Brad Dourif
Bradford Claude Dourif ( born March 18, 1950 in Huntington, West Virginia ) is an American actor.
Life and work
After a first experience at the school and university stages his birthplace Huntington it drew Brad Dourif to New York, where he was in off-Broadway productions on stage.
His screen debut he experienced in 1975 with a supporting role in a supertype bangs on the drum. He left a lasting impression in the same year in his second film role as Billy Bibbitt in Miloš Forman's film drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was a major popularity boost for him and among other things, a Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actor and an Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor earned.
Since then, Brad Dourif has been in numerous film and television productions before the camera. In the majority of cases he embodied more or less psychopathic characters assessed. Among other things, he took over the roles of Mentaten Pieter de Vries in David Lynch's science fiction film adaptation of Dune - Dune and Grima Wormtongue in Peter Jackson's film trilogy The Lord of the Rings.
In addition, Brad Dourif was in single episodes of the television series Babylon 5, The X-Files - The Files, Star Trek: Voyager and Wild Palms, in Deadwood, he played a starring role. In the U.S., he brought the voice of the killer doll Chucky an additional popularity. In addition Dourif borrowed the Worm Creature in Ginger clown his voice. In 2010, he starred as a psychopathic serial killer in Justin Steele thriller Death and Cremation.
From his now divorced wife, the supposedly psychically gifted Joni Dourif are born 1976, daughter of Kristina and also working as an actress Fiona Dourif ( born 1981 ) emerged.