There were hoots and howling, applause. I couldn't believe it. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kiel had the hormonal condition acromegaly, which was said to have contributed to his height. His first break came in when he played the alien Kanamit in Twilight Zone.
In recent years, he also spent much of his time touring the world and appearing at conventions to meet Bond fans. In pictures: Richard Kiel. Image source, Rex Features. Kiel got his first acting break in the s. Jaws was so well-received by fans that he was brought back for Moonraker , although audiences were displeased that the silent killer was used for comic relief, robbing him of his menace.
Jaws even falls in love at the end of the film and turns on the villain, Hugo Drax Michael Lonsdale. Jaws didn't make a third appearance in For Your Eyes Only because, by that point, the James Bond producers opted to move in a different direction and make a more grounded and serious film.
The producers reacted to the new landscape and opted to make Moonraker , which had outer space elements like space shuttles and a space station. While Moonraker was an enormous financial success, it was the zenith of how over-the-top and spectacle-driven James Bond movies could become. Scaling back and returning to 's spy-driven roots was the only option to redirect the franchise, but that also left Jaws out in the cold. Jaws' undeniable popularity, especially with younger audiences, ended up kneecapping the monster as a serious Bond villain.
Before production began on Moonraker, director Lewis Gilbert's grandson even asked why Jaws had to be a bad guy, which prompted the shift of the villain losing his edge and becoming sympathetic in the film. Further, the way Jaws survived near-death experiences like falling from an airplane was played for comedy.
The two of them fall in love immediately. After Drax' nerve gas has been analyzed, Bond is sent to the Brazilian jungle, wherethe plant from which the toxin is made grows. While cruising the river, Bond is attacked by Drax' henchmen in speedboats, led by Jaws. Though defeating most of them with the special equipment built into his boat , Bond is eventually forced to drive his boat over the edge of a waterfall, escaping via paraglider.
Not having a glider, Jaws tries to grab the wheel but, again owed to his strength, rips it out, causing his boat to drive over the edge. However, while following one of the Drax's girls in the forest, Bond is lured into Drax's hidden base , where he is captured by Jaws, still wet from his fall. Bond is brought before Drax, who allows Bond to watch via screen how four Moonraker shuttles lift off.
Claiming that Bond has distracted him enough, Drax tells Jaws to place Bond somewhere where he can get warm after his swim. Jaws brings Bond into the chamber underneath the last Moonraker shuttle, where Dr. Goodhead already awaits him. Jaws then enters the shuttle Moonraker 5 and travels into space, safely arriving at Drax' space base with Dolly. At the space base, Drax holds a speech, explaining that he intends to destroy the entire human race except for a small group of carefully selected humans, both male and female, which he views as physically perfected specimen to create a super race with.
After a period of time, when the chemical agent has become harmless, Drax plans for his master race to return to Earth to re-inhabit the planet. This plan disgusts Jaws, who looks at Drax in contempt. After Bond and Goodhead have destroyed the base's radar jammer, Jaws finds the two of them and sneaks up on them.
When Bond turns and sees Jaws, more henchmen arrive. They take Goodhead away while Jaws takes Bond. Bond tries to escape Jaws by hitting him in the face, but only hurts himself due to Jaws' steel teeth. Jaws then brings Goodhead and Bond to Drax. Drax orders Jaws to expel both of them into space but Bond, knowing that Jaws is listening, asks Drax whether anyone not matching his ideals of beauty will be killed.
Drax confirms this. Realising that he and his girlfriend Dolly will not meet Drax's standards, Jaws refuses to obey Drax any longer, instead attacking his henchmen. They are however overwhelmed by Drax's men. To evade the destruction of the approaching shuttle as well as their own deaths, Bond quickly moves and pushes the base's emergency stop button, causing the entire facility to violently shake.
As the base is no longer rotating, it also has no gravity. Bond, Goodhead and Jaws use this advantage to escape from the main room. After the US soldiers have battled Drax's henchmen, the station has taken too much damage and is falling apart. Meanwhile, Jaws has reunited with his girlfriend. In the ruins, they find a bottle of champagne and sit down. Jaws fetches two glasses and says his only words in the series: "Well, here's to us!
After drinking, Jaws and Dolly roam the station. Bond sees the two and talks to Jaws via PA, asking for help. Jaws indeed manages to free the shuttle and Bond and Goodhead lift off, with Jaws and Dolly staying behind. The part of the station containing Jaws and Dolly then breaks off, falling towards Earth, while the rest of the station explodes. Bond, knowing Jaws, comments that they will be alright. At the US base, the commander is told that two survivors were picked up, a tall man and a small blonde woman, implying that Jaws and Dolly indeed survived.
While Jaws and Dolly are not seen again after this, it is presumed that Jaws left his criminal past behind him and lived a happy and contented life with Dolly. Jaws, likely being the most popular of the henchmen and characters in the James Bond franchise, has appeared in numerous video games since his last cinematic appearance in Moonraker. His first appearance was in the Sega Megadrive game The Duel , where he appears multiple times, and also as the final opponent of the game.
His second appearance would be in , in the Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye , in which Jaws — for unknown reasons — is working for Drax Corporation once again in a bonus level. In , Jaws appeared in Racing , where Jaws had survived the space capsule wreckage and became villainous again after Dolly was killed in the wreckage debris and worked for a car industry businessman named Hammond Litte.
In , he appeared in Nightfire , but only as a multiplayer character. In , Jaws appeared again in the video game Everything or Nothing , working for the game's main villain, Nikolai Diavolo. Richard Kiel is credited, because his face and body was used to create the 3D game model.
He recorded no dialogue for the game only grunts. Jaws makes an appearance in the Goldeneye remake in the multiplayer as a playable character in the splitscreen mode, and on Classic Conflict mode online.
He has appeared in game Legends. He seems to enjoy tearing out the jugulars of his victims after scaring them half to death.
The henchman speaks very rarely although he is fully capable of doing so. Trying to get a bantering dialogue going with him in combat situations is useless.
Plus, the likes of Bond will be too busy simply trying to survive to even contemplate banter. When taking orders from his employer Jaws usually just nods and gets going. His intents are usually apparent from his body language. While not too intelligent, he is actually somewhat smarter than people usually give him credit for, and will perform some trickery. There is, at times, a certain slyness about him and his methods - he does use covers and disguises - and underestimating would be a severe mistake.
At the same time he exhibits some of the behavior of a child. While Jaws mostly does missions solo, he is not above teaming up with other henchmen or even opponents if justified. He seems to find it amusing that Bond has survived him so many times, and usually greets him with a grin upon meeting him again. He always does what his employers tell him to do unless they try to have him killed ; if that happens he will look after his own interests and ally with former enemies, because as a professional he bears no ill will towards them.
Neither will he be part of anything that could lead to the destruction of mankind or the Earth. Jaws is also an exceptionally strong and tough man, being able to lift people up with both hands and hold up extremely heavy weights in general, e. Jaws survived collapsing structures, being thrown from a train and getting electrocuted, falling from a cliff while being in a car, and the entire Atlantis falling on him; he manages to survive without a scratch.
For being such a large man he is very quiet and stealthy, capable of surprising or evading the most perceptive of opponents. His famous bite attack, using his titanium teeth, is strong enough to easily cut through metal chains or flesh, and can even withstand a bullet. He also easily killed a shark by biting it numerous times.
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