Richard Kiley

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-03-31 (77 years old)

Deathday

1999-03-05

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Richard Kiley

Biography

Richard Paul Kiley (March 31, 1922 - March 5, 1999) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor In A Musical (for Redhead and Man of La Mancha). Kiley was also nominated for nine Emmy Awards, winning four, including for his roles on the series The Thorn Birds, A Year in the Life, and Picket Fences. Some notable film roles include Blackboard Jungle (1955), Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Endless Love (1981), Howard the Duck (1986), Phenomenon (1996), and Patch Adams (1998). Kiley is also remembered for his voice role as the tour guide in Jurassi...

Acting

1998

Patch Adams

as Dr. Titan

2004

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

as Don Quixote (segment "Man Of La Mancha")

1952

The Sniper

as James G. Kent

1951

The Mob

as Tom Clancy

1955

Blackboard Jungle

as Joshua Y. Edwards

1996

Phenomenon

as Dr. Wellin

1955

The Phenix City Story

as John Patterson

1974

The Little Prince

as The Pilot

1981

Endless Love

as Arthur

1985

The Bad Seed

as Richard Bravo

1957

Spanish Affair

as Merritt Blake

1991

Separate But Equal

as Chief Justice Earl Warren

1990

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache

as Chalk Brighton

1999

Blue Moon

as Jimmy Keating

1985

The Canterville Ghost

as Sir Simon De Canterville

1952

Eight Iron Men

as Pvt. Coke

1955

Patterns

as Fred Staples

1985

Ballad of the Irish Horse

as Narrator (voice)

1969

Pendulum

as Woodrow Wilson King

2002

1989

The Final Days

as J. Fred Buzhardt

1985

Do You Remember Love

as George Hollis

2001

Heroes of Horror

as Narrator

1988

1972

Jigsaw

as DA Dan Bellington

1988

1997

1991

Absolute Strangers

as Dr. RJ Cannon

1971

Murder Once Removed

as Frank Manning

1987

1986

1997

Tigers of the Snow

as Narrator (voice)

1993

Jurassic Park

as Jurassic Park Tour Voice (voice)

1986

Howard the Duck

as The Cosmos (voice)

1971

All the Way Home

as Jay Follet

1988

My First Love

as Sam Morrissey

1970

1997

1995

Secrets

as Dr. Will Berter

1996

Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1992

Mastergate

as Archer Bowman

1971

1969

Night Gallery

as SS-Gruppenführer Helmut Arndt / Josef Strobe

1975

Friendly Persuasion

as Jess Birdwell

1987

Treasures From The Past

as Himself - Narrator

1981

Isabel's Choice

as Lyman Jones

1982

Pray TV

as Rev. Gus Keiffer

2003

1990

Aladdin

as The Magician

1992

Mysteries Underground

as Self - Narrator

1996

Mary & Tim

as Ron Melville

1981

Golden Gate

as Thomas J. Kingsley

1981

1976

The Macahans

as Timothy Macahan

1989

To The Limit

as Narrator

1997

Time to Say Goodbye?

as Dr. Gerald Klooster

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