Maybe more bickering with Vincent Price than average, inasmuch as Vincent Price literally told him he couldn’t act, but still. In this, Robert Quarry is no different from dozens, if not hundreds, of actors working at the time.

Lots of TV shows, even including ones you’d actually remember him from if you know the episode. An MST3K appearance here, a RiffTrax movie there. (He is listed as “uncredited” in Shadow of a Doubt, but it seems uncertain if he was actually in it or not.) After fifteen years of TV, he started doing silly horror movies, which apparently involved starting a rivalry with Vincent Price. After the war, he went back to acting, now on TV. He enlisted in 1943-at age eighteen, after four years of career. He was one of the many people whose World War II service included acting. Apparently, he was a regular on the Doctor Christian radio show, starring Absolutely On The Calendar Now Jean Hersholt.

He graduated from high school at age fourteen and went directly into acting. However, when I do that, it will become obvious that Robert Quarry did a bunch of those shows in more than one decade. It’s probably going to be another one of those statistical analysis deep-dives-shows that ran for a long time with a lot of new actors on every episode that produced a lot of familiar people and maybe a handful of standouts but mostly people who went from one show to another without doing anything hugely noteworthy in any of them. One of these days, I will do the research necessary to really discuss the concept of Standard TV Career by decade.

Shadow of a doubt (1943) robert quarry