Julian Richings

Julian Richings
Richings speaking at Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest in December 2015
Born	(1956-08-30) 30 August 1956 (age 60) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1987–present
Children	2

Julian M. Richings (born 30 August 1956) is an English-born Canadian actor. He has appeared in over 50 films and 20 television series.

Richings was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire. He trained in drama at the University of Exeter.

After touring the United States with a British stage production, Richings moved to Toronto, Canada in 1984. Within five years, he had become a regular on the second season of the War of the Worlds TV series. Other roles followed, and he gained critical acclaim as the bitter, aging, punk rock legend Bucky Haight in the 1996 film Hard Core Logo. He had a brief appearance in the 1997 film Cube. In 1999, he appeared in the science fiction film Thrill Seekers.

In 2000, he appeared as Bellanger in The Claim, and earned a Genie Award nomination for best supporting actor. He was a member of the repertory cast of the A&E TV original series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–02). He has played the role of Death in The CW's show Supernatural since Season 5, and appeared again in Seasons 6, 7, 9 and 10. He played a very similar version of Death in the short film Dave v. Death (2011).

Richings is familiar to horror fans for his manic performance in heavy makeup as Three Finger in Wrong Turn (2003), and nearly-blind security guard Otto in Stephen King's 2004 miniseries Kingdom Hospital. Dramatic roles include stagehand Mr. Turnbull in the 2004 film Being Julia. He appeared as Orr, a cruel loan shark in the 2004 Canadian film The Last Casino. In 2006, he appeared in a brief speaking role as the Mutant Theatre Organiser in X-Men: The Last Stand, and played a vampire killer alongside in the direct-to-DVD horror film The Last Sect.