{{short description|American novelist}} {{Inline|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Don Quine | image = don-quine-wiki.jpg | caption = Don Quine in Southern California | birth_name = Donald Robert Charles Quine | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1938|9|11}} | birth_place = Fennville, Michigan, U.S. | occupation = {{flatlist| * Actor * writer * novelist }} | years_active = 1959–1993 | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Carole Kane|1959|1966|reason=divorced}} * {{marriage|Judy Balaban|1971|1996|reason=divorced}} * {{marriage|Sharon Ann Quine|2014|}} }} | children = 3 | known_for = {{ubl|''Peyton Place''|''The Virginian''}} | website = {{URL| http://www.donquine.com | Don 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 in ''Peyton Place'' and Stacey Grainger in ''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== Quine was born on September 11, 1938, in Fennville, Michigan, to Irene Elizabeth Quine (1916-2008) and Robert Corkill Quine (1895-1943).{{cn|date=August 2025}}
==Acting career== Quine attended a semester of pre-medical studies at the University of Colorado. Later, while at Wagner College in Staten Island, Quine became involved in the Theatre Arts program. This led him to New York City where he studied at the American Theatre Wing 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.
==Select filmography and television work== *''Torch Song'' (1993) as Joe (Movie) *''Hawaii Five-O'' (1970) as Don Miles *''Medical Center'' (1969) as Tim Martin *''Lancer'' (1968) as Corey *''Insight'' (1968) as Mike *''The Virginian'' (1966–68) as Stacy Granger (55 episodes) *''Peyton Place'' (1965–66) as Joe Chernak (16 episodes) *''The F.B.I.'' (1966) as Frank Collins *''12 O'Clock High'' (1965–66) as Lt. Thourneau and Sergeant Hanson *''The Fugitive'' (1964–66) as Sandy/Vin/Joe
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|nm0703687}} *[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/13/garden/karate-s-unlikely-first-family.html ''New York Times'' Professional Karate Association article] *[http://ctva.biz/US/Western/Virginian/V-homepage.htm The Classic TV Archive] *[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/13/garden/karate-s-unlikely-first-family.html Sullivan’s Empire - IMDb] *[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144833/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2 Clayton County Line - IMDb] {{Authority control}}
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