Eldon Quick

Eldon Quick
Born (1937-04-04) April 4, 1937 (age 87)
Occupation(s)Film and television actor

Eldon Maroney Quick (born April 4, 1937) is an American character actor. He is an alumnus of the American Shakespeare Festival and has numerous stage, screen, and television roles to his credit.

Life and career

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Quick's debut as a professional actor came at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut.[1]

Quick's best-remembered television character is the bureaucratic Captain Sloan from two early episodes of M*A*S*H ("Payday" and "The Incubator"), which he reprised as Captain Pratt in "The Late Captain Pierce". Quick also played scheming magazine editor Rob Roy Fingerhead in an episode of The Monkees, and the villain Chronos in the final episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Quick appeared in a Bewitched episode, "Samantha's Secret Saucer", as Captain Tugwell. Eldon Quick also appeared in the show Barnaby Jones; episode titled, "To Catch a Dead Man"(02/04/1973).

His film roles include Charlie Hawthorne in In the Heat of the Night, William Harper Littlejohn in Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, and Reverend Lowell in The Big Bet.

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1967 In the Heat of the Night Charles Hawthorne
1969 Viva Max! Quincy
1974 Homebodies Insurance Inspector
1975 How Come Nobody's on Our Side? Hal the Cop
1975 Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze Johnny
1985 The Big Bet Rev. Lowell

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1967 The Monkees Rob Roy S1:E24, "Monkees a la Mode"

References

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  1. ^ Lisanti, Tom (22 September 2015). Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood to Rome, 1961-1974. McFarland. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-7864-9661-7. Retrieved October 22, 2020.
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