Billy Bibbit

Billy Bibbit is a fictional character in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was later made into a play and a film, both sharing the same title as the novel. Bibbit was portrayed by Brad Dourif in the 1975 film adaption of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Gene Wilder was the first actor to play the character on broadway. Billy Bibbit is a 31-year-old man whose life is dominated by his overbearing mother. He is an acute (as opposed to chronic) patient at the Oregon State Hospital. He was admitted there because of numerous suicide attempts and is required to remain hospitalized until cured. Billy Bibbit and Randle Patrick McMurphy are friends in the novel and the film adaption, and are often shown having...