
Eddie Quillan
Biography
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Edward "Eddie" Quillan (March 31, 1907 – July 19, 1990) was an American film actor whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent film and continued through the age of television in the 1980s.
Quillan's very first film appearance was in the 1922 comedy short Up and at 'Em. His next performance was in the 1926 comedy short The Love Sundae opposite actress Alice Day.
Quillan would remain a popular leading and secondary actor throughout the sound film era and would appear in such notable films as 1935's Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Franchot Tone, 1939's Young Mr. Lincoln opposite Henry Fonda and Alice Brady, as 'Connie Rivers' in John Ford's 1940 film adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath opposite Henry Fonda, in 1943's Alaska Highway and It Ain't Hay opposite the comedic duo Abbott and Costello.
Quillan's breezy screen personality was seen in "B" musicals, comedies, and even serials during the 1940s. In 1948 Columbia Pictures producer Jules White teamed Quillan with veteran movie comic Wally Vernon for a series of comedy short subjects. White emphasized extreme physical comedy in these films, and Vernon and Quillan made a good team, enthusiastically engaging in pratfalling, kick-in-the-pants slapstick. The series ran through 1956.
Beginning in the late 1950s, Quillan began to make the transition to the medium of television and by the 1960s could be seen frequently appearing as a guest actor in such series as The Andy Griffith Show, Petticoat Junction, Perry Mason, and approximately five appearances on the camp-horror comedy series The Addams Family. He was a regular on the Anthony Franciosa sitcom Valentine's Day from 1964 to 1965, and from 1968 through 1971 he appeared as "Eddie Edson" on the television drama Julia opposite actress Diahann Carroll.
Through the 1950s and 1960s, Quillan continued to appear in motion pictures, but in increasingly smaller roles and often in bit parts. One notable appearance of the era was his role of 'Sandy' in the 1954 Vincente Minnelli directed musical Brigadoon. Quillan also appeared in the uncredited role of 'Mr.Cassidy' in the 1969 Gene Kelly film adaptation of Hello, Dolly!. Quillan appeared in My Three Sons as Mr Hewlett (1961) and also appeared on the western television adventure series The Rifleman as Angus Evans.
In the 1970s, Quillan made guest appearances on such varied television series as Mannix, Here's Lucy, Chico and the Man and Baretta. After meeting and befriending actor and director Michael Landon, he played numerous bit roles in the popular television series Little House on the Prairie. Quillan also performed in the Landon-directed series Highway to Heaven and Father Murphy during the 1980s. Quillan made his last television appearance in a 1987 episode of the television crime-mystery series Matlock.
Acting (99 movies)

The Grapes of Wrath
1940

Come on Seven
1956

Viva Las Vegas
1964

Mutiny on the Bounty
1935

Come Blow Your Horn
1963

The Flame of New Orleans
1941

Allegheny Uprising
1939

Young Mr. Lincoln
1939

The Mandarin Mystery
1936

Kid Glove Killer
1942

Made for Each Other
1939

The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972

Big City
1937

The Impostor
1944

The Darker Side of Terror
1979

The Godless Girl
1928

Gunfight at Comanche Creek
1963

Broadway to Hollywood
1933

Dark Mountain
1944

The Perils of Petersboro
1926

Should Husbands Marry?
1926

Kitty from Killarney
1926

Girl Crazy
1932

She Lives!
1973

Sideshow
1950

The Tip-Off
1931

Dark Streets of Cairo
1940

Melody Parade
1943

Catalina, Here I Come
1927

The Big Shot
1931

Sweepstakes
1931

Hollywood Party
1934

Mad Bull
1977

Crabbin' in the Cabin
1948

Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
1948

Let Down Your Aerial
1949

A-Hunting They Did Go
1953

The Case of the Baltimore Girls
1978

Jungle Raiders
1945

Jungle Queen
1945

Gridiron Flash
1934

London by Night
1937

Night Work
1930

Dancing on a Dime
1940

Mystery of the Riverboat
1944

The Flying Irishman
1939

Summer Magic
1963

Melvin Purvis G-Man
1975

Brigadoon
1954

For the Love of It
1980

Slightly Terrific
1944

Show Folks
1928

Hi, Good Lookin'!
1944

The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway
1980

Father of Hell Town
1985

Hello, Dolly!
1969

The Family Next Door
1939

The Sophomore
1929

Frankie and Johnny
1966

The Gentleman from Louisiana
1936

Strictly Personal
1933

Alaska Highway
1943

Geraldine
1929

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
1966

White Mama
1980

Dixie Jamboree
1944

Sensation Hunters
1945

Twilight on the Prairie
1944

Follow the Band
1943

Swing, Sister, Swing
1938

Hawaiian Nights
1939

Where Did You Get That Girl?
1941

La Conga Nights
1940

Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
1941

Hi'ya, Sailor
1943

Song of the Sarong
1945

The Golf Nut
1927

Moonlight and Cactus
1944

Meet the Baron
1933

It Ain't Hay
1943

Flying Blind
1941

A Guy Could Change
1946

Jungle Safari
1956

Promises! Promises!
1963

The Bounty Killer
1965

Lifetime of Comedy
1960

How to Frame a Figg
1971

The Strongest Man in the World
1975

Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972

Priorities on Parade
1942

Incident on a Dark Street
1973

The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968

This Is the Life
1944

Hitchhike!
1974

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
1970

Move Over, Darling
1963

A Fool and His Honey
1952

Big Money
1930

Zebra in the Kitchen
1965
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