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.
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Eldon Quick (left) with the cast of Doc Savage |
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Occupation | Stage, film, television actor |
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 "Johnny" Littlejohn in Doc Savage and Reverend Lowell in The Big Bet.
During the 1980s, Quick began to memorize passages from The Iliad, eventually committing the entire work to memory.