Louis Quinn

Louis Quinn was an American actor and writer who started in radio and later worked in television and film. Born in Chicago, he moved to Los Angeles as a boy. He wrote comedy for Milton Berle and Don McNeill's Breakfast Club and hosted variety shows before serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War II, where he wrote dialogue for training films. At Warner Bros. he began as a screenwriter in 1940, penning several features before his military service. On screen he played mostly supporting parts, with credits including Al Capone (1959) and Unholy Rollers (1972). He was best known for playing Roscoe, a racetrack tout on the detective series 77 Sunset Strip from 1958 to 1963. He also guest starred on many programs, among them Batman, The Virginian, Barney Miller, and Gilligan's Island, and appeared in the 1977 film Raid on Entebbe.