Abstract
Brad Dourif has made a career out of investigating the shadowy, unhealthy side of the human psyche. As an actor, he has a singular presence: high-strung, darkly passionate, and unabashedly eccentric, with an underlying quality of suppressed rage. He has parlayed these attributes into an astonishing gallery of over-the-edge characters, beginning with his first film role as the stuttering mental patient Billy Bibbit in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). For his first foray into film, Dourif garnered an Academy Award nomination, a British Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, all for Best Supporting Actor.
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© 1995 Carole Zucker
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Zucker, C. (1995). An Interview with Brad Dourif. In: Figures of Light. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6118-1_13
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