Lance James Henriksen (born May 5, 1940; 83 years old) is an American actor and artist best known to film and television audiences for frequent collaboration with James Cameron, as well as his roles in science fiction, action, and horror films such as Bishop and the Weyland family members in the Alien film franchise, and on television shows such as Millennium. Henriksen is also a voice actor, notably having voiced Kerchak the gorilla in Disney's Tarzan.
Jess Harley's human appearance was based on Henriksen.
Ryan Brown has cited Henriksen as his inspiration for the design of Jess Harley, the version of Leatherhead in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures by Archie Comics, having named the character after two separate movie characters Henriksen played: Jesse Hooker in Near Dark (1987), and Ed Harley in Pumpkinhead (1988). Henriksen would himself later become involved in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise by providing the voice of an altogether different character, Zog in the 2012 TV series.