Richard Kiel
Richard Kiel (* September 13, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan ) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the Biter in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker - Top Secret. He also played in later films with, for example, in Pale Rider - The unnamed rider by Clint Eastwood.
Life
Exceptional is his height of 2.17 meters, which is due to the hormonal disorder acromegaly. He was great at the age of 18 years over two meters. Originally Kiel mathematics teacher until a producer noticed him and gave him a guest role in an episode of the series at the foot of the Blue Mountains. From then on, appeared again and again in Kiel on television series and was soon a familiar face on American television.
1976 Kiel played in Trans America Express the "giant guy with the not very attractive set of teeth ", which consisted entirely of gold teeth. The mid-70s were the producers of the James Bond series noticed him and gave him the role of " biter " in The Spy Who Loved Me, a figure that does not appear in the novel. Kiel had to wear a metal teeth that triggered nausea with him. So Roger Moore recalled, for example, the fact that he is " not witness " could, if Kiel choke and the teeth had to take out of its mouth. However, Kiel said later that the rotation it had been great fun, and the teeth had only been a little evil.
Weil Richard Kiel was known as " the biter " so popular with test audiences, the authors did not let him (as in James Bond films usual ) die. When the film came in the late 1970s to the cinema, he was a hit, and Richard Kiel was even more popular than he had thought: The biter enjoyed not only among James Bond fans great popularity, but he was a classic anti-hero par excellence. The producers were Richard Kiel in Moonraker - play the biter Top Secret one more time. The plot of the film was moved partly into space due to the huge success of Star Wars.
Kiel is asked today for autographs terms of its role as the Biter.
Since a car accident in 1991 Kiel used to walking a walker for longer distances or a battery-powered wheelchair, as it has since problems with balance.