Eddie Quillan
Edward " Eddie" Quillan ( born March 31, 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, † July 19, 1990 in Burbank, California, USA) was an American film and theater actor.
Life
Eddie Quillan was one of five children of Joseph and Sarah Quillan, the conductors of a vaudeville theater group called The Rising Generation. With his siblings Eddie was from the age of seven on the stage, and soon became an all-rounder, whose repertoire of singing about dancing until the state gave up comedy. Soon the Quillans tourned anywhere in the U.S. and performed at, among others, at the Orpheum Theatre.
1925 joined the theater group for the first time in Los Angeles, where the 18 -year-old Eddie Quillan was discovered by film producer Mack Sennett. A year later, in 1926, he made his debut in A Love Sundae a shot in black and white silent film. Sennett was the first large Quillan also brought. So he turned over 20 feature films under Sennett line.
The 30s of the 20th century were the ones in which Quillan starred in numerous major feature films, including the 1935 produced adventure film Mutiny on the Bounty and in the biopic Young Mr Lincoln, with Henry Fonda in the title role, the John Ford 1939 staged.
But soon the interest of Hollywood producers to Quillan was exhausted, so that the latter quickly found in B-movies. Since the 1950s, Quillan was almost exclusively only in television series such as Gunsmoke and The Streets of San Francisco. He also worked with between 1977 and 1983 in seven episodes of Little House, always in various guest roles.
In 1987, after a guest role in Matlock itself Quillan retired from acting. He, who had practically experienced the rise and fall of the classical Hollywood film, was now interviewed by film historians.
Three years later died Eddie Quillan, who was never married and had no children, at the age of 83 years to cancer. He is buried in Los Angeles.