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 into 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.

Character background

Billy Bibbit is a manchild in his early thirties whose life is dominated by his overbearing mother and is an acute at the Oregon State Hospital and shall stay there until he is cured. The reason that Bibbit was institutionalized was because he suffers from personality disorder and from severe stuttering. He has also attempted suicide numerous times.

Billy Bibbit and Randle Patrick McMurphy are friends in the novel and film adaption and are often having conversations with each other.

One night, McMurphy brings two prostitutes and some marijuana into the psychiatric ward and he and the other patients have a party. That night, McMurphy pays a prostitute named Candy to have sex with Billy so that he can lose his virginity. The next morning, Nurse Ratched, who has found out about the party and that Billy had had sex, threatens to tell Billy's mother about what happened. Because of this, he commits suicide by slitting his throat.