Brad Dourif

Brad Dourif as Wormtongue in New Line's The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers - 2002

Biography

Born 03/18/1950

This thin-approaching-gaunt actor with a receding hairline rose to prominence as the stuttering, frail Billy Bibbit in Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), and has gone on to play a variety of both tormented characters and spine-chilling evil ones. Brad Dourif arrived in NYC...
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Awards

  • In 1976, received BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • In 1975, received Golden Globe Award for Best Acting Debut (Male)

Highlights

  • In 2004, Featured as Doc Cochran in the HBO drama "Deadwood"; earned an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for 2004
  • In 2004, Reprised his role as the voice of Chucky in "Seed of Chucky"
  • In 2003, Appeared in the "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" the last of the three part series

Family & Companions

  • grandparents: operated a color factory in West Virginia
  • father: died when Dourif was three
  • Joan Dourif: mother (remarried)

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