Actor: Lance Henriksen

Lance Henriksen learned to read as an adult, having been functionally illiterate into his thirties, and taught himself using scripts.

Aliens gives him Bishop, an android whose decency contrasts with the corporate humans around him, and the knife trick was performed with a hand double for the actual blade only.

The Terminator, Near Dark and Millennium fill out a long career, and he is a serious ceramic artist whose work has been exhibited.