I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

During the early 1970s Dourif appeared in a number of plays off-Broadway and at Woodstock New York including The Ghost Sonata The Doctor in Spite of Himself and When You Comin' Back Red Ryder? in which he was spotted by director Miloš Forman who cast him in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). On television Dourif appeared in The X-Files episode "Beyond the Sea" as the psychic serial killer Luther Lee Boggs. His first studio film was W.

Dourif has also worked with renowned film director Werner Herzog on many occasions appearing in Scream of Stone The Wild Blue Yonder The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans and My Son My Son What Have Ye Done?. Bradford Claude "Brad" Dourif (/ˈdɔrɨf/; born March 18 1950) is an American film and television actor who gained early fame for his portrayal of Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and has since appeared in a number of memorable roles.