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
- 2025 · The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide as Horror Film Expert
- 2025 · The Institute as Stackhouse
- 2023 · Percy Jackson and the Olympians as Procrustes
- 2022 · Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities as Dooley
- 2021 · Chapelwaite as Phillip Boone
- 2021 · Chaos Walking as Gault
- 2019 · Blood & Treasure as Alessandro LaLande
- 2019 · The Umbrella Academy as Chet Rodo
- 2019 · Doom Patrol as Heinrich Von Fuchs
- 2019 · Polar as Lomas
- 2017 · Creeped Out as Zephaniah
- 2017 · American Gods as Iktomi
- 2016 · Frontier as Mr. Pickersgill
- 2016 · Channel Zero as The Gardener
- 2016 · The Witch as Governor
- 2015 · The Magicians as Asteroth
- 2015 · The Expanse as Vargas
- 2015 · Patriot as Peter Icabod
- 2015 · A Christmas Horror Story as Gerhardt
- 2015 · Killjoys as Ancient Scarback
- 2015 · 12 Monkeys as Adviser to the Witness
- 2013 · The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet as Ricky
- 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 · Transporter: The Series as Edouard Orlande
- 2012 · The Conspiracy as Green Man
- 2011 · Hell on Wheels as SLC Records Clerk
- 2010 · Lost Girl as Arval
- 2010 · Rookie Blue as Cedric
- 2010 · Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Ferryman
- 2010 · Republic of Doyle as Lionel Harris
- 2009 · Sea Wolf as Mugridge
- 2009 · The Listener as Miles Mellini
- 2008 · Murdoch Mysteries as Phillip Uxbridge
- 2007 · Saw IV as Vagrant
- 2007 · Heartland as Mr. Hanley
- 2007 · Heartland as Levon Hanley
- 2007 · Dead Silence as Bos
- 2005 · Supernatural as Death
- 2004 · Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn' as Self
- 2003 · Missing as Doc
- 2003 · Wrong Turn as Three Finger
- 1998 · Cube as Alderson
- 1997 · La Femme Nikita as Errol Sparks
- 1996 · Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal as Earl Cornell
- 1994 · Due South as Miles Emery
- 1992 · Forever Knight as Dr. Paul Dana
- 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
- Future · The Asylum as Dr. Raymond
- 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 · 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 · 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 · Stanleyville as Homunculus
- 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 · Talent Drivers as Vincent
- 2018 · Carter as Ray Understone
- 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 · The Space Between as Stash
- 2016 · Blood Hunters as Father Stewart
- 2016 · The Rainbow Kid as Elvis Grimes
- 2016 · Prisoner X as Jefferson
- 2015 · All Hallows' Eve 2 as Chatterbox (segment "The Last Halloween") (archive footage)
- 2015 · Regression as Tom
- 2015 · She Stoops to Conquer as
- 2015 · Reign as Mr. Ian
- 2015 · Whatever, Linda as Aloysius Finkle
- 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 · Septic Man as Phil Prosser
- 2013 · Victims as Gatling
- 2012 · The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh as Rahn Brothers / Neither Man Nor Woman / Bill Phillips
- 2012 · The Tape as Jack
- 2011 · Three Inches as Ethan
- 2011 · Bag of Bones as Elmer Durgin
- 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 · Trigger as Bucky
- 2010 · Storm Worlds as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- 2009 · The Timekeeper as Grease
- 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 · 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 · Nature of the Beast as Dr. Chamberlain
- 2007 · The Tracey Fragments as Dr. Heker
- 2007 · Shoot 'Em Up as Hertz's Driver
- 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 · 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
- 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 · 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 Peter Jay
- 2001 · A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Poet
- 2001 · A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Jerome Aland
- 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 · 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 · Mimic as Workman
- 1997 · Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother as Camier
- 1997 · The Adventures of Shirley Holmes as Doctor Saul Sprockett
- 1997 · Pale Saints as Einstein
- 1997 · Heritage Minutes: Winnie as A.A. Milne
- 1996 · Hard Core Logo as Buck Haight
- 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
- 1992 · Giant Steps as Danceband Teacher
- 1992 · The Valour and the Horror as John Crocker
- 1991 · Naked Lunch as Exterminator #4
- 1991 · Heritage Minutes as A.A. Milne
- 1991 · Heritage Minutes as King Henry VII
- Future · Keeper of the Cup as Rick
- 1991 · Heritage Minutes: John Cabot as King Henry VII
- 1990 · Clarence as Reynolds
- 1990 · Maniac Mansion as Tax Man
- 1990 · Counterstrike as Rettie
- 1987 · Love at Stake as Town Crier
- 1986 · Adderly as
- 1986 · The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood as