Post by sb5 on Sept 10, 2014 20:39:13 GMT -5
deadline.com/2014/09/richard-kiel-dead-james-bond-jaws-dies-832811/
Rest in Peace, and watch out for snakes, Richard...
Edit: Sorry, didn't see this thread in the other forum.
The towering actor who played Jaws in a pair of Roger Moore-era 007 movies and the enigmatic alien in one of the most famous episodes of The Twilight Zone has died. ToServeManRichard Kiel, who was days shy of his 75th birthday, died today at St. Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, CA, a hospital rep told the Associated Press. The 7-foot-2 actor with the crooked smile got his start in early-1060s TV, appearing in such series as Thriller, Laramie and The Rifleman. Kiel appeared in the 1962 sci-fi feature The Phantom Planet before landing the chilling Twilight Zone role. In “To Serve Man,” he played a representative of an advanced alien race called the Kanamits who alight on Earth bearing what seems to be good will. Kiel delivers a mysterious encrypted book to a meeting of the United Nations, and the episode soars from there.
The actor probably best known for his over-the-top — though not by Bond standards — villain Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979). Blessed and/or cursed with metal teeth that could bite through just about anything, he gave a Moore’s Bond major headaches as he pursued the spy through Egypt, England and Brazil before seeing the error of his mercenary-assassin ways.
The actor probably best known for his over-the-top — though not by Bond standards — villain Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979). Blessed and/or cursed with metal teeth that could bite through just about anything, he gave a Moore’s Bond major headaches as he pursued the spy through Egypt, England and Brazil before seeing the error of his mercenary-assassin ways.
Rest in Peace, and watch out for snakes, Richard...
Edit: Sorry, didn't see this thread in the other forum.
