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Biography
Lance Henriksen (born May 5, 1940 in New York City) is an American actor and potter. His trademarks as an actor are his deep, gravelly voice and chiseled, weathered face.
Henriksen first appeared in the film It Ain't Easy in 1972, and made his first major appearance in Dog Day Afternoon a few years later. When James Cameron was writing the movie The Terminator, he had originally envisioned Henriksen playing the title role (to the point where Cameron had painted a picture of The Terminator using Henriksen's face, as well as having him dress-up as the character and go to an Orion Pictures production officer in character), however, it would later go to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Henriksen did appear in the film in the minor role of Detective Hal Vukovich. He would later go on to play an artificial life-form, Bishop in Aliens (a character he would go on to play in the third film in the series). He later played Charles Bishop Weyland, the man Bishop's appearance was based on, in Alien vs. Predator.
In 1996, Henriksen starred in the TV series Millennium, produced by the creators of The X-Files. He played Frank Black, a former FBI agent who can see into the minds of murderers. The series was cancelled in 1999. Henriksen has recently acted in the ensemble of Into the West, a miniseries executive-produced by Steven Spielberg.
Henriksen was illiterate until the age of 30.
Filmography
It Ain't Easy (1972)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
Nightmares (1983)
The Right Stuff (1983)
The Terminator (1984)
Savage Dawn (1985)
Aliens (1986)
Near Dark (1987)
Pumpkinhead (1989)
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story (1991)
Alien³ (1992)
Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Man's Best Friend (1993)
Spitfire (1994)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
Millennium (1996)
Tarzan (1999)
Scream 3 (2000)
Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Abominable (2005)
