Lance Henriksen
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{{short description|American actor (born 1940)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Lance Henriksen
| image = Lance Henriksen (54467154226).jpg
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| caption = Henriksen at the 2025 Comiccon France
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|05|05}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1961–present
| spouse = {{Plainlist|
- {{marriage|Mary Jane Evans|1985|1989}}
- {{marriage|Jane Pollack|1995|2006}}
- {{marriage|Louise Lunde|2006}}
}}
| children = 2
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Lance Henriksen (born May 5, 1940) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in various science fiction, action and horror genre productions, including Bishop in the Alien film franchise and Frank Black in the Fox television series Millennium (1996–99) and The X-Files (1999).{{cite web|last=Webster |first=Andy |url= https://movies.nytimes.com/person/31804/Lance-Henriksen |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071228120620/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/31804/Lance-Henriksen |url-status= dead |archive-date= December 28, 2007 |title= |work=The New York Times |department=Movies & TV Dept. |year=2007 |access-date=May 8, 2017}}
He has also done extensive voice work, including the Disney film Tarzan (1999) and the video games Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy (2007–2012). Other film credits include The Right Stuff (1983), The Terminator (1984), Hard Target (1993), Color of Night (1994), The Quick and the Dead (1995), Powder (1995), Scream 3 (2000), Appaloosa (2008), and Falling (2020).
Henriksen was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for his role on Millenium, and won a Saturn Award (out of four total nominations) for his performance in Hard Target. In 2021, he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor for Falling.
Early life
Henriksen was born on May 5, 1940, in Manhattan, New York. 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.{{cite news |last=Myatt |first=Sue|title=Short Early Biography of Lance Henriksen |publisher=Lance Henriksen Magic |url=http://www.lancehenriksen.info/content/articles/early-biography-of-lance-henriksen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310231518/http://www.lancehenriksen.info/content/articles/early-biography-of-lance-henriksen |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 10, 2012 |date=February 6, 2004 |access-date=July 9, 2007}}{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/66/Lance-Henriksen.html |title=Lance Henriksen biography |publisher=Filmreference.com |access-date=May 8, 2017}}{{Cite news |last=Lipton |first=Michael A. |title=Misfit No More |website=People |date=November 30, 1992 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20109201,00.html|access-date=January 5, 2011}} Henriksen's paternal grandmother was a Sámi reindeer herder.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sORoJKU3TI&pp=ygUPbGFuY2UgaGVucmlrc2Vu |title=Lance Henriksen reflects on Pumpkinhead (1988) {{!}} Forbidden Worlds Film Festival 2023 |date=2023-05-18 |last=Forbidden Worlds Film Festival |access-date=2025-02-12 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8zjXpPtlA&pp=ygUlbGFuY2UgaGVucmlrc2VuIHB1bXBraW5oZWFkIGludGVydmlldw== |title=Pumpkinhead (1988) Lance Henriksen on Collaborating with Stan Winston HD |date=2014-08-19 |last=ScreamFactoryTV |access-date=2025-02-12 |via=YouTube}} His parents divorced when he was two years old, and his mother struggled to raise him and his brother Walter, leading to his spending part of his childhood in foster care.{{cite web| url= http://people.com/archive/misfit-no-more-vol-38-no-22/ |title=Misfit No More |website=People |access-date=January 27, 2018}}{{Cite news|title=Lance Henriksen: Not Bad For A Human book review|url=https://www.denofgeek.com/books/lance-henriksen-not-bad-for-a-human-book-review/|last=Beresford|first=Phil|date=July 4, 2011|access-date=November 26, 2020|work=Den of Geek}} 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. 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. Different people, relatives. I remember every single face from my childhood. My alcoholic uncles, whoever. I'm not having a pity party here; I'm not Quasimodo. That's just how it was".{{Cite news|title=Viggo Mortensen on Falling star Lance Henriksen: 'He's like a wolf who might gobble you up'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/26/viggo-mortensen-lance-henriksen-falling|last=Gilbey|first=Ryan|date=November 26, 2020|access-date=November 26, 2020|work=The Guardian}} 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.
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, and was illiterate until the age of 30.{{cite news |last=Scott |first=Vernon |date=September 21, 1988 |title=A case of literacy |work=United Press International |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/09/21/A-case-of-literacy/6382590817600/ |access-date=June 12, 2022 }}
Career
Henriksen found work as a muralist{{clarify|date=March 2024}} and as a laborer on ships. For a time, he worked in Europe{{vague|date=March 2024}}. Around age 30, he found theater work as a set designer, and he received his first acting role because he built the set for a production. It was around this time that he taught himself to read. For his first role, he put the entire script on tape with the help of a friend, then learned his part and all of the others.{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1erqqb/hello_reddit_were_actor_lance_henriksen_and_vfx|title=Hello Reddit!|website= Reddit.com|date=May 21, 2013 |access-date=September 5, 2016}} Soon afterward, he graduated from the Actors Studio and began acting in New York City.{{cite news|last=Myatt|first=Sue|title=The Web Magic Interview with Lance Henriksen: Frankly Speaking|publisher=Lance Henriksen Magic|url=http://www.lancehenriksen.info/content/interviews/Interview-2of4-Frankly-Speaking|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310231514/http://www.lancehenriksen.info/content/interviews/Interview-2of4-Frankly-Speaking|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 10, 2012|date=February 6, 2004|access-date=July 9, 2007}}
Henriksen's first film appearance was in The Outsider in 1961, as an uncredited extra. He received his first credit in his second film, 1972's It Ain't Easy. He auditioned for the role of Leon Shermer in Dog Day Afternoon (1975), but received the smaller part of an FBI agent that kills John Cazale's character.{{Cite web |title=A Chat with Lance Henriksen – Premium Hollywood |url=https://www.premiumhollywood.com/2009/02/25/a-chat-with-lance-henriksen/ |access-date=2025-01-28 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Hustle |first=Indie Film |date=2021-12-16 |title=From James Cameron to Steven Spielberg, the Life of Lance Henriksen – IFH |url=https://indiefilmhustle.com/lance-henriksen/ |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=Indie Film Hustle |language=en-US}} He would appear in two more films directed by Sidney Lumet: Network (1976) and Prince of the City (1981). In a 2009 interview, Henriksen called Lumet "the kind of guy that loves New York actors, because that's where he works and that's what he knows....He would give you the job that was maybe only meant for four days, and he'd give you the run of the show because he wanted to help support young actors in New York."
Henriksen had supporting roles in a variety of films, including the science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and the horror film Damien - Omen II (1978). He also had a co-starring role in the low-budget horror film Mansion of the Doomed (1976). He played Police Chief Steve Kimbrough in Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982), the astronaut Walter Schirra in The Right Stuff (1983), actor Charles Bronson in the television film Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story (1991), and a cameo appearance as The King in Super Mario Bros. (1993).
When James Cameron was writing The Terminator (1984), he originally envisioned Henriksen, with whom he had worked on Piranha II, as playing the title role, a cyborg.{{cite magazine|last=Ross|first=Dalton|url=http://ew.com/article/2001/11/09/terminators-lance-henriksen-back|title=Boiling a Lance|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=October 10, 2001|access-date=December 1, 2006}} The role ultimately went to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Henriksen does appear in the film as Hal Vukovich, a Detective in the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Henriksen played the android Bishop in Cameron's film Aliens (1986), and as Bishop's designer Michael Weyland in Alien 3 (1992).{{cite web|url= http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20979| title= SD Comic-Con '10: Enter the 'Alien' Pods at the Fox Booth!!| website= bloody-disgusting.com| first= Brad |last= Miska |date= July 21, 2010| access-date= June 2, 2018}} He also played Charles Bishop Weyland, the man upon whom Bishop was based, in Alien vs. Predator (2004). Bill Paxton and Henriksen are the only actors whose characters were killed by the Terminator, the Alien, and the Predator. He played the vampire leader Jesse Hooker in Kathryn Bigelow's cult film Near Dark.{{cite news|last=Gambin|first=Lee|title=Exclusive Q&A: Lance Henriksen Opens Up on "DAMIEN: OMEN 2"|work=Fangoria.com|url=http://www.fangoria.com/new/exclusive-qa-lance-henriksen-opens-up-on-damien-omen-2|access-date=December 1, 2006|archive-date=February 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205185233/http://www.fangoria.com/new/exclusive-qa-lance-henriksen-opens-up-on-damien-omen-2/|url-status=dead}}
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. That year, he also played Sheriff Doug Barnum in the film Powder. He appeared with Payne again in Face the Evil (1997), and the dystopian classic Paranoia 1.0 (2004).
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.{{cite news|last=Miller|first=Bruce R.|title=The Other Side: Writer creates 'Millennium' to show the havoc humans — not aliens — wreak|work=Sioux City Journal|url=http://www.mediafire.com/view/4bmr5qo1j4esjyu/.jpeg|date=October 25, 1996|access-date=March 6, 2020}} 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 canceled 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.
File:Lance Henriksen Dragon Con.jpg 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),{{cite news|last=Mirabella|first=Fran|title=Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse|publisher=IGN|url=http://pc.ign.com/articles/375/375785p1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021121135501/http://pc.ign.com/articles/375/375785p1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 21, 2002|date=October 29, 2002|access-date=December 1, 2006}} 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. Henriksen reprised his role as Bishop in Aliens: Colonial Marines.
He starred in a 2003 series of Australian television commercials for Visa, titled Unexplained (about the raining of fish from the sky{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/869482.stm|work=BBC News|title=It's raining fish!|date=August 7, 2000|access-date=May 7, 2010}} 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.
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/18096|title=First Image of Lance Henriksen in 'Scream of the Banshee'!| work= Bloody-Disgusting.com|date=November 13, 2009 }} He played Henry Gale in Leigh Scott's The Witches of Oz.{{cite web |url= http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36612/first-preview-leigh-scotts-the-witches-oz|title=First Preview of Leigh Scott's The Witches of Oz |work= DreadCentral.com| author= Foywonder | date= March 26, 2010 | url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100328071135/http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36612/first-preview-leigh-scotts-the-witches-oz/| archive-date= March 28, 2010| access-date= June 2, 2018}}
In January 2015, he was signed for the lead in the indie thriller Monday at 11:01 am{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/84119/lance-henriksen-briana-evigan-meet-monday-1101-m|title=Lance Henriksen and Briana Evigan Meet Up Monday at 11:01 A.M.|work= DreadCentral.com|date=January 5, 2015 |access-date=August 3, 2017}} In 2016, he starred in the feature film Deserted, a psychological thriller.{{Cite web|title=Deserted (2016) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2461030/ |publisher= IMDb|access-date=September 25, 2017}} Henriksen played the role of Hopper.{{Cite web|title=Lance Henrikson | url= https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000448/ |publisher=IMDb|access-date=September 25, 2017}}
In 2018, Henriksen performed motion capture and vocal performance for the character of Carl Manfred in the video game Detroit: Become Human. 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.McNary, Dave (October 15, 2018). [https://variety.com/2018/film/news/viggo-mortensen-directorial-debut-falling-1202980297/ "Viggo Mortensen to Star, Make Directorial Debut in Family Drama 'Falling'"]. Variety. Retrieved February 7, 2019. Reviewing the film's 2020 premiere, The Hollywood Reporter{{'}}s John DeFore noted not only the quality of Henriksen's performance, but the 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."Defore, John (January 24, 2020). [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/falling-1272558 "'Falling': Film Review | Sundance 2020"]. Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
He received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actor at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, for his performance in Falling.Brent Furdyk, [https://etcanada.com/news/762082/canadian-screen-awards-announces-2021-film-nominations/ "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829095750/https://etcanada.com/news/762082/canadian-screen-awards-announces-2021-film-nominations/ |date=August 29, 2021 }}. ET Canada, March 30, 2021.
In 2022, Henriksen was cast in the upcoming American horror film, Awaken the Reaper.{{Cite web |last=Hamman |first=Cody |date=November 29, 2022 |title=Awaken the Reaper images show Lance Henriksen, Louis Gossett Jr. in horror thriller |url=https://www.joblo.com/awaken-the-reaper-images/ |access-date=December 8, 2022 |website=JoBlo |language=en-US}} The film is currently shooting in New York and slated for a 2024 release date. It is directed by Justin Paul{{Cite web |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |date=November 29, 2022 |title=Lance Henriksen, Louis Gossett Jr & Robin Curtis Lead Horror 'Awaken The Reaper' |url=https://deadline.com/2022/11/lance-henriksen-louis-gossett-jr-robin-curtis-horror-awaken-the-reaper-1235183646/ |access-date=December 8, 2022 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}} and Dave Campfield and produced by Fourth Horizon Cinema, Impact Media Studios and Design Weapons.{{Cite web |last=Squires |first=John |date=November 29, 2022 |title='Awaken the Reaper' – First Look at Lance Henriksen in Grim Reaper Horror Movie |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3741895/awaken-the-reaper-first-look-at-lance-henriksen-in-grim-reaper-horror-movie/ |access-date=December 8, 2022 |website=Bloody Disgusting! |language=en-US}}
Personal life
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Henriksen has been married two times. He was married to Mary Jane Evans from 1985 to 1989 and to Jane Pollack from 1995 to 2006.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
Henriksen has two children; one with Pollack, one with Evans.
= 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...."
Filmography
= Film =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Film ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1961
| U.S. Marine | Uncredited |
| 1972
| Randy | |
| 1973
| Railroad Worker | Uncredited |
| 1974
| To Kill the King | Hank Adams | |
| 1975
| FBI Agent Murphy | |
| rowspan="3" | 1976
| Dr. Dan Bryan | |
| Network
| Network Lawyer at Khan's Place | Uncredited |
| The Next Man
| Federal Security | |
| 1977
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Robert | |
| 1978
| Sergeant Neff | |
| 1979
| Raymond Armstead | |
| rowspan="3" | 1981
| Jimmy | |
| Piranha II: The Spawning
| Police Chief Steve Kimbrough | |
| Prince of the City
| District Attorney Burano | |
| rowspan="2" | 1983
| MacLeod | |
| The Right Stuff
| |
| 1984
| Detective Hal Vukovich | |
| rowspan="2" | 1985
| Frank Martin | |
| Savage Dawn
| Stryker | |
| rowspan="2" | 1986
| Aliens | Bishop | |
| On Dangerous Ground
| Brook Alastair | |
| 1987
| Jesse Hooker | |
| rowspan="3" | 1988
| Ed Harley | |
| Survival Quest
| Hank Chambers | |
| Deadly Intent
| Raymond | |
| rowspan="3" | 1989
| Detective Lucas McCarthy | |
| Johnny Handsome
| Rafe Garrett | |
| Hit List
| Chris Caleek | |
| 1990
| The Last Samurai | Johnny Congo | |
| rowspan="2" | 1991
| |
| Stone Cold
| "Chains" Cooper | |
| rowspan="5" | 1992
| Sergeant Freddy Ross | |
| rowspan="2" | Alien 3
| Bishop | |
| Michael Weyland, Bishop's creator
| Listed in credits as "Bishop II" |
| Comrades in Arms
| Rob Reed | |
| Delta Heat
| Jackson Rivers | |
| rowspan="7" | 1993
| Captain Raymond Devlin | |
| Super Mario Bros.
| The King{{efn|Identified as "Bowser" in production notes, and "Reznor" in comic continuation.}} | Cameo appearance |
| Man's Best Friend
| Dr. Jarret | |
| Hard Target
| Emil Fouchon | |
| The Outfit
| |
| Knights
| Job The Cyborg | |
| The Criminal Mind
| Agent Winslow | |
| rowspan="4" | 1994
| The Father | |
| Color of Night
| Buck | |
| Boulevard
| McClaren | |
| Felony
| Taft | |
| rowspan="6" | 1995
| William Stenghel | |
| The Quick and the Dead
| "Ace" Hanlon | |
| Dead Man
| Cole Wilson | |
| Powder
| Sheriff Doug Barnum | |
| Mind Ripper
| Dr. Jim Stockton | a.k.a. The Outpost |
| The Nature of the Beast
| Jack Powell | Direct-to-video |
| rowspan="3" | 1997
| Colonel Roger McBride | Direct-to-video, a.k.a. Last Assassins |
| Gunfighter's Moon
| Frank Morgan | rowspan="2" | Direct-to-video |
| No Contest II
| Eric Dane / Erich Dengler |
| 1999
| Tarzan | Kerchak |
| 2000
| Scream 3 | John Milton | |
| rowspan="3" | 2002
| Headmaster Bradeen | Direct-to-video |
| The Untold
| Harlan Knowles | Direct-to-video, a.k.a. Sasquatch |
| Unspeakable
| Jack Pitchford | rowspan="3" | Direct-to-video |
| rowspan="2" | 2003
| Antibody | Dr. Richard Gaynes |
| Mimic 3: Sentinel
| Garbageman |
| rowspan="7" | 2004
| Foster Kane | |
| Madhouse
| Dr. Franks | Direct-to-video |
| Alien vs. Predator
| Charles Bishop Weyland | |
| Dream Warrior
| Parish | |
| Starkweather
| The Mentor | Direct-to-video |
| Out for Blood
| Captain John Billings | Direct-to-video |
| Paranoia 1.0
| Howard | Direct-to-video, a.k.a. One Point O |
| rowspan="2" | 2005
| Kerchak |
| Hellraiser: Hellworld
| The Host | Direct-to-video |
| rowspan="7" | 2006
| The Stranger | Voice |
| The Garden
| Ben Zachary | rowspan="4" | Direct-to-video |
| Abominable
| Ziegler Dane |
| Sasquatch Mountain
| Chase Jackson |
| The Da Vinci Treasure
| Dr. John Coven |
| Superman: Brainiac Attacks
| Brainiac |
| Pirates of Treasure Island
| Direct-to-video |
| rowspan="2" | 2007
| Bone Dry | Jimmy | Direct-to-video |
| The Chosen One
| Cardinal Fred |
| rowspan="9" | 2008
| Colonel John Willets | Direct-to-video, a.k.a. Black Ops |
| Dying God
| Chance | Direct-to-video |
| Dark Reel
| Connor Pritchett | |
| Appaloosa
| Ring Shelton | |
| Necessary Evil
| Dr. Fibrian | rowspan="4" | Direct-to-video |
| Pistol Whipped
| The Old Man |
| Prairie Fever
| Monte James |
| Alone in the Dark II
| Abner Lundbert |
| Adventures in Voice Acting
| Himself | Documentary |
| rowspan="5" | 2009
| Orsow | Direct-to-video |
| The Slammin' Salmon
| Dick Lobo | |
| The Seamstress
| Sheriff Virgil Logan | Direct-to-video |
| Jennifer's Body
| Passing Motorist | Cameo |
| Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
| Himself | Voice |
| rowspan="6" | 2010
| Cyrus | Emmett | |
| The Lost Tribe
| Gallo | rowspan="2" | Direct-to-video |
| The Genesis Code
| Dr. Hoffer |
| Godkiller: Walk Among Us
| Mulciber |
| Scream of the Banshee
| Broderick Duncan | rowspan="3" | Direct-to-video |
| The Penitent Man
| Mr. Darnell |
| rowspan="3" | 2011
| Lyle Tyrus |
| Monster Brawl
| God | Voice |
| The Arcadian
| Father Reed | rowspan="5" | Direct-to-video |
| rowspan="4" | 2012
| Walter Moffitt |
| Beautiful Wave
| Jimmy Davenport / Baja Man |
| My Dog the Champion
| Billy |
| It's in the Blood
| Sheriff Russell |
| rowspan="4" | 2013
| Colonel Stephen Cencula | a.k.a. Alien Rising |
| Gingerclown
| Braineater | Voice |
| The Book of Daniel
| Direct-to-video |
| Phantom
| Commodore Vladimir Markov |
| rowspan="5" | 2014
| FBI Agent Joe Kelly |
| Dark Awakening
| Father Donovan O'Malley |
| The Sector
| Shadow Man | rowspan="3" | Direct-to-video |
| Hollows Grove
| Bill |
| Garm Wars: The Last Druid |
| rowspan="5" | 2015
| Graff | Direct-to-video, a.k.a. Inanimate |
| Fragile Storm
| Norman | Short film |
| Kids vs Monsters
| Heinrich | rowspan="4" | Direct-to-video |
| Stung
| Mayor Caruthers |
| Spirit Riders
| Rex |
| rowspan="10" | 2016
| The Bartender |
| The Hamster
| The Narrator | Short film |
| Cut to the Chase
| The Man | rowspan="9" | Direct-to-video |
| Daylight's End
| Chief Frank Hill |
| Deserted
| Hopper |
| The Sector
| The Finisher |
| After the Sun Fell
| Dicky |
| Gehenna: Where Death Lives
| Morgan |
| The Unwilling
| Father Harris |
| Lake Eerie
| Pop |
| rowspan="2" | 2017
| Needlestick | Alexander Crick |
| Mom and Dad
| Mel Ryan | |
| rowspan="6" | 2018
| |
| Big Legend
| Jackson Wells | |
| Gone Are the Days
| Taylon Flynn | |
| A Reckoning
| Henry Breck | |
| D-Railed
| Manny | |
| Mimesis Nosferatu
| The Auter | |
| rowspan="5" | 2019
| Old Demetri | |
| Her Mind in Pieces
| Norman | |
| Exorcism at 60,000 Feet
| Captain Houdee | |
| Eminence Hill
| Mason Mills | |
| Being
| Reverend Campbell | |
| rowspan="2" | 2020
| Falling | Willis Peterson | |
| A Place Among the Dead
| L | |
| rowspan="6" | 2021
| Reverend Stanley Pflueger | |
| The Dead of Night
| Earl | |
| Reklaw
| Lott | Short |
| Why?
| Sheriff Logan | |
| Alpha Rift
| Corbin | |
| Vote for Santa
| Santa | |
| rowspan="3" | 2022
| Bring on the Dancing Horses | | |
| The Edge of Her Mind Anthology
| Norman | |
| The Artifice Girl
| Elderly Gareth |
| rowspan="2" | 2023
| When Jack Came Back | Barry Davis | |
| On Fire
| George Laughlin | |
| 2024
| Jack | |
| TBA
| Awaken the Reaper | Deacon Tom | |
| TBA
| One | Pastor Jesse Davidson | rowspan="2" | Post-production |
| TBA
| Acre Beyond the Rye | Dr. Bradford Weeks |
| TBA
| Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen | Lance | Post-production; filmed in 2010 |
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2" | 1980
| Timothy | Pilot episode |
| Ryan's Hope
| Preston Post | 8 episodes |
| rowspan="3" | 1983
| Johnny "Nose" | Episode: "Hopes and Dreams" |
| Hardcastle and McCormick
| Deseau | Episode: "Man in a Glass House" |
| Blood Feud
| Mel Pierce | Television film |
| rowspan="5" | 1984
| Mack Dalton | Episode: "In Plane Sight" |
| Riptide
| John McMasters | Episode: "Raiders of the Lost Sub" |
| Legmen
| Finch | Episode: "A Woman's Work" |
| Cagney & Lacey
| Sergeant King | Episode: "Heat" |
| Hardcastle and McCormick
| Josh Fulton | Episode: "Never My Love" |
| 1989
| "Snow" | Episode: "Snow" |
| 1990–1991
| Reno Crevice / Sergeant Ripper | 2 episodes |
| 1996–1999
| 67 episodes |
| 1998
| Television film |
| rowspan="2" | 1999
| Frank Black | Episode: "Millennium" |
| Harsh Realm
| General | Pilot episode |
| rowspan="2" | 2001
| Kerchak | Voice, episode: "Tarzan and Tublat's Revenge" |
| Lost Voyage
| David Shaw | Television film |
| rowspan="2" | 2004
| Kobra Leader |
| Evel Knievel
| William "Awful" Knoffel | Television film |
| rowspan="4" | 2005
| Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! | Mobius Quint | Voice, episode: "Hunt for the Citadel of Bone" |
| Into the West
| Daniel Wheeler | Episode: "Hell on Wheels" |
| IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix
| Voice, episode: "Time to Shine" |
| Supernova
| Colonel Harlan Williams | rowspan="4" | Television film |
| 2006
| rowspan="2" | Ed Harley |
| rowspan="3" | 2007 |
| In the Spider's Web
| Dr. Lecorpus |
| Caminhos do Coração
| Dr. Walker | 6 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2008
| DEA | The Narrator | Voice |
| Ladies of the House
| Frank Olmstead | Television film |
| 2008–2009
| Lockdown |
| 2009
| NCIS | Sheriff Clay Boyd | Episode: "South by Southwest" |
| rowspan="2" | 2010 |
| Castle
| Benny Stryker | Episode: "Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind" |
| rowspan="3" | 2011
| Henry Gale | 2 episodes |
| Memphis Beat
| Tom Harrison | Episode: "The Feud" |
| The Dog Who Saved Halloween
| Professor Eli Cole | Television film |
| 2012–2013
| Tesler |
| 2012
| Lieutenant |
| 2013
| Hannibal | Lawrence Wells | Episode: "Trou Normand" |
| 2014
| The Narrator | Voice, episode: "Night Zero" |
| 2014–2017
| Doc Sugarfoot |
| 2015–2016
| Bill McCready | 4 episodes |
| 2015
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Zog |
| 2015–2017
| Penrith | 3 episodes |
| rowspan="4" | 2016
| Griffin McColl | Episode: "Odd Man Out" |
| Criminal Minds
| Chazz Montolo | Episode: "A Beautiful Disaster" |
| The Night Shift
| Clive | 2 episodes |
| Legends of Tomorrow
| Obsidian | Episode: "Compromised" |
| 2017
| The Machine | Stanley | Voice, television film |
| 2018–2020
| Baron |
| rowspan="3" | 2020
| Ironbootay | Voice, episode: "Undercover Bunny" |
| Better Things
| Virgil | Episode: "She's Fifty" |
| Big Dogs
| Totentatz | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2023
| Crowley | Episode 8: Ace in The Hole |
| Aqua Teen Hunger Force
| Vannesa | Episode: "Anubis" |
= Voice work =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes ! class="unsortable" | {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |
|---|
| 2019
| Alien III | Bishop | |{{cite web|url=https://movieweb.com/alien-3-audiobook-podcast-audio-drama-review-audible/|title=Alien III Audible Original Drama Review: A Worthwhile Listen for Xenomorph Lovers|work=MovieWeb|last=Scott|first=Ryan|date=June 1, 2019|access-date=June 18, 2023}} |
= Video games =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2" | 2002
| Nick Conner |
| Red Faction II
| Molov | |
| 2002–2004
| Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Abaddon | |
| 2005
| Gun | Major Thomas Magruder |
| 2007
| Admiral Steven Hackett |
| 2008
| Transformers Animated: The Game | Lockdown | |
| rowspan="2" | 2009
| The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena | Max Dacher |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
| General Shepherd |
| 2010
|Voice and likeness |
| rowspan="2" | 2011
| Admiral Steven Hackett | |
| Star Wars: The Old Republic
| Jedi Master Gnost-Dural |
| rowspan="2" | 2012
| Admiral Steven Hackett |
| Infex
| Hazelton | |
| rowspan="2"| 2013
| rowspan="2"| Aliens: Colonial Marines | Bishop | rowspan="2"|Voice and likeness |
| Michael Weyland |
| 2018
| Carl Manfred |
| 2022
| Jedediah Hackett |
Books
;Autobiography
- Not Bad for a Human – The Life and Films of Lance Henriksen – Lance Henriksen with co-author Joseph Maddrey, published in 2011 by Bloody Pulp Books, featuring art by Bill Sienkiewicz, Mike Mignola, Tom Mandrake, Tim Bradstreet, Eric Powell and Ashley Wood.
;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)
Footnotes
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References
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External links
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- [http://www.filmsinreview.com/2008/07/19/lance-henriksen-interview/ Films in Review interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909235245/http://www.filmsinreview.com/2008/07/19/lance-henriksen-interview/ |date=September 9, 2018 }}
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{{Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor}}
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