Please welcome Lance Henriksen, a legendary actor with plenty of horror credits, to the Washington State Horror Con from October 25th through the 27th in Puyallup. Lance has amassed over 250 movie and television credits across his six decades of acting including our favorite Bishop from the Aliens franchise.
One of his first film appearances was as an FBI agent in Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon, followed by parts in Lumet’s Network and Prince of the City. He then appeared in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind with Richard Dreyfuss and François Truffaut, Damien: Omen II and in Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff, in which he played Mercury astronaut Capt. Wally Schirra. Lance was John Milton in Scream 3 and Ed Harley in Pumpkinhead.
James Cameron cast Henriksen in his first directorial effort, Piranha II: The Spawning, then used him again in The Terminator and as the android Bishop in the sci-fi classic Aliens. Sam Raimi cast Henriksen as an outrageously garbed gunfighter in his quirky western The Quick and the Dead. Henriksen has also appeared in what has developed into a cult classic: Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark, in which he plays the head of a clan of murderous redneck vampires. He was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in the TNT original film The Day Lincoln Was Shot.
He played “Awful Knoffel” in the TNT original movie Evel Knievel based on the life of the famed daredevil. Henriksen starred for three seasons (1996-1999) on Millennium, Fox-TV’s critically acclaimed series created by Chris Carter (The X-Files). His performance as Frank Black, a retired FBI agent who has the ability to get inside the minds of killers, landed him three consecutive Golden Globe nominations for “Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Drama Series”.
