| # | Quote |
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| 1 | (on getting involved in acting) Well, my mother was an actress. She married my father and moved to West Virginia where my grandfather had built a factory, and that was the end of her career. When I was young, she used to read to us all. She read Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and King Arthur, and a bunch of really good books. She would always become all the characters; I just remember everything was very alive. I really felt I was wherever she said I was; she was very talented. She was in a play, and I went to a rehearsal and I watched her rehearse, she was doing Anastasia. She was incredible, and it just made me want to learn how to act. |
| 2 | (on the difference working on big budget and low budget films) Well, when I'm working well, there's no difference at all, because I don't care. Except, you know, the place you go to after and in between is nicer, a lot of times. Independents can be the best experience of them all, because you know the crew better, you know the cinematographer better, everybody's a lot less pretentious... You have less time, because independents don't have any money, so they shoot very fast. It used to be different, independents used to have nice, long shooting schedules. It was very common; 13 or 14 weeks was a very common shooting schedule. Now six weeks is pretty average, and that's very fast to make a movie. |
| 3 | (on filming Fatal Beauty (1987)) (Director) Tom (Holland) and Whoopi (Goldberg) hated each other, it was a tense set. I've never seen two people hate each other more. I don't think she liked him from the get-go, and second of all Whoopi wanted to do an anti-drug film and that's not what the film was. |
| 4 | (on his acting style) Normally, the way I work is I try to learn everything kind of mechanically, without any feeling, and I let that come as it goes along. That's the way I was taught. After a certain amount of time, you get better and better and better and then it just comes. What you can do unconsciously, when it's an accident and you don't mean to do it, is the best stuff. All (acting) technique is based on when it's not working. |
| 5 | Being a character actor is a very insecure life. You don't always get to do what you want. I guess the reason I've held on is because I love it. |
| 6 | When I take a role, the criteria is feeding my family. That comes first. I have to work with what's available, like everybody else. |
| 7 | (on working with John Huston in Wise Blood (1979)) I was very scared and uncomfortable. I was the lead. I was insecure. I didn't think I could act my way out of a paper bag, you know. Oddly enough, he was the one who left me alone the most. |
| 8 | I couldn't sit through a scary movie myself to save my life. When I was young, I really loved Halloween and I loved to tell spooky stories, but that didn't last. |
| 9 | [To Michael Cimino during post production in Heaven's Gate (1980)] I told Michael, you know man... This thing better be good, because if it isn't, they're gonna kill ya! |
| 10 | There is nothing wrong with horror films. Their existence has definitely had an impact on me. It is important to have scary demons in our world on film. We have them in the world. That is why we are afraid, it is nice to have a visual and to have a confrontation with it. |
| 11 | I am the type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way. |
| 12 | I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles. |
| 13 | I'm a whore. If they have a check and camera and a script and stuff for me to say, I am mostly there, unless I just can't take it. No, really, I do like to work. It just depends on whether there is a whole lot of stuff for me to choose from, because if there is I am choosy. If there's not a lot of work, then I try to find some redeeming value in the parts being offered. If it is awful, then, of course, I can't do it. But I have to say, I am pretty lucky in that there are usually things coming in. That said, sometimes it is slow. |
| 14 | I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing. |
| 15 | I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences. |
| 16 | [on if he prefers to play edgier twisted characters] Well, I've been cast as them... and I like to work, so I take those roles. You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out. |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Parents are Jean Henri Dourif and Joan Mavis Felton. |
| 2 | Has appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). |
| 3 | Has worked with director Werner Herzog in four films: Scream of Stone (1991), The Wild Blue Yonder (2005), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009). |
| 4 | His father was born in France, and was of three quarters French and one quarter English ancestry. His mother was born in New York, to parents from Virginia, who also had English ancestry (including deep colonial American roots). |
| 5 | Moved to Los Angeles, California in 1988. |
| 6 | Attended and graduated from Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado (1968). |
| 7 | Taught acting and directing classes at Columbia University in the City of New York. |
| 8 | Out of all the Child's Play films - Bride of Chucky (1998) is his favorite. |
| 9 | Attended Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia in 1969 but dropped out. |
| 10 | His father, who owned and operated a dye factory, died when Brad was three. |
| 11 | Moved to New York City at age 19 and worked with the Circle Repertory Company, appearing in many off-Broadway and Woodstock, New York productions. |
| 12 | Has appeared with Samuel L. Jackson in four films: Ragtime (1981), The Exorcist III (1990), Jungle Fever (1991) and Amos & Andrew (1993). |
| 13 | Was considered for the role of Max Cady in the remake Cape Fear (1991), which went to Robert De Niro. |
| 14 | Many of his co-stars in the Lord of the Rings trilogy were under the impression that he was actually English because of the British accent he used as Grima Wormtongue throughout filming. As a method actor, he kept the accent even when he was not filming. They were shocked to hear him speak in an American accent after filming was complete. Bernard Hill believed Dourif was speaking in the worst American accent he "had ever heard in [his] life". |
| 15 | Grandchild: Caden Kalani Kahalewai Dourif-Tanoue (born 2001). |
| 16 | Has two daughters: Fiona Dourif and Kristina Dourif Tanoue. |
| 17 | Made five trips to New Zealand while the Lord of the Rings trilogy was being filmed. He had to shave his eyebrows off each time. |
| 18 | Was considered for the role of the Scarecrow in Batman Forever (1995). |
| 19 | Has heard his own movie Dune (1984) described as "science fiction's answer to Heaven's Gate (1980)" (which Dourif also starred in), and he agrees totally with this summation. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Wildling | 2016 | post-production | Daddy |
| Antihuman | 2016 | pre-production | Dr. William Blackmore |
| Cut Off | 2016 | pre-production | Diggs |
| Angelz Landing | pre-production | Andrew Thurman |
| Darknet | pre-production | Max |
| This Shining City | announced | Wally Gibbs (rumored) |
| Rosemont | 2015 | Abe |
| Young Like Us | 2014 | TV Series | Larry |
| The Control Group | 2014 | Dr. Broward |
| Once Upon a Time | 2012-2014 | TV Series | Zoso |
| Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | 2014 | TV Series | Thomas Nash |
| Blood and Guts with Scott Ian | 2013 | TV Series | Chucky |
| Malignant | 2013 | The Man |
| Curse of Chucky | 2013 | Charles Lee Ray / Chucky (voice) |
| Blood Shot | 2013 | Bob |
| Gingerclown | 2013 | Worm Creature |
| Santa Monica | 2013 | Short | Stan |
| End of the World | 2013 | TV Movie | Dr. Walter Brown |
| Criminal Minds | 2012 | TV Series | Adam Rain |
| Dishonored | 2012 | Video Game | Piero Joplin (voice) |
| Wilfred | 2012 | TV Series | P.T. |
| Last Kind Words | 2012 | Waylon |
| Black Box | 2012/II | Tom |
| Catch .44 | 2011 | Sheriff Connors |
| Miami Magma | 2011 | TV Movie | Jacob Capilla |
| Psych | 2011 | TV Series | Bernie Bethel |
| Few Options | 2011 | Chris Pendler |
| Fringe | 2011 | TV Series | Moreau |
| Priest | 2011 | Salesman |
| Death and Cremation | 2010 | Stan |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | 2010 | TV Series | Dr. Iggy Drexel |
| Junkyard Dog | 2010 | Sheriff Holk |
| Medium Rare | 2010 | TV Series | Mitch Malone |
| Turbulent Skies | 2010 | TV Movie | Richard |
| Chain Letter | 2009 | Mr. Smirker |
| My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | 2009 | Uncle Ted |
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | 2009 | Ned Schoenholtz |
| Halloween II | 2009 | Sheriff Lee Brackett |
| Fading of the Cries | 2009 | Mathias |
| Lock and Roll Forever | 2008 | Zee |
| Born of Earth | 2008 | Mayor |
| Touching Home | 2008 | Clyde Winston |
| Humboldt County | 2008 | Jack |
| Law & Order | 2008 | TV Series | Dr. David Lingard |
| The Boneyard Collection | 2008 |
| Halloween | 2007 | Sheriff Lee Brackett |
| The Wizard of Gore | 2007 | Doctor Chong |
| The List | 2007/II | Johan Gabini |
| Sinner | 2007 | Caddie |
| Deadwood | 2004-2006 | TV Series | Doc Cochran |
| Pulse | 2006/I | Thin Bookish Guy |
| The Great War of Magellan | 2005 | Short | Swan |
| Gun | 2005 | Video Game | Reverend Josiah Reed (voice) |
| The Wild Blue Yonder | 2005 | The Alien |
| Drop Dead Sexy | 2005 | Herman |
| The Devil's Due at Midnight | 2004 | Video short | The Dark One |
| Seed of Chucky | 2004 | Chucky (voice) |
| El padrino | 2004 | Cyrus |
| Dead Scared | 2004 | Professor Kapps |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Wormtongue (extended edition) |
| Vlad | 2003 | Radescu |
| The Box | 2003/I | Stan |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Wormtongue |
| The Calling | 2002/I | B.B. Gallen |
| Run Like Hell | 2002 | Video Game | Fred (voice) |
| Ponderosa | 2001-2002 | TV Series | Maurice "Frenchy" Devereaux / Maurice 'Frenchy' Devereaux |
| Soulkeeper | 2001 | Pascal |
| The Ghost | 2001 | Lt. Garland |
| Myst III: Exile | 2001 | Video Game | Saavedro |
| Cypress Edge | 2000 | Colin McCammon |
| The Prophecy 3: The Ascent | 2000 | Video | Zealot |
| Shadow Hours | 2000 | Roland Montague |
| The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man | 1999 | Gabriel |
| The Storytellers | 1999 | The Professor |
| Silicon Towers | 1999 | Alton |
| The Hunger | 1999 | TV Series | Manno |
| Norm | 1999 | TV Series | The Devil |
| Interceptor Force | 1999 | Weber |
| The Magnificent Seven | 1999 | TV Series | Rupert Brauner |
| Playing Patti | 1998 | Michael Salesman |
| Brown's Requiem | 1998 | Edwards |
| Saturday Night Live | 1998 | TV Series | Chucky |
| Bride of Chucky | 1998 | Chucky (voice) |
| Urban Legend | 1998 | Michael McDonnell, gas station attendant (uncredited) |
| Progeny | 1998 | Dr. Bert Clavell |
| Senseless | 1998 | Dr. Wheedon |
| Jamaica Beat | 1997 | Tom Peterson |
| Alien: Resurrection | 1997 | Gediman |
| Best Men | 1997 | The Vet |
| Millennium | 1997 | TV Series | Dennis Hoffman |
| Nightwatch | 1997 | Duty Doctor |
| A Step Toward Tomorrow | 1996 | Kirby |
| Sworn to Justice | 1996 | Teddy |
| Star Trek: Voyager | 1996 | TV Series | Crewman Lon Suder |
| If Looks Could Kill | 1996 | TV Movie | Gene Hanson |
| Midnight Heat | 1996 | TV Movie | Thomas Payne |
| Babylon 5 | 1995 | TV Series | Brother Edward |
| Bless This House | 1995 | TV Series | Jimmy |
| Phoenix | 1995/I | Reiger |
| Escape to Witch Mountain | 1995 | TV Movie | Luther / Bruno |
| Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story | 1995 | TV Movie | Sheriff Bill Douglass |
| Murder in the First | 1995 | Byron Stamphill |
| A Worn Path | 1994 | Hunter |
| Death Machine | 1994 | Jack Dante |
| Color of Night | 1994 | Clark |
| The X-Files | 1994 | TV Series | Luther Lee Boggs |
| Tales from the Crypt | 1993 | TV Series | Virgil |
| Wild Palms | 1993 | TV Mini-Series | Chickie Levitt |
| Trauma | 1993 | Dr. Lloyd |
| Amos & Andrew | 1993 | Officer Donnie Donaldson |
| Critters 4 | 1992 | Al Bert |
| Final Judgement | 1992 | Video | Father Tyrone |
| London Kills Me | 1991 | Hemingway the Restaurant Manager |
| Scream of Stone | 1991 | Fingerless |
| Child's Play 3 | 1991 | Chucky (voice) |
| Body Parts | 1991 | Remo Lacey |
| Jungle Fever | 1991 | Leslie |
| Chaindance | 1991 | Johnny |
| Murder Blues | 1991 | John Barnes |
| Child's Play 2 | 1990 | Chucky (voice) |
| Graveyard Shift | 1990 | Tucker Cleveland / The Exterminator |
| Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror | 1990 | Farley |
| The Exorcist III | 1990 | The Gemini Killer |
| Hidden Agenda | 1990 | Paul Sullivan |
| Spontaneous Combustion | 1990 | Sam |
| Terror on Highway 91 | 1990 | TV Movie | Keith Evans |
| Horseplayer | 1990 | Bud Cowan |
| Desperado: The Outlaw Wars | 1989 | TV Movie | Camillus Fly |
| Sonny Boy | 1989 | Weasel |
| Murder, She Wrote | 1989 | TV Series | Dr. Warren Overman |
| Mississippi Burning | 1988 | Deputy Clinton Pell |
| Child's Play | 1988 | Charles Lee Ray / Chucky (voice) |
| Medium Rare | 1987 | Mitch |
| Fatal Beauty | 1987 | Leo Nova |
| Deadly Nightmares | 1987 | TV Series | Billy Baltimore Jr. |
| Miami Vice | 1987 | TV Series | Joey Wyatt |
| Moonlighting | 1986 | TV Series | Father McDonovan |
| Rage of Angels: The Story Continues | 1986 | TV Movie | Seymour Bourne |
| Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo | 1986 | TV Movie | Lamar Sands |
| Blue Velvet | 1986 | Raymond |
| Spenser: For Hire | 1986 | TV Series | Maxie Lyons |
| The Equalizer | 1986 | TV Series | Fenn |
| Impure Thoughts | 1985 | Kevin Harrington |
| Istanbul | 1985 | Martin Klamski |
| Dune | 1984 | Piter De Vries |
| Tales of the Unexpected | 1984 | TV Series | Hitch-hiker |
| Desire, the Vampire | 1982 | TV Movie | Paul |
| Kennedy's Children | 1982 | TV Movie | Mark |
| Ragtime | 1981 | Younger Brother |
| Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Mr. Eggleston |
| Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones | 1980 | TV Movie | David Langtree |
| Wise Blood | 1979 | Hazel Motes |
| Studs Lonigan | 1979 | TV Mini-Series | Danny O'Neill |
| Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force | 1978 | TV Movie | Sgt. Leonard Matlovich |
| Eyes of Laura Mars | 1978 | Tommy Ludlow |
| Group Portrait with a Lady | 1977 | Boris Koltowski |
| Visions | 1977 | TV Series | Robert McEvoy |
| The Mound Builders | 1976 | TV Movie | Chad Jasker |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Billy Bibbit |
| W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | 1975 | uncredited |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Alien Encounters: Superior Fan Power Since 1979 | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Bonus Content | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| Playing with Dolls: The Making of Curse of Chucky | 2013 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Criminal Minds: Season 8 - The Profiler's Handbook: Peter Pan Syndrome | 2013 | Video short | Himself |
| Undead Noise | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Tattoos: A Scarred History | 2009 | Documentary | Bear |
| Evil Comes in Small Packages | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
| It's Hard Being Evil | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2007 | TV Special | Himself |
| Conceiving the 'Seed of Chucky' | 2005 | Video documentary short | Himself / Chucky |
| Making 'Deadwood': Season Two | 2005 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| Remembering 'Ragtime' | 2004 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| Making 'Deadwood': The Show Behind the Show | 2004 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| One Step Beyond: The Making of 'Alien: Resurrection' | 2003 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Weta Workshop | 2003 | Video documentary short | Himself - Wormtongue |
| The Directors | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The 'Alien' Saga | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Ring Con 2002 | 2002 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation | 2001 | Video documentary | Chucky / Charles Lee Ray (Child's Play 2) (voice) |
| The Horror Hall of Fame II | 1991 | TV Movie | Himself - Presenter |
| The Horror Hall of Fame | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Chucky - Presenter (voice) |
| The 48th Annual Academy Awards | 1976 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|
| 2007 | Actor | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Deadwood (2004) |
| 2005 | Golden Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television | Deadwood (2004) |
| 2004 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Deadwood (2004) |
| 2004 | OFTA Television Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Deadwood (2004) |
| 2003 | DVDX Award | DVD Exclusive Awards | Best Audio Commentary (New for DVD) | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) |
| 2003 | Actor | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) |
| 2002 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Cast Ensemble | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) |
| 1995 | Best Actor | Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival | Death Machine (1994) |
| 1991 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Supporting Actor | The Exorcist III (1990) |
| 1991 | Genie | Genie Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | Chaindance (1991) |
| 1989 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Mississippi Burning (1988) |
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