Educated at Shrewsbury School and McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
In 1988 he produced a musical based on the life of Marcus Garvey which ran
for a short time at the Ward Theatre, Kingston, Jamaica.
The Jamaican premiere of his second film No Place Like Home (2006) , which was discovered
and finished by Henzell almost 30 years after he began filming, took
place the day after his death.