After Schwarzenegger was turned down due to his height, Kiel started filming the pilot.

In 1977, Kiel and Arnold Schwarzenegger were both considered for playing the Hulk in The Incredible Hulk. This episode is significant because it allowed Kiel the opportunity to really act rather than just look intimidating. The episode first aired February 16, 1968. He later appeared in an episode of The Wild Wild West, titled 'The Night of the Simian Terror', as Dimas, the outcast son of a wealthy family, banished because of birth defects that distorted his body and apparently affected his mind. In 1967, he played a monster in The Monkees episode 'I Was a Teenage Monster'. episode 'The Vulcan Affair' (1964), Kiel appeared as a guard in Vulcan's plant and he portrayed Merry in 'The Hong Kong Shilling Affair'. Miguelito Loveless in three first-season episodes of The Wild Wild West. He appeared as the towering – mute but lethal – assistant Voltaire to Dr. Michael Dunn and Kiel on the set of The Wild Wild Westĭue to his size, Kiel was often cast in villainous roles. Kiel appeared in many television shows throughout the 1960s to the 1980s such as The Twilight Zone (' To Serve Man', 1962), Laramie ('Street of Hate', 1961), I Dream of Jeannie, The Rifleman ('The Decision', 1961), Honey West, Gilligan's Island, The Monkees, Daniel Boone, Emergency!, Starsky & Hutch, Land of the Lost, Simon & Simon, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and The Fall Guy.

Ogden Radio Operational School in Burbank, California. From 1963 to 1965, Kiel worked as a night-school mathematics instructor at the William B. īefore becoming an actor, Kiel worked in several jobs, as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, a nightclub bouncer, and also as a cemetery plot salesman. When he was nine years old, his family moved to Los Angeles, where Kiel graduated from Baldwin Park High School. His extraordinary height was a result of gigantism, a condition caused by an excess of human growth hormone.

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