Eldon Quick
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Eldon Quick 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 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's movie roles include William Harper Littlejohn in Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
, and Reverend Lowell in The Big Bet.
During the 1980s, Quick began to memorize passages from The Iliad
, eventually committing Books I, II, III, and XXIV to memory.
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character actor
Character actor
A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...
. He is an alumnus of the American Shakespeare Festival and has numerous stage, screen, and television roles to his credit.
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
The Monkees (TV series)
The Monkees is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 1966 to March 1968. The series follows the adventures of four young men trying to make a name for themselves as rock 'n roll singers. The show introduced a number of innovative new-wave film techniques to series...
, and the villain Chronos in the final episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film several months before the series aired....
.
Quick's movie roles include William Harper Littlejohn in Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze is a 1975 camp action film starring Ron Ely as pulp hero Doc Savage. This was the last film completed by pioneering science-fiction producer George Pal.- Plot :...
, and Reverend Lowell in The Big Bet.
During the 1980s, Quick began to memorize passages from The Iliad
Iliad
The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...
, eventually committing Books I, II, III, and XXIV to memory.
External links
- Eldon Quick at Allmovie
- Biography of Eldon Quick