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What happened to the actor Ken Kenny does anyone know he is alive?


He had one role, he played the young man that stuttered in one picture and he disappeared,

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The young man that stutters in this movie is Brad Dourif.

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The director, Milos Forman, intentionally cast all relatively unknown actors, and some had no, like Kenny, where cast from their look even though they hadn't acted much or at all in some cases. The idea of cast of unknowns as the patients was Forman's hope to use Jack Nicholson ' s frame as a contrasting effect against a cast of unknowns portraying the patients to help dramatize R.P. Mac's level of sanity and improper placement in the asylum. Forman was worried that Nicholson was too large of an iconic actor and that his fame would hurt the movie's believability by its audience. So this idea was his way of not only trying to avoid that outcome, but actually turning that potential negative aspect of Nicholson ' s notoriety into a useful aide in defining the differences between his character and the patients within the asylum.

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Apparently, Ken Kenny played "Beans Garfield" in Cuckoo's Nest. Can anyone refresh my memory?





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I had hoped to get an answer from anyone that knew about him, IMDB has him listed in one movie

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