William Redfield

William Henry Redfield was born in New York City on January 26, 1927, the son of music conductor and arranger Henry C. Redfield and Mareta A. George, a Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl. Source: Wikipedia

He started on Broadway as a nine-year-old in Swing Your Lady (1936) and was in the original 1938 Broadway cast of Our Town; he was later a founding member of New York's Actors Studio. Source: Wikipedia

RadioGOLDINdex logs him on network radio as early as March 1941 (Coast to Coast on a Bus), with wartime credits on The Blue Playhouse, Words at War and Treasury Salute. Source: RadioGOLDINdex

RadioGOLDINdex lists him in nine X Minus One broadcasts, among them 'Sea Legs', 'The Lifeboat Mutiny' and 'Honeymoon in Hell' (all 1956). Source: RadioGOLDINdex

RadioGOLDINdex lists him on Suspense across a dozen years, from 'Dark Shadows' (September 19, 1950) and 'House of Masks' (1952) to 'Heads You Lose' (March 11, 1962). Source: RadioGOLDINdex

On Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar he turned up in episodes such as 'The Informer Matter' (March 19, 1961) and 'The Phoney Phone Matter' (December 17, 1961); he also guested on The Eternal Light, Have Gun, Will Travel and Theatre Five. Source: RadioGOLDINdex

In his last years he was a frequent voice on CBS Radio Mystery Theater, with 80 episodes from 1974 to 1976. Source: Wikipedia

On screen his best-known role was Dale Harding in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); he also wrote the book Letters From an Actor. Source: Wikipedia

He died at Saint Clare's Hospital in New York City on August 17, 1976, aged 49, of a respiratory ailment complicated by leukemia. Source: Wikipedia