Year: 2014

The terror!!! Don't know that I have five of these left, but I'll burn off what I have.

Watching Kiel manhandle small dudes like Arch Hall Jr. or (the admittedly super-fit) Robert Conrad was always kind of a trip. And who could blame him for trying to stop all that 'singing'?

#1000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This must have been a nice change of pace for Mr. Kiel. Here he played a scientist (an alien one, to boot), instead of just a hulking menacing sidekick. As is often the case, he is thwarted when he learns a bit too much about what we humans call love.

Kiel also played the more fondly remembered Père Malfait on the show, but that creature was but briefly seen. He got a lot more screentime in this episode.

What Might Have Been: Mr. Kiel was originally cast to play the Hulk on the old Bill Bixby TV show. Although certainly muscular and a veritable giant, they realized he just didn't look as gigantically muscled as the Hulk should be. Mr. Kiel was replaced by the far more familiar Lou Ferrigno. This brief…

Long time Jabootu correspondent Sandra sent me a batch of Richard Kiel photos in honor of his passing. Mr. Kiel often played monsters because of his gigantic size. Quite often, however, they were pretty much just giants, saving on make-up and such. Several of his actually overtly monstrous ones have already been featured here,…

It was surprisingly difficult to find a still from the movie featuring this, but this publicity photo is more famous anyway.

They say dogs and their owners grow to look more alike, but c'mon.

Working for scale.

Always put your best face forward.