Eldon Quick (born April 4, 1937, in
San Joaquin County, California
San Joaquin County (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''San Joaquín'', meaning "Joachim, St. Joachim"), officially the County of San Joaquin, is a county (United States), county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 20 ...
) 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.
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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" 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
The Monkees were an American rock and pop band, formed in Los Angeles in 1966, whose lineup consisted of the American actor/musicians Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork alongside English actor/singer Davy Jones. The group was con ...
'', and the villain Chronos in the final episode of ''
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century''.
He 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).
Quick's movie 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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Eldon Quickat
AllmovieBiography 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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