Biography
Julian Richings is a British-Canadian character actor. He 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, Julian Richings is a busy stage actor. In February of 2016 he appeared in a play titled Must...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
2025
as Horror Film Expert
Why do people no longer see this type of stories nowadays? How can this notion be awakened? Which films should begin to feed back from the past and ba...

It Feeds
2025
as Dr. Ronald Whittaker
A clairvoyant therapist confronts her own personal demons while trying to save a young girl who believes a malevolent entity is feeding on her.

Honey Bunch
2025
as Delwyn
Diana's husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she can't remember why... As her memories begin to creep ...

Return to Wickensburg
2024
as Mr. Hexenmeister
Mr. Hexenmeister has escaped from prison, and once again threatens Wickensburg. It's a race against time to find an ancient orb, capable of destroying...

A Thousand Cuts
2024
as Webster
Tonight, on a live TV special, Roberta and her co-host Frasier will attempt to solve the notorious murder of famous horror novelist Bernard Balance, w...

Scared Shitless
2024
as Professor Cummings
A plumber and his germophobic son are forced to get their hands dirty to save the residents of an apartment building, when a genetically engineered, b...

Campton Manor
2024
as Edward
An author tries to investigate a decades old mystery and finds himself stuck in his own ghost story.

Relax, I'm from the Future
2023
as Percy
Casper is a time traveller who arrives in the 2020s in an attempt to prevent a major future catastrophe. He meets Holly, a queer black woman he befrie...

T-Bone
2023
as Chris
On a bright, beautiful day, a man and a woman recount fond memories and some really good times they’ve shared. They laugh easily together in their car...

Beau Is Afraid
2023
as Strange Man
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odys...

Time Traveling Through Time
2022
as Narrator
A wannabe film director becomes embroiled in a battle against the laws of time and space when his attempts to recreate the iconic black and white, pho...
Oldtimers
2022
as Richard
Two associates finally get together during the holiday season to reminisce on their past glory days, hash out their differences, and rejoice by embrac...

Wickensburg
2022
as Mr Hexenmeister
A mother and her young son move to a new small town. They soon discover the town harbors a dark secret, and it's a race against time to save the town.

Salvation
2022
as John
An apocalypse survivor in search of his lost daughter is drawn into a deadly creation myth.

Charlotte
2022
as Dr. Kurt Singer / Policeman #1 / SS Soldier #2 (voice)
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative...

Vicious Fun
2021
as Fritz
Joel, a caustic 1980s film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. With no o...

Stanleyville
2021
as Homunculus
Office drone Maria Barbizan leads what looks like a meaningless life. She’s lonely, and she doesn’t really exist, at her job or within her family. One...

Chaos Walking
2021
as Gault
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting...

Stardust
2020
as Tony Defries
David Bowie went to America for the first time to promote his third album, The Man Who Sold the World. There, he embarked on a coast-to-coast publicit...

Business Ethics
2020
as Martin Abacus
Fresh out of business school, Zachery Cranston seems to have all the tools necessary to succeed in the world of finance. But he is ambitious to a faul...

Hall
2020
as Julian
When a hotel hallway is ravaged by a dreadful airborne virus, pregnant Japanese runaway wife Naomi is tragically thrust into the fight of her life. Af...

Spare Parts
2020
as The Emperor
In a godforsaken bar in the middle of nowhere, an all-girl band – Ms. 45 – rips the stage apart with their punk spirit. But their performance impresse...

Anything for Jackson
2020
as Henry Walsh
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but...

The Christmas Temp
2019
as Luca
An out of work artist discovers a special Christmas temp agency that matches her with a handful of festive jobs, but falls into a creative rut while j...

Sailor
2019
as The Magistrate
Prolific character actor Julian Richings (SUPERNATURAL; THE WITCH) is pitted against an enigmatic murderer during a whispery and labyrinthine interrog...

True Fiction
2019
as Lenny Rupert
Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. W...

Polar
2019
as Lomas
When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless kil...

Midnight Confession
2017
as Grass (voice)
West Berlin, 1989. Manny Jumpcannon prowls his dingy apartment, phoning various degenerates from his past. He's hoping for some uncertain vindication ...

Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End
2017
as Hooded Leader / Malian Trader (voice)
The animated conclusion to the live action Todd and The Book Of Pure Evil Show. Todd tries to mend his friendship with Curtis after killing his girlfr...

The Space Between
2017
as Stash
A new father discovers his child is not his own and sets out on a journey to find answers.

Blood Hunters
2016
as Father Stewart
An elevated genre horror film about a single mother who wakes up in a medical facility to find that everyone is dead and she's nine months pregnant. ...
The Rainbow Kid
2016
as Elvis Grimes
Eugene, a young man with Down Syndrome, embarks on the journey of a lifetime: he's going to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and save th...

Prisoner X
2016
as Jefferson
A CIA operative interrogates a time-traveling terrorist.

The Witch
2016
as Governor
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and pa...

All Hallows' Eve 2
2015
as Chatterbox (segment "The Last Halloween") (archive footage)
A woman finds a VHS tape on her doorstep that shows a series of gruesome tales that could be real. But the true danger is the pumpkin-faced killer tha...

Regression
2015
as Tom
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John u...

She Stoops to Conquer
2015
A struggling performer stumbles upon a real-life version of the character she plays in this doppelgänger rom-com.

A Christmas Horror Story
2015
as Gerhardt
Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, peace and goodwill. But for some folks in the small town of Bailey Downs, it turns into something much less...

Reign
2015
as Mr. Ian
Follows two long time best friends and their relationship as it begins to deteriorate when one of them becomes the bully and the other a victim.

Hellmouth
2014
as Smiley
A gravekeeper is drawn into a hell dimension to save the soul of a beautiful woman.

Ejecta
2014
as William Cassidy
Two men witness an unexplainable event in the sky as a historic solar storm approaches, and they try to survive as a terrifying life form hunts them.

Patch Town
2014
as Yuri
In a world where toys are living beings, a forgotten doll seeks out his former owner during the holiday season in Toronto, while putting himself at od...
The Last Halloween
2013
as Chatterbox
The city is quiet; the streets, deserted. It doesn't much feel like Halloween, and yet four young trick-or-treaters - a Ghost, a Devil, a Grim Reaper ...

We Are Not Here
2013
as Monday
We Are Not Here is a short film about a small derelict town, waiting for a road. Through a series of vignettes we take a glimpse into the life of the ...

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013
as Ricky
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and ...

Septic Man
2013
as Phil Prosser
A sewage worker gets trapped inside a septic tank during a water contamination crisis and undergoes a hideous transformation. To escape, he must team ...

Man of Steel
2013
as Lor-Em
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he w...

The Colony
2013
as Leland
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than natur...

Victims
2013
as Gatling
Lindsay and Spencer are a typical young couple, but their lives are changed forever after a violent home invasion. Now Lindsay finds herself a prisone...

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012
as Rahn Brothers / Neither Man Nor Woman / Bill Phillips
The story of Leon, an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had been living in a shrine devoted ...

The Conspiracy
2012
as Green Man
A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.

The Tape
2012
as Jack
A man digs through his attic looking for something clearly of great significance. What it is, we're not quite sure. When he finds a VHS tape and reali...

Three Inches
2011
as Ethan
Walter Speckman is a nobody, until one day he is struck by lightning and gains the ability to move any object with his mind... but only for 3 inches a...

Collaborator
2011
as Maurice LeFont
A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.

Patch Town
2011
as Child Catcher
This satirical comedy-meets-musical clashes the folklore of Soviet era oppression with the mindless, excessive consumerism of the 1980. Welcome to Pat...

Dave vs Death
2011
as Death
From his deathbed, David Kane challenges the Grim Reaper to a game of chess. If Dave wins, his life is spared. For every piece lost, someone he cares ...

Animal Control
2011
as Larry
Before Sammy, his best friends were stuffed animals. Larry, an eccentric amateur taxidermist, works for Animal Services picking up road kill along the...

Hard Core Logo II
2010
as Bucky Haight
Bruce McDonald’s long-awaited follow-up to his cult classic mock-doc stars McDonald himself as "Bruce," the director of Hard Core Logo, who has reloca...

Trigger
2010
as Bucky
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.

Survival of the Dead
2010
as James O'Flynn
On a small island off the coast of Delaware, two families are locked in a struggle for power and control over the fate of the undead.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2010
as Ferryman
Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must ma...

Sea Wolf
2009
as Mugridge
A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.

Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols
2009
as Kneeling Man
Anthology of award-winning films including The Eyes of Edward James, The Demonology of Desire, and The Facts In the Case of Mister Hollow.

The Timekeeper
2009
as Grease
A l'automne 1964, la construction des 52 derniers milles du chemin de fer du Grand lac des Esclaves est en voie d'achèvement. Une bande hétéroclite de...

You Might As Well Live
2009
as Dr. Pooseby
On the advice of his childhood hero, Robert R. Mutt embarks on a madcap adventure to attain the three keys to being a "somebody" - a girl, some money ...

Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween
2008
as Mr. Tibers
It's Roxy's first Halloween in serenity falls and it looks like it's going to be a bust until Roxy discovers that her classmate Stefan is actually a v...

Elegy
2008
as Actor in Play #1
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Casti...

The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow
2008
as Kneeling Man
The film centers on an unusual photograph dating back to the 1930s. An investigation of its particulars reveals a tapestry of secrets hidden in the de...

Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid
2008
as Mr. Tibers
Roxy is at it again when, in pursuit of a local journalism award, she brings home a mysterious amnesiac who was found soaking wet outside of the local...

Jack and Jill vs. The World
2008
as Mr. Smith
Jack and Jill's Manifesto of Rules to Live By Rule 1 Be honest Rule 2 Believe in fairy tales Rule 3 Accept time as our friend Rule 4 Make sure the noo...

Toronto Stories
2008
as Leather Jacket
Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally diverse city.

Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost
2007
as Mr. Tibers
After moving to an eerie old house in the country, nine-year-old super sleuth Roxy Hunter stumbles into a world filled with unsolved mysterieus, secre...

Saw IV
2007
as Vagrant
Despite Jigsaw's death, and in order to save the lives of two of his colleagues, Lieutenant Rigg is forced to take part in a new game, which promises ...

Nature of the Beast
2007
as Dr. Chamberlain
Julia and Rich are about to get married, but Rich has a hairy secret. Will Julia still marry him when she finds out about the monster "inside"?

The Tracey Fragments
2007
as Dr. Heker
Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents ...

Shoot 'Em Up
2007
as Hertz's Driver
A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.

Dead Silence
2007
as Bos
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dum...

The Third Eye
2007
as Charlie Rabbit
Photojournalist Nika Printz is struggling to accept the mysterious death of her younger brother when she discovers his obsession with trepanation; an ...

The Last Sect
2006
as Karpov
A seductively lethal vampire sect leader has been battling famed vampire hunter Van Helsing's descendent for decades. But now she and her bloodthirsty...

X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
as Mutant Theatre Organizer
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mut...

Skinwalkers
2006
as Sad Looking Man
Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-re...

Drive Time Murders
2006
as 'The Doc'
A Chicago attorney and his gossip columnist host a popular morning radio show. Their search to locate a mysterious woman leads them to the Chicago Art...
Black Widow
2005
as Dr. Deadman
A film noir-style musical telling the story of how a man met his end by getting sucked into a web of lies and deceit by a beautiful, dark-haired singe...

Some Things That Stay
2004
as Minister
A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.

The Limb Salesman
2004
as Contact
Gabriel Goode is the Limb Salesman, a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of th...

Being Julia
2004
as Mr. Turnbull
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant...

The Last Casino
2004
as Orr
A University teacher finds three bright students and decides to teach them how to count cards to make lots of money. As they learn how to play the cas...

Kingdom Hospital
2004
as Otto
Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil ...

Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
2004
as William Cattermole
Susanna and Catharine were brought up in a large estate in England. They married soldiers and both couples headed to Canada only to be disappointed. C...

Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn'
2004
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Rob Schmidt's 'Wrong Turn'.

Eloise at Christmastime
2003
as Patrice the Chef
Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. The owner's daughter is getting married, but Eloise discover...

Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil
2003
as Satan
Teen heavy-metal enthusiast, Todd, seeks dating advice from the Prince of Darkness, unleashing the fury of hell to win the heart of the head cheerlead...

Open Range
2003
as Wylie
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

Wrong Turn
2003
as Three Finger
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunt...

Eloise at the Plaza
2003
as Patrice the Chef
Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. Her caretaker "Nanny" watches over her while her mom is away...

My Life Without Me
2003
as Dr. Thompson
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

Salem Witch Trials
2002
as Jonathan Walcott
Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in Am...

Between Strangers
2002
as Nigel
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

I Shout Love
2002
as Cab Driver
Bobby is about to abandon Tessa, but in a suicidal panic she persuades him to stay one last night and reenact the good old times in front of a video c...

The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
2001
as Brother Clote
Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about his family. But Miss Parker is hot on Jarod's trail and about to make d...
On Their Knees
2001
as Pappy
Willie and Mo are half sisters who have never seen eye to eye. A cross-country road trip in an ice cream truck carrying their dead grandmother may not...

Treed Murray
2001
as Homeless Man
An advertising executive, trapped in a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, manipulates them into fighting to save his life.

Century Hotel
2001
as Waiter
David Weaver makes his feature debut with this omnibus film in which each tale is told during different points during the 20th century, but in the sam...

Prince Charming
2001
as Wacktazar
After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a mai...

The Claim
2000
as Francis Bellanger
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who ...

The Claim
2000
as Bellanger
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who ...

Two Thousand and None
2000
as Curator
A paleontologist is diagnosed with a fatal brain disease and, rather than falling into a depression, explodes into life.

The Hustle
2000
as Detective Walsh
Maya and Tony are a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Maya seduces businessmen while Tony copies their credit cards. It's a smooth con until one of their v...

The Crossing
2000
as McKenzie
A made-for-TV dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton.

The Time Shifters
1999
as Murray Trevor, Time-Traveling Tourist
Tom Merrick gets caught up in a time-traveling conspiracy and must set the timeline right before it is irrevocably altered.

Detroit Rock City
1999
as Ticket Taker
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the four teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal ...

The Red Violin
1998
as Nicolas Olsberg (Montréal)
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, En...

Motel
1998
as Tenant
A cowardly thief tries to solve the murder of a prostitute as compensation for his own crimes.

Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms
1998
as Bix
With the UniSol program budget cut by the government, a gang of mercenaries takes control of the new line of Universal Soldiers for their own nefariou...

Urban Legend
1998
as Weird Janitor
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.

Cube
1998
as Alderson
A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to...

Once a Thief: Family Business
1998
as Camier
When thieves turned undercover agents Mac (Ivan Sergei) and Li Ann (Sandrine Holt) must get inside access to an organized crime family, they discover ...
The Show: Stories Within a Film
1998
as The Lead Actor
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Hard Core Logo (1995).

Ms. Scrooge
1997
as Christmas Yet to Come
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She ha...

Mimic
1997
as Workman
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutan...

Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother
1997
as Camier
Trained thieves (Ivan Sergei, Sandrine Holt) investigate a hit man and a power struggle within their former crime family.

Heritage Minutes: Winnie
1997
as A.A. Milne
A Canadian soldier's bear becomes the object of adoration and inspiration for a young boy and his father, A.A. Milne.
Pale Saints
1997
as Einstein
Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the mo...

Hard Core Logo
1996
as Buck Haight
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick hol...

The Boys Club
1996
as Officer Cole
Three teenage boys in small-town Southern Ontario are thrilled when Luke Cooper, a mysterious American fugitive with a gunshot wound in his leg, decid...

The Shamrock Conspiracy
1995
as Reader
A retired Scotland Yard detective gets involved in a serial killer investigation whilst in New York.

The Song Spinner
1995
as Callo
In an isolated, snow-covered country known as the Water Land, the town of Shandrilan remains the quietest place in the world because its "Hush Law" pr...

Moonlight and Valentino
1995
as Hair Stylist
A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.

Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time
1995
as Bono
The year is 1868, the city - Vienna, the music - exhilarating, yet all is not well with Johann Strauss, Jr., the darling of waltzing Vienna. Haunted b...
Love Child
1995
as Tom Sr.
Nine year old Murray Murray is discovering his sexuality in the era of disco and leisure suits. He has a crush on sixteen year old Deidre, whose young...

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
1994
as Sir George's Servant
Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighbo...

Giant Steps
1992
as Danceband Teacher
A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.

Naked Lunch
1991
as Exterminator #4
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meetin...

Heritage Minutes: John Cabot
1991
as King Henry VII
Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot discovers the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and runs "aground" on a bounty of fish.

Clarence
1990
as Reynolds
Spin off from the classic 1946 Jimmy Stewart film "It's A Wonderful Life" finds his protecting angel, Clarence, again returning to Earth to help anoth...

The Top of His Head
1989
as Robert (henchman)
Satellite dish salesman Gus experiences some life-altering changes when he meets performance artist Lucy in this visually poetic fantasy. After Lucy v...

Love at Stake
1987
as Town Crier
Salem, 1692. The mayor and judge are accusing land owner of witchery in order to grab their land. No one knows that are handsome stranger is a real wi...

The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
1986
A college professor wishes he could live in Victorian England. Through a scientific experiment that goes wrong, he is able to make his dream come true...

Keeper of the Cup
N/A
as Rick
Three delayed Toronto Maple Leafs fans take matters into their own hands to ensure a win in what remains of their lifetimes.