Want to Meet Brad Dourif?

You are in luck, Brad Dourif will be at the Mad Monster Party in Charlotte, NC this March. If that doesn’t make you happy then you may not be familiar with Brad Dourif. Stay tuned for the next few minutes and you will be more familiar. I’m going to dive in and out of horror since Mr. Dourif does all types of films. So lets jump in the way back machine and go back to 1975. There was a movie that most of us have either seen or heard about called One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I wasn’t able to see this in the theater because it would have been over my head at one year old. Brad Dourif played Billy Bibbit along side some incredible actors including Jack Nicholson, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Michael Berryman (also appearing at The Mad Monster Party) and Vincent Schiavelli. For his role, Mr. Dourif earned the Golden Globe for Best Actor Debut and a British Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. One interesting fact is that it was not his debut. He was in a low budget film called “Split” (which wasn’t released) and in W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings. His part was cut out of the film though.

What else did Brad Dourif do?

Other Brad Dourif films

We won’t name all the films Mr. Dourif has been in because that’s what IMDB is for. In fact, he has 143 credits under acting alone. Here are a few that you may recognize: Ragtime, Dune, Istanbul, Blue Velvet, The Hitchhiker (television series), Mississippi Burning, Jungle Fever, Murder in the First, among many others. He also starred as Doc Cochran in the TV series Deadwood. Brad Dourif may be most well known roles in a little film that a lot of people haven’t heard of called The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Of course he played Grima Wormtongue in The Return of the King as well.

Now it’s time for the horror! I would imagine Mr. Dourif’s voice being used for a toy that kills is what many of you will know him for the most. If you remember Child’s Play from 1988, then you’ve heard his voice of Chucky. He did the voice in all the Child’s Play movies including Child’s Play 2, Child’s Play 3 (didn’t see that coming did you?), Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky and I’ve read that he may be the voice of the Child’s Play remake. He played the Gemini Killer in The Exorcist III. He was also in Body Parts with Jeff Fahey. Other horror films include Critters 4, Alien: Resurrection, and The Prophecy 3: The Ascent. Fan or not, he was in Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II where Mr. Dourif played Sheriff Lee Brackett.

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