Brad Dourif is born in Huntington, W. Va. in 1950. The award-winning actor has starred in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Dune and Blue Velvet, as well as Rob Zombie’s Halloween films and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but as Chucky in the Child’s Play franchise, he is one of just six actors to appear as a horror character in six consecutive films. The others are Christopher Lee as Dracula, Doug Bradley as Pinhead, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, Warwick Davis as the Leprechaun and Tobin Bell as Jigsaw.
This Day in Halloween: Actor Brad Dourif -- the voice of Chucky in the "Child's Play" franchise -- is born in Huntington, W. Va. in 1950. / Illustration by Alexandria Howard