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Eldon Quick

American character actor (born 1937)

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.

01Life 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 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.

02Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1967In the Heat of the NightCharles Hawthorne
1969Viva Max!Quincy
1974HomebodiesInsurance Inspector
1975How Come Nobody's on Our Side?Hal the Cop
1975Doc Savage: The Man of BronzeJohnny
1985The Big BetRev. Lowell

03Television

Year Title Role Notes
1967The MonkeesRob RoyS1:E24, "Monkees a la Mode"
1967Chrysler Theatre"Deadlock"
1973 M*A*S*H Captain Sloan S2:E12, "The Incubator"
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