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| Born | Lance James Henriksen May 5, 1940 New York City, New York | ||||
| Characters played | Grim Reaper | ||||
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Lance James Henriksen (born May 5, 1940) is an actor who plays Grim Reaper on The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Biography[]
He appeared in The Terminator along with Paul Winfield and Earl Boen. He was originally cast as the title character before Arnold Schwarzenegger was cast. He then took the role of Detective Hal Vukovich.
He is most famous for playing the android Bishop in Aliens and Alien 3, the latter also playing a second android Bishop II. As a tribute to the role, he was cast as Charles Bishop Weyland in the prequel film Alien vs. Predator. He and actor Bill Paxton have the distinction of being killed by a Terminator, Predator, and Alien. He voiced Charles for the video game Alien vs. Predator that tied into the film and Bishop for Aliens: Colonial Marines.
He played Ed Harley in the cult classic Pumpkinhead reprising the role for Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes and Pumpkinhead 4: Blood Feud. He played Admiral Steven Hackett in the video games Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. He voiced the main antagonist General Shepherd in the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Other notable works include the The Outsider, It Ain't Easy, To Kill the King, Dog Day Afternoon, Mansion of the Doomed, Network, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Damien: Omen II, The Visitor, Ryan's Hope, The Dark End of the Street, Prince of the City, Piranha II: The Spawning, The Right Stuff, The A-Team, Legman, Cagney & Lacey, Hardcastle and McCormick, Jagged Edge, Choke Canyon, Survival Quest, The Horror Show, Johnny Handsome, Beauty and the Beast, The Last Samurai, The Pit and the Pendulum, Comrade in Arms, Tales from the Crypt, Jennifer 8, Excessive Force, Super Mario Bros., Knights, The Outfit, Hard Target, The Criminal Mind, Man's Best Friend, Color of Night, The Quick and the Dead, The Nature of the Beast, Dead Man, The Ripper, Powder, Profile for Murder, The Day Lincoln Was Shot, Millennium, Walt Disney Animation Studios's Tarzan, The X-Files, Scream 3, The Legend of Tarzan, The Mangler 2, Untold, Red Faction II, Invitation, Dream Warrior, Static Shock, Madhouse, Evel Knievel, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Tarzan 2: The Legend Begins, Into the West, Hellraiser: Hellworld, When a Stranger Calls, The Garden, Abominable, The Da Vinci Treasure, Superman: Brainiac Attacks, Pirates of Treasure Island, Sasquatch Mountain, Bone Dry, Ways of the Heart, The Chosen One, Pistol Whipped, Dying God, Dark Reel, Appaloosa, Alone in the Dark 2, Transformers Animated: The Game, House, Necessary Evil, The Slammin' Salmon, NCIS, Transformers Animated, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Jennifer's Body, The Penitent Man, Godkiller: Walk Among Us, The Lost Tribe, The Genesis Code, Castle, Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen, Good Day for It, The Witches of Oz, Memphis Beat, The Dog Who Saved Halloween, Dorothy and the Witches of Oz, Star Wars: The Old Republic, It's in the Blood, Astronaut: The Last Push, The Legend of Korra, TRON: Uprising, Phantom, Gingerclown, Alien Rising, The Book of Daniel, House at the End of the Drive, Road to Paloma, Dark Awakening, Hollows Grove, Paranormal Island, Harbinger Down, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Kids vs Monsters, All Hail King Julien, Grey's Anatomy, Criminal Minds, Cut to the Chase, American Dad!, After the Sun Fell, Gehenna: Where Death Lives, Legends of Tomorrow, Into the Badlands, Mom and Dad, This Old Machine, The Blacklist, The Machine, Gone Are The Days, Big Legend, Mimesis Nosferatu, Cliffs of Freedom, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet, New Looney Tunes, Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, Better Things, The Unhealer, A Place Among the Dead, The Dead of Night, Alpha Rift, Vote for Santa, The Edge of Her Mind Anthology, and The Quarry.