Cyril Cusack

His sons, Paul and Pádraig, work as a producer with RTÉ and in computers, respectively. All but a few of those roles listed above fit that description. His four daughters, Niamh, Sorcha, Sinéad and Catherine are actresses. Dourif was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). It was this performance that established Dourif's reputation as a character actor who plays deranged or unbalanced roles. Cusack's last stage performance was in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, in which three of his daughters played the sisters. He also appeared as the villain Saavedro in Myst III: Exile (2001), the third game in the popular Myst franchise. In 1989 his performance in the film My Left Foot, with Daniel Day-Lewis, contributed to its success. He previously was part of the Star Trek world as "Rex" in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, in 1989.

In 1984 he appeared as the shop-keeper and Thought Police spy Charrington in the film version of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Star Trek fans will remember his role as Lon Suder, a murdering psychopath that eventually redeems himself, from a three-episode arc on Star Trek: Voyager. He received honorary doctorates in 1977 and 1980 from the NUI and the University of Dublin respectively. On television he appeared in the Babylon 5 episode Passing Through Gethsemane, in the early X-Files episode "Beyond the Sea", and in Oliver Stone's Wild Palms. Two years later in 1979 he married Mary Rose Cunningham. Bradford Claude Dourif (born March 18, 1950 in Huntington, West Virginia) is an American actor. In 1977 Cusack's wife, Maureen Kiely, an actress, died. All of the Child's Play movies as the voice of Chucky.

By this stage he had established a successful career in films. Senseless. In 1963 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and appeared there for several seasons. Blue Velvet. In 1947 Cusack formed his own company and staged productions in Dublin, Paris and New York City. Dune as the mentat Piter DeVries. Between then and 1945 he performed in over sixty productions, particularly excelling in the plays of Sean O'Casey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

He left without a degree and joined the Abbey Theatre in 1932. Escape to Witch Mountain. Cusack was educated in Newbridge, Kildare, and University College, Dublin. Alien: Resurrection. Cyril made his first stage performance at the age of seven. Ragtime. Cusack's mother and her partner, Breifne O'Rorke, joined the O'Brien and Ireland Players. His appearance in The Return of the King was cut from the theatrical release but will be seen in the extended VHS and DVD version.

His parents separated when he was young and his mother took him to England, and then to Ireland. The Two Towers. He was the son of a sergeant in the mounted police and an actress. Mississippi Burning. Cyril Cusack (26 November 1910 - 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, born in Natal, South Africa. Heaven's Gate.