Julian Richings
Biography
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
The Rainbow Kid
2016 · 10.0
At the Hotel
2006 · 9.0
The Song Spinner
1995 · 9.0
Eternally Yours
2026 · 8.8
The Umbrella Academy
2019 · 8.4
Supernatural
2005 · 8.3
Heartland
2007 · 8.3
Hannibal
2013 · 8.3
The Expanse
2015 · 8.1
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001 · 8.0
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien!
1999 · 8.0
Secrets of Wickensburg
2025 · 8.0
The Tape
2012 · 8.0
Dave vs Death
2011 · 8.0
Drive Time Murders
2006 · 8.0
Giant Steps
1992 · 8.0
Orphan Black
2013 · 7.8
Amazon
1999 · 7.8
Murdoch Mysteries
2008 · 7.7
Lost Girl
2010 · 7.7
Grossology
2006 · 7.7
Rookie Blue
2010 · 7.7
Due South
1994 · 7.6
Patriot
2015 · 7.6
Hell on Wheels
2011 · 7.6
The Magicians
2015 · 7.6
The Institute
2025 · 7.5
Time Traveling Through Time
2022 · 7.5
Black Widow
2005 · 7.5
Doom Patrol
2019 · 7.5
12 Monkeys
2015 · 7.4
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022 · 7.4
La Femme Nikita
1997 · 7.4
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019 · 7.4
Slings & Arrows
2003 · 7.4
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023 · 7.3
Heritage Minutes
1991 · 7.3
The Red Violin
1998 · 7.3
Business Ethics
2020 · 7.3
Chapelwaite
2021 · 7.3
Creeped Out
2017 · 7.2
Adderly
1986 · 7.2
The Zack Files
2000 · 7.2
MythQuest
2001 · 7.2
Open Range
2003 · 7.2
American Gods
2017 · 7.1
Hemlock Grove
2013 · 7.1
The Witch
2016 · 7.0
Republic of Doyle
2010 · 7.0
Counterstrike
1990 · 7.0
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
2004 · 7.0
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes
1997 · 7.0
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
2010 · 7.0
Patch Town
2011 · 7.0
Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols
2009 · 7.0
The Space Between
2017 · 7.0
The Last Casino
2004 · 7.0
Animal Control
2011 · 7.0
Channel Zero
2016 · 7.0
Naked Lunch
1991 · 7.0
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
1996 · 6.9
Killjoys
2015 · 6.9
Missing
2003 · 6.9
Forever Knight
1992 · 6.9
Prince Charming
2001 · 6.9
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013 · 6.9
The Listener
2009 · 6.9
Cube
1997 · 6.8
Frontier
2016 · 6.8
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
1994 · 6.8
Detroit Rock City
1999 · 6.8
Treed Murray
2001 · 6.8
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
2001 · 6.8
Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween
2008 · 6.8
A Lobster Tale
2006 · 6.8
Blood & Treasure
2019 · 6.7
Carter
2018 · 6.7
Beau Is Afraid
2023 · 6.7
Anything for Jackson
2020 · 6.7
It Feeds
2025 · 6.7
Man of Steel
2013 · 6.7
Tracker
2001 · 6.6
Puppets Who Kill
2002 · 6.6
Hard Core Logo
1996 · 6.6
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End
2017 · 6.6
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
2026 · 6.6
Chaos Walking
2021 · 6.5
Shoot 'Em Up
2007 · 6.5
War of the Worlds
1988 · 6.5
Vicious Fun
2021 · 6.5
Charlotte
2022 · 6.5
Campton Manor
2024 · 6.5
Hellmouth
2014 · 6.5
Dead Silence
2007 · 6.5
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 · 6.4
Polar
2019 · 6.4
Wrong Turn
2003 · 6.4
Being Julia
2004 · 6.4
The Crossing
2000 · 6.4
Kingdom Hospital
2004 · 6.4
Elegy
2008 · 6.3
Eloise at Christmastime
2003 · 6.3
The Last Halloween
2013 · 6.3
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2010 · 6.2
Eloise at the Plaza
2003 · 6.2
Saw IV
2007 · 6.2
Urban Legend
1998 · 6.1
Mimic
1997 · 6.1
XIII
2008 · 6.1
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
1995 · 6.1
My Life Without Me
2003 · 6.1
Transporter: The Series
2013 · 6.0
The Border
2008 · 6.0
The Claim
2000 · 6.0
Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost
2007 · 6.0
The Shamrock Conspiracy
1995 · 6.0
Wickensburg
2022 · 6.0
The Tracey Fragments
2007 · 5.9
Bag of Bones
2011 · 5.9
Relax, I'm from the Future
2023 · 5.9
The Conspiracy
2012 · 5.9
The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow
2008 · 5.9
Wingin' It
2010 · 5.8
A Christmas Horror Story
2015 · 5.8
The Time Shifters
1999 · 5.8
Hall
2022 · 5.8
Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother
1997 · 5.8
Ms. Scrooge
1997 · 5.8
Return to Wickensburg
2024 · 5.8
The Limb Salesman
2004 · 5.8
She Stoops to Conquer
2015 · 5.8
Prisoner X
2016 · 5.7
The Boys Club
1996 · 5.7
Sea Wolf
2009 · 5.7
Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil
2003 · 5.7
Love Child
1995 · 5.6
Moonlight and Valentino
1995 · 5.6
Honey Bunch
2026 · 5.6
Between Strangers
2002 · 5.6
Love at Stake
1987 · 5.6
Regression
2015 · 5.6
Scared Shitless
2024 · 5.5
The Colony
2013 · 5.5
The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
1986 · 5.5
Highlander: The Raven
1998 · 5.4
Reginald the Vampire
2022 · 5.4
I Shout Love
2002 · 5.3
Once a Thief: Family Business
1998 · 5.3
The Christmas Temp
2019 · 5.3
Stanleyville
2021 · 5.2
Jack and Jill vs. The World
2008 · 5.2
Clarence
1990 · 5.2
Three Inches
2011 · 5.2
Blood Hunters
2016 · 5.2
Skinwalkers
2006 · 5.1
Nature of the Beast
2007 · 5.1
Spare Parts
2020 · 5.0
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012 · 5.0
A Thousand Cuts
2024 · 5.0
Two Thousand and None
2000 · 5.0
True Fiction
2019 · 4.9
Some Things That Stay
2004 · 4.9
Survival of the Dead
2010 · 4.9
Maniac Mansion
1990 · 4.8
Trigger
2010 · 4.8
You Might As Well Live
2009 · 4.8
Collaborator
2011 · 4.8
Patch Town
2014 · 4.7
All Hallows' Eve 2
2015 · 4.7
The Top of His Head
1989 · 4.7
Sea Wolf
2009 · 4.6
Hard Core Logo 2
2010 · 4.6
Pale Saints
1997 · 4.5
The Timekeeper
2009 · 4.5
Century Hotel
2001 · 4.4
Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms
1998 · 4.3
Septic Man
2013 · 4.3
The Hustle
2000 · 4.3
Motel
1998 · 4.3
Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid
2008 · 4.2
The Trojan Horse
2008 · 4.0
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
2004 · 4.0
Stardust
2020 · 3.9
Ejecta
2014 · 3.8
We Are Not Here
2013 · 3.7
The Last Sect
2006 · 3.7
On Their Knees
2001 · 3.7
Victims
2013 · 3.6
Toronto Stories
2008 · 3.5
The Third Eye
2007 · 3.0
Midnight Confession
2017 · 3.0
Junction Row
2026 · 0.0
Whatever, Linda
2015 · 0.0
The Valour and the Horror
1992 · 0.0
Salvation
2022 · 0.0
Man Eating Pussy
2026 · 0.0
GUM
— · 0.0
Talent Drivers
2019 · 0.0
Turn It Up!
2026 · 0.0
Heritage Minutes: Winnie
1997 · 0.0
Oldtimers
2022 · 0.0
Keeper of the Cup
— · 0.0
Sailor
2019 · 0.0
Finding the Fallen
2005 · 0.0
Reign
2015 · 0.0
Storm Worlds
2010 · 0.0
The Asylum
— · 0.0
The Show: Stories Within a Film
1998 · 0.0
Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time
1995 · 0.0
T-Bone
2023 · 0.0
Heritage Minutes: John Cabot
1991 · 0.0