![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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 played the vampire leader Jesse Hooker in Kathryn Bigelow's cult film Near Dark. He also played Charles Bishop Weyland, the man upon whom Bishop was based, in Alien vs. Henriksen played the android Bishop in Cameron's film Aliens (1986), and as Bishop's unnamed designer in Alien 3 (1992). Henriksen does appear in the film in the supporting role of Vukovich, a member of the Los Angeles Police Department. The role ultimately went to Arnold Schwarzenegger. 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. He played Police Chief Steve Kimbrough in Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982), 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). 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). Henriksen's first film appearance was in It Ain't Easy in 1972. Soon afterward, he graduated from the Actors Studio and began acting in New York City. 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. Illiterate until then, it was around this time that he taught himself to read. 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. Henriksen found work as a muralist and as a laborer on ships. He served in the United States Navy from 1955 to 1958 and attained the rank of petty officer third class. He left school after completing first grade, and was illiterate until the age of 30. 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. On another occasion, two of his uncles tried to persuade him to take Methadrine and then take part in a staged car accident for the insurance money. I'm not having a pity party here I'm not Quasimodo. I remember every single face from my childhood. Henriksen did not actually leave home until he was 12, saying he'd "had enough" of his home life, and that he had been physically assaulted by multiple family members: "I got bludgeoned a lot. During an interview, Henriksen recounted how, at the age of seven, his mother handed him his birth certificate and said, "You'll always know who you are", then pushed him out of his home. His parents divorced when he was two years old, and his mother struggled to raise him and his brother, leading to his spending part of his childhood in foster care. His father, James Henriksen, was a Norwegian merchant sailor and boxer nicknamed "Icewater" who spent most of his life at sea, while his mother, Margueritte Werner, struggled to find work as a dance instructor, waitress and model. Henriksen was born on May 5, 1940, in Manhattan, New York. He also appeared as Vukovich in The Terminator, Chains Cooper in Stone Cold, and starred as Ed Harley in the cult horror film Pumpkinhead (1988). He has also done extensive voice work, as Kerchak the gorilla in the 1999 Disney film Tarzan (1999), General Shepherd in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and Fleet Admiral Steven Hackett (as well as Narl) in BioWare's Mass Effect video game trilogy (2007–2012). He is known for his works in various science fiction, action and horror films, such as that of Bishop in the Alien film franchise, and Frank Black in Fox television series Millennium (1996–1999) and The X-Files (1999). Lance Henriksen (born May 5, 1940) is an American actor. ![]()
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