With well over 150 films to his name, Lance Henriksen is a Hollywood icon. He’s best known as the empathetic android Bishop in Aliens and the intuitive criminal profiler Frank Black in the TV series Millennium, but he has also played gunfighters, gangsters, an astronaut, a vampire, a sadistic monk, Charles Bronson, and Abraham Lincoln. He’s mentored Tarzan, Evel Knievel, and the Antichrist, and fought Terminators, Aliens, Predators, Pumpkinhead, Pinhead, Bigfoot, Superman, the Autobots, Mr. T, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Steven Seagal. He’s worked with directors James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow, Sidney Lumet, Francois Truffaut, John Huston, Walter Hill, David Fincher, John Woo, Jim Jarmusch, and Sam Raimi… but this is just skimming the surface.
Henriksen is a true artist – a painter, a potter, and a creative collaborator who brings complexity and humanity to all of his work by drawing on real life experiences that are often stranger than fiction. Not Bad for a Human celebrates the actor’s screen persona, film by film, and recounts the chaotic upbringing and early life experiences that shaped him – revealing the man behind the image.
Co-written with celebrated author Joseph Maddrey, Not Bad For a Human was first published in 2011 and quickly garnered acclaim from critics and readers alike. Harker Press is proud to bring the book back into circulation after being out of print for a decade. This new edition features a revised text, additional rare photos, and a new afterword. It is available in paperback, hardcover, and eBook from Amazon.
“A compelling (and moving) tale about Henriksen’s journey toward onscreen success and self-discovery.”
- Alison Nastasi, Rue Morgue
“Illuminating yet down to earth, this portrait of the cult star as a working actor
commands respect—because it’s worthy of it.”
- Tim Lucas, Video Watchdog
“One of the finest autobiographies of a genre actor to come along in quite some time.”
- Brian Solomon, Fangoria
‘[Henriksen] is unique. As is his book’s inspirational effect on the reader.”
- Tim Ferrante, VideoScope
“This is Lance Henriksen unplugged; he’s raw, visceral, truthful and never bullshits. He won’t let you blink.”
- John Soltes, Hollywood Soapbox
“As moving, amusing, and thought provoking as any movie star confessional I’ve read.”
- Phil Beresford, Den of Geek
“Essential reading for those who appreciate both the high and the low forms of cinema.”
- Vern, Seagalogy
“Nothing less than fascinating and nothing short of moving.”
- Chris Hallock, Diabolique
“The best star autobiography I’ve ever read.”
- John Kenneth Muir, Horror Films of the 2010s
“A must for the collection of any sci-fi/horror fan!”
- Max Brooks, World War Z
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Joseph Maddrey is the author of more than a dozen books, including Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (2004); The Soul of Wes Craven (2024); Simply Eliot, a biography of poet T.S. Eliot (2018); two volumes of Adapting Stephen King (2021-2022), and the graphic novel To Hell You Ride (2013). He has written or produced over 100 hours of documentary television, including episodes of Discovery Channel’s A Haunting, History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, Oxygen’s Snapped, and TVOne’s Payback.
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