Quick's debut as a professional actor came at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut. 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 appeared in a
Bewitched episode, "Samantha's Secret Saucer", as Captain Tugwell. Eldon Quick also appeared in the show Barnaby Jones; episode titled, "To Catch a Dead Man"(02/04/1973). His film roles include Charlie Hawthorne in
In the Heat of the Night,
William Harper Littlejohn in
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, and Reverend Lowell in
The Big Bet. ==Filmography==