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Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3,
2001) was an actor, painter, and writer. He was
born Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn in Chihuahua,
Chihuahua, Mexico to an Irish people|Irish father
and a Mexican mother. He grew up in the Boyle
Heights, Los Angeles, California|Boyle Heights
neighborhood of
Los Angeles, California. 

==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 1950s,
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 movie)|La Strada (1954). Quinn won his
second Best Supporting Actor Oscar portraying the
painter Gauguin 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 1950s, 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 (film)|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)).

In 1983 he revisited his most famous
characterization when he played in a successful
revival of Kander and Ebb's musical version of
Zorba, which ran at the Broadway Theatre in New
York for 362 performances. 

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."

==External links==
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