Richard Kiel

Richard Kiel was an American actor whose distinctive screen presence made him especially recognisable as Jaws in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. Born in Detroit in 1939, he worked in film and television for more than five decades.

His earlier television roles included the alien emissary in The Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man and Voltaire in The Wild Wild West. Later appearances included Silver Streak and Happy Gilmore, and he voiced Vlad in Disney’s Tangled. He died in 2014, leaving a career that ranged from threatening villains to sympathetic and comic characters.