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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 30, 1956
Place of Birth
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Julian Riching
Julian Richings
1.0 Popularity
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
0.0
Horror Film Expert
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
2025
7.7
Stackhouse
The Institute
2025
6.8
Dr. Ronald Whittaker
It Feeds
2025
9.0
Delwyn
Honey Bunch
2025
6.0
Mr. Hexenmeister
Return to Wickensburg
2024
0.0
Webster
A Thousand Cuts
2024
5.2
Professor Cummings
Scared Shitless
2024
6.1
Edward
Campton Manor
2024
7.3
Procrustes
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023
6.0
Percy
Relax, I'm from the Future
2023
Credits
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
as Horror Film Expert
2025
0.0
The Institute
as Stackhouse
2025
7.7
It Feeds
as Dr. Ronald Whittaker
2025
6.8
Honey Bunch
as Delwyn
2025
9.0
Return to Wickensburg
as Mr. Hexenmeister
2024
6.0
A Thousand Cuts
as Webster
2024
0.0
Scared Shitless
as Professor Cummings
2024
5.2
Campton Manor
as Edward
2024
6.1
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
as Procrustes
2023
7.3
Relax, I'm from the Future
as Percy
2023
6.0
T-Bone
as Chris
2023
0.0
Beau Is Afraid
as Strange Man
2023
6.7
Time Traveling Through Time
as Narrator
2022
7.5
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
as Dooley
2022
7.5
Reginald the Vampire
as Logan
2022
5.2
🎬
Oldtimers
as Richard
2022
0.0
Wickensburg
as Mr Hexenmeister
2022
5.2
Salvation
as John
2022
0.0
Charlotte
as Dr. Kurt Singer / Policeman #1 / SS Soldier #2 (voice)
2022
6.3
Vicious Fun
as Fritz
2021
6.4
Chapelwaite
as Phillip Boone
2021
7.3
Stanleyville
as Homunculus
2021
4.8
Chaos Walking
as Gault
2021
6.6
Stardust
as Tony Defries
2020
3.8
Business Ethics
as Martin Abacus
2020
7.3
Hall
as Julian
2020
5.7
Spare Parts
as The Emperor
2020
5.0
Anything for Jackson
as Henry Walsh
2020
6.7
The Christmas Temp
as Luca
2019
5.3
Sailor
as The Magistrate
2019
0.0
Perpetual Grace LTD
as Jonathan Joy
2019
7.3
True Fiction
as Lenny Rupert
2019
4.9
Blood & Treasure
as Alessandro LaLande
2019
6.7
Talent Drivers
as Vincent
2019
4.0
The Umbrella Academy
as Chet Rodo
2019
8.5
Doom Patrol
as Heinrich Von Fuchs
2019
7.5
Polar
as Lomas
2019
6.3
Carter
as Ray Understone
2018
6.7
Creeped Out
as Zephaniah
2017
7.2
Midnight Confession
as Grass (voice)
2017
3.0
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End
as Hooded Leader / Malian Trader (voice)
2017
6.5
American Gods
as Iktomi
2017
7.1
The Space Between
as Stash
2017
7.0
Frontier
as Mr. Pickersgill
2016
6.8
Channel Zero
as The Gardener
2016
7.1
Blood Hunters
as Father Stewart
2016
5.2
The Rainbow Kid
as Elvis Grimes
2016
0.0
Prisoner X
as Jefferson
2016
5.5
The Witch
as Governor
2016
7.0
The Magicians
as Asteroth
2015
7.6
The Expanse
as Vargas
2015
8.1
Patriot
as Peter Icabod
2015
7.6
All Hallows' Eve 2
as Chatterbox (segment "The Last Halloween") (archive footage)
2015
4.8
Regression
as Tom
2015
5.6
She Stoops to Conquer
2015
6.3
A Christmas Horror Story
as Gerhardt
2015
5.8
Killjoys
as Ancient Scarback
2015
6.9
Reign
as Mr. Ian
2015
0.0
🎬
Whatever, Linda
as Aloysius Finkle
2015
0.0
12 Monkeys
as Adviser to the Witness
2015
7.4
Hellmouth
as Smiley
2014
6.6
Ejecta
as William Cassidy
2014
3.7
Patch Town
as Yuri
2014
4.8
🎬
The Last Halloween
as Chatterbox
2013
6.4
We Are Not Here
as Monday
2013
3.7
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Ricky
2013
6.9
Septic Man
as Phil Prosser
2013
4.4
Man of Steel
as Lor-Em
2013
6.6
Hemlock Grove
as Swiss Doctor
2013
7.1
The Colony
as Leland
2013
5.4
Hannibal
as Caged Man
2013
8.3
Orphan Black
as Benjamin Kertland
2013
7.8
Victims
as Gatling
2013
3.3
Transporter: The Series
as Edouard Orlande
2013
6.0
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
as Rahn Brothers / Neither Man Nor Woman / Bill Phillips
2012
5.0
The Conspiracy
as Green Man
2012
6.0
The Tape
as Jack
2012
8.0
Three Inches
as Ethan
2011
5.2
Bag of Bones
as Elmer Durgin
2011
5.9
Hell on Wheels
as SLC Records Clerk
2011
7.6
Collaborator
as Maurice LeFont
2011
4.8
Patch Town
as Child Catcher
2011
7.0
Dave vs Death
as Death
2011
8.0
Animal Control
as Larry
2011
7.0
Hard Core Logo II
as Bucky Haight
2010
4.6
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
as Hooded Leader / Atticus Murphy Sr.
2010
6.9
Lost Girl
as Arval
2010
7.7
Trigger
as Bucky
2010
4.7
Rookie Blue
as Cedric
2010
7.7
Storm Worlds
as Narrator (voice)
2010
0.0
Survival of the Dead
as James O'Flynn
2010
4.9
Wingin' It
as William Shakespeare
2010
5.8
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
as Ferryman
2010
6.2
Republic of Doyle
as Lionel Harris
2010
7.0
Sea Wolf
as Mugridge
2009
5.9
Sea Wolf
as Mugridge
2009
4.8
Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols
as Kneeling Man
2009
7.0
The Timekeeper
as Grease
2009
4.5
The Listener
as Miles Mellini
2009
6.9
You Might As Well Live
as Dr. Pooseby
2009
4.8
XIII
as Mr. Cody
2008
6.0
Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween
as Mr. Tibers
2008
6.8
Elegy
as Actor in Play #1
2008
6.3
The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow
as Kneeling Man
2008
5.8
Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid
as Mr. Tibers
2008
4.2
Jack and Jill vs. The World
as Mr. Smith
2008
5.2
The Trojan Horse
as Barrie
2008
4.0
Murdoch Mysteries
as Phillip Uxbridge
2008
7.7
The Border
as Professor Adrian Maguire
2008
6.0
Toronto Stories
as Leather Jacket
2008
3.5
Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost
as Mr. Tibers
2007
6.0
Saw IV
as Vagrant
2007
6.2
Nature of the Beast
as Dr. Chamberlain
2007
5.1
Heartland
as Mr. Hanley
2007
8.3
Heartland
as Levon Hanley
2007
8.3
The Tracey Fragments
as Dr. Heker
2007
6.0
Shoot 'Em Up
as Hertz's Driver
2007
6.5
Dead Silence
as Bos
2007
6.4
The Third Eye
as Charlie Rabbit
2007
3.0
Grossology
as Darko Crevasse (voice)
2006
7.4
The Last Sect
as Karpov
2006
3.5
X-Men: The Last Stand
as Mutant Theatre Organizer
2006
6.4
Skinwalkers
as Sad Looking Man
2006
5.1
🎬
At the Hotel
as Baby Man
2006
0.0
A Lobster Tale
as Hank Perkins
2006
6.6
Drive Time Murders
as 'The Doc'
2006
0.0
Supernatural
as Death
2005
8.3
🎬
Black Widow
as Dr. Deadman
2005
6.0
Finding the Fallen
as Narrator
2005
0.0
Some Things That Stay
as Minister
2004
4.1
The Limb Salesman
as Contact
2004
5.0
Being Julia
as Mr. Turnbull
2004
6.4
The Last Casino
as Orr
2004
6.9
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
as Otto
2004
7.0
Kingdom Hospital
as Otto
2004
6.4
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
as William Cattermole
2004
4.0
Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn'
as Self
2004
0.0
Eloise at Christmastime
as Patrice the Chef
2003
6.4
Slings & Arrows
as Reg Mortimer
2003
7.2
Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil
as Satan
2003
5.5
Open Range
as Wylie
2003
7.2
Missing
as Doc
2003
6.8
Wrong Turn
as Three Finger
2003
6.4
Eloise at the Plaza
as Patrice the Chef
2003
6.1
My Life Without Me
as Dr. Thompson
2003
6.1
Salem Witch Trials
as Jonathan Walcott
2002
6.1
Puppets Who Kill
as French Painter
2002
6.5
Puppets Who Kill
as Mr. Portnoy
2002
6.5
Between Strangers
as Nigel
2002
5.8
I Shout Love
as Cab Driver
2002
3.0
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
as Brother Clote
2001
6.8
🎬
On Their Knees
as Pappy
2001
2.0
Tracker
as Max
2001
6.6
Treed Murray
as Homeless Man
2001
6.6
Century Hotel
as Waiter
2001
3.9
MythQuest
as Loki
2001
6.7
Prince Charming
as Wacktazar
2001
7.0
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Jerome Aland
2001
7.8
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Peter Jay
2001
7.8
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Alger Kates
2001
7.8
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Poet
2001
7.8
The Claim
as Francis Bellanger
2000
6.0
The Claim
as Bellanger
2000
6.0
The Zack Files
as The Mad Hatter
2000
7.0
Two Thousand and None
as Curator
2000
4.7
The Hustle
as Detective Walsh
2000
3.8
The Crossing
as McKenzie
2000
6.3
The Time Shifters
as Murray Trevor, Time-Traveling Tourist
1999
5.8
Amazon
as Elder Malakai
1999
7.9
Detroit Rock City
as Ticket Taker
1999
6.7
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien
as Meenom
1999
0.0
The Red Violin
as Nicolas Olsberg (Montréal)
1998
7.4
Motel
as Tenant
1998
2.0
Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms
as Bix
1998
4.2
Highlander: The Raven
as Basil Morgan
1998
5.3
Urban Legend
as Weird Janitor
1998
5.7
Cube
as Alderson
1998
6.8
Once a Thief: Family Business
as Camier
1998
5.3
🎬
The Show: Stories Within a Film
as The Lead Actor
1998
0.0
Ms. Scrooge
as Christmas Yet to Come
1997
5.6
🎬
Pale Saints
as Einstein
1997
2.0
Mimic
as Workman
1997
6.1
Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother
as Camier
1997
5.8
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes
as Doctor Saul Sprockett
1997
6.9
La Femme Nikita
as Errol Sparks
1997
7.4
Heritage Minutes: Winnie
as A.A. Milne
1997
0.0
Hard Core Logo
as Buck Haight
1996
6.5
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
as Earl Cornell
1996
6.9
The Boys Club
as Officer Cole
1996
5.6
The Shamrock Conspiracy
as Reader
1995
4.0
The Song Spinner
as Callo
1995
0.0
Moonlight and Valentino
as Hair Stylist
1995
5.5
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
as Logan’s Henchman
1995
5.8
🎬
Love Child
as Tom Sr.
1995
5.2
Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time
as Bono
1995
0.0
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
as Sir George's Servant
1994
6.7
Due South
as Miles Emery
1994
7.6
Giant Steps
as Danceband Teacher
1992
0.0
Forever Knight
as Dr. Paul Dana
1992
6.8
The Valour and the Horror
as John Crocker
1992
0.0
Naked Lunch
as Exterminator #4
1991
7.0
Heritage Minutes
as A.A. Milne
1991
5.0
Heritage Minutes
as King Henry VII
1991
5.0
Heritage Minutes: John Cabot
as King Henry VII
1991
0.0
Clarence
as Reynolds
1990
3.7
Maniac Mansion
as Tax Man
1990
4.3
Counterstrike
as Rettie
1990
7.0
The Top of His Head
as Robert (henchman)
1989
2.0
War of the Worlds
as Man with Hat
1988
6.2
War of the Worlds
as Ardix
1988
6.2
War of the Worlds
as Alien Scientist
1988
6.2
Love at Stake
as Town Crier
1987
5.7
Adderly
1986
6.5
The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
1986
5.5
Keeper of the Cup
as Rick
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Asylum
as Dr. Raymond
N/A
0.0