The actor who played Jaws, the indestructible James Bond villain, has died.
Richard Kiel, who played the iconic villain in 1977'sThe Spy Who Loved Me and in 1979's Moonraker,died on Wednesday afternoon at age 74, the Associated Press confirmed.
The website TMZ.com originally broke the news, stating that the actor had broken his leg last week and was in a Fresno, Calif., hospital.
The 7-foot-2 actor had portrayed a multitude of characters during his 50-year acting career. But none was more famous than Jaws, the steel-toothed Bond hitman trying to kill 007 (Roger Moore).
"It was that combination of humor, his incredible real size and the fact that he just wouldn't die that made him so great," says Bill Desowitz, the author of James Bond Unmasked. "He was one of the greatest Bond adversaries there was."
The actor also starred in the Adam Sandler golf film Happy Gilmore and voiced the villain Vlad in 2010's Tangled.
