Eldon Quick

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| occupation = Film and television actor

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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

Quick's debut as a professional actor came at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut.{{cite book |last1=Lisanti |first1=Tom |title=Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood to Rome, 1961-1974 |date=22 September 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-9661-7 |page=178 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MOSCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Eldon+Quick%22+actor&pg=PA178 |accessdate=October 22, 2020 |language=en}}

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

Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
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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