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By Orlando Mayorquin
Published Oct. 27, 2023
Richard Moll, the 6-foot-8 actor who delighted television audiences with a childlike charm in his role as the hulking bailiff on the NBC sitcom “Night Court,” died on Thursday at his home in Big Bear Lake, Calif. He was 80.
His death was announced by a family spokesman, Jeff Sanderson. No cause was given.
In a career of more than four decades, Mr. Moll played a variety of roles on television and in films. But he was best known for portraying the baldheaded, wide-eyed Aristotle Nostradamus Shannon, better known as Bull, on all nine seasons of “Night Court,” which ran from 1984 to 1992.
Bull Shannon’s dimwitted persona lent an air of lighthearted innocence to the hit series, which was set inside a fictional municipal night court in Manhattan and starred Harry Anderson, who died in 2018, as Judge Harry Stone and John Larroquette as the prosecutor Dan Fielding. (A rebooted “Night Court” made its debut on NBC this year, with Mr. Larroquette the only actor returning from the original series.)
Published Oct. 27, 2023
Richard Moll, the 6-foot-8 actor who delighted television audiences with a childlike charm in his role as the hulking bailiff on the NBC sitcom “Night Court,” died on Thursday at his home in Big Bear Lake, Calif. He was 80.
His death was announced by a family spokesman, Jeff Sanderson. No cause was given.
In a career of more than four decades, Mr. Moll played a variety of roles on television and in films. But he was best known for portraying the baldheaded, wide-eyed Aristotle Nostradamus Shannon, better known as Bull, on all nine seasons of “Night Court,” which ran from 1984 to 1992.
Bull Shannon’s dimwitted persona lent an air of lighthearted innocence to the hit series, which was set inside a fictional municipal night court in Manhattan and starred Harry Anderson, who died in 2018, as Judge Harry Stone and John Larroquette as the prosecutor Dan Fielding. (A rebooted “Night Court” made its debut on NBC this year, with Mr. Larroquette the only actor returning from the original series.)
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/arts/television/richard-moll-dead.html
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