This episode was significant, because it allowed Kiel the opportunity to really act, rather than just look intimidating. He later appeared in another role, in the episode The Night of the Simian Terror, as the outcast son of a wealthy family, banished because of birth defects that distorted his body and apparently affected his mind. Miguelito Loveless, in episodes from the first season of The Wild, Wild West. Kiel also appeared as the towering - and lethal - assistant Voltaire to Dr.
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He also co-wrote, produced, and starred in the family-friendly movie The Giant of Thunder Mountain. Kiel broke into films in the early 1960s with the B-movie Eegah (1962), which was later featured on the TV-show Elvira's Movie Macabre, Mystery Science Theater 3000, as were The Phantom Planet and The Human Duplicators. He also acted in an unaired TV-pilot featuring Lee Falk's superhero The Phantom, where Kiel played an assassin called Big Mike, who was hired to kill the title hero.
He made his acting debut in a 1960 Laramie-episode called Street of Hate.
Years before playing Jaws, he did a similar role in the grade-Z Bond knock-off A Man Called Dagger, where his character Otto starts to give an erudite summary of Adolf Hitler's tactical mistakes during World War II before being cut off by his villainous employer. Genius Bruiser: As noted below, he worked to make his characters examples of this trope.Character Tics: He was blind in one eye, resulting in his head often being cocked to the side.Loveless was played by actor Michael Dunn, who was 3 ft 10 in height due to medical dwarfism. Miguelito Loveless in The Wild Wild West. Big Guy, Little Guy: As Voltaire, the assistant of Dr.Adam Westing: Often lampooned his role of Jaws in commercials or in films such as Inspector Gadget.I said if I were to play the part, I want to give the character some human characteristics, like perseverance, frustration." By the the time of Moonraker, he had persuaded the movie's crew not only that Jaws could renounce his psychotic ways but also that he could find love. invoked Actor-Inspired Element: About getting the role of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me, he said: "I was very put off by the description of the character and I thought, 'Well, they don't really need an actor, he's more a monster part'.Acting for Two: He played all of the Kanamits, a race of Ditto Aliens, in The Twilight Zone (1959) episode " To Serve Man".