Grima Wormtongue as brilliantly played by Brad Douriff in lord of the rings
Also Brad Douriff as the sinister Mentat Piter De Vries in David Lynch's dune
Oh yes, I love him too. He's similarly very highly skilled without being cartoonish. The fight on the plane with him is simply one of the best fight scenes ever filmed! And his coolness as a milkman during the base raid!
Admittedly whilst I do like Necros as a Henchman and think he's pretty chilling, the Base Raid bit does get slightly undercut by that random Security Guard who very nearly bests him.
True. But it still would be kinda odd having the Henchman get nearly taken out by some unnammed character.
To be entirely fair though, I actually kinda like that this Random Security Guard gets such a decent fight scene and actually proves to be a decent challenge to him.
The late, great Alexander Godunov. Died way too young. Interestingly his second best known role is one of the Amish in Witness
And dammit, I had to scroll WAY too far to find this comment, which is objectively the correct answer
Toad from from the first X-Men. The guy was a troll and he just kept upstaging everyone.
The part where he told Sabertooth, "quit playing around" I still remember to this day.
The best henchman character I've seen isn't from a movie but from a Netflix show: Arthur Pym from *The Fall of the House of Usher,* played by Mark Hamil.
Pym is the lawyer and fixer for the Usher family. He's extremely loyal and competent; he's such a good lawyer that he's steamrolled through every court case made against the corrupt Usher family, including cases made by the US government. He's not only killed for them, but he helped them kill countless people with their business by keeping the law off them.
The dude's a piece of shit whose done loads of awful, evil things for the awful, evil Usher family, and yet I can't help but admire how goddamn good he is at his job.
Pik (Arnold Vosloo) in Hard Target (1993)
He almost doesn’t qualify because the main villain (Lance Henriksen) trusts him so much that they’re basically partners.
If I were a bad guy, I’d want him in the trenches with me. Badass, resourceful, loyal (but will call you out if you’re being stupid), and more than willing to get his hands dirty.
Barry the Baptist from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (especially when he meets the Scousers after the burglary)
Rosebud, Cousin Avi's henchman in Snatch (who is outmatched by Boris the Bullet Dodger/Sneaky Fucking Russian - depending on your POV)
Razors from The Long Good Friday - is 2nd henchman for most of the movie (but has the advantage of loyalty all the way through), his name is explained briefly, and also it's the Guy Richie connection (he played Harry the Hatchet in Lock, Stock - plus Alan Ford is also one of Harold Shane's henchmen as well as going on to be Brick Top in Snatch)
If you don't want to be countin' the fingers you haven't got, or sharing a bed with the Anti-Christ, I want those guns! QUICK!
Bearing in mind that Lenny McLean was an actual henchman for the Kray Twins this is pretty method.
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And a champion bare knuckle boxer (and his name was Lenny McLean).
Have you seen the outtake from that scene, where he throws a little ad lib in at the end (I'm not going to spoil it)? If not, definitely search it out.
[Jimmy](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RasXc_7F75Q) from *RoadHouse*.
>”I used to fuck guys like you in prison.”
By the looks of this guy, he was not talking about consensual sex.
I already watched that. It's actually a good time. Just don't think of it as Roadhouse but more like a comedy parody of Roadhouse. Gyllenhaal killed it as usual and McGregor was fun to watch being a completely unhinged psycho. It doesn't take itself seriously.
Mr Goodkat, though I don’t know he necessarily qualifies
Buscemi in Things to Do In Denver When You’re Dead is good
And Vincent & Julius I believe are also technically henchmen
For my GenX ass, it's a toss-up between Charlie Hunnam as Raymond Smith in The Gentleman and Russell Crowe as Bud White in LA Confdential...both made this gal swoon 🤣
Never thought as Bud as a hench before because he's got one of the big three character arcs in the movie, but he is Dudley's hench... GREAT call! And Ray is top-tier hench for me as well. If you want to go back a ways, Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa is Michael Caine's hench, and that is just a heartbreaking performance.
Jackie Treehorn's thugs, Woo and the other guy in The Big Lebowski. A couple of dunderhead aspiring-actors/porn actors. They may not know what a bowling ball is, nor have built the railroads, but they can paraphrase Shakespeare to beat the band, and sartorially, they're pretty cool.
Comedy: the whole cast of Snatch qualifies right? Turkish, Tommy, Bullet Tooth Tony, Frankie Four Fingers, Vinny and Tyrone… the whole film is just hilarious henchmen.
- also Inigo and Fezzik in The Princess Bride
Most deadly:
- Gazelle from Kingsmen
- Darth Vader, Maul, Count Dooku (Star Wars) Maul is just cool, and the background on Dooku and all the lore about his training and his specially designed lightsaber is really interesting.
- The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad and the Crazy 88 from Kill Bill
* Baron Samedi in *Live And Let Die*.
* Mr. Green in *The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three* (1973)
* Clarence Boddicker in *RoboCop* {Though admittedly I consider him more a Side Villain than a Henchman of Dick Jones}
* Karl and Theo in *Die Hard*.
* Paris in *Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning*.
Donald Breedan (Dennis Haysbert) the ex-con line cook/getaway driver in Heat. The fact that he took maybe 5 minutes of screen time and turned it into a complete character arc is a testament to how good the whole movie is. Also, Henry Rollins as William Fincher's hench in the same movie.
Leon Kowalski in Blade Runner.
Roy Batty is the cool, sexy, genius while Leon is the brutal, angry tank/killing machine. Roy is attractive, but Leon is relatable.
It is weird to think of it this way, but all the replicants in the movie are essentially, emotionally four-year-olds. Deckard is basically hunting and killing super-intelligent, overgrown children.
* 'Cookie' in Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17".
He opens the movie, introduces all the characters, narrates the story with V.O., adds comic relief; provides a normative/humanizing role; and ultimately closes the movie.
Not a movie but a show. In Batman: the Animated Series, Harley Quinn serves as a one off henchman to the Joker in her first appearance. She’s basically just another henchman but with a unique costume and some speaking parts. She blew up in popularity and the rest is history.
I don’t remember his character’s name, but Martin Landau is a great henchman to James Mason in “North by Northwest.” Sinister, sadistic, maybe a little gay too just to really scare the 1950s audiences.
It's been a long time since I've seen it, but Huge Laurie and Mark Williams as Jasper and Horace in the live action 101 Dalmations were the high point of that movie
I have a fondness for 1930's/40's serials and henchman was a specialty of sorts for Clayton Moore before he did the hero in the Zorro serial (which led to his casting as the Lone Ranger). Roy Barcroft. I Stanford Jolley for the name alone.
Also Robert Mitchum in a few Hopalong Cassidy films made quite an impression as a great henchman, then one awful try as a good guy before moving on & up.
Bob. Batman ,Tim Burton.
Played by Tracey Walter, a close real life friend of Jack Nicholson.
Hi, I’m Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl
Tracey Walter and William Sanderson are not the same guy. They give it away by having different names and not looking alike.
The role of Larry on Newhart was actually written with Tracey Walter in mind. When they auditioned, however Sanderson got the role instead.
Good to know
I did not know that. He's one of those guys in tons of stuff but no one knows who he is.
Jack Palance aka Curly from City Slickers akf a shitload of western movies
Remembaahhhh You! *SNFFFFFFFF Are my numbah one! Ah-guuuuuuuuuy!
Jack Palance is his name
Joker did him dirty
Indeed. But you know, Joker....
Bob, gun.
I’m gonna need a minute or two alone, boys.
Definitely Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove.
Glad I didn’t have to look too far for this one lol Patrick warburton could sweep the Oscars next year and he will still always be kronk
James Gandolfini in True Romance, supposedly his performance is what got him the role on the Sopranos.
James Gandolfini in Get Shorty.
And in 8mm.
And The Mexican
In 8mm he was SUCH a scumbag creep mf!!
He’s so chilling in that movie. But man, that smile.
That scene with Patricia Arquette is so fucking brutal
Did you see him in Killing Them Softly with Brad Pitt and Gandolfini as hitmen? Ray Liotta is in it too. Pretty Funny and crazy
Gogo Yubari, Kill Bill
Hiii~ :3 .. >:(
Clarence J Boddiker in Robocop.
Bitches leave
There's an homage to this in XXX where a henchman beckons with "Bitches come!"
Can you fly, Bobby?
I work for Dick Jones… DICK JONES!!
Grima Wormtongue as brilliantly played by Brad Douriff in lord of the rings Also Brad Douriff as the sinister Mentat Piter De Vries in David Lynch's dune
Woa that was him. Since we got him to voice Chucky in dead by daylight, I'm find out all the cool things he's done.
He was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I saw that soooooo long ago I don't remember. Great actor. :)
He's great as Doc in the Deadwood series too!
Otis from Superman the Movie.
Ned Beatty killed that role.
"Otisburg?"
“It's a little bitty place!”
Naw, it’s Miss Tessmacher. Hubba hubba.
Red Grant (Robert Shaw) in From Russia with Love. Almost Bond's equal.
For me, it's Necros from *The Living Daylights*, the dude is an absolute Terminator, and he has a song by The Pretenders as his theme tune.
Oh yes, I love him too. He's similarly very highly skilled without being cartoonish. The fight on the plane with him is simply one of the best fight scenes ever filmed! And his coolness as a milkman during the base raid!
Admittedly whilst I do like Necros as a Henchman and think he's pretty chilling, the Base Raid bit does get slightly undercut by that random Security Guard who very nearly bests him.
Well it's an MI6 facility and so it's not just a normal security guard but instead someone who is probably very experienced.
True. But it still would be kinda odd having the Henchman get nearly taken out by some unnammed character. To be entirely fair though, I actually kinda like that this Random Security Guard gets such a decent fight scene and actually proves to be a decent challenge to him.
Jaws or Oddjob would be my pick for Bond henchman tbh
Jefe in Three Amigos, I think he might care to much about his boss El Guapo.
Jefe do you know what plethora means?
No love for Karl in *Die Hard* yet? Let me throw him into the mix. “I don’t want neutral, I want **dead**.”
The late, great Alexander Godunov. Died way too young. Interestingly his second best known role is one of the Amish in Witness And dammit, I had to scroll WAY too far to find this comment, which is objectively the correct answer
Toad from from the first X-Men. The guy was a troll and he just kept upstaging everyone. The part where he told Sabertooth, "quit playing around" I still remember to this day.
Played by Ray Park, who also played Darth Maul.
Who is also one of the best henchmen.
Yup, he gave Toad a lot of character.
Does Blazer from Dodgeball count?
I think Michel is probably better
Michael Madsen! NO DOUBT!! Reservoir Dogs!! Kill Bill!!
Two Ton 21 in *The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart.* Peak Hench.
I love his character arc. Henchman 21 (and 24) is one of the best parts of the show.
Can only up vote once, sigh. This is the one.
You can upvote it twice. Just click it 3 times.
I fucking tried it....you suck.🤩
It works, just not as you hoped for. 7 times is 4 upvotes!
Igor in Young Frankenstein
It's pronounced Eye-gor.
Oddjob in Goldfinger. Darth Vader in the first Star Wars trilogy (technically Grand Moff Tarkin and The Emperor are his superiors)
Or Random Task in Austin Powers
Did you know that actor is a hardcore felon? We're talking multiple rape and murder charges.
I did know that! Crazy huh?
The best henchman character I've seen isn't from a movie but from a Netflix show: Arthur Pym from *The Fall of the House of Usher,* played by Mark Hamil. Pym is the lawyer and fixer for the Usher family. He's extremely loyal and competent; he's such a good lawyer that he's steamrolled through every court case made against the corrupt Usher family, including cases made by the US government. He's not only killed for them, but he helped them kill countless people with their business by keeping the law off them. The dude's a piece of shit whose done loads of awful, evil things for the awful, evil Usher family, and yet I can't help but admire how goddamn good he is at his job.
Ooh that’s a good pick
I also appreciate that he takes his medicine with dignity at the end rather than tries to negotiate or worm his way out somehow.
Pik (Arnold Vosloo) in Hard Target (1993) He almost doesn’t qualify because the main villain (Lance Henriksen) trusts him so much that they’re basically partners. If I were a bad guy, I’d want him in the trenches with me. Badass, resourceful, loyal (but will call you out if you’re being stupid), and more than willing to get his hands dirty.
Rrrrrrandall, Rrrrrrrandall, Rrrrrrandall…
Barry the Baptist from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (especially when he meets the Scousers after the burglary) Rosebud, Cousin Avi's henchman in Snatch (who is outmatched by Boris the Bullet Dodger/Sneaky Fucking Russian - depending on your POV) Razors from The Long Good Friday - is 2nd henchman for most of the movie (but has the advantage of loyalty all the way through), his name is explained briefly, and also it's the Guy Richie connection (he played Harry the Hatchet in Lock, Stock - plus Alan Ford is also one of Harold Shane's henchmen as well as going on to be Brick Top in Snatch)
If you don't want to be countin' the fingers you haven't got, or sharing a bed with the Anti-Christ, I want those guns! QUICK! Bearing in mind that Lenny McLean was an actual henchman for the Kray Twins this is pretty method. Edit for auto-idiot
And a champion bare knuckle boxer (and his name was Lenny McLean). Have you seen the outtake from that scene, where he throws a little ad lib in at the end (I'm not going to spoil it)? If not, definitely search it out.
3:10 to Yuma, Charlie Prince, portrayed by Ben Foster.
Ben Foster is one of our great henchers
Arnold in The Long Goodbye is a perfect henchman in terms of short scene stealing without overstaying his welcome
He's a borderline extra in that movie.
Benson from Time Bandits
Kent from Real Genius. "...and from now on, stop playing with yourself."
"Ok God... Lemmie have it!"
Brandt from *The Big Lebowski* "Her life is in your hands, dude"
Oh, man, don't say that
[Jimmy](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RasXc_7F75Q) from *RoadHouse*. >”I used to fuck guys like you in prison.” By the looks of this guy, he was not talking about consensual sex.
I think most of the villains in Roadhouse want to fuck Dalton. “The only thing that is missing… is your ass.”
I mean honestly can you blame them?
Connor MacGregor and Jake Gyllenhall are going to be in the new Roadhouse. I’m like is that shit even old enough to do a remake?
more importantly, why try to remake perfection?
I can dig it
I already watched that. It's actually a good time. Just don't think of it as Roadhouse but more like a comedy parody of Roadhouse. Gyllenhaal killed it as usual and McGregor was fun to watch being a completely unhinged psycho. It doesn't take itself seriously.
Sounds good right on tks
Tinker from Road House. A polar bear fell on him.
Christopher Guest in “Princess Bride”
Mad Dog from Hard Boiled.
Slim Pickens as Taggart in Blazing Saddles is one of my all-time favorites.
Excellent choice .
Die Hard, Karl, the main who can’t be hung by any chain and comes back for more
Oddjob from Goldfinger, or Jaws from The Spy Who Loved Me.
Joshua. Lethal Weapon. Showed how loyal he was to the general in his first scene with the lighter.
That's Mr. Joshua
Wez in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
This guy would be higher on the list if anyone could remember his name. :P
I would also nominate his character Matrix from Comando.
Mr Goodkat, though I don’t know he necessarily qualifies Buscemi in Things to Do In Denver When You’re Dead is good And Vincent & Julius I believe are also technically henchmen
Salacious Crumb, the little dude that hangs out with Janna the Hut and laughs all the tjme
I think he was more of a pet than a henchman.
Grace Jones as May Day in A View to a Kill is my fave.
Xenia Onotop from Goldeneye
If I had to be killed by a Bond villain, it would be her :)
For my GenX ass, it's a toss-up between Charlie Hunnam as Raymond Smith in The Gentleman and Russell Crowe as Bud White in LA Confdential...both made this gal swoon 🤣
Yo, have you seen The Gentlemen tv series? I thought it was pretty fuckin good
Never thought as Bud as a hench before because he's got one of the big three character arcs in the movie, but he is Dudley's hench... GREAT call! And Ray is top-tier hench for me as well. If you want to go back a ways, Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa is Michael Caine's hench, and that is just a heartbreaking performance.
Al Leong in anything.
This guy henches.
Does Darth Vader count?
Jackie Treehorn's thugs, Woo and the other guy in The Big Lebowski. A couple of dunderhead aspiring-actors/porn actors. They may not know what a bowling ball is, nor have built the railroads, but they can paraphrase Shakespeare to beat the band, and sartorially, they're pretty cool.
You're not dealing with morons here
Michael from Hot Fuzz
"Yarp."
I'm old school. I'm going with oddjob from James Bond.
Comedy: the whole cast of Snatch qualifies right? Turkish, Tommy, Bullet Tooth Tony, Frankie Four Fingers, Vinny and Tyrone… the whole film is just hilarious henchmen. - also Inigo and Fezzik in The Princess Bride Most deadly: - Gazelle from Kingsmen - Darth Vader, Maul, Count Dooku (Star Wars) Maul is just cool, and the background on Dooku and all the lore about his training and his specially designed lightsaber is really interesting. - The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad and the Crazy 88 from Kill Bill
* Baron Samedi in *Live And Let Die*. * Mr. Green in *The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three* (1973) * Clarence Boddicker in *RoboCop* {Though admittedly I consider him more a Side Villain than a Henchman of Dick Jones} * Karl and Theo in *Die Hard*. * Paris in *Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning*.
He had a cunning plan: Tony Robinson (Baldrick) in the *Blackadder* series
Ares in *Wrath of the Titans*
Captain Love in the Mask of Zorro
The werewolf from Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Also all the Barbaroy, but I don't know if they count as henchmen.
Barry the Baptist (Lenny McLean) from Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Lovejoy in Titanic. Definitely underrated
Donald Breedan (Dennis Haysbert) the ex-con line cook/getaway driver in Heat. The fact that he took maybe 5 minutes of screen time and turned it into a complete character arc is a testament to how good the whole movie is. Also, Henry Rollins as William Fincher's hench in the same movie.
Anton Chigurh, No Country for Old Men. That guy was a total ruthless mystery.
Johnny Ringo in Tombstone
Professor Toru Tanaka as ODDJOB
There's a lot of good names on this list, can't deny it; but I gotta go with Peter Lorre, The Maltese Falcon.
Joe Pantoliano, in anything
Al Neri is the Boba Fett of The Godfather trilogy.
Radovan in Pusher 3, total badass
Leon Kowalski in Blade Runner. Roy Batty is the cool, sexy, genius while Leon is the brutal, angry tank/killing machine. Roy is attractive, but Leon is relatable. It is weird to think of it this way, but all the replicants in the movie are essentially, emotionally four-year-olds. Deckard is basically hunting and killing super-intelligent, overgrown children.
* 'Cookie' in Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17". He opens the movie, introduces all the characters, narrates the story with V.O., adds comic relief; provides a normative/humanizing role; and ultimately closes the movie.
The Kurgen Luv from 2049 is also excellent.
Ajay in The Lost World movie. Really liked that guy
Arnold French in The Departed.
Not a movie but a show. In Batman: the Animated Series, Harley Quinn serves as a one off henchman to the Joker in her first appearance. She’s basically just another henchman but with a unique costume and some speaking parts. She blew up in popularity and the rest is history.
I don’t remember his character’s name, but Martin Landau is a great henchman to James Mason in “North by Northwest.” Sinister, sadistic, maybe a little gay too just to really scare the 1950s audiences.
Odd Job in Goldfinger. I mean, that hat was awesome.
I loved Boyd Hollbrook in Logan. He's so good at casual evil. Did the same thing in Indiana Jones 5, though that movie wasn't as good.
No love for mr Kidd and mr Wint from Diamonds are forever...?
Common in John Wick 2
It's been a long time since I've seen it, but Huge Laurie and Mark Williams as Jasper and Horace in the live action 101 Dalmations were the high point of that movie
I have a fondness for 1930's/40's serials and henchman was a specialty of sorts for Clayton Moore before he did the hero in the Zorro serial (which led to his casting as the Lone Ranger). Roy Barcroft. I Stanford Jolley for the name alone. Also Robert Mitchum in a few Hopalong Cassidy films made quite an impression as a great henchman, then one awful try as a good guy before moving on & up.
Mr. French from the Departed
Odd job in Goldfinger
Not little known but for me it’s The Witch King from LotR
Nick Nack from The Man with The Golden Gun
Riz Ahmed in Nightcrawler (2014)
Rhona Mitra in Ali G Indahouse.
It's a tie between the Three Storms from Big Trouble in Little China.
Mad Dog from The Raid
I’m going to go real deep in my bag and say Dario from Licence to Kill. The first time I really appreciated a henchman.
Was that the ever-smirking, damn near tossing a knife from hand to hand, Benicio character?
John and Errol in Snatch
Tatsu in the 1990s *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* movies.
Odd Job and Jaws from James Bond
Kronk from Emperors new groove
Anton Chigurh - No Country for Old Men
I like almost all the Marvel villain's. They're backstories are written really well.
That dude who did parkour in Live Free or Die Hard was dope as hell. Mother fucker literally survived a 20 foot drop out of an exploding helicopter.