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name: "Quentin Dean"
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born: "27 July 1944"
died: "8 May 2003"
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updated: "2026-09-20T04:53:12.780970+00:00"
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# Quentin Dean

Actor. Born 27 July 1944 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. Died 8 May 2003.

## Details

- **Born:** 27 July 1944, Los Angeles County, California, USA
- **Died:** 8 May 2003
- **Also known as:** Quintin Corinne Margolin, Corinne Ida Margolin
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Dean, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q774604, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0212913/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/196406

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*In the Heat of the Night*](https://film.one/film/in-the-heat-of-the-night.md) (85)

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## Biography

Quentin Dean was an American actress. Born Corinne Ida Margolin on 27 July 1944 in Los Angeles County, California, she came from a family of vaudeville and circus performers. She appeared in local theatre in Massachusetts before moving to Hollywood in 1963.

Dean made her screen debut in the late 1960s and is best known for her role as the 16-year-old Delores Purdy in Norman Jewison's *In the Heat of the Night* (1967), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She also appeared as Jennie in *Will Penny* (1967) and in films including *Stay Away, Joe* (1968) and *The Young Runaways* (1968), as well as several television series such as *The Big Valley*, *The Virginian* and *The Mod Squad*. Her acting career ended in 1969.

Dean died of cancer in Los Angeles on 8 May 2003, aged 58.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *In the Heat of the Night* (1967), Fi1m 85, as Delores Purdy — [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-heat-of-the-night.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Young Runaways* (1968), as Joanne
- *Stay Away, Joe* (1968), as Mamie Callahan
- *Will Penny* (1967), as Jennie
- *In the Heat of the Night* (1967), as Delores Purdy — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-heat-of-the-night.md)

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