Quinn Redeker, Actor on ‘Days of Our Lives’ and ‘The Young and the Restless,’ Has Passed Away at the Age of 86 Years Old

Actor Quinn Redeker of soap operas Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless, has passed away at the age of 86 years old. He passed away on December 20th, from natural causes in Camarillo, California.

Early on in his career, Redeker appeared in The Three Stooges Meet Hercules and Jack Hill’s Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told, prior to working with Robert Redford in The Candidate, The Electric Horseman and Ordinary People.

Quinn Kellogg Redeker was born on May second, 1936, in Woodstock, Illinois. Growing up in Seattle boarding house for divorced women that his mother had set up. After his start as a stand up comic, Redeker studied acting alongside Sandy Meisner and in 1960 played a magazine photographer on the Sunset Strip NBC crime drama Dan Raven.

When Redeker joined Days of Our Lives in 1979 as Alex Marshall, he recalled, “When Alex first came on, he killed a couple of people, But [the producers] decided they kind of liked me, and they let me start doing the comedy. I started joking it up a bit.”

He has also appeared on TV shows such as Bonanza, That Girl, Mannix, The Virginian, The Bob Newhart Show, Fantasy Island and CSI: Miami and in films including Airport (1970), The Andromeda Strain (1971) and The Midnight Man (1974).

Survivors include his daughter and other children, Brennen, Glaen and Quinn Jr., along with his grandchildren, Keihen and Quinn.

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