Marie Quillan (March 17, 1909 – April 16, 1998) was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the 1920s and 1930s. She was known primarily for her work on B-movie

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Biography

Quillan was born in

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, to Sarah Owens and Joseph Quillan, both of whom were performers born in Scotland. Actor

Eddie Quillan Edward Quillan (March 31, 1907 – July 19, 1990) was an American film actor and singer whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent film and continued through the age of television in the 1980s. Vaudeville and silent fi ...

was her brother, and she had nine other siblings. By the late 1920s, the Quillan family had resettled in Los Angeles, where she and several of her brothers and sisters performed with in vaudeville shows. She studied at the Bud Murray School for Stage and Screen. Quillan's first known film credit was 1929's ''Noisy Neighbors''. Little is known of her life after her appearance in 1935's ''The Singing Vagabond''.

Selected filmography

* ''

Noisy Neighbors ''Noisy Neighbors'' is a 1929 American sound part-talkie comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Eddie Quillan, Alberta Vaughn and Jane Keckley. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features ...

'' (1929) * ''

Campus Knights ''Campus Knights'' is a 1929 American silent comedy film directed by Albert H. Kelley and starring Raymond McKee, Shirley Palmer and Marie Quillan.Pitts p.88 Plot Cast * Raymond McKee as Prof. Ezra Hastings / Earl Hastings * Shirley Pal ...

'' (1929) * '' The Cheyenne Cyclone'' (1931) * ''

The Hurricane Horseman ''The Hurricane Horseman'' is a 1931 American Western film directed by Armand Schaefer and starring Lane Chandler, Marie Quillan and Walter Miller.Pitts p.205 It was shot at the Iverson Ranch. Cast * Lane Chandler as 'Gun' Smith * Marie Qu ...

'' (1931) * '' The Saddle Buster'' (1932) *'' The Singing Vagabond'' (1935) * ''

Melody Trail ''Melody Trail'' is a 1935 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, and Smiley Burnette.Magers 2007, p. 35. Written by Sherman L. Lowe and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who goes ...

'' (1935) * ''

Alias Mary Dow ''Alias Mary Dow'' is a 1935 American drama film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Sally Eilers, Ray Milland and Henry O'Neill.Quinlan p.331 The film's sets were designed by the art director Ralph Berger. Plot In order to comfort his dyin ...

'' (1935)

References

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