Mr. Bradley was born on September 7th 1954 in Liverpool, England. Since
his school days Bradley has been close friends with Clive Barker. In
the seventies Bradley and Clive Barker founded the progressive theatre
group "Dog Company". While Barker worked on writing with his friend
Peter Atkins (script-writer for several Hellraiser films), Bradley
started acting. Bradley made it to the Movie Monster Hall Of Fame with
his role as the cenobite, Pinhead, who he portrayed in eight of the
Hellraiser movies.
Has published a book called Behind the Mask of the Horror Actor.
He is one of only six actors to play the same horror character at least six consecutive times, the others being Christopher Lee, Robert Englund, Warwick Davis, Brad Dourif, and Tobin Bell.
Narrates several songs by the band Cradle of Filth, on albums Midian
and Nymphetamine.
The descendant of First World War veterans he was deeply affected by the scenes of the soldiers fighting in the trenches whilst filming Hellraiser 3. He would later comment that when witnessing the extras dressed as British and German soldiers huddling around fires to keep warm in the early dawn light it ceased to be a film for him, it simply seemed real.
Is both long and short sighted: wears contact lenses to see, and also
reading glasses.