Courtney Gains (born August 22, 1965) is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of Malachai in the 1984 horror movie Children of the Corn.

Filmography

• 2026The Barn Part III
• 2025Infernal — Dewayne
• 2025Lookout Weekend: Cruel Summer IV — Sgt. Rossi
• 2025The Bleeding Dark — John Barrow
• 2025Thy Will Be Done — Todd Cotton
• 2024Christmas Cowboy — Colton Byers
• 2024My Redneck Neighbor: Chapter 1 - The Rednecks Are Coming — Dirk Reddick
• 2024My Redneck Neighbor: Chapter 2 - Let the Games Begin — Dirk Reddick
• Paul T. Goldman — Royce Auditioner
• 2023The Wrath of Becky — Twig
• 2022American Bigfoot — Wesley Harlin
• 2022Hellblazers — Bernard
• 2021Queen Bees — Biker
• 2021River — Dr. Michael Glenn
• 2020Await the Dawn — Dr. Hewitt
• 2019Josh Hasty's Candy Corn — Sheriff Sam Bramford, Producer
• 2019The Silent Natural — Tug Wilson
• 2018Camp Cold Brook — John Brierwitz
• 2018Corbin Nash — Detective Holloway
• 2018Deadly Crush — Lawrence
• 2018Hell's Kitty — Mordicia
• 20179/11 — Co-Producer
• 2017Goodnight, Gracie — Billy
• 2017It Happened One Valentine's — Freddy Craig
• 2017Scramble — Canada Rick
• 2017Urban Myths — Stanley
• 2016Prettyface
• 2015Field of Lost Shoes — Capt. Chinook
• 2015Halcyon — Robert
• 2015The Funhouse Massacre — Dennis
• 2014My Trip Back to the Dark Side — Bobby G.
• 2013The House Across the Street — Ned
• 2012Ambush at Dark Canyon — Sheriff Hurley
• Perception — Officer James McKenzie
• 2011Discipline — Jack Baldwin
• Franklin & Bash — Lyle
• 2011Mimesis — Gordon
• 2011Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury — Gil Highdecker
• Switched at Birth
• 2010Cinema Salvation — Courtney
• 2010Faster — Telemarketer
• 2010Raven — Danny
• 2010The Ascent — Andrew
• 2010The Quiet Ones — Michael's Father
• 2009Benny Bliss and the Disciples of Greatness — Benny Bliss
• 2009Shadowheart — Finch
• The Middle — Phil
• 2008Alien Encounter — Donovan
• 2007Halloween — Jack Kendall (uncredited)
• 2006Desolation Canyon — Jack McCallister
• 2006The Phobic — Dr. Cecil Westlake
• Bones — Super
• Criminal Minds — Todd Burton
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia — Roach
• My Name Is Earl — Lloyd
• NCIS — Gary Silverstein
• 2003National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze — Lorenzo "The Black Hand", Co-Executive Producer
• Fastlane — Det. Guthrie
• Monk — Six Fingered Man, Frank Nunn
• 2002Sweet Home Alabama — Sheriff Wade
• Alias — Holden Gemler
• The Guardian — Roy Cantwell
• 2000Beaver Trilogy
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Stan Gerber
• 2000Dreamers — Mike
• 1999Her Married Lover — Hood
• 1999King Cobra — Dr. Joseph McConnell
• 1999No Code of Conduct — Cameron
• Charmed — D. J. / Bane's Right Hand
• 1998Shadow of Doubt — Ernie
• 1998The Killing Grounds — Vincent Reynosa
• 1998The Landlady — Tyson Johns
• 1997Behind Enemy Lines — Church
• Brooklyn South — Joe Beldon
• 1997Dilemma — Tex
• Arli$$ — Dealer
• Pacific Blue — Jim-Joe
• JAG — Pete
• ER — Ronnie
• 1994In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance — Barlow
• Rebel Highway — Deputy
• 1994Runaway Daughters — Deputy 1
• Bakersfield P.D. — Doug
• Diagnosis: Murder — Dwayne Roberts
• 1990Memphis Belle — Eugene McVey
• Seinfeld — Clerk
• 1989The 'Burbs — Hans Klopek
• 1988Colors — Whitey
• 21 Jump Street — Birch
• 1987American Harvest — Chips
• 1987Can't Buy Me Love — Kenneth Wurman
• 1987Winners Take All — Goose Trammel
• 1986Ratboy — Kid in Car
• 1986The Children of Times Square — Punk Who Robs Victor
• 1985Back to the Future — Dixon
• 1985Lust in the Dust — Red Dick Barker
• Misfits of Science — Mechanic
• 1985Secret Admirer — Doug
• 1985The Orkly Kid
• 1984Children of the Corn — Malachai
• 1984Hardbodies — Rag
• 1984Welcome Home, Jellybean — Joe Newbolt
• 3rd Floor — Tim Keller
• Dirt
• Fruit of the Poisonous Tree — Paul Portray
• Organism 46-B The Unseen — Mack
• The Deceived — Deputy Jed
• The Red Man's View — Jenkins

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2014There Goes the Neighborhood: The Making of The 'Burbs — Self
• 2009Tattoos: A Scarred History — Self
• 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments — Self
• 2004Harvesting Horror: Children of the Corn — Self