“When things get magical, there’s no comparison.”
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Brad Dourif
Bradford Claude Dourif is an American actor. He is known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), portraying Gríma Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and voicing Chucky in the Child's Play franchise (1988–present).
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entertainment · American actor (born 1950) · actor · character actor · television actor · film actor · voice actor · also Brad Dourif, Dourif
Born 18 March 1950 · Q329734
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And you just live with them for a while. For most of my life, I could pop right out [of character]. But eventually what happened is my ‘shock absorbers’ were gone and stuff would linger. It wasn’t that I was crazy – it was just that the emotional things couldn’t get out of me and some of the horribleness couldn’t … I mean, I played a lot of killers and things, really dark shit, and it was much more difficult for me to get out of – Chucky being the exception.
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2026· 2 entries
“And you just live with them for a while. For most of my life, I could pop right out [of character]. But eventually what happened is my ‘shock absorbers’ were gone and stuff would linger. It wasn’t that I was crazy – it was just that the emotional things couldn’t get out of me and some of the horribleness couldn’t … I mean, I played a lot of killers and things, really dark shit, and it was much more difficult for me to get out of – Chucky being the exception.”
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2025· 1 entry
Made a cameo on The Pitt as Neil McKay, the father of Dr
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2024· 1 entry
Dourif announced that he would be retiring from acting, with the exception of any Chucky-related projects involving the character
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2021· 1 entry
Dourif reprised his role as Chucky in the television series adaptation of the Child's Play franchise titled Chucky
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2013· 2 entries
Dourif reprised his role as Chucky in the sixth installment of the Child's Play franchise, Curse of Chucky, and then again in the 2017 sequel, Cult of Chucky
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After a three-decade absence from the stage, Dourif chose to star alongside Amanda Plummer in the Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play that played to critical acclaim at the New World Stages
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2012· 1 entry
Dourif contributed spoken word vocals to three songs on the album Misery Together by the Norwegian duo Thinguma*jigSaw
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2011· 1 entry
Guest-starred in the third-season finale of Fringe and, in 2014, appeared in the Agents of S
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1994· 1 entry
Appeared in The X-Files episode "Beyond the Sea" as the psychic serial killer Luther Lee Boggs
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1984· 1 entry
Dourif played a suspected serial killer in the episode "Number Eight" of Tales of the Unexpected
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1981· 1 entry
Vincent Canby listed Dourif as one of twelve actors to watch, calling Dourif "one of the most intense, most interesting young film actors of his generation
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1977).
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1969· 1 entry
Taking second place in the 8 mm film category with his 10-minute entry "Blind Date
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1953· 1 entry
His mother married champion golfer William C
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-03-18.
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