Julian Richings

Julian Richings
Richings at the 2015 CFC Annual BBQ Fundraise
Born	(1956-09-08) 8 September 1956 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1987–present
Children	2

Julian M. Richings (born 8 September 1956) is an English-born Canadian actor. He has appeared in over 50 films and 20 television series.

Early life

Richings was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire. He trained in drama at the University of Exeter.

Career

Richings speaking at Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest in December 2015.

After touring the United States with a British stage production, Richings moved to Toronto, Canada in 1984. Within five years, he had become a regular on the second season of the War of the Worlds TV series. Other roles followed, and he gained critical acclaim as the bitter, aging, punk rock legend Bucky Haight in the 1996 film Hard Core Logo. He had a brief appearance in the 1997 film Cube. In 1999, he appeared in the science fiction film Thrill Seekers.

In 2000, he appeared as Bellanger in The Claim, and earned a Genie Award nomination for best supporting actor. He was a member of the repertory cast of the A&E TV original series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002). He has played the role of Death in The CW's show Supernatural since Season 5, and appeared again in Seasons 6, 7, 9 and 10. He played a very similar version of Death in the short film Dave v. Death (2011). 2003 he appeared as Three Finger in the first Wrong Turn.

Richings is familiar to horror fans for appearing as the nearly-blind security guard Otto in Stephen King's 2004 miniseries Kingdom Hospital, and for his manic performance in heavy makeup as Three Finger in Wrong Turn. Dramatic roles include stagehand Mr. Turnbull in the 2004 film Being Julia. He appeared as Orr, a cruel loan shark in the 2004 Canadian film The Last Casino. In 2006, he appeared in a brief speaking role as the Mutant Theatre Organiser in X-Men: The Last Stand, and played a vampire killer alongside in the direct-to-DVD horror film The Last Sect.

2007 saw Richings play a driver in the film Shoot 'Em Up, a dissipated and aging punk rocker in The Third Eye, transvestite psychologist Dr. Heker in The Tracey Fragments, and a number of small roles in other films, including Skinwalkers and Saw IV. He appeared in the 2008 film The Timekeeper. Richings continues to be active in short films and television series, mostly in Canada. He was presented with two Dora Awards in the late 1980s, and continues to perform professionally in the Toronto area with a number of theatre groups.

In 2008, Richings was nominated for another Dora Award for his performance in The Palace of the End. He confirmed, via an interview on the Canadian TV show InnerSPACE, that he had a part in the 2013 new Superman film Man of Steel. During the interview he was also asked about the campaign to see him become the next Doctor in Doctor Who, one of his favorite childhood TV shows, and admitted to being flattered by the idea. 2014 starred in the Matt Wiele and Chad Archibald, directed Science-Fiction film Ejecta. 2015 starred also in the Robert Eggers directed horror film The Witch and in Corey Misquita's drama film Reign.

Personal life

Richings resides in the Toronto area with his wife and two children.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Love at Stake	Town Crier
1989	The Top of His Head	Robert
1991	Naked Lunch	Exterminator
1994	Squanto: A Warrior's Tale	Sir George's Servant
1995	Moonlight and Valentino	Hair Stylist
1996	Hard Core Logo	Haight
1997	Mimic	Workman
1997	The Boys Club	Officer Cole
1997	Cube	Alderson	Minor role
1997	Ms. Scrooge	Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come]]
1998	Urban Legend	Weird Janitor
1998	Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms	Bix
1998	Red Violin	Nicolas Olsberg
1999	Detroit Rock City	Ticket Taker
1999	Thrill Seekers	Murray Trevor
2000	The Crossing	McKenzie
2000	The Claim	Bellanger
2001	Century Hotel	Waiter
2001	Treed Murray	Homeless Man
2001	Prince Charming	Wacktazar	Television film
2001	The Pretender: Island of the Haunted	Brother Clote
2002	Between Strangers	Nigel
2003	Eloise at the Plaza	Patrice
2003	Open Range	Wylie
2003	My Life Without Me	Dr. Thompson
2003	Wrong Turn	Three Finger
2004	Being Julia	Mr. Turnbull
2004	The Last Casino	The Usurer
2005	Black Widow	Dr. Deadman
2006	Skinwalkers	Sad-Looking Man
2006	X-Men: The Last Stand	Mutant Organizer
2007	Shoot 'Em Up	Hertz's Driver
2007	Saw IV	Vagrant
2007	The Third Eye	Charlie Rabbit
2007	Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost	Mr. Tibers
2007	The Tracey Fragments	Dr. Heker
2008	Heartland	Mr. Hanley
2008	Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid	Mr. Tibers
2008	Jack and Jill vs. the World	Mr. Smith
2008	Roxy Hunter and the Secret of the Shaman	Mr. Tibers
2008	Toronto Stories	Leather Jacket
2008	Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween	Mr. Tibers
2008	Elegy	Actor in Play
2009	The Timekeeper	Grease
2009	You Might as Well Live	Dr. Pooseby
2009	Survival of the Dead	James O'Flynn
2010	Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief	Charon
2010	Hard Core Logo 2	Bucky Haight
2010	Trigger	Bucky
2010	Collaborator	Maurice LeFont
2011	Three Inches	Ethan
2013	Man of Steel	Lor-Em
2013	The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh	Rahn Brothers
2013	The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet	Ricky
2013	The Colony	Leyland
2013	Septic Man	Phil Prosser
2014	Ejecta	William Cassidy
2014	Hellmouth	Smiley
2015	The Rainbow Kid
2015	The Witch	Governor

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989–1990	War of the Worlds	Ardix Alien Scientist Man with Hat	15 episodes
1993	Street Legal	Harold Cooper-Haye	1 episode
1993	Street Legal	Rolan Atkinson	1 episode
1993–1994	Ready or Not	Mr. Boyle	3 episodes
1997–1998	Once a Thief	Camier	11 episodes
1997–1999	La Femme Nikita	Errol Sparks	2 episodes
1998	Highlander: The Raven	Basil Morgan	2 episodes
1999	I Was a Sixth Grade Alien	Meenom	3 episodes
1999–2000	Amazon	Elder Malakai	9 episodes
2002	A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Basil Morgan	Episodes: "Death of a Doxy" "Die Like a Dog" "Murder is Corny" "The Silent Speaker"
2004	Kingdom Hospital	Otto	13 episodes
2004	Puppets Who Kill	French Painter	1 episode
2006	Puppets Who Kill	Mr. Portnoy	1 episode
2008	XIII	Mr. Cody	2 episodes
2009–2010	Heartland	Levon Hanley	2 episodes
2010	Lost Girl	Arval	1 episode
2010–2012	Todd and the Book of Pure Evil	Hooded Leader Atticus Murphy Sr.	2 episodes
2010–2015	Supernatural	Death	5 episodes
2012	Republic of Doyle	Lionel Harris	1 episode (3x11)
2012	Transporter: The Series
2014	Orphan Black	Benjamin Kertland	4 episodes
2015	Hannibal	Caged Man	1 episode

External links

• Julian Richings at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Richings from 2005
• Interview Julian Richings with www.mycoven.com March 2014