Julian Richings

Julian Richings (2015)

Julian Richings (born September 8, 1955 in Oxford , England , Great Britain ) is a British- Canadian actor who mainly works in Canadian film and television productions.

Life

Richings studied drama at the University of Exeter and then toured North America with a British stage company. In 1984 he moved from England to Toronto , Canada, where he became the regular cast of the television series War of the Worlds in the second season . In the dramatic agent series Nikita he can be seen in two episodes as the villain Errol Sparks . He also played the cannibal Three Finger in the horror series Wrong Turn . He also embodied the aging punk rock legend Bucky Haigh in the film Hard Core Logo and had a brief appearance in the globally successful science fiction horror film Cube by Vincenzo Natali . For the role of Bellanger in the movie The Empire and the Glory , he was nominated for the Genie Award in 2002 for best supporting actor .

The German public is mainly due to the role of the nearly blind security guard Richings Otto in the miniseries Kingdom Hospital by Stephen King known. He also voiced the dog Blondie in the series.

Furthermore, Richings starred alongside Annette Bening in the comedy film Being Julia and had a brief appearance in the 2006 science fiction film X-Men: The Last Stand .

Richings lives in Toronto with his wife and two children and is a British and Canadian citizen.

Filmography (selection)

• 1987: bewitched again! (Love at Stake)
• 1989: The Top of His Head
• 1989–1990: War of the Worlds (TV series)
• 1995: Nick Knight - Der Vampircop (Forever Knight) (episode: A More Permanent Hell )
• 1995: Moonlight and Valentino (Moonlight & Valentino)
• 1997: Mimic - attack of the killer insects (Mimic)
• 1997: Cube
• 1997, 1999: Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (Episodes 1.03: Death of a friend , 3.16: The evacuation )
• 1998: The Red Violin ( The Red Violin )
• 1998: Dark Legends (Urban Legend)
• 1999: Time Travel to Disaster (The Time Shifters)
• 1999: Detroit Rock City
• 1999: Alice in Wonderland
• 1999–2000: Amazon - Prisoners of the Jungle (Peter Benchley's Amazon)
• 2000: The Empire and Glory (The Claim)
• 2000: The Crossing - The decisive battle (The Crossing)
• 2003: My Life Without Me (My Life Without Me)
• 2003: Wrong Turn
• 2003: Open Range - Weites Land (Open Range)
• 2004: Kingdom Hospital (Miniseries)
• 2004: Being Julia
• 2004: The Last Casino
• 2006: X- Men: The Last Stand
• 2006: The Last Sect
• 2007: Shoot 'Em Up
• 2007: The Tracey Fragments
• 2007: Saw IV
• 2008: Jack and Jill vs. the world
• 2008: XIII - The Conspiracy
• 2008: The sea wolf
• 2009-2010: Heartland - Paradise for Horses (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2010: Percy Jackson - Thieves in Olympus (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief)
• 2010-2015: Supernatural (TV series, 5 episodes)
• 2013: Man of Steel
• 2014–2016: Orphan Black (TV series, 7 episodes)
• 2015: Hannibal (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2015: The Expanse (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2018: Just Weird (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2018: The Magicians (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2019: Doom Patrol (TV series, 3 episodes)

Web links

• Julian Richings in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Interview Julian Richings with www.mycoven.com March 2014