He started his career playing an institutionalized crazy kid and he was in that movie with… Kai Winn!
No wonder he’s good at playing crazy people. One too many “My Child” was heard.
She clearly corrupted his mind.
It’s amazing how many good actors were in that movie.
Same, oddly, with The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin and Clancy Brown. Also, a deleted scene where Jamie Lee Curtis played Buckaroo’s mother.
When you make the quintessential 80s movie, you cast everybody.
And the Borg Queen in Deadwood.
He was also one of the military scientists in Alien: Resurrection, so there’s a pretty good chance he was a sociopathic space murderer in that one, too.
Edit:
Clearly this guy…
…is not in a good place, mentally.
good chance he was a sociopathic space murderer in that one, too.
If memory serves: only by proxy. But I’ll allow it.
Brad Dourif with an F.
He also played Grima Wormtongue in LOTR, the secret aide of Sarumon
Corrected, my apologies to Mr Dourif. I have brought dishonor upon my house.
Maybe doesn’t qualify as Space Murderer
Guy’s got range
His daughter has the same energy.
I’m loving her in the Chucky series but she was funny as hell in Dirk Gently, damn did they cancel that series far too soon.
Let’s not also forget that he’s also the one who voices the psychopathic doll Chucky.
Oh he’s been all over Hollywood. Chucky isn’t a space murderer though, just a regular murderer. So he wouldn’t work for this joke.
man I love this dude, mad respect for acting professionals who always get type-cast as wackadoos and crush it every time
He’s one of my very favourite actors. Everyone needs to watch Deadwood.
Oh shit I literally just watched him in voyager, what a coincidence!
Heh, same here. Took me a a moment to recognize him though.
It must be weird being typecast as the “quiet serial killer.” Like you just exude so much quiet serial killer energy that’s all people see you as. Because he has been that character in much more. These just happen to be the times that character was in space!
And then there his sexy ass in Night Shift.
To be fair, Doc Cochran was absolutely nothing like those characters. Dude just had excellent range.
And now his daughter followed in his footsteps playing the sociopathic murderer in Dirk Gently.
And she is phenomenal in that role. Easily the best actor in the show (sorry Elijah Wood).
Holy crap! I thought I recognized him in B5, and later on Voyager, I had totally forgotten he was the Harkonnen Mentat in Dune. He did a fantastic job the both latter roles, I don’t think he was fleshed out enough in Dune
Easily one of the best “that guy” in Hollywood. He shows up everywhere and I’ve never seen a bad performance.
I’ll go my grave believing that he was the true main character of One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest.
Another character actor that I would recognize anywhere instantly (“Huh, it’s that guy again.”) and yet I’ve never known his name til just now. There’s so many people like this that seem to show up in all the sci-fi series whose names I never seem to know.
He is also the voice of Chucky in 90% of the Child’s Play franchise.
I really loved his character in Voyager. It was really interesting seeing a psychopath who was aware of his tendencies and knew he shouldn’t be around other people.
One of my favourite actors. Also X-Files!
1984 Dune was a special movie
I found and mildly edited this image, because it specifically came to mind, music and all - I’ve had a thing for Dourif since I first saw him in Dune, even with those brows (especially with those brows?) and it continued through even his nutiest characters, through the years. This definitely says something about my taste in people, that I choose to ignore! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
