Quinn K. Redeker (born May 2, 1936) is an American actor and
screenwriter, who is well known for his work on soap operas.Redeker
has been a screenwriter for over 40 years, with the most notable work
to his name being the story writer for the 1978 film The Deer Hunter.
Throughout 1960, Redeker was cast as a photographer on the short-lived
NBC crime drama Dan Raven starring the former child actor Skip Homeier
and Dan Barton. The following year, he appeared as nerdy Schulyer
Davis in the film The Three Stooges Meet Hercules.On television, he
started acting in 1960 and amassed appearances on over five dozen
television series. On October 25, 1972, he played a crooked cop on
Adam-12. He is best known for his roles as Alex Marshall on Days of
Our Lives, whom he played from 1979 to 1987, and on The Young and the
Restless where he played Nick Reed in 1979 and Joseph Taylor from 1979
to 1980 before his best-known character of Rex Sterling, from 1987 to
1994. Redeker also appeared in the Barnaby Jones; episodes "Fantasy of
Fear" (February 25, 1975) and “Duet for Danger†on May 5, 1977.As
a writer, Redeker was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original
Screenplay and an WGA Award for Best Drama Written Directly for the
Screenplay for The Deer Hunter, along with Deric Washburn, Louis A.
Garfinkle and Michael Cimino.
screenwriter, who is well known for his work on soap operas.Redeker
has been a screenwriter for over 40 years, with the most notable work
to his name being the story writer for the 1978 film The Deer Hunter.
Throughout 1960, Redeker was cast as a photographer on the short-lived
NBC crime drama Dan Raven starring the former child actor Skip Homeier
and Dan Barton. The following year, he appeared as nerdy Schulyer
Davis in the film The Three Stooges Meet Hercules.On television, he
started acting in 1960 and amassed appearances on over five dozen
television series. On October 25, 1972, he played a crooked cop on
Adam-12. He is best known for his roles as Alex Marshall on Days of
Our Lives, whom he played from 1979 to 1987, and on The Young and the
Restless where he played Nick Reed in 1979 and Joseph Taylor from 1979
to 1980 before his best-known character of Rex Sterling, from 1987 to
1994. Redeker also appeared in the Barnaby Jones; episodes "Fantasy of
Fear" (February 25, 1975) and “Duet for Danger†on May 5, 1977.As
a writer, Redeker was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original
Screenplay and an WGA Award for Best Drama Written Directly for the
Screenplay for The Deer Hunter, along with Deric Washburn, Louis A.
Garfinkle and Michael Cimino.
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