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 act in Kinison's "Outlaws of Comedy." It was at the Comedy Store where Henderson began a career as a comedy writer, creating often uncredited material for many well-known comics, and as an occasional contributing joke writer to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). In 1991, Henderson became associated with comic actor Andy Dick and has since written, performed, and collaborated with Dick on many projects, including The Andy Dick Show (2001), Division III: Football's Finest (2011), and countless podcasts and live musical comedy performances at clubs and colleges across America. As a performer, Paul Henderson specializes in dialects, impressions, and twisted characterizations. He is also an accomplished singer and writer of songs in a wide variety of musical genres, usually choosing to showcase these talents under his pseudonym The Guise. As of (2022) Paul Henderson lives in Los Angeles and is writing and developing several upcoming film and television projects.
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Biography from TMDB.
- September 10, 1967 (59)
- Augusta - Georgia - USA
- Actor, composer and writer
- 5 on MovieCove · 7 credits in all
Known for
What are Paul Henderson's films like?
Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Society.
What they feel like to watch
A split, not a type: Ironic 2 · Wry 0 · Earnest 1
Light 2 · Serious 1 · Dark 0
Grounded 1 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 1 · Intense 1
Steady 1 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 3
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 0 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 3 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 0
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Paul Henderson's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Paul Henderson's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
7 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Hitchcock(2012)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
Street Vengeance (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
Mississippi Burning(1988)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Crazy Swedish Holidays in Paris (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)
Career shape
Star power in the 6th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 7 titles from 1980 to 2012.
Film career
- 2011Screen debut· Division III: Football's Finest
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Paul Henderson's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 56th percentile, the median of all 5; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 23rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 5 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed2
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Paul Henderson work with?
People who share at least 2 of Paul Henderson's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Andy Dick shares the most, 2.
Writers
- Andy DickShared titles: Division III: Football's Finest (2011), Danny Roane: First Time Director (2006)See all 2 shared titles with Andy Dick
Actors
- Mo CollinsShared titles: Division III: Football's Finest (2011), Danny Roane: First Time Director (2006)See all 2 shared titles with Mo Collins
Producers
- Marshall CookShared titles: Division III: Football's Finest (2011), Danny Roane: First Time Director (2006)See all 2 shared titles with Marshall Cook
