 Fearing that he would be typecast as crazy (as  Robert Altman (I) (qv) had warned), Bud Cort (qv), who was  offered the part of Billy Bibbit, turned down that role in  _One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975)_ (qv). He wanted the role of  McMurphy, which belonged to Jack Nicholson (qv) but was denied it  by director Milos Forman (qv). His next film wasnt until 1977.