Conway, Kevin (b. 1942), actor. Conway is a versatile leading man who possesses a seething, belligerent quality that gives his characterizations an edgy persona. A native New Yorker, he trained with Uta Hagen and at the Dramatic Workshop, acting in regional theatre before making his Manhattan debut in 1969. Conway was first noticed in 1972 as the confused radical college student Mike in Moonchildren (1972), then was widely applauded the next year for his raucous mental patient Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. His other notable performances include the antagonistic drifter Teddy in When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1973), the itinerant farmhand George in Of Mice and Men (1974), the boozing brother Jamie in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1976), the self‐doubting Victorian doctor Frederick Treves in The Elephant Man (1979), the greedy liquidator Lawrence Garfinkle in Other People's Money (1989), and businessman Dan Packard in Dinner at Eight (2002).




