Career
Born in New York City, Redfield appeared in the original 1938 Broadway production of Our Town. He also sang & danced the role of "Mercury" in Cole Porter"s Out of This World. Other Broadway credits include: Excursion (1937), Virginia (1937), Stop-over (1938), Junior Mission, Snafu, United States.A., Barefoot Boy With Cheek (1947), Montserrat (1949), Misalliance (1953), Double in Hearts (1956), Midgie Purvis (1961), A Minor Adjustment (1967) and The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks (1972).
His film credits include The Connection, Such Good Friends, Fantastic Voyage, A New Leaf, Foreign Pete"s Sake, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo"s Nest.
On television, Redfield played the title role in the DuMont series Jimmy Hughes, Rookie Cop (1953), and appeared in The Philco Television Playhouse, Lux Video Theatre, The United States Steel Hour, Studio One, As the World Turns, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Naked City, Maude, Rich Manitoba, Poor Manitoba Book II, and The Bob Newhart Show. He is best known as Floyd, the younger brother of Felix Unger (played by Tony Randall), on The Odd Couple.
Redfield"s best known film appearance was as Dale Harding in One Flew Over the Cuckoo"s Nest. lieutenant was during the filming of the Oscar-winning movie that Redfield was diagnosed with leukemia.
He died on August 17, 1976 at age 49, less than a year after the film was released.