Julian Richings
August 30, 1956 (69 years old) in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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
Credits
- 2026 · Honey Bunch as Delwyn
- 2024 · Scared Shitless as Professor Cummings
- 2023 · Relax, I'm from the Future as Percy
- 2022 · Wickensburg as Mr Hexenmeister
- 2022 · Charlotte as Dr. Kurt Singer / Policeman #1 / SS Soldier #2 (voice)
- 2021 · Stanleyville as Homunculus
- 2020 · Spare Parts as The Emperor
- 2019 · The Christmas Temp as Luca
- 2017 · The Space Between as Stash
- 2016 · Blood Hunters as Father Stewart
- 2016 · The Rainbow Kid as Elvis Grimes
- 2015 · All Hallows' Eve 2 as Chatterbox (segment "The Last Halloween") (archive footage)
- 2015 · A Christmas Horror Story as Gerhardt
- 2015 · Whatever, Linda as Aloysius Finkle
- 2014 · Hellmouth as Smiley
- 2014 · Ejecta as William Cassidy
- 2013 · We Are Not Here as Monday
- 2013 · The Colony as Leland
- 2013 · Victims as Gatling
- 2012 · The Tape as Jack
- 2011 · Collaborator as Maurice LeFont
- 2011 · Patch Town as Child Catcher
- 2010 · Trigger as Bucky
- 2010 · Survival of the Dead as James O'Flynn
- 2010 · Wingin' It as William Shakespeare
- 2009 · Sea Wolf as Mugridge
- 2009 · Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols as Kneeling Man
- 2008 · The Trojan Horse as Barrie
- 2004 · The Last Casino as Orr
- 2003 · Eloise at Christmastime as Patrice the Chef
- 2003 · My Life Without Me as Dr. Thompson
- 2002 · Salem Witch Trials as Jonathan Walcott
- 2002 · I Shout Love as Cab Driver
- 2001 · Treed Murray as Homeless Man
- 2001 · MythQuest as Loki
- 2000 · The Zack Files as The Mad Hatter
- 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
- 1997 · Ms. Scrooge as Christmas Yet to Come
- 1997 · The Adventures of Shirley Holmes as Doctor Saul Sprockett
- 1996 · Hard Core Logo as Buck Haight
- 1996 · The Boys Club as Officer Cole
- 1995 · The Shamrock Conspiracy as Reader
- 1995 · Moonlight and Valentino as Hair Stylist
- 1995 · Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years as Logan’s Henchman
- 1995 · Love Child as Tom Sr.
- 1992 · The Valour and the Horror as John Crocker
- 1991 · Naked Lunch as Exterminator #4
- Future · Keeper of the Cup as Rick
- 2025 · Secrets of Wickensburg as Mr. Hexenmeister
- 2025 · The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide as Horror Film Expert
- 2025 · The Institute as Stackhouse
- 2025 · It Feeds as Dr. Ronald Whittaker
- 2024 · Return to Wickensburg as Mr. Hexenmeister
- 2024 · A Thousand Cuts as Webster
- 2024 · Campton Manor as Edward
- 2023 · Percy Jackson and the Olympians as Procrustes
- 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 · Salvation as John
- 2021 · Vicious Fun as Fritz
- 2021 · Chapelwaite as Phillip Boone
- 2021 · Chaos Walking as Gault
- 2020 · Stardust as Tony Defries
- 2020 · Business Ethics as Martin Abacus
- 2020 · Hall as Julian
- 2020 · Anything for Jackson as Henry Walsh
- 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
- 2016 · Frontier as Mr. Pickersgill
- 2016 · Channel Zero as The Gardener
- 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 · Regression as Tom
- 2015 · She Stoops to Conquer as
- 2015 · Killjoys as Ancient Scarback
- 2015 · Reign as Mr. Ian
- 2015 · 12 Monkeys as Adviser to the Witness
- 2014 · Patch Town as Yuri
- 2013 · The Last Halloween as Chatterbox
- 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 · Hannibal as Caged Man
- 2013 · Orphan Black as Benjamin Kertland
- 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
- 2011 · Three Inches as Ethan
- 2011 · Bag of Bones as Elmer Durgin
- 2011 · Hell on Wheels as SLC Records Clerk
- 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 · Rookie Blue as Cedric
- 2010 · Storm Worlds as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Ferryman
- 2010 · Republic of Doyle as Lionel Harris
- 2009 · Sea Wolf as Mugridge
- 2009 · The Timekeeper as Grease
- 2009 · The Listener as Miles Mellini
- 2009 · You Might As Well Live as Dr. Pooseby
- 2008 · Toronto Stories as Leather Jacket
- 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 · Murdoch Mysteries as Phillip Uxbridge
- 2008 · The Border as Professor Adrian Maguire
- 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 · Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital as Otto
- 2004 · 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 · 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
- 2002 · Puppets Who Kill as French Painter
- 2002 · Puppets Who Kill as Mr. Portnoy
- 2002 · Between Strangers as Nigel
- 2001 · The Pretender: Island of the Haunted as Brother Clote
- 2001 · On Their Knees as Pappy
- 2001 · Tracker as Max
- 2001 · Century Hotel as Waiter
- 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 · Two Thousand and None as Curator
- 2000 · The Hustle as Detective Walsh
- 2000 · The Crossing as McKenzie
- 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 · Pale Saints as Einstein
- 1997 · Mimic as Workman
- 1997 · Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother as Camier
- 1997 · La Femme Nikita as Errol Sparks
- 1997 · Heritage Minutes: Winnie as A.A. Milne
- 1996 · Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal as Earl Cornell
- 1995 · The Song Spinner as Callo
- 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
- 1991 · Heritage Minutes as A.A. Milne
- 1991 · Heritage Minutes as King Henry VII
- 1991 · Heritage Minutes: John Cabot 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 as
- 1986 · The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood as
- Future · The Asylum as Dr. Raymond