Anthony Quinn
Gender: Male
Born: 21st April 1915
Died: 3rd June 2001
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Man and the City, Jesus of Nazareth, Der Schatz im All
Movies: A Walk in the Clouds, Across 110th Street, Barabbas, Ghosts Can't Do It, Jungle Fever, La Strada, Lawrence of Arabia, Lion of the Desert, Lust for Life, Mohammad, Messenger of God, Road to Morocco, Sinbad the Sailor, The Happening, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Long Wait, The Magus, The Savage Innocents, The Shoes of the Fisherman, Viva Zapata!, Zorba the Greek, The Greek Tycoon, The Visit, The World in His Arms, The Guns of Navarone, Ride, Vaquero!, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Dangerous to Know, Warlock, Road to Singapore, Mobsters, Attila, Oriundi, The River's Edge, Blood and Sand, Behold a Pale Horse, Against All Flags, Walk in the Spring Rain, The 25th Hour, Back to Bataan, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Ghost Breakers, La Bataille de San Sebastian, Revenge, Ulysses, Last Train from Gun Hill, City for Conquest, Larceny, Inc., Daughter of Shanghai, Gotti, The Black Orchid, Buffalo Bill, Heller In Pink Tights, Last Action Hero, Guadalcanal Diary, Stradivari, The Salamander, The Ride Back, Caravans, A High Wind in Jamaica, Lost Command, The Passage, Seven Servants, Swing High, Swing Low, Los Amigos, Seven Cities of Gold, Mask of the Avenger, City Beneath the Sea, The Inheritance, Seminole, East of Sumatra, The Don Is Dead, The Black Swan, Only the Lonely, Blowing Wild, Wild Is the Wind, They Died with Their Boots On, Portrait in Black, Waikiki Wedding, Tycoon, The Ox-Bow Incident, Somebody to Love, High Risk, Regina, The Children Of Sanchez, Avenging Angelo, Bulldog Drummond in Africa, Union Pacific, The Old Man and the Sea, The Naked Street, Fatal Desire, The Buccaneer, Target of an Assassin, Hercules In The Maze Of The Minotaur, Hercules And The Circle Of Fire, Hercules In The Underworld, The Brigand, R. P. M., Hercules and the Amazon Women, , China Sky
Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001), more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone, The Message, Guns for San Sebastian, Lion of the Desert and Federico Fellini's La Strada. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice; for Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956.
Quinn was born Antonio Reyes in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution. His mother, Manuela "Nellie" Oaxaca, was of Aztec Indian ancestry. His father, Francisco Quinn, was also born in Mexico, to an Irish immigrant father from County Cork and a Mexican mother. Frank Quinn rode with Pancho Villa, then later moved to Los Angeles and became an assistant cameraman at a movie studio. In Quinn's autobiography The Original Sin: A Self-Portrait by Anthony Quinn he denied being the son of an "Irish adventurer" and attributed that tale to Hollywood publicists.
When he was six years old, Quinn attended a Catholic church (even thinking he wanted to become a priest). At
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