Randle Patrick McMurphy — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Character Profile

About Randle Patrick McMurphy

Protagonist who feigns mental illness to avoid prison labor. Challenges Nurse Ratched's authoritarian control, liberates patients' spirits, and attempts escape. After being lobotomized following a violent confrontation, he is mercy-killed by Chief Bromden.

Randle Patrick McMurphy — Character Profile

Quick Facts about Randle Patrick McMurphy

Full Name

Randle Patrick McMurphy

Nationality

[[Republic of Ireland

Randle Patrick McMurphy's Known Relations

• Nurse Ratched — Enemy

Character Facts

Played by

Jack Nicholson

Appears in

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (8)

• Randle Patrick McMurphy — Conflict Arch Enemy — Nurse Mildred Ratched (Louise Fletcher)

  Constant power struggle between McMurphy's rebellion and Ratched's authority

• Randle Patrick McMurphy — Alliance Partner — Chief Bromden (Will Sampson)

  McMurphy befriends Chief and helps him regain confidence and voice

• Randle Patrick McMurphy — Alliance Mentor — Billy Bibbit (Brad Dourif)

  McMurphy encourages Billy to overcome his fears and stutter

• Randle Patrick McMurphy — Social Acquaintance — Dale Harding (William Redfield)

  McMurphy interacts with the articulate Harding

• Randle Patrick McMurphy — Professional Briber/Bribed — Orderly Turkle (Scatman Crothers)

  McMurphy bribes Turkle to allow the Christmas party

• Randle Patrick McMurphy — Alliance Teammate — Max Taber (Christopher Lloyd)

  Taber joins McMurphy in his rebellion against the institution

• Randle Patrick McMurphy — Narrative Symbolic Victim — Ellis (Michael Berryman)

  Ellis serves as a grim warning of the institution's effects.

• Randle Patrick McMurphy — Social Friend — Martini (Danny DeVito)

  McMurphy befriends the child-like Martini

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• Col. Matterson (Peter Brocco)
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• Washington (Nathan George)
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