Robert Quarry has died, at the age of 83. Quarry, who graduated high school at 14 and began a long career acting on the stage after winning a scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse, had his first movie job when he was still a teenager, playing Theresa Wright's boyfriend in Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1943 chiller Shadow of a Doubt. In the end, his part was chopped and he went uncredited in the movie, an omen that his movie career would be a slow starter. Although Quarry began to get steady work on TV in the early fifties, it wouldn't be until 1956, when he played a murder victim in A Kiss Before Dying, that Quarry began getting movie roles that extended beyond uncredited bit roles and that survived the final edits of the pictures in which he appeared. Finally, in 1970, in his mid-forties, Quarry briefly found his niche, as a cult horror star. It was the title role in the low-budget Count Yorga, Vampire that put him over.

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