-bond-villain-jaws/ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/10/actor-richard-kiel-who-portrayed-bond-villain-jaws/)
<Actor Richard Kiel, who menaced Roger Moore’s James Bond as the villainous character Jaws in “The Spy Who Loved Me” and “Moonraker,” has died at the age of 74, according to TMZ. When asked in “Moonraker” by Lois Chiles’ Dr. Holly Goodhead if he “knows him,” Bond famously quipped, “Not socially. His name’s Jaws; he kills people.”
In addition to the steel-toothed henchman in the 007 films, Mr. Kiel appeared in nearly 80 films and television series throughout his half-century career, often in intimidating or monstrous roles.
Mr. Kiel, who stood at a mammoth 7-foot-2, sent up his own image in the Adam Sandler comedy “Happy Gilmore” in 1996, where he played Mr. Larson, a titanic golfer who promised to wait “…for you in the parking lot” as he threatened Christopher McDonald’s smug fellow golfer Shooter McGavin.
An immediate cause of death was not reported, according to TMZ, although Mr. Kiel suffered a broken leg and had recently been hospitalized in Fresno, California.
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I always imagined that he was a very nice person that you never wanted to get crossways with. I don't know if he was nice but I did like to imagine that he was.
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He was in the classic Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734684/?ref_=ttep_ep24 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734684/?ref_=ttep_ep24)
Overcame alcoholism, passed on Darth Vader to be Jaws (big Bond fan) and a former bouncer (makes sense) and cemetary plot salesman (say what?) and Trap appears right about his character, from the last line of his IMBD bio (see link below) - "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."
R.I.P. big fella.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001423/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001423/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm)
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Certainly one of the more memorable characters in movie history.
RIP