# Your favorite movie/TV henchmen

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**Created:** [May 19, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506 "2021-05-19T21:14:19Z")\
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> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#):
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> I agree. Another Peter Falk role, “Joy Boy” as a henchman to Glenn Ford in _Pocketful of Miracles 1961_ . He does the character perfectly.

This is one of my favorite movies. Though he’d had TV exposure this was Falk’s first major movie role. Perhaps less noticed than Ann-Margret’s first acting gig.

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> [@Tripler](#):
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> [Al Leong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Leong) makes the list for his Christmas hench and because, well . . . Ho ho ho, now I have a machine gun _ **and** _ a Snickers bar.

Props for style too. He’s wearing leather pants in Die Hard.

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He’s more of a mook in that movie, though. The real henchman is [Alexander Godunov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Godunov) as Karl.

[![](https://www.tactical-life.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2016/12/dh16-steyraug.jpg) ](https://www.tactical-life.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2016/12/dh16-steyraug.jpg)

[https://smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital/theprovince/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/die-hard-karl.jpg](https://smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital/theprovince/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/die-hard-karl.jpg)

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**Post date:** [June 3, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506/84 "2021-06-03T17:13:18Z")

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It doesn’t look like anyone’s mentioned **Pinky** , of _Pinky and the Brain_.

> **The Brain:**  
> Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?  
> **Pinky:**  
> I think so Brain, but Zero Mostel times anything will still give you Zero Mostel.

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