Brad Dourif (Child’s Play) – WTF Happened to This Horror Celebrity?

It’s time for a new episode of our video series WTF Happened to This Horror Celebrity? (formerly known as Where in the Horror Are They Now), and in this one we’re looking at the life and career of Brad Dourif. Check it out in the embed above!

Dourif is best known for providing the voice of horror icon Chucky the killer doll. As of this writing, he has 175 credits to his name on IMDb, including roles in Eyes of Laura Mars, David Lynch’s Dune, Blue Velvet, Fatal Beauty, Spontaneous Combustion, The Exorcist III, Grim Prairie Tales, Graveyard Shift, Body Parts, Critters 4, Trauma, Nightwatch, Alien: Resurrection, Progency, The Prophecy 3: The Ascent, Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, the remake of The Wizard of Gore, and Rob Zombie’s Halloween movies. He also had a prominent role on the series Deadwood, and appeared on the TV shows The Hitchhiker, Tales from the Crypt, The X-Files, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Voyager, Millennium, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Once Upon a Time. He earned an Oscar nomination for his role in the first movie he was ever credited on, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Where in the Horror Are They Now was once an article series here on Arrow in the Head. The concept has been revived as a video series, and WTF Happened to This Horror Celebrity? will be going

in depth on the lives and careers of some of our favorite horror talents and also find out where they are now and what they are up to!

The Brad Dourif episode was Written and Narrated by Jessica Dwyer and Edited by Will Hume. It was Produced by John Fallon and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Previous episodes of Where in the Horror Are They Now focused on Dourif’s fellow genre regulars Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, Heather Langenkamp, Elvira, Greg Nicotero, Doug Bradley, Zach Galligan, and Barbara Crampton. A few of those episodes can be viewed below. To see more, click over to the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel – and subscribe while you’re there! Other shows on the channel include WTF Happened to This Horror MovieHorror TV Shows We Miss, and (released under the “Revisited” banner) The Black Sheep, The Best Horror Movie You Never Saw, Best Horror Party Movies, Real Slashers, Show Me the Sequel… and more!

Source: Arrow in the Head

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Cody is a news editor and film critic, focused on the horror arm of JoBlo.com, and writes scripts for videos that are released through the JoBlo Originals and JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channels. In his spare time, he's a globe-trotting digital nomad, runs a personal blog called Life Between Frames, and writes novels and screenplays.