Lance Henriksen Highlights

  • 2004: Reprised the role of Bishop in "Alien vs. Predator" written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
  • 2002: Starred opposite Dennis Hopper in "Unspeakable"
  • 2000: Cast in Wes Craven's "Scream 3"
  • 1998: Portrayed Abraham Lincoln in the TNT movie "The Day Lincoln Was Shot"
  • 1996: Had his first feature as a writer-director in development, a sci-fi Western tentatively entitled "Tracer Pierce"
  • 1996: TV series debut as regular on Fox's "Millennium", a sci-fi crime drama series produced by Chris Carter
  • 1992: Narrated the Books on Tape adaptation of "Alien3"
  • 1992: Reprised the role of Bishop for "Alien3"
  • 1990: Appeared in "Cutting Cards", a Walter Hill-directed episode of "Tales From the Crypt"
  • 1989: Rare TV guest shot, "Beauty and the Beast", played a hired assassin named "Snow" in an episode with that title
  • 1989: Starred in "The Horror Show"
  • 1988: First starring role in a feature, "Pumpkinhead" (the feature directorial debut of FX artist Stan Winston)
  • 1986: Breakthrough feature supporting role, played Bishop, the gruff sympathetic android in Cameron's "Aliens"
  • 1984: Early TV guest shot, the pilot for "Scene of the Crime", an NBC detective anthology
  • 1984: Screenwriting debut, credited as one of the writers on Cameron's "The Terminator"; also acted
  • 1983: Posed for good friend Cameron's preliminary character sketches for the robot antagonist of "The Terminator"; the producers backed the concept but balked at Henriksen in the role; part went to Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • 1981: First film with writer-director James Cameron, "Piranha II: Flying Killers" (the director's debut)
  • 1977: Appeared on Broadway with Al Pacino in a production of David Rabe's "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel"
  • 1976: TV-movie debut in "Return to Earth"
  • 1972: Feature acting debut in "It Ain't Easy"
  • Went to sea with his father and was dropped off with relatives in Borneo for three years
  • By age 12 was living on his own, hitchhiking back and forth across the country and riding freight cars
  • Met movie stunt double Rex Rossi who taught him how to ride a horse and pilot a plane and advised him to become an actor
  • Spent three years in the Navy, rising to Petty Officer Third Class
  • Parents separated when he was two
  • Went "island hopping" with father around Fiji and Malaysia for a year
  • Shipped out as a crew member on a Swedish freighter; joined the crew of a windjammer in the Bahamas
  • Returned to NYC; created ceramic murals
  • Began running away from home at age five
  • Returned to New York; attended military school
  • Appeared as an extra in a Lee Marvin movie while in the Yuma, Arizona county jail; earned five dollars
  • Joined Boston Opera Company as a mime; appeared in Schoenberg's first US production of "Moses and Aaron"
  • Raised by his grandmother for the first couple of years of his life
  • Arrested for vagrancy on numerous occasions beginning at age 16
  • Returned to New York as a young man; studied at the Actors Studio
  • Spent two years in the Merchant Marine
  • Learned to read at age 30, while starring in an off-off-Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's sea plays

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