Jaws RIP

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Richard Kiel, the towering actor best known for portraying steel-toothed villain Jaws in a pair of James Bond films, has died. He was 74.
Kelley Sanchez, director of communications at St Agnes Medical Centre in Fresno, California, confirmed that Kiel was a patient at the hospital and had died.
The 7ft 2in performer famously played the cable-chomping henchman who tussled with Roger Moore’s Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker.
His massive height was attributed to a hormonal condition called acromegaly.
Kiel’s other memorable film and TV appearances included roles as towering boss Mr Larson in Happy Gilmore, lethal assistant Voltaire in The Wild, Wild West and extraterrestrial Kanamit in The Twilight Zone.