Doug Bradley

Doug Bradley was born in Liverpool, in 1954. He met Clive Barker in high school and they founded the Dog Company in the late seventies, touring with theatre shows including ‘History of the Devil’. His film career began with the short films ‘Salome’ and ‘The Forbidden’- both films are compelling insights into Doug’s future work and into the talent that would break out in the 1987 horror masterpiece ‘Hellraiser’

Doug Bradley took the role of ‘Pinhead’, the film’s universally recognized Cenobite. The film was directed by Clive Barker and adapted from his novella ‘The Hellbound Heart’.

Doug has continued to play ‘Pinhead’ through the years in a series of successful Hellraiser movies (the latest installments ‘Deader’ and ‘Hellworld’ are due for release in 2004), transforming the anti-hero into a cult figure and also into one of the most recognizable characters in contemporary horror cinema.

As well as the Hellraiser series, Doug has starred in Clive Barker’s ‘Nightbreed’, alongside his friend Robert Englund (Freddy from ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’) in ‘The Killer Tongue’, and recently appeared in two award-winning short horror films ‘On Edge’ and ‘Red Lines’. Doug also voiced and Executive Produced the anime feature ‘Dominator’. Other film and TV appearances include ‘Inspector Morse’ and ‘Prophecy: Revelation’.

Horror Filmography

The Reverend	Actor	2011
The Infliction	Actor	2011
Exorcismus	Actor	2010
The Hairy Hands	Actor	2010
Umbrage	Actor	2009
Book of Blood	Actor	2009
The Cottage	Actor	2008
Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes	Actor	2006
Hellraiser: Hellworld	Actor	2005
Hellraiser: Deader	Actor	2005
The Prophecy: Uprising	Actor	2005
Red Lines	Actor	2002
Hellraiser: Hellseeker	Actor	2002
Hellraiser: Inferno	Actor	2000
Exposure	Self	2000
On Edge	Actor	1999
Halloween… The Happy Haunting of America!	Actor	1997
La iengua asesina	Actor	1996
Hellraiser: Bloodline	Actor	1996
Proteus	Actor	1995
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth	Actor	1992
Nightbreed	Actor	1990
Hellbound: Hellraiser II	Actor	1988
Hellraiser	Actor	1987
The Forbidden	Actor	1978
Salome	Actor	1973

“Oh no tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.”
~Doug Bradley as Pinhead