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Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy (also known as R.P. McMurphy) is the protagonist of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962). He appears in the stage and film adaptations of the novel as well. Jack Nicholson portrayed Randle Patrick McMurphy in the 1975 film adaptation, earning him an Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 1982 Greg Hersov directed a production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester with Jonathan Hackett as Randle McMurphy, Linda Marlowe as Nurse Ratched and Tim McInnerny as Billy Bibbitt. [5] In April 1988, the Playhouse Theatre was the site for the first London production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The play was brought to the London ...
Nicholson won three Academy Awards, two for Best Actor for his roles as Randle McMurphy in the psychological drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and a man suffering with obsessive–compulsive disorder in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets (1997) as well as for Best Supporting Actor for playing a randy former astronaut Garrett ...
He then portrayed Randle McMurphy in the Miloš Forman-directed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which won Best Picture and garnered him the Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. [9] In 1976, he starred in the film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon (1941).
Starring Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a convict feigning insanity to escape a hard labor sentence at a state psychiatric hospital, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a stirring drama based ...
McMurphy and Chief prepare to escape, inviting Billy to come with them. Billy refuses but asks for a "date" with Candy; McMurphy arranges for him to have sex with her. McMurphy and the others get drunk, and McMurphy falls asleep instead of escaping with Chief. Ratched arrives in the morning to find the ward in disarray; most patients have ...
Actor Louise Fletcher, who gave an Oscar-winning performance as the villainous Nurse Ratched in 1975's “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and won hearts when she signed to her deaf parents ...
The 84-year-old actor recently returned for Season 14 ... and Brad Dourif as one of the residents of an Oregon asylum whose lives are upended by the arrival of rebel firebrand Randle McMurphy ...