Julian Richings

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1956-08-30

Place of Birth

Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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Julian Richings

Biography

Julian Richings (born 30 August 1956) is a British-Canadian character actor. Richings has appeared in over 225 films and television series. He trained in drama at the University of Exeter and worked as an actor for several years in the United Kingdom before moving to Toronto in 1984. In the popular series Todd and the Book of Pure Evil he played the dual characters of the Hooded Leader and Atticus Murphy Senior. When not on screen, Richings is a busy stage actor. In February of 2016 he appeared in a play titled Mustard by rising star Kat Sandler at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre. He played the role of Peter Icabod in 15 episodes of Patriot between 2015 and 2018.

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Acting History

2025
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide as Horror Film Expert
2025
The Institute as Stackhouse
2025
It Feeds as Dr. Ronald Whittaker
2025
Honey Bunch as Delwyn
2024
Return to Wickensburg as Mr. Hexenmeister
2024
A Thousand Cuts as Webster
2024
Scared Shitless as Professor Cummings
2024
Campton Manor as Edward
2023
Percy Jackson and the Olympians as Procrustes
2023
Relax, I'm from the Future as Percy
2023
T-Bone as Chris
2023
Beau Is Afraid as Strange Man
2022
Time Traveling Through Time as Narrator
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities as Dooley
2022
Reginald the Vampire as Logan
2022
Oldtimers as Richard
2022
Wickensburg as Mr Hexenmeister
2022
Salvation as John
2022
Charlotte as Dr. Kurt Singer / Policeman #1 / SS Soldier #2 (voice)
2021
Vicious Fun as Fritz
2021
Chapelwaite as Phillip Boone
2021
Stanleyville as Homunculus
2021
Chaos Walking as Gault
2020
Stardust as Tony Defries
2020
Business Ethics as Martin Abacus
2020
Hall as Julian
2020
Spare Parts as The Emperor
2020
Anything for Jackson as Henry Walsh
2019
The Christmas Temp as Luca
2019
Sailor as The Magistrate
2019
Perpetual Grace LTD as Jonathan Joy
2019
True Fiction as Lenny Rupert
2019
Blood & Treasure as Alessandro LaLande
2019
Talent Drivers as Vincent
2019
The Umbrella Academy as Chet Rodo
2019
Doom Patrol as Heinrich Von Fuchs
2019
Polar as Lomas
2018
Carter as Ray Understone
2017
Creeped Out as Zephaniah
2017
Midnight Confession as Grass (voice)
2017
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End as Hooded Leader / Malian Trader (voice)
2017
American Gods as Iktomi
2017
The Space Between as Stash
2016
Frontier as Mr. Pickersgill
2016
Channel Zero as The Gardener
2016
Blood Hunters as Father Stewart
2016
The Rainbow Kid as Elvis Grimes
2016
Prisoner X as Jefferson
2016
The Witch as Governor
2015
The Magicians as Asteroth
2015
The Expanse as Vargas
2015
Patriot as Peter Icabod
2015
All Hallows' Eve 2 as Chatterbox (segment "The Last Halloween") (archive footage)
2015
Regression as Tom
2015
She Stoops to Conquer
2015
A Christmas Horror Story as Gerhardt
2015
Killjoys as Ancient Scarback
2015
Reign as Mr. Ian
2015
Whatever, Linda as Aloysius Finkle
2015
12 Monkeys as Adviser to the Witness
2014
Hellmouth as Smiley
2014
Ejecta as William Cassidy
2014
Patch Town as Yuri
2013
The Last Halloween as Chatterbox
2013
We Are Not Here as Monday
2013
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet as Ricky
2013
Septic Man as Phil Prosser
2013
Man of Steel as Lor-Em
2013
Hemlock Grove as Swiss Doctor
2013
The Colony as Leland
2013
Hannibal as Caged Man
2013
Orphan Black as Benjamin Kertland
2013
Victims as Gatling
2013
Transporter: The Series as Edouard Orlande
2012
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh as Rahn Brothers / Neither Man Nor Woman / Bill Phillips
2012
The Conspiracy as Green Man
2012
The Tape as Jack
2011
Three Inches as Ethan
2011
Bag of Bones as Elmer Durgin
2011
Hell on Wheels as SLC Records Clerk
2011
Collaborator as Maurice LeFont
2011
Patch Town as Child Catcher
2011
Dave vs Death as Death
2011
Animal Control as Larry
2010
Hard Core Logo II as Bucky Haight
2010
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil as Hooded Leader / Atticus Murphy Sr.
2010
Lost Girl as Arval
2010
Trigger as Bucky
2010
Rookie Blue as Cedric
2010
Storm Worlds as Narrator (voice)
2010
Survival of the Dead as James O'Flynn
2010
Wingin' It as William Shakespeare
2010
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Ferryman
2010
Republic of Doyle as Lionel Harris
2009
Sea Wolf as Mugridge
2009
Sea Wolf as Mugridge
2009
Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols as Kneeling Man
2009
The Timekeeper as Grease
2009
The Listener as Miles Mellini
2009
You Might As Well Live as Dr. Pooseby
2008
XIII as Mr. Cody
2008
Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween as Mr. Tibers
2008
Elegy as Actor in Play #1
2008
The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow as Kneeling Man
2008
Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid as Mr. Tibers
2008
Jack and Jill vs. The World as Mr. Smith
2008
The Trojan Horse as Barrie
2008
Murdoch Mysteries as Phillip Uxbridge
2008
The Border as Professor Adrian Maguire
2008
Toronto Stories as Leather Jacket
2007
Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost as Mr. Tibers
2007
Saw IV as Vagrant
2007
Nature of the Beast as Dr. Chamberlain
2007
Heartland as Mr. Hanley
2007
Heartland as Levon Hanley
2007
The Tracey Fragments as Dr. Heker
2007
Shoot 'Em Up as Hertz's Driver
2007
Dead Silence as Bos
2007
The Third Eye as Charlie Rabbit
2006
Grossology as Darko Crevasse (voice)
2006
The Last Sect as Karpov
2006
X-Men: The Last Stand as Mutant Theatre Organizer
2006
Skinwalkers as Sad Looking Man
2006
At the Hotel as Baby Man
2006
A Lobster Tale as Hank Perkins
2006
Drive Time Murders as 'The Doc'
2005
Supernatural as Death
2005
Black Widow as Dr. Deadman
2005
Finding the Fallen as Narrator
2004
Some Things That Stay as Minister
2004
The Limb Salesman as Contact
2004
Being Julia as Mr. Turnbull
2004
The Last Casino as Orr
2004
Kingdom Hospital as Otto
2004
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital as Otto
2004
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill as William Cattermole
2004
Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn' as Self
2003
Eloise at Christmastime as Patrice the Chef
2003
Slings & Arrows as Reg Mortimer
2003
Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil as Satan
2003
Open Range as Wylie
2003
Missing as Doc
2003
Wrong Turn as Three Finger
2003
Eloise at the Plaza as Patrice the Chef
2003
My Life Without Me as Dr. Thompson
2002
Salem Witch Trials as Jonathan Walcott
2002
Puppets Who Kill as French Painter
2002
Puppets Who Kill as Mr. Portnoy
2002
Between Strangers as Nigel
2002
I Shout Love as Cab Driver
2001
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted as Brother Clote
2001
On Their Knees as Pappy
2001
Tracker as Max
2001
Treed Murray as Homeless Man
2001
Century Hotel as Waiter
2001
MythQuest as Loki
2001
Prince Charming as Wacktazar
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Poet
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Jerome Aland
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Peter Jay
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Alger Kates
2000
The Claim as Francis Bellanger
2000
The Claim as Bellanger
2000
The Zack Files as The Mad Hatter
2000
Two Thousand and None as Curator
2000
The Hustle as Detective Walsh
2000
The Crossing as McKenzie
1999
The Time Shifters as Murray Trevor, Time-Traveling Tourist
1999
Amazon as Elder Malakai
1999
Detroit Rock City as Ticket Taker
1999
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien as Meenom
1998
The Red Violin as Nicolas Olsberg (Montréal)
1998
Motel as Tenant
1998
Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms as Bix
1998
Highlander: The Raven as Basil Morgan
1998
Urban Legend as Weird Janitor
1998
Cube as Alderson
1998
Once a Thief: Family Business as Camier
1998
The Show: Stories Within a Film as The Lead Actor
1997
Ms. Scrooge as Christmas Yet to Come
1997
Pale Saints as Einstein
1997
Mimic as Workman
1997
Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother as Camier
1997
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes as Doctor Saul Sprockett
1997
La Femme Nikita as Errol Sparks
1997
Heritage Minutes: Winnie as A.A. Milne
1996
Hard Core Logo as Buck Haight
1996
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal as Earl Cornell
1996
The Boys Club as Officer Cole
1995
The Shamrock Conspiracy as Reader
1995
The Song Spinner as Callo
1995
Moonlight and Valentino as Hair Stylist
1995
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years as Logan’s Henchman
1995
Love Child as Tom Sr.
1995
Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time as Bono
1994
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale as Sir George's Servant
1994
Due South as Miles Emery
1992
Giant Steps as Danceband Teacher
1992
Forever Knight as Dr. Paul Dana
1992
The Valour and the Horror as John Crocker
1991
Naked Lunch as Exterminator #4
1991
Heritage Minutes: John Cabot as King Henry VII
1991
Heritage Minutes as A.A. Milne
1991
Heritage Minutes as King Henry VII
1990
Clarence as Reynolds
1990
Maniac Mansion as Tax Man
1990
Counterstrike as Rettie
1989
The Top of His Head as Robert (henchman)
1988
War of the Worlds as Man with Hat
1988
War of the Worlds as Alien Scientist
1988
War of the Worlds as Ardix
1987
Love at Stake as Town Crier
1986
Adderly
1986
The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
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Keeper of the Cup as Rick
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The Asylum as Dr. Raymond