Lance Henriksen

Lance James Henriksen (born May 5, 1940) is an American actor, voice actor and artist. He is best known for his roles in science fiction, action and horror films, such as that of Bishop in the Alien film franchise, and Frank Black in Fox television series Millennium.[1] He provided the voices for Kerchak the gorilla in the 1999 Walt Disney Feature Animation film Tarzan, General Shepherd in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Fleet Admiral Steven Hackett in BioWare's Mass Effect video game trilogy. He also appeared as Vukovich in The Terminator and for his starring role as Ed Harley in the cult horror film Pumpkinhead (1988).

Lance Henriksen
Henriksen at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born
Lance James Henriksen

(1940-05-05) May 5, 1940
NationalityAmerican
OccupationActor, voice actor, artist
Years active1961–present
Spouse(s)Louise Lunde
Mary Jane Evans
(
m. 19851989)

Jane Pollack
(
m. 19952006)
Children4
Military career
Allegiance United States of America
Service/branch United States Navy
Years of service1955–1958
Rank Petty officer third class

Early life

Henriksen was born in Manhattan. His father, James Henriksen, was a Norwegian merchant sailor and boxer nicknamed "Icewater" who spent most of his life at sea. His mother, Margueritte Werner, struggled to find work as a dance instructor, waitress and model.[2][3][4] His parents divorced when he was two years old, and his mother raised him and his brother.[5]

Growing up, Henriksen had a reputation for getting into trouble in the various schools he attended, and even spent time in a children's home. He left school after completing first grade.[6] He served in the United States Navy from 1955–58 and attained the rank of Petty Officer Third Class.[7]

Career

Henriksen found work as a muralist and as a laborer on ships. For a time, he worked in Europe. His first theater work, around age 30, was as set designer, and he received his first acting role because he built the set for a production. Illiterate until then, it was around this time that he taught himself to read.[6] For his first role, he put the entire script to tape with the help of a friend, learning everyone's part in addition to his own.[8] Soon afterward, he graduated from the Actors Studio and began acting in New York City.[7]

Henriksen's first film appearance was in It Ain't Easy in 1972. It was followed by supporting roles in a variety of films, including Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and Damien: Omen II (1978).[9] He played Police Chief Steve Kimbrough in Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982),[9] the astronaut Walter Schirra in The Right Stuff (1983), and actor Charles Bronson in the television film Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story (1991).

When James Cameron was writing The Terminator (1984), he originally envisioned Henriksen, with whom he had worked on Piranha II: The Spawning, playing the title role, a cyborg.[10] The role ultimately went to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Henriksen does appear in the film in the supporting role of Vukovich, a member of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Henriksen in 2010

Henriksen played the android Bishop in Cameron's films Aliens (1986), and as Bishop's unnamed designer in Alien 3 (1992).[11] He also played Charles Bishop Weyland, the man upon whom Bishop was based, in Alien vs. Predator (2004). He played the vampire leader Jesse Hooker in Kathryn Bigelow's cult film Near Dark.[9]

He portrayed gunfighters in the Westerns Dead Man and The Quick and the Dead, and appeared with British actor Bruce Payne in Aurora: Operation Intercept in 1995. He appeared with Payne again in Face the Evil (1997), and the dystopian classic Paranoia 1.0 (2004). That year, he also played Sheriff Doug Barnum in the film Powder.[12]

In 1996, Henriksen starred in the television series Millennium, created and produced by Chris Carter, the creator of The X-Files. Henriksen played Frank Black, a former FBI agent who possessed a unique ability to see into the minds of killers. Carter created the role specifically for the actor.[13] His performances on Millennium earned him critical acclaim, a People's Choice Award nomination for Favorite New Male TV Star, and three consecutive Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series (1997–1999). The series was cancelled in 1999. On television, Henriksen appeared in the ensemble of Into the West (2005), a miniseries executive-produced by Steven Spielberg. He appeared in a Brazilian soap opera, Caminhos do Coração (Ways of the Heart) from Rede Record, aired in 2007–2008. Henriksen guest-starred on a Season 6 episode of NCIS (2009) playing an Arizona sheriff, and appeared in a recurring role as The Major on NBC's The Blacklist.

Henriksen receiving the Aliens Legacy Gold Award at Dragon Con 2008, Atlanta, Georgia

In the years after Millennium, Henriksen has become an active voice actor, lending his distinctive voice to a number of animated features and video game titles. In Disney's Tarzan (1999) and its direct-to-video followup, he is Kerchak, the ape who serves as Tarzan's surrogate father. He provided the voice for the alien supervillain Brainiac in Superman: Brainiac Attacks (2006) and for the character Mulciber in Godkiller (2009). Henriksen is the voice of the character Molov in the video game Red Faction II (2002) and has also contributed to GUN (2005), Run Like Hell (2002), the canceled title Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2004),[14] and the role-playing game Mass Effect (2007) as Admiral Hackett of the Human Systems Alliance. Henriksen was also the voice behind PlayStation 3's internet promotional videos.

In 2005, Henriksen was the voice of Andrei Rublev in Cartoon Network's IGPX. The actor lent his voice to the animated television series Transformers: Animated as the character Lockdown. In 2009, Henriksen voiced Lieutenant General Shepherd in the award-winning game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He would later voice Karl Bishop Weyland in Aliens vs. Predator; also, this character's appearance resembles Henriksen's. Henriksen voiced Master Gnost-Dural in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and he also reprised his role as Admiral Hackett in Mass Effect 3. He is also the narrator of the recent Verizon Droid commercials. Recently, Henriksen reprised his role as Bishop in Aliens: Colonial Marines.

Henriksen maintains a prominent role in live action television. He has starred in a 2003 series of Australian television commercials for Visa, titled Unexplained (about the raining of fish from the sky[15] over Norfolk) and Big Cats (about the Beast of Bodmin Moor). In these commercials, Henriksen speaks as a Frank Black-type character about these phenomena as Mark Snow-inspired mysterious music plays in the background, as a link to Henriksen's TV series Millennium. Unexplained went on to a gold world medal at the 2004 New York Festivals.

In addition to his television and voice acting work, Henriksen continues to be active in film. He made a cameo appearance in the 2009 horror comedy Jennifer's Body, and starred in the After Dark Horrorfest film, Scream of the Banshee, released in 2011.[16] He played Henry Gale in Leigh Scott's The Witches of Oz.[17]

In January 2015, he was signed for the lead in the indie thriller Monday at 11:01 A.M.[18] In 2016, he starred in the feature film Deserted, a psychological thriller.[19] Henriksen played the role of Hopper.[12]

In 2018, Henriksen performed motion capture and vocal performance for the Sony Entertainment Exclusive Game, Detroit: Become Human, as the character of Carl Manfred. The game's plot involves androids gaining sentience and free will, topics explored briefly with Henriksen's Bishop character in Aliens.

In October 2018, Henriksen was signed for one of the two leads in Falling, the directorial debut of actor Viggo Mortensen, who also wrote, produced and co-starred.[20] Reviewing the film's 2020 premiere, The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore noted not only the quality of Henriksen's performance, but the all too infrequent opportunity Mortensen's script presented. "[F]ew moviegoers who've enjoyed him over the years will be surprised, but many will resent that we, and he, have waited so long for a role like this."[21]

Art

Henriksen continues to produce art. He worked as a muralist before he became an actor, and he has worked with clay since 1960. In September 2017, Henriksen set up a website to showcase and find homes for some of his most recent clay works. He "still believes that there is nothing as simple and beautiful as raw clay... And that Potters have the remaining soul of the nomads...always searching...." [22]

Personal life

Henriksen has married three times. He was first married to Louise Lunde. He was then married to Mary Jane Evans from 1985 to 1989. He was finally married to Jane Pollack from 1995 to 2006.

Henriksen has four children. Two sons with Louise Lunde, Thiise and Lawrence Henriksen. His son Lawrence died in 1995. He has one grandson, Thiise Brok Henriksen. Though uncredited, his daughter Alcamy appears in an episode of the TV series Millennium. After Millennium ended its run, Henriksen moved to Hawaii with his then-wife Jane Pollack and their child Sage Ariel.

Books

Autobiography
Comic books
  • To Hell You Ride (five-issue comic book from Dark Horse Comics) (2012) – Lance Henriksen and Joseph Maddrey (co-authors) with Tom Mandrake (artist); a motion-comic video was also made by Dark Horse Comics) (2012) – Lance Henriksen and Joseph Maddrey (co-authors), Tom Mandrake (artist), Lance Henriksen (narrator), TKU: Tecamachalco Underground (Cesar Gallegos/Mateo Latosa) (musical score)

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1961 The Outsider U.S. Marine Uncredited
1972 It Ain't Easy Randy
1973 Emperor of the North Railroad Worker Uncredited
1975 Dog Day Afternoon Murphy
1976 Mansion of the Doomed Dr. Dan Bryan
1976 Network Network lawyer at Khan's place Uncredited
1976 The Next Man Federal Security
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Robert
1978 Damien: Omen II Sergeant Neff
1979 The Visitor Raymond Armstead
1981 The Dark End of the Street Jimmy
1981 Piranha II: The Spawning Police Chief Steve Kimbrough
1981 Prince of the City D.A. Burano
1983 Nightmares MacLeod
1983 The Right Stuff Wally Schirra
1984 The Terminator Vukovich
1985 Jagged Edge Frank Martin
1985 Savage Dawn Stryker
1986 Aliens Bishop
1986 On Dangerous Ground Brook Alastair
1987 Near Dark Jesse Hooker
1988 Pumpkinhead Ed Harley
1989 The Horror Show Detective Lucas McCarthy
1989 Survival Quest Hank
1989 Johnny Handsome Rafe Garrett
1989 Hit List Chris Caleek
1991 The Pit and the Pendulum Torquemada
1991 Stone Cold Chains Cooper
1992 Jennifer 8 Sgt. Freddy Ross
1992 Alien 3 Bishop
Bishop's unnamed creator (listed in credits as "Bishop II")
1992 Delta Heat Jackson Rivers
1993 Excessive Force Devlin
1993 Super Mario Bros. The King Cameo appearance
1993 Man's Best Friend Dr. Jarret
1993 Hard Target Emil Fouchon
1993 Knights Job
1994 No Escape The Father
1994 Color of Night Buck
1994 Boulevard McClaren
1994 Felony Taft
1995 Aurora: Operation Intercept William Stenghel
1995 The Quick and the Dead Ace Hanlon
1995 Dead Man Cole Wilson
1995 Powder Sheriff Doug Barnum
1995 Mind Ripper Stockton a.k.a. The Outpost
1995 The Nature of the Beast Jack Powell
1997 Dusting Cliff 7 Colonel Roger McBride Direct-to-video, a.k.a. Last Assassins
1997 Gunfighter's Moon Frank Morgan Direct-to-video
1997 No Contest II Eric Dane / Erich Dengler Direct-to-video
1999 Tarzan Kerchak Voice
2000 Scream 3 John Milton
2002 The Mangler 2 Headmaster Bradeen Direct-to-video
2002 The Untold Harlan Knowles Direct-to-video, a.k.a. Sasquatch
2002 Unspeakable Pitchford Direct-to-video
2003 Antibody Dr. Richard Gaynes Direct-to-video
2003 Mimic 3: Sentinel Garbageman Direct-to-video
2004 Modigliani Foster Kane
2004 Madhouse Dr. Franks Direct-to-video
2004 Alien vs. Predator Charles Bishop Weyland
2004 Dream Warrior Parish
2004 Starkweather The Mentor Direct-to-video
2004 Paranoia 1.0 Howard Direct-to-video, a.k.a. One Point O
2005 Tarzan II Kerchak Voice, Direct-to-video
2005 Hellraiser: Hellworld The Host Direct-to-video
2006 Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes Ed Harley TV Movie
2006 When a Stranger Calls The Stranger (voice)
2006 The Garden Ben Zachary Direct-to-video
2006 Abominable Ziegler Dane Direct-to-video
2006 Sasquatch Mountain Chase Jackson Direct-to-video
2006 The Da Vinci Treasure Dr. John Coven Direct-to-video
2006 Superman: Brainiac Attacks Brainiac Voice
2006 Pirates of Treasure Island Long John Silver Direct-to-video
2007 Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud Ed Harley TV Movie
2007 Bone Dry Jimmy Direct-to-video
2007 The Chosen One Cardinal Fred (voice) Direct-to-video
2008 Deadwater Col. John Willets Direct-to-video, a.k.a. Black Ops
2008 Dying God Chance Direct-to-video
2008 Dark Reel Connor Pritchett
2008 Appaloosa Ring Shelton
2008 Necessary Evil Dr. Fibrian Direct-to-video
2008 Pistol Whipped The Old Man Direct-to-video
2008 Prairie Fever Monte James Direct-to-video
2008 Alone in the Dark II Abner Lundbert Direct-to-video
2008 Adventures in Voice Acting Himself Documentary
2009 Screamers: The Hunting Orsow Direct-to-video
2009 The Slammin' Salmon Dick Lobo
2009 The Seamstress Sheriff Virgil Logan Direct-to-video
2009 Jennifer's Body Passing Motorist Cameo
2010 Cyrus Emmett
2010 The Lost Tribe Gallo Direct-to-video
2010 The Genesis Code Dr. Hoffer Direct-to-video
2010 Godkiller: Walk Among Us Mulciber Voice
2010 Scream of the Banshee Broderick Duncan Direct-to-video
2010 The Penitent Man Mr. Darnell Direct-to-video
2011 Good Day for It Lyle Tyrus Direct-to-video
2011 Monster Brawl God Voice
2011 The Arcadian Father Reed Direct-to-video
2012 Astronaut: The Last Push Walter Moffitt Direct-to-video
2011 Beautiful Wave Jimmy Davenport / Baja Man Direct-to-video
2012 My Dog the Champion Billy Direct-to-video
2012 It's In the Blood Russell Direct-to-video
2013 Gingerclown Braineater Voice
2013 The Book of Daniel Cyrus Direct-to-video
2013 Phantom Markov
2014 The Sector Shadow Man Direct-to-video
2014 Hollows Grove Bill Direct-to-video
2014 Garm Wars: The Last Druid Wydd[23] Direct-to-video
2015 Harbinger Down (also known as Inanimate in the United Kingdom) Graff Direct-to-video
2015 Fragile Storm Norman Short film
2015 Kids vs Monsters Heinrich Direct-to-video
2015 Stung Caruthers Direct-to-video
2015 Spirit Riders Rex Direct-to-video
2016 Monday at 11:01 A.M. Bartender Direct-to-video
2016 The Hamster Narrator Short film
2016 Cut to the Chase The Man Direct-to-video
2016 Daylight's End Frank Direct-to-video
2016 Deserted Hopper Direct-to-video
2016 The Sector The Finisher Direct-to-video
2016 After the Sun Fell Dicky Direct-to-video
2016 Gehenna: Where Death Lives Morgan Direct-to-video
2016 The Unwilling Father Harris Direct-to-video
2016 Lake Eerie Pop Direct-to-video
2017 Needlestick Alexander Crick Direct-to-video
2017 Mom and Dad Mel
2018 Gehenna: Where Death Lives Morgan Direct-to-video
2018 Big Legend Jackson Wells
2018 Gone Are the Days Taylon
2019 Cliffs of Freedom Old Demetri
2019 Eminence Hill Mason
2020 Falling Willis Peterson

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1980 B.A.D. Cats Timothy Pilot episode
1980 Ryan's Hope Preston Post 8 episodes
1983 Cagney & Lacey Johnny Nose Episode: "Hopes and Dreams"
1983 Hardcastle and McCormick Deseau Episode: "Man in a Glass House"
1983 Blood Feud Mel Pierce TV film
1984 The A-Team Mack Dalton Episode: "In Plane Sight"
1984 Riptide John McMasters Episode: "Raiders of the Lost Sub"
1984 Legmen Finch Episode: "A Woman's Work"
1984 Cagney & Lacey Sgt. King Episode: "Heat"
1984 Hardcastle and McCormick Josh Fulton Episode: "Never My Love"
1989 Beauty and the Beast Snow Episode: "Snow"
1990–1991 Tales from the Crypt Reno Crevice, Sergeant Ripper 2 episodes
1996–1999 Millennium Frank Black 67 episodes
1998 The Day Lincoln Was Shot Abraham Lincoln TV film
1999 The X-Files Frank Black Episode: "Millennium"
1999 Harsh Realm General Pilot episode
2001 The Legend of Tarzan Kerchak Voice
Episode: "Tarzan and Tublat's Revenge"
2001 Lost Voyage David Shaw TV film
2004 Static Shock Kobra Leader Voice
Episode: "Future Shock"
2004 Evel Knievel "Awful" Knoffel TV film
2005 Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! Mobius Quint Voice
Episode: "Hunt for the Citadel of Bone"
2005 Into the West Daniel Wheeler Episode: "Hell on Wheels"
2005 IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix Andrei Rublev Voice
Episode: "Time to Shine"
2005 Supernova Colonel Harlan Williams TV film
2006 Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes Ed Harley TV film
2007 Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud Ed Harley TV film
2007 In the Spider's Web Dr. Lecorpus TV film
2007 Caminhos do Coração Dr. Walker 6 episodes
2008 DEA Narrator Voice
2008 Ladies of the House Frank TV film
2008–2009 Transformers: Animated Lockdown Voice; 3 episodes
2009 NCIS Sheriff Clay Boyd Episode: "South by Southwest"
2010 The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Grim Reaper Voice; 4 episodes
2010 Castle Benny Stryker Episode: "Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind"
2011 The Witches of Oz Henry Gale 2 episodes
2011 Memphis Beat Tom Harrison Episode: "The Feud"
2011 The Dog Who Saved Halloween Prof. Eli Cole TV film
2012–2013 Tron: Uprising Tesler Voice; 16 episodes
2012 The Legend of Korra The Lieutenant Voice; 7 episodes
2013 Hannibal Lawrence Wells Episode: "Trou Normand"
2014 The Strain Narrator Voice
Episode: "Night Zero"
2015–2016 The Blacklist Bill McCready 4 episodes
2015 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Zog Voice
Episode: "Dinosaur Seen in Sewers!"
2015–2017 Into the Badlands Penrith 3 episodes
2016 Grey's Anatomy Griffin McColl Episode: "Odd Man Out"
2016 Criminal Minds Chazz Montolo Episode: "A Beautiful Disaster"
2016 The Night Shift Clive 2 episodes
2016 Legends of Tomorrow Todd Rice/Obsidian Episode: "Compromised"
2017 The Machine Stanley (voice) TV film
2018–2020 Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure The Baron (voice) 2 episodes
2018 New Looney Tunes Ironbootay (voice) Episode: "Undercover Bunny"
2020 Better Things Virgil Episode: "She's Fifty"

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2002 Run Like Hell Nick Conner Voice
2002 Red Faction II Molov Voice
2002–2004 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Abaddon Voice
2005 Gun Thomas MacGruder Voice
2007 Mass Effect Admiral Steven Hackett Voice
2008 Transformers Animated: The Game Lockdown Voice
2009 The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Max Dacher Voice
2009 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 General Shepherd Voice
2010 Aliens vs. Predator Karl Bishop Weyland Voice and likeness
2011 Mass Effect 2: Arrival Admiral Steven Hackett Voice
2011 Star Wars: The Old Republic Jedi Master Gnost-Dural Voice[24]
2012 Mass Effect 3 Admiral Steven Hackett Voice
2012 Infex Hazelton Voice
2013 Aliens: Colonial Marines Various "Bishop" Androids
Michael Bishop Weyland
Voice and younger likeness
2014 Hearthstone Thrallmar Farseer
The Black Knight
Voice
2018 Detroit: Become Human Carl Manfred Voice, performance capture, and likeness
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