# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/41 "2021-05-21T05:20:47Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > But I forget on who’s authority he was henching for. . . I had to look it up, it’s a russian oligarch named Gretkov, played by the guy who was Rasputin in Hellboy. Who could be on this list, except I guess he is more like the “Big Bad” rather than henchman. The Bourne movies generally had great casting for the villains. Apart from Urban my favorite were Chris Cooper as Conklin in Identity, but again, more henchman-employer than henchman. Martin Csokas has a small but memorable appearance in Supremacy as another former super-agent who is captured by Bourne, but almost gains the upper hand after an extremely intense fight in a small apartment. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/42 "2021-05-21T07:03:44Z")
In _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_, Damar starts off as a henchman of the main antagonist Dukat, but later takes a more prominent role after Dukat goes off the rails, and finally gets a noble and uplifting redemption arc encompassing the end of the series. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/43 "2021-05-21T12:26:13Z")
Damar is fantastic. If you can extend your definition of henchman down to the level of mook, you should pay attention to the bit-part bad guys in movies written by Shane Black. He always gives us fun mooks. Case in point, the guy in Iron Man 3 who immediately surrenders to Tony, saying, “I always hated working here, these guys are so weird!” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/44 "2021-05-21T14:44:29Z")
[Anthony James](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0416279/). I have only seen a fraction of [Sid Haig’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Haig) work. Was he more often cast as a henchman, or as a mastermind? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/45 "2021-05-21T14:53:46Z")
I always liked the dynamic between Antoinette and Dr. Loveless on, “The Wild Wild West,” but it was tough to not let my mind wander to a darker place, IYKWIM. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/46 "2021-05-21T16:48:10Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > I **did** see _Sexy Beast_ , and remember Ben Kingsley but wasn’t he the main villain? I thought the main villain was ‘Teddy Bass’ ( Ian McShane ). Don Logan was there ( to recruit Gal in Spain ) at Bass’ behest. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/47 "2021-05-21T17:11:18Z")
Dwight Schrute ---
**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 21, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/48 "2021-05-21T17:13:56Z")
Also _Pale Rider_: [John Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Russell_(actor)) as Marshal Stockburn, henchman-for-hire who steps in after Club fails. [![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bs7aaiO8zmM/VEbGC4f1ORI/AAAAAAAAClU/XLj59rLf2OQ/s1600/large%2Bpale%2Brider%2Bblu-ray9.jpg) ](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bs7aaiO8zmM/VEbGC4f1ORI/AAAAAAAAClU/XLj59rLf2OQ/s1600/large%2Bpale%2Brider%2Bblu-ray9.jpg) Stockburn and his deputies enforce whatever they’re paid to, legal or not. ---
**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, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/49 "2021-05-21T20:43:10Z")
It’s been so long since I saw the movie, I couldn’t recall who was in it anymore. I’ll have to add this to the ‘movie binge list.’ @Skywatcher, thats a solid picture–thank you! Now I _ **have** _ to watch _Pale Rider._ Tripler I also need to get home to update my list. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/50 "2021-05-21T22:43:48Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > [Anthony James](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0416279/). … [in the role he was born to play – pushing a casket at Bette Davis.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074258/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/51 "2021-05-22T00:39:08Z")
In _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_, Tuco (Eli Wallach) spends some time working with Blondie (Clint Eastwood) running some scams. Wallach is fucking awesome, and completely owns that movie, so I don’t really see him as a henchman. But if he was a henchman, he’d be the best one ever. Similarly for Angel (Stuart Margolin) on _The Rockford Files_. For one thing, I don’t know if good guys have henchmen. Rockford spent about half his time on the wrong side of the law, and he could usually twist Angel’s arm enough to get him to come along. So, again, I don’t know if Margolin was a henchman, but whatever he was, he was great at it. ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/52 "2021-05-22T00:44:16Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > For one thing, I don’t know if good guys have henchmen. Yes, yes they do. [Nodwick](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicStrip/Nodwick), for example. [Butt-Monkey]_([https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButtMonkey](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButtMonkey)): Nodwick, whose job description involves carrying extreme weights, suffering abuse, and being completely expendable. To put this in perspective,_ _Nodwick is hired ostensibly to provide someone who can carry things. However, the less morally constrained members of his party put him to other use:_ _It was Yeagar. who pioneered many of the techniques in henchman use that adventuring parties use today. Far from relying on hirelings as mere human shields, he demonstrated their employ as projectiles, bait, door-jammers, and flotation devices._ ---
**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 22, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/53 "2021-05-22T03:02:47Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I don’t know if good guys have henchmen. They do according _Inspector Gadget_. [https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/inspector\_gadget\_2.jpg](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/inspector_gadget_2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/54 "2021-05-22T03:22:53Z")
That was cool! ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/55 "2021-05-22T14:02:34Z")
Bugsy, of Rocky and Bugsy (Bugs and Thugs) fame. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/56 "2021-05-22T14:11:46Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > That was cool! I got lucky: didn’t realize there was a boffo trailer to be viewed until after I posted; thought it was just a clip and the 6 or 7 of us who’ve seen **Burnt Offerings** would just say, _Yeah, Anthony James, I remember him as the Chauffeur. Creepy_. Thanks, IMDb. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/57 "2021-05-22T19:11:06Z")
Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo in **Tombstone** , and his counterpart Val Kilmer as Doc. Collin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes in **In Brugges**. Humphrey Bogart in **Treasure of the Sierra Madres**. Edward G. Robinson in **Key Largo**. ---
**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 22, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/58 "2021-05-22T21:21:21Z")
I always liked Christopher George in **El Dorado**. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/K-91gVHQFow/hqdefault.jpg "El Dorado (1966) Knife Scene - Mississippi/James Caan - HD 1080p") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-91gVHQFow) “It shouldn’t have taken four of you, Charley.” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/59 "2021-05-22T21:35:16Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Collin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes in **In Brugges**. That’s one of my favorite movies (though with one fewer “g” 😉 ), and while Farrell’s and Gleason’s characters are absolutely henchmen, Fiennes’ character is a crime boss, and thus, not henchy, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/60 "2021-05-22T21:42:55Z")
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