The time-compressed CLV re-issue of Jaws no longer had the original soundtrack, having had incidental background music replaced for the video disc version due to licensing cost ( the music would not be available until the THX Laser Disc box set was released in 1995 ).

Richard Dawson Kiel ( born 1939 ) is an American actor best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1977 ) and Moonraker ( 1979 ) as well as the video game Everything or Nothing, and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore.

* Gwar members Oderus Urungus and Balsac the Jaws of Death along with SYMPTOM ( video slave ) and Necrotika host the 1st annual CRACKATHON ( 2010 ) from Brooklyn NY's world famous MF GALLERY

Jaws is one of the most popular James Bond henchmen and a recurring character in the James Bond video games.

An unrelated character Braces in the video games TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect is also referencing Jaws.

** Jaws ( video game ), a 1987 NES video game, based on the 1975 film

** Jaws ( 2006 video game ), a mobile game developed by Venan Entertainment

When Mr. Burns introduces his new religion, most of the sequence is a parody of the promotional video of Michael Jackson's 1995 album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. Willie scratching his nails along the church window to get Marge and Reverend Lovejoy's attention is a reference to the 1975 film Jaws, in which the character Quint performs a similar action.

The film spawned three sequels, none of which matched the success of the original critically or commercially, two video games, " Jaws " in 1987 and " Jaws Unleashed " in 2006 ; both met with mostly negative critical attention.

Following its home video release, " Jaws Wired Shut " received mostly positive reviews from critics.

Following its home video release, " Jaws Wired Shut " received mostly positive reviews from critics.

The game contains several humorous references to pop culture, like some of Duke's lines that are drawn from movies like Aliens, Dirty Harry, Evil Dead II, Full Metal Jacket, Jaws, Pulp Fiction, and They Live ; the mutated women begging " Kill me " are also a reference to the latter.

In 1972, Sega released an electro-mechanical game called Killer Shark, a first-person light gun shooter known for appearing in the 1975 film Jaws.

On Mondays during the football season, ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski, a former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback ( a. k. a. " Jaws " and " the Polish Rifle "-the latter usually rendered in a Howard Cosell-like voice ), is usually the guest, to offer analysis of the previous day's games and a prediction for the Monday Night Football game that night.

It was followed by two games based around Elvira, Mistress of the Dark: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus, and a game named Waxworks, all of which moved away from keyboard command input to mouse driven gaming with animation and music from Jezz Woodroffe ( a session musician with Robert Plant, Black Sabbath and other bands ).

He reprised his role of Jaws in the 2004 game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, supplying his voice and likeness.

In addition to Pierce Brosnan, Judi Dench and John Cleese reprised their roles from previous Bond films, the game features well-known actors Willem Dafoe, Shannon Elizabeth, Heidi Klum and Vladimir Cuk as well as actor Richard Kiel, who played Jaws in the classic 007 films.

Jaws is an unlockable multiplayer character in GoldenEye 007 as well as in 007: Nightfire, where he is the tallest character in the game, his punches can kill almost instantly, and the character model's teeth are visible at close range.

Jaws appears briefly in the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis game James Bond 007: The Duel, where he wanders briefly around a section toward the end of the first stage and defeats the player with one hit.

Jaws also appears in the Game Boy game James Bond 007 as a boss, where Bond must lead him to magnetized pads that will temporarily hold him in place, allowing time for Bond to attack him.

If the player runs out of " Fish ," ( which can be stolen or recaptured from flying pelicans ,) then a " Jaws "- inspired shark eats the player instead and the game is over.

Their most recent game is Jaws Unleashed, a game based on the Jaws series of films.

Jaws, a recurring villain from the Roger Moore films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, also made regular appearances, usually partnered with Nick Nack, a villain from the Roger Moore film The Man with the Golden Gun, to form a bickering comical duo.

Many of the original stars reprised their film roles including Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F. Wilson in Back to the Future: The Ride, Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in Twister ... Ride it Out, Rip Torn and Will Smith in Men in Black: Alien Attack, Brendan Fraser for Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride, Christopher Walken and Dwayne Johnson in Disaster !, the cast from Shrek returned for Shrek 4-D, various Nicktoons voice actors reprised their roles in Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast, Roy Scheider recorded a voice over for the conclusion of Jaws, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera made appearances in The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera while Hanna-Barbera voice actors reprised their roles in the same ride, Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Perkins appeared in Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making Movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong and Linda Hamilton reprised their roles for Terminator 2: 3-D Battle Across Time even Charlton Heston made an appearance in the pre-show for Earthquake: The Big One and Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, and Elsie Fisher reprised there rolls from Despicable Me for Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem.

Jaws of sharks, like those of rays and skates, are not attached to the cranium.

Chilmark and Menemsha, the fishing village located on the northern end of the town are also the locations of the fictional town of " Amity Island " in the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jaws ( film ).

Much like his two-note Jaws theme, the " five-tone " motif for Close Encounters has since become ingrained in popular culture ( the five tones are used by scientists to communicate with the visiting spaceship as a mathematical language as well as being incorporated into the film's signature theme ).

The most notable uses of dolly zoom, as previously stated, are its presence in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Steven Spielberg's Jaws.

They are popularly referred to in the English speaking Commonwealth nations, the US and Canada as the Jaws of Life, a trademark of Hurst Performance, Inc.

Spielberg has said that this is because he feels there is a " kinship " between Duel and Jaws, as they are both " about these leviathans targeting everyman.

Jaws are thought to derive from the pharyngeal arches that support the gills in fish.

Four years after the events of Jaws, two divers are photographing the wreck of the Orca, Quint's boat from the first film.

Jaws makes a cameo appearance in the animated series Jackie Chan Adventures ( episode " Tough Luck "), where he auditions as a prospective henchman for Finn and gets his steel teeth ( which are revealed to be dentures ) stuck in a board he bites into.

Among the stage roles that he has performed so far are: Luc in Michel-Marc Bouchard's Les Muses orphelines ( The Orphan Muses ), directed by André Brassard in 1985 ; Roméo in a Québécois adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ( Roméo et Juliette ), directed by Guillermo de Andrea in 1989 ; and Jay in Jean-Marc Dalpé's Le Chien ( The Dog ), Adrien in Jeanne-Mance Delisle's Un Oiseau vivant dans la gueule ( A Live Bird in Its Jaws ), and Lee in a Québécois version of Sam Shepard's True West, all three productions directed by Brigitte Haentjens, in 1987-89, 1990, and 1994, respectively.

Benchley was a member of the National Council of Environmental Defense and a spokesman for its Oceans Program: " he shark in an updated Jaws could not be the villain ; it would have to be written as the victim ; for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.

As an example, in Hollywood, the studio tour trams travel close to a shoreline and are " attacked " by Jaws before they travel to the next part of the tour.

* Summer 1990: Due to massive technical problems with the original Kongfrontation, Earthquake: The Big One and Jaws rides, Universal begins a temporary voucher service to allow guests to re-visit the studio / park when the attractions are operating.

His nicknames are Jaws, Smiles, Smiley Mylie, and MJ.

" The films that are watched by the family on the new cable are Jaws, Die Hard, and Wall Street.

The party is interrupted by a mysterious man ( modeled after Jaws from James Bond ) and a mysterious woman who are out to kill 007.

Jaws is also a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 remake GoldenEye 007 for the Wii, and in the 2011 re-release GoldenEye 007: Reloaded for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.