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.

Filmography

• 2026Honey Bunch — Delwyn
• 2026Junction Row
• 2026Man Eating Pussy — Freddie
• Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen — Larry Poole
• 2026Turn It Up! — Dr. Pretorious
• 2025It Feeds — Dr. Ronald Whittaker
• 2025Secrets of Wickensburg — Mr. Hexenmeister
• The Institute — Stackhouse
• 2024A Thousand Cuts — Webster
• 2024Campton Manor — Edward
• 2024Return to Wickensburg — Mr. Hexenmeister
• 2024Scared Shitless — Professor Cummings
• 2023Beau Is Afraid — Strange Man
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians — Procrustes
• 2023Relax, I'm from the Future — Percy
• 2023T-Bone — Chris
• 2022Charlotte — Dr. Kurt Singer / Policeman #1 / SS Soldier #2 (voice)
• Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities — Dooley
• 2022Hall — Julian
• 2022Oldtimers — Richard
• Reginald the Vampire — Logan
• 2022Salvation — John
• 2022Time Traveling Through Time — Narrator
• 2022Wickensburg — Mr Hexenmeister
• 2021Chaos Walking — Gault
• Chapelwaite — Phillip Boone
• 2021Stanleyville — Homunculus
• 2021Vicious Fun — Fritz
• 2020Anything for Jackson — Henry Walsh
• 2020Business Ethics — Martin Abacus
• 2020Spare Parts — The Emperor
• 2020Stardust — Tony Defries
• Blood & Treasure — Alessandro LaLande
• Doom Patrol — Heinrich Von Fuchs
• Perpetual Grace LTD — Jonathan Joy
• 2019Polar — Lomas
• 2019Sailor — The Magistrate
• Talent Drivers — Vincent
• 2019The Christmas Temp — Luca
• The Umbrella Academy — Chet Rodo
• 2019True Fiction — Lenny Rupert
• Carter — Ray Understone
• American Gods — Iktomi
• Creeped Out — Zephaniah
• 2017Midnight Confession — Grass (voice)
• 2017The Space Between — Stash
• 2017Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End — Hooded Leader / Malian Trader (voice)
• 2016Blood Hunters — Father Stewart
• Channel Zero — The Gardener
• Frontier — Mr. Pickersgill
• 2016Prisoner X — Jefferson
• 2016The Rainbow Kid — Elvis Grimes
• 2016The Witch — Governor
• 12 Monkeys — Adviser to the Witness
• 2015A Christmas Horror Story — Gerhardt
• 2015All Hallows' Eve 2 — Chatterbox (segment "The Last Halloween") (archive footage)
• Killjoys — Ancient Scarback
• Patriot — Peter Icabod
• 2015Regression — Tom
• 2015Reign — Mr. Ian
• 2015She Stoops to Conquer
• The Expanse — Vargas
• The Magicians — Asteroth
• Whatever, Linda — Aloysius Finkle
• 2014Ejecta — William Cassidy
• 2014Hellmouth — Smiley
• 2014Patch Town — Yuri
• Hannibal — Caged Man
• Hemlock Grove — Swiss Doctor
• 2013Man of Steel — Lor-Em
• Orphan Black — Benjamin Kertland
• 2013Septic Man — Phil Prosser
• 2013The Colony — Leland
• 2013The Last Halloween — Chatterbox
• 2013The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet — Ricky
• Transporter: The Series — Edouard Orlande
• 2013Victims — Gatling
• 2013We Are Not Here — Monday
• 2012The Conspiracy — Green Man
• 2012The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh — Rahn Brothers / Neither Man Nor Woman / Bill Phillips
• 2012The Tape — Jack
• 2011Animal Control — Larry
• Bag of Bones — Elmer Durgin
• 2011Collaborator — Maurice LeFont
• 2011Dave vs Death — Death
• Hell on Wheels — SLC Records Clerk
• 2011Patch Town — Child Catcher
• 2011Three Inches — Ethan
• 2010Hard Core Logo 2 — Bucky Haight
• Lost Girl — Arval
• 2010Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief — Ferryman
• Republic of Doyle — Lionel Harris
• Rookie Blue — Cedric
• Storm Worlds — Narrator (voice)
• 2010Survival of the Dead — James O'Flynn
• Todd and the Book of Pure Evil — Hooded Leader / Atticus Murphy Sr.
• 2010Trigger — Bucky
• Wingin' It — William Shakespeare
• 2009Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols — Kneeling Man
• 2009Sea Wolf — Mugridge
• Sea Wolf — Mugridge
• The Listener — Miles Mellini
• 2009The Timekeeper — Grease
• 2009You Might As Well Live — Dr. Pooseby
• 2008Elegy — Actor in Play #1
• 2008Jack and Jill vs. The World — Mr. Smith
• Murdoch Mysteries — Phillip Uxbridge
• 2008Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween — Mr. Tibers
• 2008Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid — Mr. Tibers
• The Border — Professor Adrian Maguire
• 2008The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow — Kneeling Man
• The Trojan Horse — Barrie
• 2008Toronto Stories — Leather Jacket
• XIII — Mr. Cody
• 2007Dead Silence — Bos
• Heartland — Mr. Hanley, Levon Hanley
• 2007Nature of the Beast — Dr. Chamberlain
• 2007Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost — Mr. Tibers
• 2007Saw IV — Vagrant
• 2007Shoot 'Em Up — Hertz's Driver
• 2007The Third Eye — Charlie Rabbit
• 2007The Tracey Fragments — Dr. Heker
• 2006A Lobster Tale — Hank Perkins
• At the Hotel — Baby Man
• 2006Drive Time Murders — 'The Doc'
• Grossology — Darko Crevasse (voice)
• 2006Skinwalkers — Sad Looking Man
• 2006The Last Sect — Karpov
• 2006X-Men: The Last Stand — Mutant Theatre Organizer
• 2005Black Widow — Dr. Deadman
• Finding the Fallen — Narrator
• Supernatural — Death
• 2004Being Julia — Mr. Turnbull
• 2004Kingdom Hospital — Otto
• 2004Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill — William Cattermole
• 2004Some Things That Stay — Minister
• Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital — Otto
• 2004The Last Casino — Orr
• 2004The Limb Salesman — Contact
• 2003Eloise at Christmastime — Patrice the Chef
• 2003Eloise at the Plaza — Patrice the Chef
• Missing — Doc
• 2003My Life Without Me — Dr. Thompson
• 2003Open Range — Wylie
• Slings & Arrows — Reg Mortimer
• 2003Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil — Satan
• 2003Wrong Turn — Three Finger
• 2002Between Strangers — Nigel
• 2002I Shout Love — Cab Driver
• Puppets Who Kill — French Painter, Mr. Portnoy
• A Nero Wolfe Mystery — Peter Jay, Poet, Jerome Aland, Alger Kates
• 2001Century Hotel — Waiter
• MythQuest — Loki
• 2001On Their Knees — Pappy
• 2001Prince Charming — Wacktazar
• 2001The Pretender: Island of the Haunted — Brother Clote
• Tracker — Max
• 2001Treed Murray — Homeless Man
• 2000The Claim — Francis Bellanger
• 2000The Crossing — McKenzie
• 2000The Hustle — Detective Walsh
• The Zack Files — The Mad Hatter
• 2000Two Thousand and None — Curator
• Amazon — Elder Malakai
• 1999Detroit Rock City — Ticket Taker
• I Was a Sixth Grade Alien! — Meenom
• 1999The Time Shifters — Murray Trevor
• 1998Cube — Alderson
• Highlander: The Raven — Basil Morgan
• 1998Motel — Tenant
• 1998Once a Thief: Family Business — Camier
• 1998The Red Violin — Nicolas Olsberg (Montréal)
• 1998The Show: Stories Within a Film — The Lead Actor
• 1998Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms — Bix
• 1998Urban Legend — Weird Janitor
• 1997Heritage Minutes: Winnie — A.A. Milne
• La Femme Nikita — Errol Sparks
• 1997Mimic — Workman
• 1997Ms. Scrooge — Christmas Yet to Come
• 1997Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother — Camier
• 1997Pale Saints — Einstein
• The Adventures of Shirley Holmes — Doctor Saul Sprockett
• 1996Hard Core Logo — Buck Haight
• Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal — Earl Cornell
• 1996The Boys Club — Officer Cole
• Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years — Logan’s Henchman
• 1995Love Child — Tom Sr.
• 1995Moonlight and Valentino — Hair Stylist
• 1995Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time — Bono
• 1995The Shamrock Conspiracy — Reader
• 1995The Song Spinner — Callo
• Due South — Miles Emery
• 1994Squanto: A Warrior's Tale — Sir George's Servant
• Forever Knight — Dr. Paul Dana
• 1992Giant Steps — Danceband Teacher
• The Valour and the Horror — John Crocker
• Heritage Minutes — A.A. Milne, Roi Henri VII
• 1991Heritage Minutes: John Cabot — King Henry VII
• 1991Naked Lunch — Exterminator #4
• 1990Clarence — Reynolds
• Counterstrike — Rettie
• Maniac Mansion — Tax Man
• 1989The Top of His Head — Robert (henchman)
• War of the Worlds — Man with Hat, Alien Scientist, Ardix
• 1987Love at Stake — Town Crier
• Adderly
• 1986The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
• GUM — Brother Skull
• Keeper of the Cup — Rick
• The Asylum — Dr. Raymond

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2004Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn' — Self