Never met Richard Kiel, but I heard he let his drinking get out of control while he was on the road shooting films. He turned to Christ and became sober.
Sad he’s gone now.
I asked him about that too. He said it was true. When I met him at Travis AFB, CA, I think he was suffering after a car accident too. He only had good things to say about Roger Moore as well.
True!
“Mr. Kiel revealed in a 2002 autobiography, “Making It Big in the Movies,” that he suffered from a fear of heights. He admitted that he had battled alcoholism and was able to stop drinking as a born-again Christian.” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/arts/richard-kiel-dies-at-74-played-jaws-in-bond-films.html?_r=0