Richard Kiley
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1922-03-31
Day of Death
1999-03-05 (76 years old)
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 Jurassic Park (1993).
Known For
Acting
National Geographic's Rain Forest
as Self - Narrator
(2004)
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
as Don Quixote (segment "Man Of La Mancha")
(2003)
Hugh Hefner: American Playboy
as Narrator (voice)
(2002)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Joey (archive footage)
(2001)
Heroes of Horror
as Narrator
(1999)
Blue Moon
as Jimmy Keating
(1998)
Patch Adams
as Dr. Titan
(1998)
(1997)
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
as Narrator
(1997)
Time to Say Goodbye?
as Dr. Gerald Klooster
(1997)
(1997)
The Sonoran Desert: A Violent Eden
as Narrator (voice)
(1997)
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
as Narrator
(1997)
Tigers of the Snow
as Narrator (voice)
(1997)
Wolves at Our Door
as Narrator
(1996)
Phenomenon
as Dr. Wellin
(1996)
Mary & Tim
as Ron Melville
(1996)
The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime
as Frank Dougherty
(1996)
Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1995)
Secrets
as Dr. Will Berter
(1995)
Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces
as Narrator
(1995)
30 Years of National Geographic Specials
as Self - Narrator
(1995)
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
as Narrator
(1994)
A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story
as Earl Clayburn
(1993)
Jurassic Park
as Jurassic Park Tour Voice (voice)
(1993)
The Visual Bible: Matthew
as Matthew
(1992)
Mastergate
as Archer Bowman
(1992)
Mysteries Underground
as Self - Narrator
(1992)
Giant Bears of Kodiak Island
as Narrator
(1991)
Separate But Equal
as Chief Justice Earl Warren
(1991)
Absolute Strangers
as Dr. RJ Cannon
(1991)
National Geographic: Splendid Stones
as Narrator
(1990)
Gunsmoke: The Last Apache
as Chalk Brighton
(1990)
Aladdin
as The Magician
(1989)
The Final Days
as J. Fred Buzhardt
(1989)
To The Limit
as Narrator
(1988)
My First Love
as Sam Morrissey
(1988)
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
as Narrator
(1988)
National Geographic: White Wolf
as Narrator (voice)
(1988)
Australia's Aborigines
as Narrator
(1988)
Australia's Twilight Of The Dreamtime
as Narrator
(1987)
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
as Narrator (voice)
(1987)
(1987)
Treasures From The Past
as Himself - Narrator
(1986)
Howard the Duck
as The Cosmos (voice)
(1986)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Col. Grangerford
(1985)
The Canterville Ghost
as Sir Simon De Canterville
(1985)
The Bad Seed
as Richard Bravo
(1985)
Do You Remember Love
as George Hollis
(1985)
Ballad of the Irish Horse
as Narrator (voice)
(1983)
(1982)
Pray TV
as Rev. Gus Keiffer
(1982)
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1981)
Endless Love
as Arthur
(1981)
Isabel's Choice
as Lyman Jones
(1981)
Golden Gate
as Thomas J. Kingsley
(1981)
Some Call Them ... Freaks
as Host (Self)
(1980)
Angel on My Shoulder
as Nick
(1979)
The New Media Bible: The Gospel According to St. Luke
as Narrator/St. Luke
(1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
as Mr. Dunn
(1976)
The Macahans
as Timothy Macahan
(1975)
Friendly Persuasion
as Jess Birdwell
(1974)
The Little Prince
as The Pilot
(1972)
Jigsaw
as DA Dan Bellington
(1971)
Incident in San Francisco
as Robert Harmon
(1971)
Murder Once Removed
as Frank Manning
(1971)
All the Way Home
as Jay Follet
(1970)
The Ceremony of Innocence
as King Ethelred
(1970)
a.k.a. Cassius Clay
as Self
(1969)
Pendulum
as Woodrow Wilson King
(1969)
Night Gallery
as SS-Gruppenführer Helmut Arndt / Josef Strobe
(1958)
The Power of the Resurrection
as Peter
(1957)
Spanish Affair
as Merritt Blake
(1957)
Homeward Borne
as Bob Lyttleton
(1955)
The Phenix City Story
as John Patterson
(1955)
Blackboard Jungle
as Joshua Y. Edwards
(1955)
Patterns
as Fred Staples
(1953)
Pickup on South Street
as Joey
(1952)
Eight Iron Men
as Pvt. Coke
(1952)
The Sniper
as James G. Kent
(1951)
The Mob
as Tom Clancy