# Your favorite movie/TV henchmen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506 "2021-05-19T21:14:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/21 "2021-05-20T13:02:24Z")
Max in “The Muppet Movie” - henchman to Doc Hopper. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/22 "2021-05-20T13:07:36Z")
[![](http://neverpedia.com/wiki/images/thumb/6/6b/SmeeBobHoskins.jpg/250px-SmeeBobHoskins.jpg) ](http://neverpedia.com/wiki/images/thumb/6/6b/SmeeBobHoskins.jpg/250px-SmeeBobHoskins.jpg) Smee in “Hook” ETA - I guess my picture link isn’t working - http:// neverpedia .com/wiki/images/thumb/6/6b/SmeeBobHoskins.jpg/250px-SmeeBobHoskins.jpg ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/23 "2021-05-20T13:34:12Z")
Furio Giunta from **The Sopranos**. He doesn’t actually make that many appearances in the show but it’s always highly impactful, both literally and figuratively, when he does. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/24 "2021-05-20T13:45:14Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > [Richard Kiel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kiel) who was “Jaws” in _Moonraker_ . That was the first thing that popped up in my mind. A guy born to play the heavy. He sort of took over that role from Ted Cassidy who played Lurch and who played Harvey at the beginning of Butch Cassidy. These aren’t really the best, just big guys, some of the others mentioned accomplish it more with their acting ability. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/25 "2021-05-20T13:48:53Z")
Cruellas’s henchmen, [Jasper and 'orace](https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Jasper_and_Horace) ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/26 "2021-05-20T14:11:10Z")
If we’re expanding to henchmen characters, and animated ones at that, [Shego, Dr. Drakken’s henchperson](https://kimpossible.fandom.com/wiki/Shego) from _Kim Possible_ is my all time favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/27 "2021-05-20T14:11:38Z")
Karl Urban as Kirill in “The Bourne Supremacy”. Had hardly any spoken lines, but was insanely cool, I would say about 750 milliDelon. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/28 "2021-05-20T14:22:16Z")
Kronk! He does his own theme music! And his spinach puffs are to die for. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/km40jvV5lhM/hqdefault.jpg "Emperor's New Groove (7/8) Best Movie Quote - Kronk Mission Impossible (2000)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km40jvV5lhM) ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/29 "2021-05-20T14:24:45Z")
Obviously: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE95y62HjZk) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/30 "2021-05-20T14:47:43Z")
Let us not forget his turn in the Marvel Universe: [https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/thorragnarokskurge.png?resize=768%2C432](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/thorragnarokskurge.png?resize=768%2C432) ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/31 "2021-05-20T15:24:46Z")
For your consideration: Martin Landau in _[North By Northwest](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/North_by_Northwest_movie_trailer_screenshot_(25).jpg)_. [![](https://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/_img/1918-3.jpg) ](https://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/_img/1918-3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/32 "2021-05-20T15:41:51Z")
‘Don Logan’ ( Ben Kingsley ) in the film ‘Sexy Best’. [Sexy Beast (2000)-“Problem?” - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdHuQn2IgRk) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/33 "2021-05-20T15:43:01Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > [Richard Kiel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kiel) who was “Jaws” in _Moonraker_ . Also “Reace” in _Silver Streak_ and “Club” in _Pale Rider_. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KwFm2cDFIvU/hqdefault.jpg "Clint Eastwood vs. Richard Kiel") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwFm2cDFIvU) ---
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Billy Drago as Frank Nitti. [![](https://64.media.tumblr.com/2528fbbdf62d48b5af0c56ce50de8ee2/1efa49d173f9ef15-f7/s2048x3072/9509c9742db6c982332a61b5eda793a705307226.jpg) ](https://64.media.tumblr.com/2528fbbdf62d48b5af0c56ce50de8ee2/1efa49d173f9ef15-f7/s2048x3072/9509c9742db6c982332a61b5eda793a705307226.jpg) ---
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[Henchman 21](https://venturebrothers.fandom.com/wiki/Henchman_21?file=Shot042423.jpg) [An Ode to Henchmen.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4LlA_yunVY) ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/36 "2021-05-20T16:07:46Z")
Slim Pickens had another great bad-guy role as Deputy Lon Dedrick in Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks. More of a sadistic fuck than a henchman, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/37 "2021-05-20T18:58:35Z")
Career henching greats: > **[Timothy Carey - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137046/)** > > Timothy Carey. Actor: The Killing. Timothy Carey had one of the most unusual careers of all Hollywood character actors, obtaining full cult status for his portrayals of the doomed, the psychotic and the plain crazy. Carey's career was an "only in... > **[Skelton Knaggs - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia](https://alchetron.com/Skelton-Knaggs)** > > Skelton Barnaby Knaggs (27 June 1911 30 April 1955) was an English stage actor who also appeared in films, especially in horror films. Knaggs was born in the Hillsborough district of Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Beatrice Ellen... > **[Rondo Hatton - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0369061/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1)** > > Rondo Hatton. Actor: House of Horrors. Was an only child, Rondo Hatton was born to Stewart and Emily Hatton in Hagerstown, Maryland. The family moved to Tampa, Florida, in 1912, when he was a high-school senior, and his father joined a family-owned... > **[Bolo Yeung - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001866/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)** > > Bolo Yeung. Actor: Bloodsport. Bolo Yeung was born in China. He began his martial arts training at the age of 10. Growing up he took an interest in bodybuilding. Later he became know as Chinese Hercules after becoming Mr. Hong Kong bodybuilding... Exceptional henching in one movie: William Bendix – _The Glass Key_ (1942) Bob Steele – _The Big Sleep_ (1946) Richard Widmark – _Kiss of Death_ (1947) Neville Brand – _D.O.A._ (1949) Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman – _The Big Combo_ (1955) Kong Do – _The Battle Wizard_ (1977) Edited from an IMDB review: “…main henchman is a man-beast (played well by Kong Do) with a metallic skull and shooting (lobster) claw hands who likes pretty girls.” Totally awesome flick. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/38 "2021-05-21T00:07:08Z")
Dammit @Chelonaut, I’d forgotten about him! But I forget on who’s authority he was henching for. . . @DCnDC, that’s a good one–it’s been a few years since I’d binged _The Sopranos._ Didn’t that same actor have a part in _Friends_? That might affect his hench-factor. @silenus, who’s that? I’m gonna admit, I’m not a Marvel Universe guy. . . @Baal_Houtham, I gotta watch _North by Northwest_ now. . . But @BrickBat, I **did** see _Sexy Beast_, and remember Ben Kingsley but wasn’t he the main villain? Oooh, Billy Drago’s one that I forgot about–I need to see _Pale Rider_ too. Tripler Updated list forthcoming. . . ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/39 "2021-05-21T00:25:50Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > @silenus, who’s that? I’m gonna admit, I’m not a Marvel Universe guy. . . [Skurge](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Skurge_(Earth-616)) One of the many high points of _Thor: Ragnarok_. Hel’s right-hand hench. ---
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