Eldon Maroney Quick (born April 4, 1937) is an American

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. He is an alumnus of the American Shakespeare Festival and has numerous stage, screen, and television roles to his credit.

Life and career

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 ''

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"), which he reprised as Captain Pratt in " The Late Captain Pierce". Quick also played scheming magazine editor Rob Roy Fingerhead in an episode of ''

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'', and the villain Chronos in the final episode of '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century''. Quick appeared in a ''

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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). His film roles include Charlie Hawthorne in '' In the Heat of the Night'',

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in '' Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze'', and Reverend Lowell in ''The Big Bet''.

Filmography

Television

References

External links

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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 {{US-tv-actor-1930s-stub