Eldon Quick (born April 4, 1937, in
San Joaquin County, California
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) is an American
character actor
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. He is an alumnus of the American Shakespeare Festival and has numerous stage, screen, and television roles to his credit.
Quick's debut as a professional actor came at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut.
Quick's best-remembered television character is the bureaucratic Captain Sloan from two early episodes of ''
M*A*S*H
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Payday
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" and "
The Incubator"), which he reprised as Captain Pratt in "
The Late Captain Pierce
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". Quick also played scheming magazine editor Rob Roy Fingerhead in an episode of ''
The Monkees
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'', and the villain Chronos in the final episode of ''
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century''.
He appeared in a ''
Bewitched
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'' 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).
Quick's movie roles include Charlie Hawthorne in ''
In the Heat of the Night'',
William Harper Littlejohn
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Brigadier General Theodore Marley "Ham" Brooks
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in ''
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze'', and Reverend Lowell in ''The Big Bet''.
Filmography
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Biography of Eldon Quick
1937 births
Living people
20th-century American male actors
Male actors from California
American male film actors
American male stage actors
American male television actors
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