{"id":45099,"date":"2014-09-10T19:51:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T01:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/rip-richard-kiel.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T17:18:23","slug":"rip-richard-kiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/rip-richard-kiel.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, RIchard Kiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I honestly never much cared for the James Bond villain &quot;Jaws&quot; &#8212; he struck me as part of the indulgent silliness of the mid-late Roger Moore era. But Richard Kiel had lots of other genre chops, most notably as Dr Miguelito Lovelace&#39;s assistant Voltaire on &quot;The Wild, Wild West,&quot; and as the looming, oh-so-helpful alien with a mysterious book on the classic &quot;Twlight Zone&quot; ep &quot;To Serve Man.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the good times, Mr Kiel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:block;' href='http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/james-bond-villain-richard-kiel-732088'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/qkKV3alpm2IQCjIfSV336EGSv7vy_NVvxoIop92zWmy2ea-xxy2xwip_nqcdq_RS1m7umIsjNm30XtwSOW05eWVfM4iq_ETr0ACSOM6EMpT50l3fmn3D8--iOX-QUml2NJeqItbJQHqewjv328lxwPJD3bqXGQ=w120-h120' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/james-bond-villain-richard-kiel-732088'>James Bond Villain Richard Kiel Dies at 74 &#8211; Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nRichard Kiel, the 7-foot-2 actor who played Jaws, the James Bond villain with the teeth of steel, ;died Wednesday, ;according to TMZ. He was 74.<br \/>\nK&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/3EtnR9xMDdL'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I honestly never much cared for the James Bond villain &quot;Jaws&quot; &#8212; he struck me as part of the indulgent silliness of the mid-late Roger Moore era. But Richard Kiel had lots of other genre chops, most notably as Dr Miguelito Lovelace&#39;s assistant Voltaire on &quot;The Wild, Wild West,&quot; and as the looming, oh-so-helpful alien &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/rip-richard-kiel.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, RIchard Kiel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-performers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1651,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/01\/more_quizzes.html","url_meta":{"origin":45099,"position":0},"title":"More quizzes","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Dec-01 2:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If I was a James Bond villain, I would be Oddjob.I enjoy bowler hats, golf caddying, and killing people in hand-to-hand combat.I am played by Harold Sakata in Goldfinger.Who would...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Personality Tests&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Personality Tests","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/personality-tests"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.physics.usyd.edu.au\/~mar\/bond\/oddjob.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":130152,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/10\/rip-ken-adam.html","url_meta":{"origin":45099,"position":1},"title":"RIP, Ken Adam","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Mar-16 11:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Aw, man. 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