Acting
Julian Richings
Born 1956-08-30
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
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Man of Steel
2013
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Supernatural
2005
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X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
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The Umbrella Academy
2019
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2010
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The Witch
2016
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Cube
1998
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Saw IV
2007
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The Expanse
2015
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Hannibal
2013
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (220 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Junction Row | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2026 |
 | Turn It Up! | Dr. Pretorious | Movie | 2026 |
 | Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen | Larry Poole | TV Series | 2026 |
 | Man Eating Pussy | Freddie | Movie | 2026 |
 | Honey Bunch | Delwyn | Movie | 2026 |
 | Secrets of Wickensburg | Mr. Hexenmeister | Movie | 2025 |
 | The Institute | Stackhouse | TV Series | 2025 |
 | It Feeds | Dr. Ronald Whittaker | Movie | 2025 |
 | Return to Wickensburg | Mr. Hexenmeister | Movie | 2024 |
 | A Thousand Cuts | Webster | Movie | 2024 |
 | Scared Shitless | Professor Cummings | Movie | 2024 |
 | Campton Manor | Edward | Movie | 2024 |
 | Percy Jackson and the Olympians | Procrustes | TV Series | 2023 |
 | Relax, I'm from the Future | Percy | Movie | 2023 |
 | T-Bone | Chris | Movie | 2023 |
 | Beau Is Afraid | Strange Man | Movie | 2023 |
 | Time Traveling Through Time | Narrator | Movie | 2022 |
 | Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities | Dooley | TV Series | 2022 |
 | Reginald the Vampire | Logan | TV Series | 2022 |
| Oldtimers | Richard | Movie | 2022 | |
 | Wickensburg | Mr Hexenmeister | Movie | 2022 |
 | Salvation | John | Movie | 2022 |
 | Charlotte | Dr. Kurt Singer / Policeman #1 / SS Soldier #2 (voice) | Movie | 2022 |
 | Hall | Julian | Movie | 2022 |
 | Vicious Fun | Fritz | Movie | 2021 |
 | Chapelwaite | Phillip Boone | TV Series | 2021 |
 | Stanleyville | Homunculus | Movie | 2021 |
 | Chaos Walking | Gault | Movie | 2021 |
 | Stardust | Tony Defries | Movie | 2020 |
 | Business Ethics | Martin Abacus | Movie | 2020 |
 | Spare Parts | The Emperor | Movie | 2020 |
 | Anything for Jackson | Henry Walsh | Movie | 2020 |
 | The Christmas Temp | Luca | Movie | 2019 |
 | Sailor | The Magistrate | Movie | 2019 |
 | Perpetual Grace LTD | Jonathan Joy | TV Series | 2019 |
 | True Fiction | Lenny Rupert | Movie | 2019 |
 | Blood & Treasure | Alessandro LaLande | TV Series | 2019 |
 | Talent Drivers | Vincent | TV Series | 2019 |
 | The Umbrella Academy | Chet Rodo | TV Series | 2019 |
 | Doom Patrol | Heinrich Von Fuchs | TV Series | 2019 |
 | Polar | Lomas | Movie | 2019 |
 | Carter | Ray Understone | TV Series | 2018 |
 | Creeped Out | Zephaniah | TV Series | 2017 |
 | Midnight Confession | Grass (voice) | Movie | 2017 |
 | Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End | Hooded Leader / Malian Trader (voice) | Movie | 2017 |
 | American Gods | Iktomi | TV Series | 2017 |
 | The Space Between | Stash | Movie | 2017 |
 | Frontier | Mr. Pickersgill | TV Series | 2016 |
 | Channel Zero | The Gardener | TV Series | 2016 |
 | Blood Hunters | Father Stewart | Movie | 2016 |
 | The Rainbow Kid | Elvis Grimes | Movie | 2016 |
 | Prisoner X | Jefferson | Movie | 2016 |
 | The Witch | Governor | Movie | 2016 |
 | The Magicians | Asteroth | TV Series | 2015 |
 | The Expanse | Vargas | TV Series | 2015 |
 | Patriot | Peter Icabod | TV Series | 2015 |
 | All Hallows' Eve 2 | Chatterbox (segment "The Last Halloween") (archive footage) | Movie | 2015 |
 | Regression | Tom | Movie | 2015 |
 | She Stoops to Conquer | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2015 |
 | A Christmas Horror Story | Gerhardt | Movie | 2015 |
 | Killjoys | Ancient Scarback | TV Series | 2015 |
 | Reign | Mr. Ian | Movie | 2015 |
| Whatever, Linda | Aloysius Finkle | TV Series | 2015 | |
 | 12 Monkeys | Adviser to the Witness | TV Series | 2015 |
 | Hellmouth | Smiley | Movie | 2014 |
 | Ejecta | William Cassidy | Movie | 2014 |
 | Patch Town | Yuri | Movie | 2014 |
 | The Last Halloween | Chatterbox | Movie | 2013 |
 | We Are Not Here | Monday | Movie | 2013 |
 | The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Ricky | Movie | 2013 |
 | Septic Man | Phil Prosser | Movie | 2013 |
 | Man of Steel | Lor-Em | Movie | 2013 |
 | Hemlock Grove | Swiss Doctor | TV Series | 2013 |
 | The Colony | Leland | Movie | 2013 |
 | Hannibal | Caged Man | TV Series | 2013 |
 | Orphan Black | Benjamin Kertland | TV Series | 2013 |
 | Victims | Gatling | Movie | 2013 |
 | Transporter: The Series | Edouard Orlande | TV Series | 2013 |
 | The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh | Rahn Brothers / Neither Man Nor Woman / Bill Phillips | Movie | 2012 |
 | The Conspiracy | Green Man | Movie | 2012 |
 | The Tape | Jack | Movie | 2012 |
 | Three Inches | Ethan | Movie | 2011 |
 | Bag of Bones | Elmer Durgin | TV Series | 2011 |
 | Hell on Wheels | SLC Records Clerk | TV Series | 2011 |
 | Collaborator | Maurice LeFont | Movie | 2011 |
 | Patch Town | Child Catcher | Movie | 2011 |
 | Dave vs Death | Death | Movie | 2011 |
 | Animal Control | Larry | Movie | 2011 |
 | Hard Core Logo 2 | Bucky Haight | Movie | 2010 |
 | Todd and the Book of Pure Evil | Hooded Leader / Atticus Murphy Sr. | TV Series | 2010 |
 | Trigger | Bucky | Movie | 2010 |
 | Lost Girl | Arval | TV Series | 2010 |
 | Rookie Blue | Cedric | TV Series | 2010 |
 | Storm Worlds | Narrator (voice) | TV Series | 2010 |
 | Survival of the Dead | James O'Flynn | Movie | 2010 |
 | Wingin' It | William Shakespeare | TV Series | 2010 |
 | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Ferryman | Movie | 2010 |
 | Republic of Doyle | Lionel Harris | TV Series | 2010 |
 | Sea Wolf | Mugridge | Movie | 2009 |
 | Sea Wolf | Mugridge | TV Series | 2009 |
 | Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols | Kneeling Man | Movie | 2009 |
 | The Timekeeper | Grease | Movie | 2009 |
 | The Listener | Miles Mellini | TV Series | 2009 |
 | You Might As Well Live | Dr. Pooseby | Movie | 2009 |
 | Toronto Stories | Leather Jacket | Movie | 2008 |
 | XIII | Mr. Cody | TV Series | 2008 |
 | Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween | Mr. Tibers | Movie | 2008 |
 | Elegy | Actor in Play #1 | Movie | 2008 |
 | The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow | Kneeling Man | Movie | 2008 |
 | Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid | Mr. Tibers | Movie | 2008 |
 | Jack and Jill vs. The World | Mr. Smith | Movie | 2008 |
 | The Trojan Horse | Barrie | TV Series | 2008 |
 | Murdoch Mysteries | Phillip Uxbridge | TV Series | 2008 |
 | The Border | Professor Adrian Maguire | TV Series | 2008 |
 | Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost | Mr. Tibers | Movie | 2007 |
 | Saw IV | Vagrant | Movie | 2007 |
 | Nature of the Beast | Dr. Chamberlain | Movie | 2007 |
 | Heartland | Mr. Hanley | TV Series | 2007 |
| Heartland | Levon Hanley | TV Series | 2007 |
 | The Tracey Fragments | Dr. Heker | Movie | 2007 |
 | Shoot 'Em Up | Hertz's Driver | Movie | 2007 |
 | Dead Silence | Bos | Movie | 2007 |
 | The Third Eye | Charlie Rabbit | Movie | 2007 |
 | Grossology | Darko Crevasse (voice) | TV Series | 2006 |
 | The Last Sect | Karpov | Movie | 2006 |
 | X-Men: The Last Stand | Mutant Theatre Organizer | Movie | 2006 |
 | Skinwalkers | Sad Looking Man | Movie | 2006 |
| At the Hotel | Baby Man | TV Series | 2006 | |
 | Drive Time Murders | 'The Doc' | Movie | 2006 |
 | A Lobster Tale | Hank Perkins | Movie | 2006 |
 | Supernatural | Death | TV Series | 2005 |
| Black Widow | Dr. Deadman | Movie | 2005 | |
 | Finding the Fallen | Narrator | TV Series | 2005 |
 | Some Things That Stay | Minister | Movie | 2004 |
 | The Limb Salesman | Contact | Movie | 2004 |
 | Being Julia | Mr. Turnbull | Movie | 2004 |
 | The Last Casino | Orr | Movie | 2004 |
 | Kingdom Hospital | Otto | Movie | 2004 |
 | Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital | Otto | TV Series | 2004 |
 | Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill | William Cattermole | Movie | 2004 |
 | Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn' | Self | Movie | 2004 |
 | Eloise at Christmastime | Patrice the Chef | Movie | 2003 |
 | Slings & Arrows | Reg Mortimer | TV Series | 2003 |
 | Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil | Satan | Movie | 2003 |
 | Open Range | Wylie | Movie | 2003 |
 | Missing | Doc | TV Series | 2003 |
 | Wrong Turn | Three Finger | Movie | 2003 |
 | Eloise at the Plaza | Patrice the Chef | Movie | 2003 |
 | My Life Without Me | Dr. Thompson | Movie | 2003 |
 | Puppets Who Kill | French Painter | TV Series | 2002 |
| Puppets Who Kill | Mr. Portnoy | TV Series | 2002 |
 | Between Strangers | Nigel | Movie | 2002 |
 | I Shout Love | Cab Driver | Movie | 2002 |
 | The Pretender: Island of the Haunted | Brother Clote | Movie | 2001 |
| On Their Knees | Pappy | Movie | 2001 | |
 | Tracker | Max | TV Series | 2001 |
 | Treed Murray | Homeless Man | Movie | 2001 |
 | Century Hotel | Waiter | Movie | 2001 |
 | MythQuest | Loki | TV Series | 2001 |
 | Prince Charming | Wacktazar | Movie | 2001 |
 | A Nero Wolfe Mystery | Poet | TV Series | 2001 |
| A Nero Wolfe Mystery | Jerome Aland | TV Series | 2001 |
| A Nero Wolfe Mystery | Peter Jay | TV Series | 2001 |
| A Nero Wolfe Mystery | Alger Kates | TV Series | 2001 |
 | The Claim | Francis Bellanger | Movie | 2000 |
| The Claim | Bellanger | Movie | 2000 |
 | The Zack Files | The Mad Hatter | TV Series | 2000 |
 | Two Thousand and None | Curator | Movie | 2000 |
 | The Hustle | Detective Walsh | Movie | 2000 |
 | The Crossing | McKenzie | Movie | 2000 |
 | The Time Shifters | Murray Trevor | Movie | 1999 |
 | Amazon | Elder Malakai | TV Series | 1999 |
 | Detroit Rock City | Ticket Taker | Movie | 1999 |
 | I Was a Sixth Grade Alien | Meenom | TV Series | 1999 |
 | The Red Violin | Nicolas Olsberg (Montréal) | Movie | 1998 |
 | Motel | Tenant | Movie | 1998 |
 | Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms | Bix | Movie | 1998 |
 | Highlander: The Raven | Basil Morgan | TV Series | 1998 |
 | Urban Legend | Weird Janitor | Movie | 1998 |
 | Cube | Alderson | Movie | 1998 |
 | Once a Thief: Family Business | Camier | Movie | 1998 |
| The Show: Stories Within a Film | The Lead Actor | Movie | 1998 | |
 | Ms. Scrooge | Christmas Yet to Come | Movie | 1997 |
| Pale Saints | Einstein | Movie | 1997 | |
 | Mimic | Workman | Movie | 1997 |
 | Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother | Camier | Movie | 1997 |
 | The Adventures of Shirley Holmes | Doctor Saul Sprockett | TV Series | 1997 |
 | La Femme Nikita | Errol Sparks | TV Series | 1997 |
 | Heritage Minutes: Winnie | A.A. Milne | Movie | 1997 |
 | Hard Core Logo | Buck Haight | Movie | 1996 |
 | Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal | Earl Cornell | TV Series | 1996 |
 | The Boys Club | Officer Cole | Movie | 1996 |
 | The Shamrock Conspiracy | Reader | Movie | 1995 |
 | The Song Spinner | Callo | Movie | 1995 |
 | Moonlight and Valentino | Hair Stylist | Movie | 1995 |
 | Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years | Logan’s Henchman | TV Series | 1995 |
 | Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time | Bono | Movie | 1995 |
| Love Child | Tom Sr. | Movie | 1995 | |
 | Squanto: A Warrior's Tale | Sir George's Servant | Movie | 1994 |
 | Due South | Miles Emery | TV Series | 1994 |
 | Giant Steps | Danceband Teacher | Movie | 1992 |
 | Forever Knight | Dr. Paul Dana | TV Series | 1992 |
 | The Valour and the Horror | John Crocker | TV Series | 1992 |
 | Naked Lunch | Exterminator #4 | Movie | 1991 |
 | Heritage Minutes: John Cabot | King Henry VII | Movie | 1991 |
 | Heritage Minutes | A.A. Milne | TV Series | 1991 |
| Heritage Minutes | Roi Henri VII | TV Series | 1991 |
 | Clarence | Reynolds | Movie | 1990 |
 | Maniac Mansion | Tax Man | TV Series | 1990 |
 | Counterstrike | Rettie | TV Series | 1990 |
 | The Top of His Head | Robert (henchman) | Movie | 1989 |
 | War of the Worlds | Man with Hat | TV Series | 1988 |
| War of the Worlds | Alien Scientist | TV Series | 1988 |
| War of the Worlds | Ardix | TV Series | 1988 |
 | Love at Stake | Town Crier | Movie | 1987 |
 | Adderly | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1986 |
 | The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1986 |
 | Keeper of the Cup | Rick | Movie | — |
| The Asylum | Dr. Raymond | Movie | — | |
| GUM | Brother Skull | Movie | — |