WILLIAM REDFIELD: AN ACTOR’S ACTOR
William Redfield as Harding in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975).August 17, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerOn this date fifty years ago, the versatile and delightful actor William Redfield passed away from a respiratory ailment complicated by leukemia. It should have been a great year for the New York native who, as Billie Redfield, first made his Broadway debut in 1936 at nine years …