Julian Richings
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
My Life Without Me
2003
Cube
1998
Saw IV
2007
Shoot 'Em Up
2007
The Last Casino
2004
Hard Core Logo
1996
The Time Shifters
1999
Treed Murray
2001
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2010
Urban Legend
1998
Wrong Turn
2003
Heritage Minutes: John Cabot
1991
Heritage Minutes: Winnie
1997
The Last Sect
2006
The Red Violin
1998
Patch Town
2011
Beau Is Afraid
2023
The Claim
2000
Between Strangers
2002
Man of Steel
2013
Trigger
2010
Hard Core Logo 2
2010
Drive Time Murders
2006
Collaborator
2011
The Shamrock Conspiracy
1995
Two Thousand and None
2000
Salem Witch Trials
2002
Sea Wolf
2009
On Their Knees
2001
The Conspiracy
2012
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013
Ms. Scrooge
1997
Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn'
2004
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
The Song Spinner
1995
Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time
1995
Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother
1997
Once a Thief: Family Business
1998
Detroit Rock City
1999
The Crossing
2000
Century Hotel
2001
Prince Charming
2001
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
2004
Being Julia
2004
The Limb Salesman
2004
Skinwalkers
2006
Elegy
2008
Toronto Stories
2008
Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween
2008
Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid
2008
The Space Between
2017
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End
2017
Stardust
2020
Salvation
2022
T-Bone
2023
The Hustle
2000
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
1994
Septic Man
2013
The Colony
2013
The Tape
2012
Some Things That Stay
2004
The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow
2008
Patch Town
2014
Relax, I'm from the Future
2023
Giant Steps
1992
Wickensburg
2022
Motel
1998
Hellmouth
2014
Ejecta
2014
Open Range
2003
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
2025
Oldtimers
2022
Black Widow
2005
Love Child
1995
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012
Naked Lunch
1991
Charlotte
2022
Pale Saints
1997
Love at Stake
1987
Return to Wickensburg
2024
The Last Halloween
2013
She Stoops to Conquer
2015
A Christmas Horror Story
2015
Campton Manor
2024
Kingdom Hospital
2004
Prisoner X
2016
The Top of His Head
1989
The Timekeeper
2009
The Witch
2016
A Thousand Cuts
2024
Scared Shitless
2024
Mimic
1997
Nature of the Beast
2007
Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil
2003
Honey Bunch
2026
Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost
2007
Regression
2015
Animal Control
2011
The Third Eye
2007
The Tracey Fragments
2007
Blood Hunters
2016
Dead Silence
2007
You Might As Well Live
2009
I Shout Love
2002
Eloise at Christmastime
2003
Eloise at the Plaza
2003
Midnight Confession
2017
Victims
2013
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols
2009
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
2001
Polar
2019
All Hallows' Eve 2
2015
We Are Not Here
2013
Sailor
2019
Jack and Jill vs. The World
2008
The Christmas Temp
2019
True Fiction
2019
Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms
1998
Survival of the Dead
2010
Clarence
1990
Spare Parts
2020
Vicious Fun
2021
Anything for Jackson
2020
Business Ethics
2020
The Boys Club
1996
Three Inches
2011
The Rainbow Kid
2016
Chaos Walking
2021
Hall
2022
Stanleyville
2021
Keeper of the Cup
—
Dave vs Death
2011
Time Traveling Through Time
2022
It Feeds
2025
The Show: Stories Within a Film
1998
The Claim
2000
Reign
2015
The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
1986
The Asylum
—
A Lobster Tale
2006
Secrets of Wickensburg
2025
Man Eating Pussy
2026
La Femme Nikita
1997
Due South
1994
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
2004
Supernatural
2005
Forever Knight
1992
Puppets Who Kill
2002
Highlander: The Raven
1998
XIII
2008
Slings & Arrows
2003
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
1996
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien
1999
Finding the Fallen
2005
Whatever, Linda
2015
Storm Worlds
2010
Chapelwaite
2021
Orphan Black
2013
Adderly
1986
War of the Worlds
1988
Counterstrike
1990
Maniac Mansion
1990
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
1995
Heritage Minutes
1991
Heritage Minutes
1991
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes
1997
Amazon
1999
The Zack Files
2000
MythQuest
2001
Tracker
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001
Puppets Who Kill
2002
Missing
2003
At the Hotel
2006
Grossology
2006
The Trojan Horse
2008
The Border
2008
Wingin' It
2010
Bag of Bones
2011
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
2010
Murdoch Mysteries
2008
Republic of Doyle
2010
Transporter: The Series
2013
Rookie Blue
2010
The Listener
2009
Hell on Wheels
2011
Hannibal
2013
Killjoys
2015
Channel Zero
2016
Frontier
2016
American Gods
2017
Reginald the Vampire
2022
Patriot
2015
12 Monkeys
2015
Hemlock Grove
2013
The Magicians
2015
The Umbrella Academy
2019
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023
War of the Worlds
1988
War of the Worlds
1988
Doom Patrol
2019
Lost Girl
2010
Blood & Treasure
2019
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019
The Expanse
2015
Heartland
2007
Heartland
2007
The Valour and the Horror
1992
Sea Wolf
2009
Talent Drivers
2019
Carter
2018
Creeped Out
2017
The Institute
2025
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
2026