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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 31, 1907
Died
July 19, 1990
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Edward Quillan
Eddie Quillan
0.5 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Known For
7.1
David Sears
Matlock
1986
5.0
Poco Loco
Hell Town
1985
0.0
Smitty
Father of Hell Town
1985
7.5
Abbie Cadabra
Moonlighting
1985
7.4
Highway to Heaven
1984
7.5
Old Man
The A-Team
1983
3.0
Wino
For the Love of It
1980
0.0
Alfred Ammonet
The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway
1980
8.0
Old White Man
White Mama
1980
6.3
Watchman
The Darker Side of Terror
1979
Credits
Matlock
as David Sears
1986
7.1
Hell Town
as Poco Loco
1985
5.0
Father of Hell Town
as Smitty
1985
0.0
Moonlighting
as Abbie Cadabra
1985
7.5
Highway to Heaven
1984
7.4
The A-Team
as Old Man
1983
7.5
For the Love of It
as Wino
1980
3.0
The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway
as Alfred Ammonet
1980
0.0
White Mama
as Old White Man
1980
8.0
The Darker Side of Terror
as Watchman
1979
6.3
Kaz
1978
5.0
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
as Tompkins
1978
0.0
Mad Bull
as Rafferty
1977
0.0
Melvin Purvis G-Man
as Hotel Clerk
1975
6.0
The Strongest Man in the World
as Mr. Willoughby
1975
6.1
Baretta
1975
6.4
Police Woman
1974
6.2
Little House on the Prairie
as Buffalo Bill
1974
7.9
Petrocelli
1974
7.2
Lucas Tanner
1974
7.0
Hitchhike!
as Counterman
1974
8.0
She Lives!
as Janitor
1973
5.8
Incident on a Dark Street
as Security Guard
1973
5.0
The Judge and Jake Wyler
as Billy Lambert
1972
3.0
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
as Charlie, School Custodian (uncredited)
1972
6.3
Nichols
as Agent
1971
5.0
Columbo
as Ferguson
1971
8.1
How to Frame a Figg
as Old Man
1971
6.2
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
as Silver Dollar Bartender (uncredited)
1970
5.0
Hello, Dolly!
as Mr. Cassidy (uncredited)
1969
7.0
Love, American Style
1969
6.1
Here's Lucy
as Cab Driver
1968
6.7
Here's Lucy
as Jackson
1968
6.7
Adam-12
as T.J.
1968
7.0
Julia
1968
6.0
The Shakiest Gun in the West
as Train Porter (uncredited)
1968
6.3
Mannix
1967
6.7
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
6.2
Cimarron Strip
1967
5.5
Frankie and Johnny
as Cashier (uncredited)
1966
5.6
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
as Elevator Operator
1966
6.7
Batman
as Newsie
1966
7.3
The F.B.I.
as Amos Wick
1965
5.4
Lost in Space
as Bartender
1965
7.1
The Big Valley
as Hotel Clerk
1965
6.1
The Bounty Killer
as Pianist
1965
5.8
Zebra in the Kitchen
as Man Watching TV
1965
4.3
Branded
as Cowhand (uncredited)
1965
6.6
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Ephraim Smith (uncredited)
1964
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Inn Landlord
1964
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Mr. Stokey
1964
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Proprietor
1964
7.0
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Scotty MacPherson
1964
7.1
The Addams Family
as Horace Beesley
1964
8.0
The Addams Family
as Mr. Digby
1964
8.0
The Addams Family
as Joe Digby
1964
8.0
The Addams Family
as Clyde Arbogast
1964
8.0
The Addams Family
as George Bass
1964
8.0
Valentine's Day
1964
0.0
Viva Las Vegas
as Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)
1964
6.2
Move Over, Darling
as Bellboy
1963
6.7
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
as Stevens House Room Clerk
1963
5.8
🎬
Glynis
1963
0.0
Petticoat Junction
as Dick
1963
5.7
Petticoat Junction
as Mort
1963
5.7
Burke's Law
as Elevator Starter
1963
6.0
Burke's Law
as Mr. Jellybean
1963
6.0
Promises! Promises!
as Bartender
1963
4.4
Summer Magic
as Boston Mailman (uncredited)
1963
6.6
Come Blow Your Horn
as Elevator Boy (uncredited)
1963
4.8
The Lucy Show
as Mr. Vincent
1962
7.0
The Lucy Show
as Briggs
1962
7.0
87th Precinct
1961
7.5
Mister Ed
1961
6.7
Surfside 6
1960
5.0
The Andy Griffith Show
as Bell Hop
1960
7.6
Pete and Gladys
1960
6.0
Lifetime of Comedy
as (archive footage)
1960
5.5
The Detectives
1959
6.1
The Alaskans
1959
5.5
Law of the Plainsman
as Horace Arnold
1959
6.0
The Rifleman
1958
7.1
The Texan
1958
5.5
Perry Mason
as Bookkeeper Abner Keller
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Agent
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Photographer
1957
7.7
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Mel Jones
1957
6.2
Come on Seven
as Eddie
1956
0.0
Jungle Safari
as Chuck Kelly
1956
4.0
🎬
He Took a Powder
1955
0.0
Gunsmoke
as Barkeep
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Telegrapher
1955
6.6
🎬
Nobody's Home
1955
0.0
🎬
His Pest Friend
1955
0.0
Brigadoon
as Sandy
1954
6.5
🎬
Doggie in the Bedroom
1954
0.0
A-Hunting They Did Go
1953
0.0
🎬
He Popped His Pistol
1953
0.0
🎬
Strop, Look and Listen
1952
0.0
🎬
Heebie Gee-Gees
as Eddie
1952
0.0
A Fool and His Honey
as Eddie
1952
0.0
🎬
Fun on the Run
1951
2.0
🎬
He Flew the Shrew
1951
0.0
🎬
House About It
1950
0.0
Sideshow
as Big Top
1950
0.0
Let Down Your Aerial
1949
0.0
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
1948
0.0
Crabbin' in the Cabin
1948
0.0
A Guy Could Change
as George Cummings
1946
0.0
Sensation Hunters
as Ray Lawson
1945
4.5
Jungle Raiders
as Joe Riley
1945
5.5
Song of the Sarong
as Tony Romans
1945
5.0
Jungle Queen
as Chuck Kelly
1945
5.0
Mystery of the Riverboat
as Jug Jenks [Chs. 1-4, 7]
1944
6.0
Moonlight and Cactus
as Stubby Lamont
1944
4.0
Dark Mountain
as Willie Dinsmire
1944
4.9
Dixie Jamboree
as Jeff Calhoun
1944
4.5
This Is the Life
as Gus
1944
5.0
Twilight on the Prairie
as Phil
1944
0.0
Slightly Terrific
as Charlie Young
1944
4.0
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Dynamo Carson
1944
5.7
The Impostor
as Bouteau
1944
6.0
Hi'ya, Sailor
as Corky Mills
1943
6.0
🎬
Here Comes Kelly
as Jimmy Kelly
1943
1.0
Melody Parade
as Jimmy Tracy
1943
0.0
Alaska Highway
as Pompadour 'Shorty' Jones
1943
5.0
Follow the Band
as Marvin Howe
1943
0.0
It Ain't Hay
as Harry, the Horse
1943
6.4
Priorities on Parade
as Sticks O'Hara
1942
0.0
Kid Glove Killer
as Eddie Wright
1942
6.2
Flying Blind
as Riley
1941
2.7
🎬
Too Many Blondes
as Wally Pelton
1941
0.0
The Flame of New Orleans
as 3rd Sailor
1941
6.4
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
as Skat
1941
5.0
Where Did You Get That Girl?
as Joe Olsen
1941
5.0
Dark Streets of Cairo
as Jerry Jones
1940
6.0
Dancing on a Dime
as Jack Norcross
1940
4.5
La Conga Nights
as Titus Endover
1940
7.5
The Grapes of Wrath
as Connie Rivers
1940
7.8
Allegheny Uprising
as Will Anderson
1939
5.6
Hawaiian Nights
as Ray Peters
1939
0.0
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Adam Clay
1939
7.2
The Flying Irishman
as Henry Corrigan
1939
4.6
The Family Next Door
as Sammy Pierce
1939
5.2
Made for Each Other
as Conway
1939
6.1
Swing, Sister, Swing
as Chick 'Satchel Lips' Peters
1938
0.0
Big City
as Mike Edwards
1937
7.4
London by Night
as Bill
1937
5.9
The Mandarin Mystery
as Ellery Queen
1936
4.8
The Gentleman from Louisiana
as Tod Mason
1936
0.0
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Tommy Ellison
1935
7.3
Gridiron Flash
as Tommy "Cherub" Burke
1934
3.3
Hollywood Party
as Bob Benson
1934
5.8
Meet the Baron
as Man at Dock (uncredited)
1933
4.2
Broadway to Hollywood
as Ted Hackett III
1933
4.6
Strictly Personal
as Thomas ("Tommy") Jefferson Reed
1933
5.0
Girl Crazy
as Danny Churchill
1932
3.8
The Big Shot
as Ray Smith
1931
0.0
The Tip-Off
as Tommy
1931
5.2
Sweepstakes
as Buddy Doyle
1931
4.5
🎬
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931
6.0
Big Money
as Eddie
1930
0.0
Night Work
as Willie Musher
1930
6.2
The Sophomore
as Joe Collins
1929
4.5
Geraldine
as Eddie Able
1929
0.0
Show Folks
as Eddie Kehoe
1928
6.0
The Godless Girl
as Samuel 'Bozo' Johnson
1928
7.0
🎬
Love in a Police Station
as Officer Eddie Chase
1927
0.0
🎬
The Bull Fighter
as Young Flint
1927
0.0
🎬
For Sale, a Bungalow
as Eddie
1927
0.0
The Golf Nut
as Eddie
1927
0.0
🎬
The College Kiddo
as Eddie Dunn - the Freshman
1927
0.0
Catalina, Here I Come
as Eddie
1927
0.0
Kitty from Killarney
as Eddie McManus
1926
0.0
Should Husbands Marry?
as Eddie McGrew
1926
0.0
The Perils of Petersboro
as Eddie Knight
1926
0.0
🎬
Her Actor Friend
as Buddy Jones
1926
0.0