Julian Richings
Born August 30, 1956 · 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Man of Steel
★ 6.62013
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
★ 6.22010
Wrong Turn
★ 6.42003
Dead Silence
★ 6.52007
The Witch
★ 7.02016
Polar
★ 6.42019
The Colony
★ 5.52013
Chaos Walking
★ 6.62021
Cube
★ 6.81998
Saw IV
★ 6.22007
Beau Is Afraid
★ 6.72023
Shoot 'Em Up
★ 6.52007
Mimic
★ 6.11997
Open Range
★ 7.22003
Naked Lunch
★ 7.01991
Urban Legend
★ 5.71998
Elegy
★ 6.32008
It Feeds
★ 6.72025
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
★ 6.92013
Anything for Jackson
★ 6.72020
Regression
★ 5.62015
Detroit Rock City
★ 6.81999
The Red Violin
★ 7.31998
Skinwalkers
★ 5.12006
Survival of the Dead
★ 4.92010
The Claim
★ 6.02000
My Life Without Me
★ 6.12003
Being Julia
★ 6.42004
Eloise at Christmastime
★ 6.32003
Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms
★ 4.31998
Between Strangers
★ 5.82002
Stardust
★ 3.92020
A Christmas Horror Story
★ 5.82015
Charlotte
★ 6.32022
Wickensburg
★ 5.02022
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
★ 6.81994
Honey Bunch
★ 6.02026
Sea Wolf
★ 5.82009
The Time Shifters
★ 5.81999
Eloise at the Plaza
★ 6.22003
Moonlight and Valentino
★ 5.61995
Some Things That Stay
★ 4.92004
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
★ 0.02025
The Crossing
★ 6.42000
The Hustle
★ 4.32000
Salem Witch Trials
★ 6.12002
You Might As Well Live
★ 4.82009
The Conspiracy
★ 6.02012
Hall
★ 5.82022
Spare Parts
★ 5.02020
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
★ 6.82001
Vicious Fun
★ 6.42021
Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost
★ 6.02007
Jack and Jill vs. The World
★ 5.32008
Time Traveling Through Time
★ 7.52022
Man Eating Pussy
★ 0.02026
All Hallows' Eve 2
★ 4.72015
The Tracey Fragments
★ 6.02007
Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother
★ 5.81997
Toronto Stories
★ 3.52008
The Last Sect
★ 3.72006
The Shamrock Conspiracy
★ 6.01995
TV Shows
Murdoch Mysteries
★ 7.72008
Due South
★ 7.61994
Hell on Wheels
★ 7.62011
Orphan Black
★ 7.82013
Lost Girl
★ 7.72010
Doom Patrol
★ 7.52019
The Umbrella Academy
★ 8.52019
The Magicians
★ 7.62015
Rookie Blue
★ 7.62010
Missing
★ 6.92003
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
★ 7.32023
12 Monkeys
★ 7.42015
The Listener
★ 6.92009
American Gods
★ 7.12017
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
★ 6.91996
Republic of Doyle
★ 7.02010
La Femme Nikita
★ 7.51997
Hemlock Grove
★ 7.12013
Killjoys
★ 6.92015
War of the Worlds
★ 6.41988
Forever Knight
★ 6.91992
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
★ 6.52026
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
★ 7.52022
Blood & Treasure
★ 6.72019
Frontier
★ 6.82016
Transporter: The Series
★ 6.02013
Channel Zero
★ 7.12016
Patriot
★ 7.62015
The Institute
★ 7.62025
Counterstrike
★ 7.01990
Creeped Out
★ 7.22017
Carter
★ 6.72018
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
★ 7.82001
Tracker
★ 6.62001
Chapelwaite
★ 7.32021
The Border
★ 6.02008
Perpetual Grace LTD
★ 7.32019
Highlander: The Raven
★ 5.41998
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien
★ 8.01999
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes
★ 7.01997
Puppets Who Kill
★ 6.62002
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
★ 7.02004
Maniac Mansion
★ 4.71990
Adderly
★ 7.01986
MythQuest
★ 7.22001
Bag of Bones
★ 5.92011
XIII
★ 6.12008
Amazon
★ 7.91999
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
★ 6.11995
Wingin' It
★ 5.82010
Slings & Arrows
★ 7.32003
Grossology
★ 7.42006
The Zack Files
★ 7.22000
Heritage Minutes
★ 7.51991
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
★ 7.02010
Reginald the Vampire
★ 5.22022
Sea Wolf
★ 4.82009
The Valour and the Horror
★ 0.01992
The Trojan Horse
★ 4.02008
Talent Drivers
★ 4.02019
Storm Worlds
★ 0.02010
Finding the Fallen
★ 0.02005
More Movies
Prince Charming
★ 7.02001
Scared Shitless
★ 5.42024
Clarence
★ 5.31990
Once a Thief: Family Business
★ 5.31998
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
★ 5.02012
Campton Manor
★ 6.52024
Kingdom Hospital
★ 6.42004
Prisoner X
★ 5.52016
The Last Casino
★ 7.02004
A Lobster Tale
★ 6.82006
A Thousand Cuts
★ 5.02024
Ms. Scrooge
★ 5.81997
Nature of the Beast
★ 5.12007
Hard Core Logo
★ 6.61996
The Timekeeper
★ 4.52009
The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
★ 5.51986
Relax, I'm from the Future
★ 6.02023
Century Hotel
★ 4.42001
The Space Between
★ 7.02017
Love at Stake
★ 5.91987
Return to Wickensburg
★ 5.32024
X-Men: The Last Stand
★ 6.42006
Ejecta
★ 3.82014
True Fiction
★ 4.92019
Trigger
★ 4.82010
The Christmas Temp
★ 5.32019
Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn'
★ 8.02004
The Boys Club
★ 5.71996
Patch Town
★ 4.72014
Treed Murray
★ 6.82001
The Rainbow Kid
★ 10.02016
Business Ethics
★ 7.32020
Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid
★ 4.22008
Motel
★ 4.31998
The Third Eye
★ 3.02007
Giant Steps
★ 8.01992
Septic Man
★ 4.42013
Keeper of the Cup
★ 0.0
Victims
★ 3.62013
Collaborator
★ 4.82011
Blood Hunters
★ 5.22016
Secrets of Wickensburg
★ 0.02025
Stanleyville
★ 4.82021
The Song Spinner
★ 9.01995
Three Inches
★ 5.22011
The Limb Salesman
★ 5.82004
Two Thousand and None
★ 5.02000
Hellmouth
★ 6.62014
We Are Not Here
★ 3.72013
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
★ 4.02004
Patch Town
★ 7.02011
The Top of His Head
★ 4.71989
Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween
★ 6.82008
I Shout Love
★ 5.32002
Midnight Confession
★ 3.02017
Reign
★ 0.02015
T-Bone
★ 0.02023
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End
★ 6.42017
Drive Time Murders
★ 8.02006
The Tape
★ 8.02012
Animal Control
★ 7.02011
Salvation
★ 0.02022
Turn It Up!
★ 0.02026
Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil
★ 5.72003
Heritage Minutes: Winnie
★ 0.01997
Dave vs Death
★ 8.02011
Sailor
★ 0.02019
Heritage Minutes: John Cabot
★ 0.01991
Hard Core Logo 2
★ 4.62010
The Last Halloween
★ 6.32013
The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow
★ 5.92008
She Stoops to Conquer
★ 6.32015
Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time
★ 0.01995
Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols
★ 7.02009