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DATE: TUESDAY, July 24, 1990                   TAG: 9007240204
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B/2   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
DATELINE: HOLLYWOOD                                LENGTH: Short

ACTOR EDDIE QUILLAN DIES OF CANCER AT 83

Eddie Quillan, who honed his theatrical skills in silent two-reel Mack Sennett comedies and then used them in more than 150 films and dozens of television shows in a career that spanned more than 60 years, has died. He was 83.

He died Thursday of cancer in Burbank, Calif., said his sister, Roseanne Quillan.

Quillan portrayed a series of idealistic young heroes and boys next door in some of Hollywood's most notable and forgettable pictures.

Among them were Ellison, the lovesick mutineer in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935); a boy accused of murder in "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939); Connie Rivers, the young radio mechanic in "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940); and the candy man in "Brigadoon" (1954).

He turned to TV late in his career and generally portrayed cab drivers, bookmakers or thieves on such melodramas as "Police Woman" and "Baretta."

by CNB