The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead may refer to:

Biblical idiom

• The quick and the dead (idiom), a phrase originating in the Christian Bible and popularized by the Apostles' Creed

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

(Chronological)

• The Quick and the Dead (1963 film), a war film directed by Robert Totten, set in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II
• The Quick and the Dead (1978 film), a documentary about Grand Prix racing, narrated by Stacy Keach
• The Quick and the Dead (1987 film), a 1987 television movie directed by Robert Day, based on Louis L'Amour's 1973 novel
• The Quick and the Dead (1995 film), a 1995 western directed by Sam Raimi, starring Sharon Stone as a female gunfighter

Games

(Alphabetical)

• The Quick & the Dead (1995), a roleplaying supplement to Wraith: The Oblivion (1994) by Elizabeth Fischi

Literature

(Alphabetical by author's surname)

• The Quick and the Dead (1991), a book by George Grant
• The Quick and the Dead: Biomedical Theory in Ancient Egypt (2004), a non-fiction book by Andrew Hunt Gordon and Calvin W. Schwabe postulating that the origin of the Ankh has a biological basis derived from ancient cattle culture (linked to the Egyptian belief that semen was created in the spine)
• The Quick and the Dead (1973), a novel by Louis L'Amour
• The Quick and the Dead (2008), a thriller novel by Matthew John Lee about biological warfare (the author is credited in some later editions as John Matthew Lee)
• The Quick and the Dead (1943), a novel by Ellery Queen
• The Quick and the Dead (collection), a 1965 collection of stories by Vincent Starrett
• The Quick and the Dead (1956), a book by Bill Waterton
• The Quick and the Dead (2002), a novel by Joy Williams