Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  

































Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1 Early life  





2 Acting career  





3 Filmography and television work  





4 References  





5 External links  














Don Quine






Afrikaans
 

Edit links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 
















Appearance
   

 






From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


Don Quine
Don Quine in Southern California
Born

Donald Robert Charles Quine


(1938-09-11) September 11, 1938 (age 85)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • writer
  • novelist
  • Years active1959–1993
    Known for
  • The Virginian
  • Spouses

    Carole Kane

    (m. 1959; div. 1966)

    (m. 1971; div. 1996)

    Sharon Ann Quine

    (m. 2014)
    Children3
    WebsiteDon Quine website

    Donald Robert Charles Quine (born September 11, 1938) is an American author, actor, and sports promoter. He is known for his television roles playing Joe Chernak and Stacey Grainger in Peyton Place and The Virginian. Quine also was the president of the Professional Karate Association (PKA) whose Kick of the 80’s weekly fight series on ESPN ran for close to a decade. He wrote American Karate, a book on self-defense.

    Early life

    [edit]

    Quine was born on September 11, 1938, in Fennville, Michigan, to Irene Elizabeth Quine (1916-2008) and Robert Corkill Quine (1895-1943).

    After his father, a medical surgeon and major in the U.S. Air Force, was killed in the crash of a B-24 Liberator bomber near Gunnison, Colorado, on July 19, 1943, his mother entrusted Quine and his younger sister, Janis, into the care of Alec Dahlke, a carpenter, and his wife Evelyn, a schoolteacher, in Oxnard, California.[citation needed] Their daughters, Phyllis and Patty babysat the two siblings, giving Don's mother the opportunity to continue working as a dental assistant while staying at the home of a friend to save up money for a place to live with her two children.[citation needed]

    Several years later, Quine's mother remarried, and he and his sister moved to northern California with their stepfather, James Gores, who was a steeplejack.[citation needed][1] Quine was valedictorian of his sixth grade class at Santa Fe Elementary in Oakland, California, a sergeant in the school Traffic Patrol and had two paper routes as a delivery boy for The Oakland Tribune.[citation needed] He bought the first TV set in his neighborhood, a 10" RCA, and charged kids a nickel a peek to watch Howdy Doody and Lone Ranger, until his stepfather put an end to the operation and explained to Don that capitalism has its limits.[citation needed]

    His teenage years were troubled and Don spent several months at a juvenile detention center in Martinez, California, for burglary. After his mother divorced Gores and married an officer in the Coast Guard, Nathan Vanger, Don moved to Staten Island and graduated from New Dorp High School in 1957.[citation needed]

    Acting career

    [edit]

    After a semester of pre-medical studies at the University of Colorado, Don realized he did not want to be a doctor. While at Wagner College back in Staten Island, Don became involved in the Theatre Arts program. This led him to New York City where he studied at the American Theatre Wing with Stella Adler and John Stix, before landing the role of Tom Stark in Robert Penn Warren’s Off-Broadway premiere of All the King’s Men at the East 74th Street Theater in 1959. It was here that he was spotted by an agent and offered work in Hollywood.

    Filmography and television work

    [edit]

    References

    [edit]
    1. ^ A ‘steeple Jack’ is one who climbs tall steeples and chimneys for repairs (British Oxford dict)
    [edit]
    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don_Quine&oldid=1166825751"

    Categories: 
    1938 births
    20th-century American male actors
    21st-century American male writers
    21st-century American novelists
    21st-century American screenwriters
    American male film actors
    American male novelists
    American male screenwriters
    American male stage actors
    American male television actors
    American mystery writers
    American science fiction writers
    Balaban family
    Living people
    Male actors from Michigan
    Novelists from New York City
    Screenwriters from New York (state)
    Hidden categories: 
    Articles with short description
    Short description is different from Wikidata
    BLP articles lacking sources from March 2022
    All BLP articles lacking sources
    Articles with hCards
    All articles with unsourced statements
    Articles with unsourced statements from November 2021
    Articles with VIAF identifiers
    Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
    Articles with LCCN identifiers
     



    This page was last edited on 24 July 2023, at 00:17 (UTC).

    Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



    Privacy policy

    About Wikipedia

    Disclaimers

    Contact Wikipedia

    Code of Conduct

    Developers

    Statistics

    Cookie statement

    Mobile view



    Wikimedia Foundation
    Powered by MediaWiki