Dean R. Brooks

Dean R. Brooks was born on Jul 22, 1916 in USA. Dean R. Brooks's big-screen debut came with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest directed by Milos Forman in 1975, strarring Dr. Spivey. Dean R. Brooks is known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest directed by Milos Forman, Michael Berryman stars as Ellis and Peter Brocco as Col. Matterson. The upcoming new movie Dean R. Brooks plays is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which will be released on Nov 19, 1975.

Dr. Dean Kent Brooks, M.D., was born in Everett, Washington, in 1916. He was the head of the Oregon State Hospital in 1975 when the film Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou (1975) was filmed there. He starred, surprising enough, as the head of the psychiatric hospital in the film, "Dr. John Spivey, M.D."He attended the University of Kansas Medical School in Kansas City, Kansas, and graduated from there on June 1, 1942. He was first licensed in Oregon to practice psychiatry on January 21, 1950. He retired from the practice of Psychiatric Medicine on December 31, 1999.During the filming of Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou (1975), he diagnosed actor William Redfield (who played psychiatric hospital patient "Harding") with Leukemia (this was long before the days of bone marrow transplants), and gave Mr. Redfield 18 months to live (he died 18 months later, pretty much to the day).He never had a single complaint filed against him in his long and distinguished career as a psychiatrist.