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May 5, 1940. NYC, New York, U.S.A. Occupation. Actor, painter, potter. Lance James Henriksen is an American actor. Filmography in Terminator franchise. The Terminator. Hal Vukovich. Note. He, along with Bill Paxton, are often cited as actors who have played characters that have been killed by a Terminator, an Alien, and a Predator.
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He also appeared as Hal Vukovich in The Terminator (1984), Ed Harley in the cult horror film Pumpkinhead (1988), Chains Cooper in Stone Cold (1991), and Emil Fouchon in Hard Target (1993). Early life. Henriksen was born on May 5, 1940, in Manhattan, New York.
Vukovich is a detective who interviews Kyle Reese, a time traveler from the future, and Sarah Connor, the target of a cyborg assassin. He is skeptical of their stories and dismissive of their warnings, until he sees the cyborg's bullet-proof vest and the phone book killer's scar.
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Lance Henriksen is a versatile actor who has appeared in films such as The Terminator, Aliens, and Near Dark. He also played Frank Black in the TV series Millennium and has been nominated for several awards.
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- The idea for The Terminator started with a fever dream. James Cameron had a tumultuous experience making his directorial debut in 1981’s Piranha II: The Spawning, but as he once put it, sometimes “nightmares are a business asset.”
- But Harlan Ellison later successfully won an out-of-court settlement over the concept. According to Ellison, The Terminator was a “ripoff” of an episode of The Outer Limits he had written in 1964 titled “Soldier,” itself an adaptation of his 1957 short story “Soldier From Tomorrow.”
- James Cameron sold the script of The Terminator for $1. There would never have been any lawsuits if James Cameron didn’t take a lot of risks to get the movie made in the first place.
- Lance Henriksen was the first actor to dress as a Terminator. Before James Cameron arrived at a pitch meeting with Hemdale Film Corporation producers, actor Lance Henriksen made an impression by kicking open the door and acting as the title character while wearing a leather jacket with gold foil affixed to his teeth.
May 5, 2023 · Both iconic, sci-fi classics: The Terminator (1984), where Henriksen was famously the first choice to play the killer cyborg, and Aliens (1986), where the actor created the enduring fan-favorite character of Bishop.
Hal Vukovich was portrayed by Lance Henriksen, who was reportedly James Cameron's original choice to play the Terminator. There is no solid, explicit evidence that Vukovich was killed during the shootout at the West Highland Police Station, which would of course, make him one of the seventeen killed.
