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- Dean Kent Brooks (July 22, 1916 – May 30, 2013) was an American physician and actor. Brooks was the superintendent of Oregon State Hospital for 27 years from 1955 to 1982. He was born in Colony, Kansas.
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Dean Kent Brooks (July 22, 1916 – May 30, 2013) was an American physician and actor. Brooks was the superintendent of Oregon State Hospital for 27 years from 1955 to 1982. He was born in Colony, Kansas. [1]
Jun 6, 2013 · Dr. Dean Brooks dies at 96; key figure in filming ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’. By Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times. June 6, 2013 12 AM PT. When he ran a large state mental hospital, Dr. Dean Brooks...
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Apr 14, 2022 · Dean Brooks, a real physician who played a version of himself as Dr. Spivey, diagnosed Redfield on set, according to The Guardian. Redfield kept his condition private from the rest of the cast...
Jun 8, 2013 · Dr. Dean Brooks died May 30 at a retirement home in Salem at age 96, family members said. He had been in declining health for several weeks after a fall. Brooks’ daughter, Dennie Brooks, said...
Having already walked out a considerable distance on thin ice by allowing Forman to use his functioning state hospital in Oregon, the hospital medical director, Dr Dean Brooks, began stomping around testing the limits of that ice by agreeing to play the part of Spivey.
- Aidan Collins
- 2017
May 30, 2013 · Dr. Dean Brooks of Oregon State Hospital and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” fame died this morning. He was 96.
Dr. Dean Brooks, the superintendent of the Oregon psychiatric hospital where the Oscar-winning picture “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was shot — and who had a small, well-received on-screen role as the fictional hospital’s superintendent — died on Thursday at his home in Salem, Ore. He was 96.
