Ed Brigadier
Born	October 16, 1949 (1949-10-16) (age 60) Cleveland, Ohio
Occupation	Film actor

Ed Brigadier (born October 16, 1949) is an American actor immortalized as the gruesome motorcycle-riding title character in the cult slasher film, Dr. Chopper (2005). Brigadier has made many other appearances in film and television on such shows as Nip/Tuck, Scrubs, Alias, and Malcolm in the Middle. He has appeared many times on The History Channel, most memorably as Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil in the miniseries The War That Made America - The Story of the French and Indian War, and has acted on stage in such plays as The Imaginary Invalid , A Servant of Two Masters, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In the 1980s Brigadier spent time in Berlin, Germany working for the U. S. Army Recreation Services as a director for the community theater there. He performed and directed "Arsenic and Old Lace" while there.

He recently played Kutner's father in the "Simple Explanation" episode of House.

[edit] External links

• Ed Brigadier at the Internet Movie Database
• Ed Brigadier at Allmovie

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