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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.
Eddie Quillan Biography / Wiki
| Name | Eddie Quillan |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Date of Birth | March 31, 1907 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 83 |
| Deathday | 1990-07-19 |
Eddie Quillan Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Mandarin Mystery | Ellery Queen | 1936-12-23 | Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp…. |
| The Tip-Off | Tommy Jordan | 1931-10-16 | A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio…. |
| Here Comes Kelly | Jimmy Kelly | 1943-09-19 | Cocky Kelly’s girlfriend helps him straighten up enough to get a job as a process server…. |
| Melody Parade | Jimmy Tracy | 1943-08-27 | The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing…. |
| The Big Shot | Ray Smith | 1931-12-31 | A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers…. |
| Sweepstakes | Buddy Doyle | 1931-07-10 | A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he’s accused of throwing a race…. |
| Gridiron Flash | Tommy “Cherub” Burke | 1934-10-06 | A college football team recruits a tough convict…. |
| Night Work | Willie | 1930-08-03 | Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store’s … |
| Show Folks | Eddie Kehoe | 1928-10-20 | Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians…everybody bu… |
| The Sophomore | Joe Collins | 1929-08-24 | Joe Collins (Eddie Quillan) arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses … |
| The Gentleman from Louisiana | Tod Mason | 1936-08-14 | In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals…. |
| Follow the Band | Marvin Howe | 1943-04-01 | A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub…. |
| Big Money | Eddie | 1930-10-28 | A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler…. |
| The College Kiddo | Eddie Dunn – the Freshman | 1927-08-07 | The College Kiddo is a 1927 comedy short…. |
| His Pest Friend | 1955-01-20 | The boys install a television aerial…. | |
| Catalina, Here I Come | Eddie | 1927-04-16 | Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned b… |
| Jungle Raiders | Joe Riley | 1945-09-14 | Greedy traders have kidnapped a researcher, hoping he will reveal the location of a treasure in a hidden village. Family and friends of the researche… |
| Jungle Queen | Chuck Kelly | 1945-01-22 | A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle…. |
| The Flying Irishman | Henry Corrigan | 1939-04-07 | This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas ‘Wrong Way’ Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight… |
| Hi, Good Lookin’! | Dynamo Carson | 1944-03-22 | An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer…. |
| Jungle Safari | Chuck Kelly | 1956-01-01 | Feature version of the 1945 Universal serial, JUNGLE QUEEN…. |
| Heebie Gee-Gees | Eddie | 1952-04-09 | Wally Vernon and Eddie Quillan, each in trouble with their respective spouse, spend the day at the race track. When they accidentally bet on the wrong… |
| A Fool and His Honey | Eddie | 1952-01-10 | Wally suspects Eddie of having more than a friendly interest in Wally’s wife, and his suspicions, he thinks, are confirmed when he finds Eddie in his … |
| Her Actor Friend | Buddy Jones | 1926-08-29 | A 1926 comedy short directed by Eddy Cline…. |
| Come on Seven | Eddie | 1956-02-23 | Wally and Eddie are on their way to Reno to win enough money to pay for a little boy’s operation. On the way, their car is stolen by two girls and the… |
| The Perils of Petersboro | Eddie Knight | 1926-09-26 | The Perils of Petersboro is a 1926 silent comedy… |
| Should Husbands Marry? | Eddie McGrew | 1926-10-26 | Should Husbands Marry? is a 1926 comedy… |
| Kitty from Killarney | Eddie McManus | 1926-12-19 | Kitty from Killarney is a 1926 comedy short…. |
| For Sale, a Bungalow | Eddie | 1927-10-30 | For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short… |
| Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath | 1948-12-16 | Wally intends to have a nice quiet day at home, until his brother-in-law Eddie shows up with his kids…. | |
| Crabbin’ in the Cabin | 1948-05-13 | Wally and Eddie’s hunting trip is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of their wives…. | |
| Let Down Your Aerial | 1949-11-17 | Eddie buys a new TV set and Wally offers to help him put up his roof antenna…. | |
| House About It | 1950-07-20 | Wally and his family and Eddie and his family all wind up living in the same house. Complications ensue…. | |
| He Flew the Shrew | 1951-01-11 | Comedy short…. | |
| Fun on the Run | 1951-05-10 | Wally and Eddie head for Reno, Nevada to get jobs…. | |
| Strop, Look and Listen | 1952-12-11 | Eddie and Wally are barbers…. | |
| He Popped His Pistol | 1953-05-14 | Vernon and Eddie run a shoe-store…. | |
| A-Hunting They Did Go | 1953-10-24 | Wally and Eddie go on a hunting trip…. | |
| Doggie in the Bedroom | 1954-01-07 | Eddie visits, with his annoying kids…. | |
| Nobody’s Home | 1955-06-09 | The boys unknowingly purchase the same house…. | |
| He Took a Powder | 1955-10-27 | Wally leaves his wife…. | |
| Dancing on a Dime | Jack Norcross | 1940-11-01 | Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA sho… |
| The Family Next Door | Sammy Pierce | 1939-03-30 | Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her sm… |
| Strictly Personal | Thomas (“Tommy”) Jefferson Reed | 1933-03-17 | Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these wer… |
| Dixie Jamboree | Jeff Calhoun | 1944-08-15 | A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them…. |
| Sensation Hunters | Ray Lawson | 1945-10-12 | A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to … |
| Hi’ya, Sailor | Corky Mills | 1943-10-08 | Bob Jackson and his three Merchant Marine shipmates have each invested $50 in a song Bob has written and which he thinks will be published for a fee o… |
| Song of the Sarong | Tony Romans | 1945-04-01 | An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives…. |
| The Bull Fighter | Young Flint | 1927-11-27 | The Bull Fighter is a 1927 short comedy… |
| Love in a Police Station | Officer Eddie Chase | 1927-12-25 | Love in a Police Station is a comedy short released in 1927… |
| Slightly Terrific | Charlie Young | 1944-04-01 | A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the ma… |
| Dark Mountain | Willie Dinsmire | 1944-09-01 | A woman doesn’t realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend… |
| Sideshow | Big Top | 1950-06-18 | A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He fin… |
| Dark Streets of Cairo | Jerry Jones | 1940-12-01 | A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels…. |
| The Golf Nut | Eddie | 1927-09-03 | Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is non… |
| Swing, Sister, Swing | Chick ‘Satchel Lips’ Peters | 1938-12-16 | In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn’t last long… |
| Hawaiian Nights | Ray Peters | 1939-09-08 | Bandleader Tim Hartley’s father objects strongly to his son’s occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This … |
| Where Did You Get That Girl? | Joe Olsen | 1941-01-03 | In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contra… |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Tommy Ellison | 1935-11-22 | Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent … |
| Made for Each Other | Conway | 1939-02-10 | A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship…. |
| Big City | Mike Edwards | 1937-09-03 | Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob contr… |
| The Godless Girl | Samuel ‘Bozo’ Johnson | 1929-03-31 | High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway… |
| Girl Crazy | Danny Churchill | 1932-03-24 | New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to… |
| Twilight on the Prairie | Phil | 1944-04-30 | In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately, t… |
| La Conga Nights | Titus Endover | 1940-05-31 | In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has gr… |
| Lifetime of Comedy | (archive footage) | 1960-01-01 | Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby…. |
| Kid Glove Killer | Eddie Wright | 1942-04-17 | Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence…. |
| Alaska Highway | Pompadour ‘Shorty’ Jones | 1943-06-24 | Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two… |
| Flying Blind | Riley | 1941-08-29 | A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened… |
| Promises! Promises! | Bartender | 1963-08-01 | After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they’re pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are…. |
| Too Many Blondes | Wally Pelton | 1941-08-01 | The plot centers on a husband-wife radio team, Dick (Rudy Vallee) and Virginia (Helen Parrish). When Dick is caught in an innocent but compromising si… |
| Broadway to Hollywood | Ted Hackett III | 1933-09-15 | In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son…. |
| Hollywood Party | Bob Benson | 1934-05-24 | Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real … |
| London by Night | Bill | 1937-07-30 | A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing a London neighborhood…. |
| Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga | Skat | 1941-01-17 | The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana…. |
| Priorities on Parade | Sticks O’Hara | 1942-07-23 | Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant. Ho… |
| The Flame of New Orleans | 3rd Sailor | 1941-07-07 | In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain…. |
| The Impostor | Bouteau | 1944-02-10 | The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is “liberated” when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his … |
| Moonlight and Cactus | Stubby Lamont | 1944-09-08 | The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good… |
| The Bounty Killer | Pianist | 1965-07-30 | Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty kill… |
| This Is the Life | Gus | 1944-06-01 | 18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice tra… |
| The Grapes of Wrath | Connie Rivers | 1940-03-15 | Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncl… |
| Allegheny Uprising | Will Anderson | 1939-11-10 | South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many l… |
| Young Mr. Lincoln | Adam Clay | 1939-06-09 | In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first l… |
| A Guy Could Change | George Cummings | 1946-01-27 | A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee…. |
| It Ain’t Hay | Harry, the Horse | 1943-03-10 | Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman’s horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find… |
| Zebra in the Kitchen | Man Watching TV | 1965-06-01 | A young boy lets the animals out of their cages at the Zoo, to set them free, but the animals start taking over the town…. |
| The Darker Side of Terror | Watchman | 1979-04-03 | A psychological thriller about a research biologist who, angered when an associate is given a position over him based on stolen research findings, agr… |
| Come Blow Your Horn | Elevator Boy (uncredited) | 1963-06-05 | The story of a young man’s decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging ’60s lifestyle…. |
| Mystery of the Riverboat | Jug Jenks [Chs. 1-4, 7] | 1944-10-24 | A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it…. |
| Move Over, Darling | Bellboy | 1963-12-19 | Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that … |
| Stout Hearts and Willing Hands | 1931-06-15 | Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject… | |
| The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway | Alfred Ammonet | 1980-04-21 | Two teenagers on the run with a quarter of a million dollars belonging to an illegal drug ring are pursued by a suave crime czar and, after they gain … |
| She Lives! | Janitor | 1973-09-12 | A young couple searches for the cure for the girl’s terminal cancer…. |
| Brigadoon | Sandy | 1954-09-08 | Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village – Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order… |
| Hitchhike! | Counterman | 1974-02-23 | A Los Angeles woman, on her way to visit her sister in San Fransisco, picks up a hitchhiker who has just killed his stepmother. Charmed by him, she fa… |
| Gunfight at Comanche Creek | Stevens House Room Clerk | 1963-11-06 | Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-ali… |
| The Judge and Jake Wyler | Billy Lambert | 1972-12-02 | A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation…. |
| Summer Magic | Boston Mailman | 1963-07-07 | Disney musical about Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow and her three children who move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down o… |
| Mad Bull | Rafferty | 1977-12-21 | An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets a beautiful woman. Unlike most of the women he has… |
| Frankie and Johnny | Cashier (uncredited) | 1966-03-31 | Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a fortune-teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck, the appearance of a new… |
| White Mama | Old White Man | 1980-03-05 | A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial… |
| The Ghost & Mr. Chicken | Elevator Operator | 1966-01-20 | Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 y… |
| Father of Hell Town | Smitty | 1985-03-06 | In this pilot to the short-lived “Hell Town,” Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish…. |
| The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again | Silver Dollar Bartender (uncredited) | 1970-11-16 | Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home tow… |
| For the Love of It | Wino | 1980-09-26 | An entrepreneur discovers a Russian plan for taking over the Middle East. He wants to use it to create a new video game but the KGB, the CIA and the F… |
| How to Frame a Figg | Old Man | 1971-02-01 | Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, t… |
| The Strongest Man in the World | Mr. Willoughby | 1975-02-06 | Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged … |
| Now You See Him, Now You Don’t | Charlie, School Custodian (uncredited) | 1972-07-12 | Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dex… |
| Incident on a Dark Street | Security Guard | 1973-01-13 | A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring…. |
| Meet the Baron | Man at Dock (uncredited) | 1933-10-20 | A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls’ school…. |
| The Shakiest Gun in the West | Train Porter (uncredited) | 1968-07-10 | Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope “Bad Penny” Cu… |
| Viva Las Vegas | Master of Ceremonies (uncredited) | 1964-02-08 | Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix – once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets… |
| Hello, Dolly! | Mr. Cassidy (uncredited) | 1969-12-12 | Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly “well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire” Horace… |
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