# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-kiel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:22:56.937Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-kiel"
name: "Richard Kiel"
slug: "richard-kiel"
description: "Richard Dawson Kiel 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\"."
tagline: "American actor (1939–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Kiel_2.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-09-13"
deathDate: "2014-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0001423"
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    url:       "http://www.richardkiel.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump