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Lance Henriksen

Highest Rated: 100% Mad Props (2024)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Horror Show (1989)

Birthday: May 5, 1940

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

From the very start, character actor Lance Henriksen enjoyed collaborations with some of the leading filmmakers of the time, including Sidney Lumet, Steven Spielberg and James Cameron. In fact, it was Cameron who initially envisioned Henriksen in the role of the catchphrase-spouting killer robot in "The Terminator" (1984). And although he was only seen in that film in a much smaller part, Cameron came through with another memorable character for him to embody in the smash hit "Aliens" (1986). From there it was on to a near constant output of work in films such as "Near Dark" (1987), "Johnny Handsome" (1989), "Alien3" (1992), "Hard Target" (1993), and "The Quick and the Dead" (1995). On television he headlined a series of his own as ex-FBI profiler Frank Black in the critically lauded, but ratings-challenged "Millennium" (Fox, 1996-99). Later career roles included voice work in video games and on animated television series, as well as turns in films like "AVP: Alien vs. Predator" (2004) and "Appaloosa" (2008). While the vast majority of character actors blended into the background of the public consciousness, garnering little name recognition with audiences, Henriksen managed to become a sort of working man's movie star, delivering performances just as iconic as those of the megawatt stars he appeared alongside.

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Highest rated movies

100% 93% Mad Props Watchlist
100% 89% The Terminator
Watchlist
100% 78% Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Watchlist
94% 94% Aliens Watchlist
93% 82% Prince of the City
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92% 75% The Artifice Girl Watchlist 90% 85% Close Encounters of the Third Kind Watchlist 89% 75% Tarzan Watchlist 88% 100% Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story Watchlist 85% 81% Alpha Rift Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Aliens Expanded Self - 2024
100% 93% Mad Props Self - 2024
No Score Yet 33% Altered Reality Jack (Character) - 2024
55% 86% On Fire George Laughlin (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet When Jack Came Back Barry Davis (Character) - 2023
88% 100% Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story Self - 2022
92% 75% The Artifice Girl Gareth (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Edge of Her Mind Norman (Character) - 2022
85% 81% Alpha Rift Corbin (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dead of Night Earl (Character) - 2021
83% 83% The Unhealer Pflueger (Character) - 2020
66% 63% Falling Willis (Character) - 2020
57% 94% A Place Among the Dead L (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Why Sheriff Logan (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Exorcism at 60,000 Feet Captain Houdee (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet 50% Eminence Hill Mason (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Being Reverend Campbell (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mimesis Nosferatu The Autuer (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Millennium After the Millennium Self - 2018
No Score Yet 56% D-Railed Manny (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 43% West of Hell The Devil (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 6% A Reckoning Henry Breck (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 61% Big Legend Jackson Wells (Character) - 2018
44% 39% Gehenna: Where Death Lives Morgan (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Unwilling Father Harris (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 56% Gone Are the Days Taylon (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 27% Wraith Fr. Ehrlich (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 33% This Old Machine Lew (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Needlestick Alexander Crick (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet After the Sun Fell Dicky (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 79% Cut to the Chase The Man (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 31% Deserted Hopper (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 0% The Sector The Finisher (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 41% Daylight's End Frank Hill (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 22% Lake Eerie Pop (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 25% Monday at 11:01 A.M. Bartender (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Justice Served Henry Callas (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 43% Kids vs Monsters Heinrich (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 50% Spirit Riders Rex (Character) - 2015
50% 48% Me Him Her The Stranger (Character) - 2015
38% 19% Harbinger Down Graff (Character) - 2015
60% 25% Stung Caruthers (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rolling Road Les Davis (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet IQ Supremacy Unknown (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 12% Paranormal Island Carl (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 21% Hollows Grove Bill (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 33% Dark Awakening Father Donovan O'Malley (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 43% Garm Wars: The Last Druid Wydd (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 8% Alien Rising Col. Stephen Cencula (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Writes Robert Service (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blood Shot Sam (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 66% The Book of Daniel Cyrus (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 11% Sin Reaper Dr. Hoffman (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 8% Gingerclown Braineater (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 71% My Dog the Champion Billy (Character) - 2013
26% 34% Phantom Markov (Character) $460.0K 2013
No Score Yet 42% The Last Push Walter Moffitt (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 32% It's in the Blood Russell (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Surfing With the Enemy Narrator - 2011
No Score Yet 41% The Witches of Oz Henry Gale (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 39% Beautiful Wave Jimmy (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 41% Good Day for It Lyle Tyrus (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 37% The Dog Who Saved Halloween Eli Cole (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 14% Scream of the Banshee Broderick Duncan (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Arcadian Father Reed (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 41% Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer Emmett (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet 55% The Penitent Man Mr. Darnell (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet 73% The Genesis Code Dr. Hoffer (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet 44% Godkiller Mulciber (Voice) - 2010
No Score Yet 20% The Seamstress Sheriff Virgil Logan (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 15% The Lost Tribe Gallo (Character) - 2009
100% 78% Nightmares in Red, White and Blue Narrator - 2009
35% 48% The Slammin' Salmon Dick Lobo (Character) $41.6K 2009
No Score Yet 15% Screamers: The Hunting Unknown (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 92% Mythic Journeys The Sorcerer (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 11% Alone in the Dark 2 Abner Lundberg (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 6% Dying God Chance (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 44% Ladies of the House Frank Olmstead (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 15% Necessary Evil Dr. Fibrian (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 22% Dark Reel Connor Pritchett (Character) - 2008
77% 55% Appaloosa Ring Shelton (Character) $20.2M 2008
No Score Yet 8% Deadwater Col. John Willets (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 28% Pistol Whipped The Old Man (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 23% Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud Ed Harley (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bone Dry Jimmy (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 17% In the Spider's Web Dr. Lecorpus (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 46% The Chosen One Cardinal Fred (Voice) - 2007
No Score Yet 36% Prairie Fever Monte James (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 30% The Da Vinci Treasure Dr. John Coven (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 18% Pirates of Treasure Island Long John Silver (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 60% Superman: Brainiac Attacks Unknown (Voice) - 2006
No Score Yet 24% Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes Ed Harley (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 18% Devil on the Mountain Harlan Knowles (Character) - 2006
67% 40% Abominable Ziegler Dane (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 25% The Garden Unknown (Character) - 2006
8% 43% When a Stranger Calls The Stranger (Voice) $47.9M 2006
0% 22% Hellraiser: Hellworld The Host (Character) - 2005
33% 37% Tarzan II Kerchak (Voice) - 2005
No Score Yet 44% Madhouse Dr. Franks (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 35% Evel Knievel "Awful" Knoffel (Character) - 2004
4% 78% Modigliani Foster Kane (Character) $195.4K 2004
21% 39% Alien vs. Predator Charles Bishop Weyland (Character) $80.3M 2004
No Score Yet 25% Out for Blood Captain John Billings (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet One Point O Howard (Character) - 2004
67% 66% Paranoia 1.0 Howard (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 32% Starkweather The Mentor (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 21% Dream Warrior Parish (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 31% Rapid Exchange Newcastle (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 65% The Last Cowboy John William Cooper (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 36% Unspeakable Pitchford (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 7% The Invitation Roland Levy (Character) - 2003
60% 15% Mimic 3: Sentinel Garbageman (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 18% The Untold Harlan Knowles (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 19% Antibody Gaynes (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 9% The Mangler 2 Headmaster Bradeen (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 33% Lost Voyage David Shaw (Character) - 2001
41% 38% Scream 3 John Milton/Director (Character) $89.1M 2000
89% 75% Tarzan Kerchak (Voice) - 1999
No Score Yet 54% The Day Lincoln Was Shot President Abraham Lincoln (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 40% Profile for Murder Adrian Cross (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dusting Cliff 7 Colonel Roger McBride (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 38% Baja Burns (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 65% Gunfighter's Moon Frank Morgan (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 10% Wes Craven Presents Mind Ripper Stockton (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Aurora: Operation Intercept William Stenghel (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 29% Felony Taft (Character) - 1995
69% 88% Dead Man Cole Wilson (Character) $1.1M 1995
50% 69% Powder Sheriff Doug Barnum (Character) $30.9M 1995
58% 54% The Quick and the Dead Ace Hanlon (Character) $17.3M 1995
No Score Yet 49% The Nature of the Beast Jack Powell (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 50% Face the Evil Eric Dane/Erich Dengler (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 20% Boulevard McClaren (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 43% Spitfire Richard Charles (Character) - 1994
22% 30% Color of Night Buck (Character) $19.7M 1994
59% 41% No Escape The Father (Character) $14.2M 1994
62% 50% Hard Target Emil Fouchon (Character) $31.5M 1993
21% 43% Man's Best Friend Dr. Jarret (Character) $13.0M 1993
29% 29% Super Mario Bros. The King (Character) $20.8M 1993
No Score Yet 37% Knights Job (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 38% The Criminal Mind Agent Winslow (Character) - 1993
20% 36% Excessive Force Devlin (Character) $1.1M 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Outfit Dutch Schultz (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Comrades in Arms Rob Reed (Character) - 1992
36% 39% Jennifer Eight Freddy Ross (Character) $11.0M 1992
44% 46% Alien 3 Bishop II (Character) $54.8M 1992
No Score Yet 38% Delta Heat Jackson Rivers (Character) - 1992
30% 63% Stone Cold Chains Cooper (Character) $8.2M 1991
50% 41% The Pit and the Pendulum Torquemada (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story Charles Bronson (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 68% The Last Samurai Johnny Congo (Character) - 1990
0% 28% The Horror Show Detective Lucas McCarthy (Character) $1.4M 1989
No Score Yet 44% Survival Quest Hank (Character) $29.5K 1989
60% 48% Johnny Handsome Rafe Garrett (Character) $6.6M 1989
No Score Yet 20% Hit List Chris Caleek (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deadly Intent Raymond (Character) - 1988
65% 49% Pumpkinhead Ed Harley (Character) $4.0M 1988
83% 74% Near Dark Jesse (Character) $2.5M 1987
No Score Yet 29% Choke Canyon Brook Alastair (Character) - 1986
94% 94% Aliens Science Officer L. Bishop (Character) $77.6M 1986
No Score Yet 24% Savage Dawn Stryker (Character) - 1985
80% 59% Jagged Edge Frank Martin (Character) $36.9M 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Streets of Justice Dist. Atty. Jerry Logan (Character) - 1985
100% 89% The Terminator Detective Vukovich (Character) - 1984
29% 31% Nightmares MacLeod (Character) - 1983
5% 11% Piranha II: The Spawning Police Chief Steve Kimbrough (Character) - 1981
93% 82% Prince of the City D.A. Burano (Character) - 1981
78% 44% The Visitor Raymond Armstead (Character) - 1979
50% 48% Damien: Omen II Sergeant Neff (Character) - 1978
90% 85% Close Encounters of the Third Kind Robert (Character) $3.1M 1977
No Score Yet 36% Mansion of the Doomed Dr. Dan Bryan (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet It Ain't Easy Randy (Character) - 1972

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bring on the Dancing Horses Unknown (Character) 2022
84% 88% Into the Badlands Penrith (Guest Star) 2015 2017
89% 69% DC's Legends of Tomorrow Todd Rice/Obsidian (Guest Star) 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Future-Worm! Tom/Half-Man-Half-Mecha (Guest Voice) 2016
No Score Yet 77% The Night Shift Clive (Guest Star) 2016
No Score Yet 90% American Dad! Bowling Coach (Guest Voice) 2016
No Score Yet 83% Criminal Minds Unknown (Guest Star) 2016
84% 72% Grey's Anatomy Unknown (Guest Star) 2016
91% 79% The Blacklist Bill McCready (Guest Star) 2015
93% 94% Hannibal Lawrence Wells (Guest Star) 2013
No Score Yet 93% Tron: Uprising Tesler (Voice) 2012-2013
89% 79% The Legend of Korra Lieutenant (Guest Voice) 2012
82% 87% Castle Benny Stryker (Guest Star) 2010
No Score Yet 84% NCIS Sheriff Clay Boyd (Guest Star) 2009
74% 86% The X-Files Frank Black (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet 86% Millennium Unknown (Character) 1996-1999
82% 90% Tales From the Crypt Unknown (Character) 1990
No Score Yet 86% Beauty and the Beast Snow (Guest Star) 1989
No Score Yet 71% The A-Team Mack Dalton (Guest Star) 1984