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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on September 11, 2014, 05:48:52 AM
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I saw this over at CU.
Sad. :(
Richard Kiel, Jaws from Bond films, dies
(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/9b9ece17c48e2565ba542fec0246176a46fc1c11/c=0-184-2481-2049&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/USATODAY/WiresImages/2014/09/10/80f8fa39c49e58235f0f6a7067004a49.jpg)
9:20 p.m. EDT September 10, 2014
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Richard Kiel, the towering actor best known for portraying steel-toothed villain Jaws in a pair of James Bond films, has died. He was 74.
Kelley Sanchez, director of communications at St. Agnes Medical Center, confirmed Wednesday that Kiel was a patient at the hospital and died. She declined to provide further details.
The 7-foot-2-inch performer famously played the cable-chomping henchman who tussled with Roger Moore's Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. His massive height was attributed to a hormonal condition called acromegaly.
The rest is here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/09/10/jaws-actor-from-bond-films-richard-kiel-dies-at-74/15422945/
Rest in peace, Mr. Kiel.
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I'm glad I got the chance to meet him and get his autograph at a one night showing of "The Spy Who Loved Me" Put on by my friend Bruce Crawford a few years back.
http://www.omahafilmevent.com/past/spy007bond1.htm
I helped with the display that was set up for the event by the model club I belong too.