Richard Moll, a personality actor who discovered lasting fame as an eccentric however light big bailiff on the unique “Night time Courtroom” sitcom, has died. He was 80.
Moll died Thursday at his residence in Large Bear Lake, California, in accordance with Jeff Sanderson, a household spokesperson.
Moll performed “Bull” Shannon on NBC’s “Night time Courtroom” from 1984-1992 alongside stars Harry Anderson and John Larroquette. His character fashioned an in depth friendship with the courtroom’s different bailiff, Roz Russell, performed by Marsha Warfield. Bull was recognized for his shaved head, catchphrase, “Ohh-kay,” and a dim however candy world view.
After “Night time Courtroom” ended, Moll contributed his trademark gravelly voice to numerous video video games and comedian ebook initiatives like “Batman: The Animated Collection” as Harvey Dent and appeared in horror movies like “Ghost Shark” (2013) and “Slay Belles” (2018).
He voiced Scorpion on the Nineteen Nineties’ “Spider-Man: The Animated Collection” and had small elements in 1994’s “The Flintstones,” the Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy “Jingle All of the Manner” and “Scary Film 2.”
He appeared within the 1999 satire “However I’m a Cheerleader” with Natasha Lyonne, and starred in “Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage” reverse Peter O’Toole, Marcia Homosexual Harden and Ed Asner.
The towering actor — he was 6-feet 8-inches tall — didn’t be part of the reboot of “Night time Courtroom” starring Larroquette. The unique “Night time Courtroom” finale ended together with his character being kidnapped by aliens who wanted somebody tall to succeed in the issues on their highest cabinets.
Raised in Pasadena, California, Moll was a historical past and psychology main on the College of California at Berkeley, and graduated in 1964. He grew to become a deputy probation officer in Alameda County after which labored because the “head of inventory in girls’ hosiery” at a San Francisco retailer.
The thought to pursue appearing as a profession got here when Moll requested himself, ”’What do you wish to do? Not, ‘What must you do?’ or ‘What are you imagined to do?’ And that’s once I began to review appearing,” he instructed Folks journal in 2003.
In 1968, he moved to Hollywood, however what adopted was a decade crammed with stops and begins. “It took me 10 years to seek out my technique to the lavatory,” he instructed Folks.
Moll is survived by his youngsters, Chloe and Mason Moll; ex-wife, Susan Moll; and stepchildren Cassandra Card and Morgan Ostling.
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