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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 68 points 9 months ago

He started his career playing an institutionalized crazy kid and he was in that movie with... Kai Winn!

[-] teft@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

No wonder he’s good at playing crazy people. One too many “My Child” was heard.

[-] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

She clearly corrupted his mind.

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 9 months ago

It's amazing how many good actors were in that movie.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

When you make the quintessential 80s movie, you cast everybody.

[-] Cagi@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

And the Borg Queen in Deadwood.

[-] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago

Let's not also forget that he's also the one who voices the psychopathic doll Chucky.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] fortycoats@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

I'm surprised there hasn't been a Chucky in space movie yet

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 9 points 9 months ago

Hello, fellow person amazed by this - maybe we need to try to set up a pitch meeting because I don't see how this could go wrong.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

How are you replying from the future? Do I need to call in a violation of the Temporal Prime Directive?

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 9 points 9 months ago

I have my Section 31 badge around here somewhere...

[-] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

You might be Section 31, but I'm Psi Corps.

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[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

Brad Dourif with an F.

He also played Grima Wormtongue in LOTR, the secret aide of Sarumon

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

He was also Doc Cochran in Deadwood

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago
[-] andyburke@fedia.io 8 points 9 months ago

One of his best performances. And he's a good guy! (At least about as good as you can get in Deadwood...)

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

He was definitely the unsung hero of the series, whenever real shit was going down Doc would get the right people working together.

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

He saved that little sqarehead girl

[-] armus@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

Shame about the grave robbing

[-] armus@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago

Just watching deadwood for the first time and saw this episode last night. The Reverend’s face was just like “… no no he’s got a point”

[-] Cagi@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Oh man, I'm so excited for you! One of the best shown ever. I watch it every year or two. This and Rome are the best historical fictions on TV.

[-] armus@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I decided to give the first episode a try and before I knew it I was at the end of season one. It’s really well done, at times uncomfortable, super entertaining. They sort of make you love-hate-pity every single character hah

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

My favorite character from the series

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Most importantly.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Corrected, my apologies to Mr Dourif. I have brought dishonor upon my house.

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Maybe doesn't qualify as Space Murderer

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[-] Chuymatt@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

His daughter has the same energy.

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[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

good chance he was a sociopathic space murderer in that one, too.

If memory serves: only by proxy. But I'll allow it.

[-] anewbeginning@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Isn’t he the guy that plays the prisoner murderer in the xfiles that can predict the future.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

If I had a nickel for every time Brad Dourif played a psychic murderer I'd have two nickels. Which is also weird.

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[-] wallybeavis@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

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

[-] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

man I love this dude, mad respect for acting professionals who always get type-cast as wackadoos and crush it every time

[-] Cagi@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

He's one of my very favourite actors. Everyone needs to watch Deadwood.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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!

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

And then there his sexy ass in Night Shift.

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[-] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Oh shit I literally just watched him in voyager, what a coincidence!

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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And now his daughter followed in his footsteps playing the sociopathic murderer in Dirk Gently.

https://dirkgently.fandom.com/wiki/Bart_Curlish

[-] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

And she is phenomenal in that role. Easily the best actor in the show (sorry Elijah Wood).

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago

Suder was the man. I wish we'd gotten more of him, but what we did get was great

[-] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

One of my favourite actors. Also X-Files!

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

1984 Dune was a special movie

[-] s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

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