Richard Moll, a character actor who uncovered lasting fame as an eccentric but light huge bailiff on the authentic “Night Court” sitcom, has died. He was 80.
Moll died Thursday at his residence in Significant Bear Lake, California, in accordance to Jeff Sanderson, a loved ones spokesperson.
Moll performed “Bull” Shannon on NBC’s “Night Court” from 1984-1992 together with stars Harry Anderson and John Larroquette. His character fashioned a close friendship with the court’s other bailiff, Roz Russell, played by Marsha Warfield. Bull was identified for his shaved head, catchphrase, “Ohh-kay,” and a dim but sweet entire world see.
Following “Night Court” finished, Moll contributed his trademark gravelly voice to various movie video games and comic e book assignments like “Batman: The Animated Series” as Harvey Dent and appeared in horror movies like “Ghost Shark” (2013) and “Slay Belles” (2018).
He voiced Scorpion on the 1990s’ “Spider-Guy: The Animated Series” and had modest pieces in 1994’s “The Flintstones,” the Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy “Jingle All the Way” and “Scary Movie 2.”
He appeared in the 1999 satire “But I’m a Cheerleader” with Natasha Lyonne, and starred in “Thomas Kinkade’s Xmas Cottage” reverse Peter O’Toole, Marcia Gay Harden and Ed Asner.
The towering actor — he was 6-ft 8-inches tall — did not sign up for the reboot of “Night Court” starring Larroquette. The first “Night Court” finale ended with his character becoming abducted by aliens who required another person tall to arrive at the items on their maximum shelves.
Raised in Pasadena, California, Moll was a history and psychology big at the College of California at Berkeley, and graduated in 1964. He grew to become a deputy probation officer in Alameda County and then labored as the “head of inventory in ladies’ hosiery” at a San Francisco retail outlet.
The thought to pursue performing as a profession arrived when Moll asked himself, ”’What do you want to do? Not, ‘What must you do?’ or ‘What are you intended to do?’ And that is when I began to study performing,” he informed Persons journal in 2003.
In 1968, he moved to Hollywood, but what adopted was a ten years stuffed with stops and begins. “It took me 10 a long time to locate my way to the rest room,” he told Men and women.
Moll is survived by his youngsters, Chloe and Mason Moll ex-spouse, Susan Moll and stepchildren Cassandra Card and Morgan Ostling.
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