Robert Quarry

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Tall, handsome, and charismatic actor Robert Quarry was born on November 3, 1925 in Santa Rosa, California.

His father was a doctor.

Robert's grandmother first introduced him to the world of theater.

Quarry finished school at age 14 and was on the swimming team in high school.

In the early 1940s he was a busy juvenile actor on the radio; he even had a regular part on the "Dr.

Christian" program.

Robert joined the Army Combat Engineers at age 18 and formed a theatrical group which put on a hit production of the play "The Hasty Heart' that Quarry both acted in and helped produce.

Quarry made his film debut with a small role in 'Alfred Hitchcock in "Design for Living" at the Stage Society in Los Angeles and in 1966 went on tour with a traveling roadshow production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".

He regularly studied his craft at the Actors Lab in Hollywood.

Blessed with an IQ of 168, Quarry was a Lifemaster at bridge.

In addition, Robert studied cooking at the Cardon Bleu School in Manhattan and was the author of the best-selling cookbook "Wonderfully Simple Recipes for Simply Wonderful Food.

" Robert Quarry died at age 83 from a heart condition on February 20, 2009 in Woodland Hills, California.

Good night and rest in peace, Count Yorga.

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Country: United States
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Santa Rosa· California
Birth date: 03 November 1925
Nationality: American

Has an IQ of 168.
He completed high school at age 14.
Appeared with Paul Newman in Winning . Cut from the film, Newman gave him a part in WUSA .
His personal life was fraught with life-threatening incidents. He had a cancer scare in 1965.
Director/producer/writer Fred Olen Ray , director of many low-budget independent films, contacted Robert in 1987 while he was recuperating in a wheelchair and used him in over a dozen films.
A fine chef, he studied the art of cooking at the Cardon Bleu School in Manhattan under the supervision of Dione Lucas.
Won an acting scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse.
Modern sources claim that Quarry "won the role of Teresa Wright s boyfriend in the 1943 Hitchcock classic Shadow of a Doubt ," which is hardly likely since at the time of the filming, Wright was 24 and Quarry was only 17, so apparently he must have had some other secondary role. Whatever it might have been, he was all but cut out, but it did lead to an eventual Hollywood career, as well as lifelong friendships with Wright and Joseph Cotten.
A brief bout with cancer in 1965 gave him time to learn how to play bridge, and became an expert.
Joined the US Army Combat Engineers at age 18 and formed his own theatrical troupe while in the Army. He acted in and helped produce a hit production, "The Hasty Heart" at which President Franklin D.

I always tried to play villains like the heroes.
[on portraying Count Yorga] I enjoyed playing Yorga. The fun of making,movies is the fun of getting outside yourself.

Movies

Monster Madness: The Counter Culture to Blockbusters
2015
Part four of a multi-part documentary series with distinguished actors, directors, writers, examining the history of the horror, fantasy and science fiction films from the groundbreaking silent 1920s through the Golden Age of Universal, the Silver Age of Hammer and up through the 1980s and beyond..
Dear Santa
1998
Mr.
Dear Santa
1998
Mr.
Spirits
1990
A priest, trying to regain his standing in the church after "falling" and sleeping with a woman, teams with a group of ESP experts to investigate a haunted house.
Sexbomb
1989
A low-budget film producer begins shooting his next two epics, "I Rip Your Flesh With Pliers" and "Werewolves in Heat.
The Phantom Empire
1988
The Phantom Empire is a 1988 sci-fi horror film directed by Fred Olen Ray..
Commando Squad
1987
An American narcotics agent takes her squad to Mexico, where she must break up a drug-smuggling gang that has also kidnapped her boyfriend..
Madhouse
1974
Madhouse is a 1974 British horror film directed by Jim Clark for Amicus Productions in association with American International Pictures.
Sugar Hill
1974
When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides not to get mad, but BAD!
Deathmaster
1972
Quarry is a mysterious, articulate stranger who draws a cult like following of local hippies.
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
1972
The moon rises at a predestined angle and awakens the sleeping Dr.
The Return of Count Yorga
1971
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage.
Count Yorga, Vampire
1970
Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother.

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Simply wonderful recipes for wonderfully simple foods
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