What Happened To The Cast Of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest introduced the world to a cast of colorful mental patients, as well as Nurse Ratched, the cruel administrator who kept them in line. It also inspired an Oscar-winning movie. From the stars to the side characters, here's what happened to the cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Louise Fletcher won an Oscar for her portrayal of the villainous Nurse Ratched, and her performance is so iconic that the character's been synonymous with sadistic authority figures ever since. However, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was actually what kickstarted Louise Fletcher's return to acting. She'd already found some success on TV in classics like Maverick, The Untouchables, and the original Perry Mason. However, as she explained to the New York Times, the imposing height that made her so powerful as Ratched actually held her back in those years. She explained,

"No television producer thought a tall woman could be sexually attractive to anybody. I was able to get jobs on Westerns because the actors were even taller than I was."

In 1964, she took a decade off from acting to focus on raising her kids. When she returned in Thieves Like Us, that movie teamed her up with one of the era's great directors, Robert Altman, and some of its biggest stars, like Shelley Duvall. And then, of course, she made One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the following year, which became her landmark movie.

Some of her other roles include Mrs. McKeltch in the sci-fi chiller Invaders from Mars and the Grandmother in the 1987 adaptation of trash classic Flowers in the Attic. More recently, she's appeared as Rosie in Netflix's Girlboss. The streaming giant is also home to the series Ratched, an origin story for the character Fletcher made famous, and a prequel of sorts to Cuckoo's Nest, starring Sarah Paulson.

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Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched | 0:00
Jack Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy | 1:34
Will Sampson as 'Chief' Bromden | 2:41
Brad Dourif as Billy Bibbit | 3:39
Sydney Lassick as Charlie Cheswick | 4:40
Christopher Lloyd as Max | 5:32
Danny DeVito as Martini | 6:41
William Redfield as Dale | 7:58
Scatman Crothers as Turkle | 8:50

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