Can ProRes 422 be read by standard iMac Quicktime?

I'm prepping a drive to give to a producer/director who wants to look at his footage on his iMac.  He has an older version of FCP (not sure which) but he is more or less FCP illiterate.
I shot the interviews for him in XDCam, which I suspect won't play on an iMac Quicktime without a very specific plug-in ... which would be beyond his skills to find and install.
The final film will all be done in ProRes 422.
Will the standard Quicktime Player in a 2 year old iMac be able to handle ProRes 422? ... without having to find and install specific plug-in?
All ears,
Ben

Hi Shane, thank you ...
I'll go look right now.  But is that an easy download that a non-computer old-school director could handle?  He can use a word processor, and I'm sure he's installed some stuff on his computer (I think).
Mmm.  I wonder if I could download the install file myself, and stick it on his drive for him ... no having to go on the web, no having to figure out anything?
Ben

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