Anthony Rudolph Oaxaca Quinn (April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001) was a Mexican-American actor, painter, and sculptor. He was born Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Contents

1 Acting 2 Painting and sculpture 3 Family 4 Education 5 Quotations 6 External links

Acting

With an appearance and facility with language that enabled him to play characters of numerous ethnicities, Quinn worked through the late 1930s and 1940s in a wide variety of small film roles as Mexicans, Arabs, Native Americans, Asians, and assorted heavies. After appearing in over 50 films in that period he began to emerge as a leading man in the 1950s, making a clear impression in European films such as Fellini's La Strada (1954) and a 1956 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame , and winning two Oscars for supporting roles.

He was nominated for four Oscars, two for Best Actor and two for Best Supporting Actor, winning for the two supporting roles: Viva Zapata! (1952) and Lust for Life (1956). His nominated leading performances were in Wild is the Wind (1957) and Zorba the Greek (1964).

Quinn appeared in over 100 movies, and gave many memorable performances, among them his Mexican bandido in Ride Vaquero (1953), his matador in The Magnificent Matador (1955), a blond club-footed gunman in the outstanding Western Warlock(1959), a travelling player leading a troupe out West and playing opposite Sophia Loren in Heller in Pink Tights (1960), an eskimo in The Savage Innocents (1960, a WWII Greek colonel turned guerrilla in The Guns of Navarone (1961), the title role in Barabbas (1961), as Auda Abu Tayi ("I am a river to my people") in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), a burnt-out boxer in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), a Spanish police chief engaged in a cat-and-mouse struggle with ex-Republican guerrilla Gregory Peck in Behold a Pale Horse (1964), a pirate in A High Wind in Jamaica (1965), a Russian pope in The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), as Italo Bombolini, mayor of the fictional Santa Vittoria, leading the town folk into hiding a million bottles of wine from the Germans during World War Two in The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), and a narcotics crime agent in The Marseille Contract (1974). Despite all these fine performances, Quinn was always best remembered for his role in Zorba the Greek, a role he also played on stage by expanding it into a musical.

He died in Boston, Massachusetts of cancer. His body currently rests in his Bristol, Rhode Island estate.

Painting and sculpture

Quinn was a student and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Family

Quinn was married three times:

• Katherine deMille
• Iolanda Addolori
• Kathy Benvin

He fathered 13 children, and also reportedly had several mistresses (some of whom bore him children).

Education

Quinn received his first high school diploma from Tucson High School in Tucson, Arizona in the 1990s.

Quotations

"In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum."

"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."

External links

• Anthony Quinn http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000063/ at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.mytime.ca/ http://www.mytime.ca/
• http://www.beckerfilms.com/quinn.html http://www.beckerfilms.com/quinn.html