# Richard Moll

Charles Richard Moll (January 13, 1943 – October 26, 2023) was an American actor known for playing Aristotle Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon, a bailiff on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1984 to 1992. Moll also voiced Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the DC Animated Universe series Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures, and briefly reprised the role in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Chill of the Night!".

## Early life

Charles Richard Moll was born in Pasadena, California, the son of Violet Anita (née Grill), a nurse, and Harry Findley Moll, a lawyer. He was tall early in his life, reaching 6 feet (1.83 m) by age 12. He kept growing until he was about 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) tall. As a child, he and his family would often visit Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, and was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. During his time at UC Berkeley, Moll performed in works of William Shakespeare.

## Career

In the 1977 film Brigham, Moll (credited as Charles Moll) appeared as Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Moll would go on to often portray hulking or imposing characters due to his height and deep voice. In 1979, Moll played the part of Eugene, a gangster on the television series Happy Days in the episode "Fonzie's Funeral". In 1981, Moll co-starred with Jan-Michael Vincent and Kim Basinger in the film Hard Country, and he also played the Abominable Snowman in the comedy feature film Caveman. The same year, he had a small part in the Mork & Mindy episode "Alienation", where he appeared with future fellow Night Court cast member John Larroquette. In 1982, he played the sorcerer Xusia in The Sword and the Sorcerer.
In 1983, Moll shaved his head for the role of Hurok in the science fiction B movie Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn. The producers of the TV sitcom Night Court liked the look so much in his audition that they asked him to keep it. He played bailiff Aristotle Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon on Night Court from 1984 to 1992. He also used the Bull persona in commercials for the Washington Lottery.
Moll played the role of Big Ben in the 1985 horror film House. He earned a Saturn Award nomination for the role. Moll made an appearance in the first episode of Highlander: The Series as Slan Quince, the villain who reunites Connor MacLeod with his kinsman and the show's protagonist, Duncan MacLeod. Moll made a guest appearance on Babylon 5 in the episode "Hunter, Prey" as a lurker criminal who was holding a VIP hostage, and as a gangster on Married... with Children. Moll made another guest appearance in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, playing the cyclops in episode two, "Eye of the Beholder".
In Super Password, Moll appeared with Judy Norton Taylor, Nancy Lane, Markie Post, Gloria Loring, Florence Halop, Debra Maffett, Elaine Joyce, and Kim Morgan Greene, with Bert Convy as the game show's host from 1984 to 1987.
Moll played himself in The Facts of Life (Season 9, episodes 1 and 2: "Down and Out in Malibu").
Moll appeared in The Flintstones and Casper Meets Wendy, both TV spin-offs. In 1999's But I'm a Cheerleader, Moll played a gay man who, with his partner (Wesley Mann), helps gay teenagers escape from a nearby camp where parents send their teenage offspring for conversion therapy. He played the drifter on the Nickelodeon show 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd.
In 2001, he played Hugh Kane, the ghost haunting a mansion in Scary Movie 2. In 2007, he played (along with M. Steven Felty) Kolchak Jefferson Stillwall in the Anthony C. Ferrante horror film Headless Horseman. In 2014, Moll appeared as a security guard on an episode of Anger Management with Charlie Sheen.

### Voiceover work

Moll can be heard in many animated productions, often as a villain with a deep, growling voice. He voiced Two-Face in Batman: The Animated Series, Scorpion in later episodes of Spider-Man (who was originally voiced by Martin Landau) and the Abomination in The Incredible Hulk (who was originally voiced by Kevin Schon).
Moll also provided voice work in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Chill of the Night!" voicing Lew Moxon as well as briefly reprising Two-Face (who was mainly voiced by James Remar). His first role in an animated film was as a beat poet in Ralph Bakshi's American Pop. Moll also starred as Norman in the animated series Mighty Max and voiced Vorn the Unspeakable, a Cthulhu-like character, in the Freakazoid! episode "Statuesque".
Moll voiced the Devil Hulk in the 2005 video game Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. In the 2010 video game Dante's Inferno, he voiced Death (which he shared with Dee Bradley Baker) and King Minos.

## Personal life and death

Moll was married twice: he was married to Laura Class from 1989 to 1992 and Susan Brown from 1993 to 2005. He had two children with Brown as well as stepchildren.
Moll was an avid bird watcher who spent his retirement in Big Bear Lake, California.
Moll died at his home in Big Bear Lake on October 26, 2023, at the age of 80.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1977 | Brigham | Joseph Smith | Film debut, credited as Charles Moll |
| 1980 | Cataclysm | James Hanson | Credited as Charles Moll |
| 1981 | American Pop | Beat poet | |
| 1981 | Hard Country | Top Gun | |
| 1981 | Caveman | Abominable Snowman | |
| 1981 | Evilspeak | Father Esteban | |
| 1982 | Liar's Moon | Detective Roy Logan | |
| 1982 | The Sword and the Sorcerer | Xusia | |
| 1983 | Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn | Hurok | |
| 1983 | Under Arrest | Patrino | |
| 1984 | The Dungeonmaster | Mestema | |
| 1985 | Night Train to Terror | Otto, James Hansen | |
| 1985 | House | Big Ben | Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1987 | Survivor | Kragg | |
| 1988 | Pulse Pounders | Mestema | |
| 1989 | Wicked Stepmother | Nathan Pringle | |
| 1989 | Think Big | Thornton | |
| 1989 | Murphy's Laws of Golf | Golf Police | Short film |
| 1991 | Driving Me Crazy | Buzz | |
| 1992 | Sidekicks | Horn | |
| 1992 | Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars | Otto | |
| 1992 | Let's Kill All the Lawyers | The Centurian | |
| 1993 | Loaded Weapon 1 | Prison attendant | |
| 1994 | The Flintstones | Hoagie | |
| 1994 | No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn | Boot Camp Sergeant | |
| 1994 | Beanstalk | Richard Leech | |
| 1995 | Galaxis | Kyla | |
| 1996 | Storybook | Woody | |
| 1996 | The Secret Agent Club | Wrecks | |
| 1996 | The Glass Cage | Ian Dexter | |
| 1996 | Jingle All the Way | Dementor | |
| 1996 | The Lawyer | Centurion | |
| 1996 | The Elevator | Man Nun | |
| 1997 | Living in Peril | Fritz | |
| 1997 | Snide and Prejudice | General von Ludendorf | |
| 1997 | Little Cobras: Operation Dalmatian | Leader | |
| 1997 | Farticus | Hades | |
| 1997 | Casper: A Spirited Beginning | Principal Rabie | Direct-to-video |
| 1998 | The Survivor | Kyla | |
| 1998 | Casper Meets Wendy | Jules | Direct-to-video |
| 1998 | Route 66 | Unknown | |
| 1998 | Monkey Business | Leader | |
| 1999 | Foreign Correspondents | Man in Bookstore | |
| 1999 | But I'm a Cheerleader | Larry | |
| 2000 | Shadow Hours | Homeless man | |
| 2000 | Boltneck | Mr. O'Reilly | |
| 2000 | That Summer in LA | Hotel Manager | |
| 2000 | Flamingo Dreams | Deke | |
| 2001 | Spiders II: Breeding Ground | Dr. Grbac | |
| 2001 | Evolution | Fire Training Inspector | |
| 2001 | Scary Movie 2 | Hell House Ghost | |
| 2002 | Angel Blade | Carl Shank | |
| 2002 | No Place Like Home | Deputy 'Dead Ned' Nussbaun | |
| 2002 | The Biggest Fan | Harold Worden | |
| 2003 | Dumb Luck | Special Agent Osborne | |
| 2003 | The Work and the Story | Oliver Wendelle | |
| 2003 | Cast and Mice | Cortez | |
| 2004 | Uh Oh! | Diablo | |
| 2005 | Diamond Zero | Detective Jackson | |
| 2005 | Angels with Angles | Robert the bartender | |
| 2006 | Nightmare Man | Captain McCormack | |
| 2007 | Headless Horseman | Kolchak Jefferson Stillwall | |
| 2008 | A Four Cent Carol | The Ghost of Hollywood Future | Short film |
| 2008 | The Kitty Landers Show | Old Man MacGruder | Short film |
| 2008 | Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage | Big Jim | |
| 2009 | Love at First Hiccup | Store owner | |
| 2011 | Hazelwood | Dr. Vulkovich | Short film |
| 2011 | Assassins' Code | Ernest Altman | |
| 2012 | DisOrientation | Mr. Mackenzie | |
| 2012 | Hemingway | The lawyer | |
| 2012 | Sorority Party Massacre | Kreeger | |
| 2013 | Jurassic: Stone Age | Judge Holt | |
| 2014 | BFFs | Ken | |
| 2014 | Satan's Pigs & Severed Heads: Making Evilspeak | Himself | Documentary short |
| 2015 | Kids vs Monsters | Butler | |
| 2016 | High Noon at the End of the Universe: The Making of Metalstorm | Himself | Video documentary short |
| 2017 | Razor | Jon Creadon | |
| 2017 | For Play | Morty | Short film |
| 2017 | Circus Kane | Pale man | |
| 2018 | Slay Belles | Officer Green | |
| TBA | Whispers and Shadows | Simon Blake | Post-production |
| TBA | Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures | Himself | Post-production |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1978 | Welcome Back, Kotter | Big Thug | Episode: "Beau's Jest" |
| 1978 | The Rockford Files | Ludes | Episode: "Three Day Affair with a Thirty Day Escrow" |
| 1979 | How the West Was Won | Mose | Episode: "The Enemy" |
| 1979 | Happy Days | Eugene | 2 episodes |
| 1979 | The Jericho Mile | Joker Gibb | Television film |
| 1979 | Bigfoot and Wildboy | Lohr-Khan One | Episode: "The Secret Invasion" |
| 1979 | B.J. and the Bear | Willie | Episode: "Run for the Money" |
| 1979 | The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo | Biker Leader Willie, Rufus | 3 episodes |
| 1979 | Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter | Stranger | Television film |
| 1980 | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | Yarat | Episode: "Space Rockers" |
| 1980 | The Bad News Bears | Rust | Episode: "Lights Out" |
| 1981 | The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire | The Bovum Ferryman | Television film |
| 1981 | Best of the West | Prisoner | Episode: "The Prisoner" |
| 1981 | Here's Boomer | Harold, the Monster | Episode: "Camityville's Boomer" |
| 1981 | Laverne & Shirley | Louis Armstrong, Biker | 2 episodes |
| 1981 | Bret Maverick | Sloate | 2 episodes |
| 1981 | Mork & Mindy | Baba Gentle | Episode: "Alienation" |
| 1981 | The Time Crystal | Mayhu | Television film |
| 1981 | The Fall Guy | Ethan | Episode: "The Human Torch" |
| 1982 | T.J. Hooker | Mauler Mort | Episode: "Hooker's War" |
| 1983 | Savage Journey | Joseph Smith | Television film, credited as Charles Moll |
| 1983 | Remington Steele | Pimp | Episode: "Steele in the News" |
| 1983 | Fantasy Island | Omo | Episode: "Love Island/The Sisters" |
| 1983 | Alice | Hank | Episode: "Sweet Erasable Mel" |
| 1983 | Just Our Luck | Currently Unknown | Episode: "Uncle Harry" |
| 1983 | The Dukes of Hazzard | Milo Beaudry | 2 episodes |
| 1984 | The A-Team | Churlisco | 2 episodes |
| 1984 | Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour | Himself - Panelist | Recurring role, 10 episodes |
| 1984–1985 | Body Language | Himself | Recurring role, 13 episodes |
| 1984–1987 | Super Password | Himself | Recurring role, 35 episodes |
| 1984–1992 | Night Court | Aristotle Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon | Main role – 193 episodes |
| 1985 | Santa Barbara | Morgan Malone | 2 episodes |
| 1985 | The $25,000 Pyramid | Himself - Celebrity Contestant | 5 episodes |
| 1985 | The $10,000 Pyramid | Himself - Celebrity Contestant | 5 episodes |
| 1985 | The NBC All Star Hour | Himself | Television special |
| 1986 | Alvin Goes Back to School | Mr. Conroy | Television film |
| 1986 | Combat Academy | Col. Felix Long Sr. | Television film |
| 1987 | If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium | Currently Unknown | Television film |
| 1987 | The Facts of Life | Richard Moll | 2 episodes |
| 1987 | Sledge Hammer! | Dr. Arthur Deco | Episode: "Hammeroid" |
| 1988–1992 | An Evening at the Improv | Himself - Host | 2 episodes |
| 1989 | My Two Dads | Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon | Episode: "Playing with Fire" |
| 1989 | Dream Date | The Man in the Theater | Television film |
| 1989 | Class Cruise | Saunders | Television film |
| 1989 | Monsters | Arturus | Episode: "The Demons" |
| 1989 | Murphy's Laws of Golf | Golf Police | Short film |
| 1989–1990 | Out of This World | Skull Basher, Driver License Examiner | 2 episodes |
| 1990 | 227 | Burnie | Episode: "Where Do We Go from Here?" |
| 1990 | The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? | Brain on Drugs Breakfast Guy | Television film |
| 1990 | The Munsters Today | Gengas Khan | Episode: "It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To" |
| 1991 | The Last Halloween | Hans | Television short |
| 1992 | Highlander | Slan Quince | Episode: "The Gathering" |
| 1992 | Making of "Highlander: The Series" | Himself - Slan Quince | Television film documentary |
| 1992 | Martin | Officer Warren | Episode: "The Great Payne Robbery" |
| 1992 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Coach Hillman | Episode: "Words Up!" |
| 1992–1994 | Batman: The Animated Series | Harvey Dent / Two-Face, Batcomputer (voice) | 12 episodes |
| 1993–1994 | Mighty Max | Norman (voice) | Recurring role |
| 1993–1994 | Getting By | Boo | 5 episodes |
| 1994 | Summertime Switch | Jimmy | Television film |
| 1994 | Due South | Zaleb Carney | Episode: "They Eat Horses, Don't They?" |
| 1994–1997 | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | John | 4 episodes |
| 1995 | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys | The Cyclops | Episode: "Eye of the Beholder" |
| 1995 | Babylon 5 | Max | Episode: "Hunter, Prey" |
| 1995 | Baywatch | Trapper | Episode: "Home Is Where the Heat Is" |
| 1995 | The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat | Additional voices | Episode: "Wet Paint/News Blues/Copy Cat" |
| 1996 | Adventures of Smoke Bellew | Currently Unknown | Miniseries, 6 episodes |
| 1996 | Weird Science | Frankestein's Monster | Episode: "Searching for Boris Karloff" |
| 1996 | Married...with Children | Gino | 2 episodes |
| 1996 | 7th Heaven | Mike 'The Mutant' Mitchell | Episode: "Halloween" |
| 1996 | Superman: The Animated Series | Emperor Spooj (voice) | Episode: "The Main Man" |
| 1996 | Freakazoid! | Vorn the Unspeakable (voice) | Episode: "Statuesque" |
| 1996 | Aaahh!!! Real Monsters | Big Bunny, Gangster #1 | 2 episodes |
| 1996–1997 | The Incredible Hulk | Abomination (voice) | Recurring role |
| 1997 | The Legend of Calamity Jane | Additional voices | 13 episodes |
| 1997 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | Dinky (voice) | Episode: "The Pied Piper" |
| 1997 | Sabrina, the Teenage Witch | Sergeant Slater | Episode: "Sabrina Gets her License (Part 2)" |
| 1997 | Spider-Man | Mac Gargan/Scorpion (voice) | Recurring role |
| 1997–1998 | The New Batman Adventures | Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice) | 2 episodes |
| 1998 | Cow and Chicken | TV Anchor, Chef (voice) | Episode: "Sumo Cow/Comet!" |
| 1998 | Oh Yeah! Cartoons | Kenny, Driver | Episode: "Protecto 5000" |
| 1998 | The Ransom of Red Chief | Filthy McNasty | Television film |
| 1999 | The Parent 'Hood | Sam Bates | Episode: "Front Window" |
| 1999–2002 | 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd | Drifter | Recurring role, 25 episodes |
| 1999 | The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald | Org's Dad (voice) | Episode: "The Visitors from Outer Space" |
| 2000 | Double Dare 2000 | Himself - Contestant | Episode: "100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd vs. The Amanda Show" |
| 2001 | Call Me Claus | Brooding Claus | Television film |
| 2001 | The Defectors | Al | Television film |
| 2002 | The Zeta Project | Rodin Krick (voice) | Episode: "Lost and Found" |
| 2002 | Justice League | Java (voice) | Episode: "Metamorphosis" |
| 2002 | Smallville | Mr. Moore | Episode: "Nocturne" |
| 2005 | Game Show Moments Gone Bananas | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2007 | The Fantastic Two | Duane Torn | Television Miniseries |
| 2008 | Whatever Happened To? | Himself | Episode: "TV Giants" |
| 2010 | Cold Case | Chuck "French" Jaworski '10 | Episode: "The Runaway Bunny" |
| 2010 | Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Harvey Dent / Two-Face, Lew Moxon (voice) | Episode: "Chill of the Night!" |
| 2010 | The 8th Annual TV Land Awards | Himself | Television special |
| 2010 | Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster | Elmer Uggins | Television film |
| 2012 | Lake Effects | Old Vic | Television film |
| 2013 | Anger Management | Carlos | Episode: "Charlie and the Airport Sext" |
| 2013 | Ghost Shark | Finch | Television film |
| 2015 | Kirby Buckets | Mr. Bostwick | Episode: "The Rise and Fall of 4th Period" |
| 2016 | Pub Quiz | Berwick | Television film |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1996 | The Adventures of Batman & Robin Activity Center | Two-Face |
| 1997 | Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game | Cabbot |
| 1997 | Outlaws | 'Gentleman' Bob Graham |
| 2005 | The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction | Devil Hulk |
| 2010 | Dante's Inferno | Death / King Minos |