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JawsAppears in:

Other names:

  • Requin in French ("shark")
  • Beißer in German ("biter")
  • Tiburón in Spanish ("shark")




About him:
  • Silent, very strong and psychotic killer who worked for evil wealthy villains Karl Stromberg and Hugo Drax in The Spy who Loved Me and Moonraker respectively
  • Stands 7 foot 2, he is the tallest henchman Bond has ever met
  • His favorite weapons are his metal teeth
  • Not very smart
  • Kills several contacts in Spy who loved me who tried to get the microfilm Stromberg wanted.
  • Comes back in Moonraker to go against 007 and worked for Hugo Drax
  • Turns against Drax at the end of Moonraker
  • Falls in love with Dolly, a short nerdy girl with blond bunches and glasses in Moonraker.
  • Doesn't talk until the end of Moonraker : he opens a bottle of champagne with his teeth, and says "Well, here's to us." to Dolly, and they clink glasses.
  • One of the very few villains' henchmen who ends up helping Bond, and one of the very few to survive as well

Actor: Richard Kiel

Richard Kiel couldn't stand wearing the metal dentures as they were very painful so could only wear them short periods of time.
Appeared in several films as a villain including Clint Eastwoods western Pale Rider in 1985 as a henchman of Josh Lahood the son of evil land baron Coy La Hood. Also appeared as a cameo in the movie Inspector Gadget.
Was in Happy Gilmore as Happy`s Boss.
Kiel was in a severe car accident and suffers from health problems.

Kiel's favorite Bond movies are Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, Dr. No and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.




Attempted methods of killing Bond:
Biting him with his stainless steel teeth, shooting him in a car chase in Sardinia, shooting him in a boat chase on the Amazon river. And a general beating, of course.

How he is dispatched:
Bond never kills Jaws but he does try to kill him, by throwing him out of a train, putting him with a shark, smashing his cable-car into the cable-car station, running his car off the road into the house of a poor Sardinian farmer, pushing him off of a waterfall on the Amazon river, and after all that Jaws just gets up, dusts off his jacket and walks away - although they actually team up at the end of Moonraker. As Drax's space station was blown up, Jaws was jettisoned in an intact module of the station along with his girlfriend Dolly.

Evil scheme: toTo kill Bond

Boss:
Freelance (notable employers : Karl Stromberg, Hugo Drax)

Defining dialogue:
"Well, here's to us."

Great Jaws moments:

The spy who loved me : His appearance during a night show for tourists besides the Cairo pyramids, his attempt to kill Bond where he eventually ends up smashing a scaffolding with a club which causes an Egyptian temple to collapse on him, brawl with Bond in a train, fight with a shark.

Moonraker : falling out of a plane onto a circus tent, being rammed into the cable car station while riding in a cable car in Rio, falling from the top of Iguazu falls, helping Bond escape Drax's space station, turning away from the dark side, and falling in love with Dolly.

Jaws Videos:

Jaws sees Bond in his sights and pulls the trigger. Nothing happens. He grabs another gun from another man. James Bond then activates the oil slick which causes the car to lurch off the road. A man down below is relaxing outside his house and he sees that a car has landed on his house, killing the gunners, but not Jaws. He survives, then walks off.
Tram fight from Moonraker
James Bond vs Jaws The Spy Who Loved Me

James Bond vs Jaws The Spy Who Loved Me James Bond vs Jaws The Spy Who Loved Me