Mike Henry

Mike Henry was born on Aug 15, 1936 in USA. Mike Henry's big-screen debut came with Curfew Breakers directed by Alexander J. Wells in 1957, strarring Reagan. Mike Henry is known for The Longest Yard directed by Robert Aldrich, Burt Reynolds stars as Paul Crewe and Eddie Albert as Warden Hazen. The upcoming new movie Mike Henry plays is Outrageous Fortune which will be released on Jan 30, 1987.

Michael Dennis Henry was born August 15th, 1936. He was an athletic professional football player at the time he entered the movies. He played for the Pittsburgh Steelers (1958-61) and the Los Angeles Rams (1962-64). During part of that time (1961-64) he was under contract with Warner Brothers and played a variety of bit parts (TV's Surfside 6 (1960), Hawaiian Eye (1959), Cheyenne (1955) & the movie, La montagne des neuf Spencer (1963)). He earned the role of Tarzan when series producer, Sy Weintraub began looking for a "younger Burt Lancaster" type, anticipating not only more Tarzan movies but a TV series as well. Weintraub was a Rams fan and had seen a TV documentary about them called Men from the Boys, produced by and featuring Mike Henry. Mike only made three Tarzan movies. He suffered animal bites, food poisoning, infections, and impossible work schedules in Mexico and especially Brazil. He wound up suing Weintraub for "maltreatment, abuse, and working conditions detrimental to my health and welfare." Just before his second Tarzan release in 1967 he was signed as Sgt. Kowalski in John Wayne's Les bérets verts (1968). He made more movies, including the part of "Junior", as a naive son of Jackie Gleason, with the role of Buford T. Justice! in the Cours après moi shérif (1977) movie set there were three.