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Lance Henriksen

Lance Henriksen

12 films · 790 frames · top-billed in 5 · 19842020

Born 5 May 1940 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Lance Henriksen is an American actor and artist. He is best known to film and television audiences for his roles in science fiction, action, and horror films such as The Terminator, the Alien film franchise, and the television show Millennium. Henriksen is also a voice actor, noted for his deep, commanding voice.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 790 frames · top-billed in 5 · 19842020

  • Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor

How their films are shot

Measured across 790 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lance takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 12 films we hold, 62% of their frames are night, 58% low key — the look of the work Lance takes.

Time of day

Night62%
Day25%
Interior8%

Lighting

Low key58%
Natural27%
High key7%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium38%
Closeup35%
Wide14%
Establishing7%

Camera angle

Eye level79%
Low angle12%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral42%
Tense32%
Ominous13%
Lonely7%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 790 frames from Lance Henriksen's 12 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.