Veteran actor and union official Patrick Quinn died Sunday of a massive coronary in at his summer home in Pennsylvania. He was 56.
Quinn had recently been appointed executive director of Actors’ Equity Assn. after serving as president of the New York-based 45,000-member organization since 2000,
The Philadelphia native began his Equity career in 1970. He made his Broadway debut in a revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” with Zero Mostel and boasted 10 other Broadway credits, including “A Class Act,” “Beauty and the Beast” and the revival of “The Sound of Music.”
Quinn’s TV credits included recurring roles on “Bosom Buddies” with
Tom Hanks, “As the World Turns,” “All My Children” and guest appearances on all three versions of “Law & Order.” He also voiced characters in the animated films “Aladdin,” “Pocahontas” and “Anastasia.”
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