Quinn Redeker has died at age 87.
Redeker is best known to TV audiences as a soap opera star and an actor who appeared on dozens of prime time shows. He was also the Oscar nominated writer of a screenplay.
Redeker wrote the screenplay for Michael Cimino’s “The Deer Hunter,” the 1979 Oscar nominated film. He wrote it with Cimino, Deric Washburne, and Louis Garfinkle. He must have been a writer at heart. A screenplay he co-wrote last year called “The Minefield,” won a bunch of awards and is waiting to be produced.
At the same time, Redeker was well known to soap audiences from long runs on “Days of our Lives,” and “The Young and the Restless.” He always played suave, sophisticated guys with good haircuts. He was obviously a mult-tasker. “The Deer Hunter” is about 180 degrees away from a soap opera.
Redeker died on December 20th, but his death was just announced. Condolences.
