Anthony Quinn

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

Acting

Before becoming an actor, Quinn had been a prizefighter and a painter. He launched his film career playing character roles in several 1936 films, including Parole (his debut) and The Milky Way, after a brief stint in the theater. Quinn remained relegated to playing "ethnic" villains in Paramount films through the 1940s. By 1947, he was a veteran of over 50 films and had played everything from Indians, Mafia dons, Hawaiian chiefs, Chinese guerrillas, and comical Arab sheiks, but he was still not a major star. So he returned to the theater, where for three years he found success on Broadway in such roles as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Upon his return to the screen in the early '50s, Quinn was cast in a series of B-adventures like Mask of the Avenger (1951). He got one of his big breaks playing opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952). His supporting role as Zapata's brother won Quinn his first Oscar and after that, Quinn was given larger roles in a variety of features. He went to Italy in 1953 and appeared in several films, turning in one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish, and volatile strongman in Federico Fellini's La Strada (1954). Quinn won his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar portraying the painter Gaugin in Vincente Minnelli's Lust for Life (1956). The following year, he received another Oscar nomination for George Cukor's Wild is the Wind.

During the '50s, Quinn specialized in tough, macho roles, but as the decade ended, he allowed his age to show. His formerly trim physique filled out, his hair grayed, and his once smooth, swarthy face weathered into an appealing series of crags and crinkles. His careworn demeanor made him an ideal ex-boxer in Requiem for a Heavyweight and a natural for the villainous Bedouin he played in Lawrence of Arabia (both 1962). The success of Zorba the Greek in 1964 was the highwater mark of Quinn's career during the '60s -- it offered him another Oscar nomination -- and as the decade progressed, the quality of his film work noticeably diminished.

The 1970s offered little change and Quinn became known as a ham, albeit a well-respected one. In 1971, he starred in the short-lived television drama Man in the City. His subsequent television appearances were sporadic (among them Jesus of Nazareth (movie)), though in 1994, he became a semi-regular guest (playing Zeus) on the syndicated Hercules series. Though his film career slowed considerably during the 1990s, Quinn continued to work steadily, appearing in films as diverse as Jungle Fever (1991), Last Action Hero (1993), and A Walk in the Clouds (1995). Shortly after completing his final film role in Avenging Angelo (2001), At the age of 86, Anthony Quinn died of respiratory failure in Boston, Massachusetts.

Family

Quinn proved as volatile and passionate as his screen persona in his personal life. He divorced his wife Katherine, with whom he had three children, in 1956. The following year he embarked on a tempestuous thirty-one-year marriage to costume designer Iolanda Quinn. The union crumbled in 1993 when Quinn had an affair with his secretary that resulted in a baby; the two shared a second child in 1996. In total, Quinn has fathered thirteen children and has had three known mistresses.

Father of Alex A. Quinn, Francesco Quinn, Lorenzo Quinn, and Valentina Quinn.

Painting and Writing

Quinn was a student and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright

In his free time, when he wasn't acting, Quinn continued to paint and became a well-known artist.

Anthony Quinn wrote and co-wrote two memoirs, The Original Sin (1972) and One Man Tango (1997). In the latter, Quinn is candid and apologetic about some of his past's darker moments.

Education

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

Quotes

"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."

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Anthony Quinn received his first high school diploma from Tucson High School in Tucson, Arizona in the 1990s. He is also an accomplished banjo player. In the latter, Quinn is candid and apologetic about some of his past's darker moments. He has since starred in the long-running television comedy series Just Shoot Me as the head of the wacky fashion and style magazine "Blush". Anthony Quinn wrote and co-wrote two memoirs, The Original Sin (1972) and One Man Tango (1997). He was relatively inactive in the 1980s, but bounced back as the sleazy father of Kirstie Alley's baby in Look Who's Talking, and in the 1993 sequel Look Who's Talking Now, and as the left-wing comedy writer in For the Boys (1991). In his free time, when he wasn't acting, Quinn continued to paint and became a well-known artist. Segal was so appealing that too often he was asked to carry a film on his charm alone, especially in the 1970s.

Quinn was a student and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright. He played an inept burglar in the 1972 comedy The Hot Rock with Robert Redford, a comically unfaithful husband in A Touch of Class and a midlife crisis victim in Blume in Love. He co-starred with Jane Fonda as suburbanite-turned-bank-robbers in Fun With Dick and Jane, and starred as a faux gourmet in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?. Quinn, Francesco Quinn, Lorenzo Quinn, and Valentina Quinn. Valentine's Day Massacre, a perplexed police detective Mo Brummel in No Way to Treat a Lady, a bookworm in The Owl and the Pussycat, and in a pair of impressive dramatic performances, a man laying waste to his marriage in Loving and a hairdresser turned junkie in Born to Win. Father of Alex A. He followed with top performances as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (for which he was Oscar-nominated), a Cagneyesque gangster in The St. In total, Quinn has fathered thirteen children and has had three known mistresses. in King Rat.

The union crumbled in 1993 when Quinn had an affair with his secretary that resulted in a baby; the two shared a second child in 1996. The amiable, wavy-haired leading man is equally at home in drama and comedy, although he is more often seen in the latter. Originally a stage actor and musician, Segal appeared in several nondescript films in the early 1960s before raising eyebrows in 1965 as a distraught newlywed in Ship of Fools and as a P.O.W. The following year he embarked on a tempestuous thirty-one-year marriage to costume designer Iolanda Quinn. George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is a well-known American film and stage actor who was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. He divorced his wife Katherine, with whom he had three children, in 1956. Quinn proved as volatile and passionate as his screen persona in his personal life.

Shortly after completing his final film role in Avenging Angelo (2001), At the age of 86, Anthony Quinn died of respiratory failure in Boston, Massachusetts. Though his film career slowed considerably during the 1990s, Quinn continued to work steadily, appearing in films as diverse as Jungle Fever (1991), Last Action Hero (1993), and A Walk in the Clouds (1995). His subsequent television appearances were sporadic (among them Jesus of Nazareth (movie)), though in 1994, he became a semi-regular guest (playing Zeus) on the syndicated Hercules series. In 1971, he starred in the short-lived television drama Man in the City.

The 1970s offered little change and Quinn became known as a ham, albeit a well-respected one. The success of Zorba the Greek in 1964 was the highwater mark of Quinn's career during the '60s -- it offered him another Oscar nomination -- and as the decade progressed, the quality of his film work noticeably diminished. His careworn demeanor made him an ideal ex-boxer in Requiem for a Heavyweight and a natural for the villainous Bedouin he played in Lawrence of Arabia (both 1962). His formerly trim physique filled out, his hair grayed, and his once smooth, swarthy face weathered into an appealing series of crags and crinkles.

During the '50s, Quinn specialized in tough, macho roles, but as the decade ended, he allowed his age to show. The following year, he received another Oscar nomination for George Cukor's Wild is the Wind. Quinn won his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar portraying the painter Gaugin in Vincente Minnelli's Lust for Life (1956). He went to Italy in 1953 and appeared in several films, turning in one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish, and volatile strongman in Federico Fellini's La Strada (1954).

His supporting role as Zapata's brother won Quinn his first Oscar and after that, Quinn was given larger roles in a variety of features. He got one of his big breaks playing opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952). Upon his return to the screen in the early '50s, Quinn was cast in a series of B-adventures like Mask of the Avenger (1951). So he returned to the theater, where for three years he found success on Broadway in such roles as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.

By 1947, he was a veteran of over 50 films and had played everything from Indians, Mafia dons, Hawaiian chiefs, Chinese guerrillas, and comical Arab sheiks, but he was still not a major star. Quinn remained relegated to playing "ethnic" villains in Paramount films through the 1940s. He launched his film career playing character roles in several 1936 films, including Parole (his debut) and The Milky Way, after a brief stint in the theater. Before becoming an actor, Quinn had been a prizefighter and a painter.

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