Brad Carter

Acting

Born December 5, 1973, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

David Bradley Carter (born 5 December 1973) is an American film and television actor, stuntman, guitarist, painter, sculptor, and photographer. After suffering from brain disease and tremors that caused his hands to shake, he underwent brain surgery in 2013, which he recorded and posted on YouTube. The video went viral, and he became known as the "guy playing guitar during brain surgery".

Filmography

• 2026A Southern Haunting — Lt. Day
• 2026Signing Tony Raymond — Ronnie Raymond
• 9-1-1: Nashville — Willy Davis
• 2025A Simple Machine — Karl
• 2025Day of Reckoning — Billy
• 2025The Devil and the Daylong Brothers — Stumpwater
• 2024Eating 38 Cheeseburgers — Director Jacob
• 2023Candy Land — Theo
• 2023Chipper — Brother
• 2023Dog Gone — Matt Kessler
• 2022Spirit Halloween: The Movie — Frank
• The Rookie: Feds — David 'Fatback' Eaton
• NCIS: Hawaiʻi — Kevin Rooker
• 2021Old Henry — Branigan
• 2020Emperor — Grady
• 2020The Devil to Pay — Dixon Runion
• 2019Run with the Hunted — Persey
• 2018Armed — Shep/Stew
• 2018Eat Me — Bob
• I'm Poppy — Able Abraham
• 2018I'm Poppy: The Film — Able Abraham
• 2018Jameson — Jameson
• 2018The Scent of Rain & Lightning — Billy
• 2018White Boy Rick — Bob the Gun Show Dealer, Gun Show Dealer Bob
• Yellowstone — Checkers
• Ozark — Deputy Ronnie Wycoff
• The Gifted — Wire
• 2016Free State of Jones — Lieutenant Barbour
• 2015Black Mass — John McIntyre
• Bosch — Chilton Hardy
• 2015Dixieland — Larry Pretty
• 2015The Revenant — Johnnie (uncredited)
• Ascension — John Stokes
• 2014Swelter — Mechanic
• 2014The Gun — Crazed Scavenger
• The Night Shift — Lee Harris
• True Detective — Charlie Lange
• Longmire — Riley Manning
• Perception — Gary Williams
• 2012Smashed — Felix
• Harry's Law — Stevie Kazz
• New Girl — Stranger
• Justified — Bobby Joe Packer
• 2010Red Dead Redemption: The Man from Blackwater — Jonah (voice)
• Castle — Bobby Spurlock
• Sons of Anarchy — Leland Gruen
• The Mentalist — Phil Rawson
• True Blood — Kris
• Dexter — Rankin
• Bones — Nick Bennett
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia — Carney
• House — Sheldon
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Gerald Tolliver, Rudy
• Signing Day — Ronnie Raymond