Seth Brundle

Dr. Seth Brundle is a fictional character and the protagonist in David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of The Fly. He is played by Jeff Goldblum. Brundle was the second of Goldblum's "nerdy scientist" roles (a character type he played previously in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and later played in The Race for the Double Helix, Jurassic Park, Independence Day and The Lost World: Jurassic Park), and is one of his most famous roles to date. The character of Brundle was played by Daniel Okulitch in Howard Shore's 2008 opera The Fly in its premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Seth Brundle suffered from motion sickness beginning at an early age. As a child, he vomited on his tricycle, and developed an intense...