Paul Henderson

Biography

Known for his tall, rotund stature, and prolific sense of humor, Paul Henderson is a multi-talented actor, writer, comic, and musician. He began making Super 8mm films at the age of 12, and later performed in Southeastern regional theater and music on the Gulf Coast before being discovered by director Alan Parker, and being cast in the Academy Award-winning Mississippi Burning (1988)

Henderson moved to Los Angeles in 1988, where he began performing stand-up comedy and quickly became a regular performer and doorman at the "World Famous" Comedy Store, on the Sunset Strip. There he met and became friends with comic legends including Sam Kinison, with whom he would go on to work as an opening a...