Quinn K. Redeker

Redeker and Lou Garfield co-authored the story for the 1978 film The Deer Hunter. Throughout 1960, Redeker was cast as a photographer on the short-lived NBC crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier and Dan Barton. The following year, he appeared as nerdy Schulyer Davis in the film The Three Stooges Meet Hercules.

On television, he started acting in 1960 and amassed appearances on over five dozen television series. He is best known for his roles as Alex Marshall on Days of Our Lives, whom he played from 1979 to 1987, and on The Young and the Restless where he played Nick Reed in 1979, Joseph Taylor from 1979 to 1980, and his best-known character, Rex Sterling, from 1987 to 2004.

Redecker's friendship with Robert Redford also saw him play supporting roles in three of Redford's films: The Candidate (1972), The Electric Horseman (1979) and Ordinary People (1980), where he played Mary Tyler Moore's brother.

Redeker died on December 20, 2022, at the age of 86.