Anthony Quinn
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Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), better known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor, painter, writer, and film producer.
He appeared in many critically acclaimed films, including La Strada, The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Guns for San Sebastian, Lawrence of Arabia, The Message, Lion of the Desert, Last Action Hero, and A Walk in the Clouds. Viva Zapata won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice. Lust for Life in 1952 and 1956.
In addition,, he received two Academy Award nominations in the Best Leading Actor category, as well as five Golden Globe awards.
He was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.
Personal life
Katherine DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's adopted daughter, was Quinn's first wife; they wed in 1937. The couple had five children: Christopher (1938-1941), Christina (born December 1, 1941), Catalina (born November 21, 1942), Duncan (born August 4, 1945), and Valentina (born December 26, 1952). Christopher, their first child, drowned in the lily pond of next-door neighbor W. C. Fields, drowned.
Quinn and DeMille divorced in 1965 because of their relationship with Italian costume designer Jolanda Addolori (died 2016), who married in 1966. They had three children: Francesco Quinn (March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011), Danny Quinn (born April 16, 1964), and Lorenzo Quinn (born May 7, 1966).
Sean Quinn (born February 7, 1973) and Alexander Anthony Quinn (born December 30, 1976), both had two children with Friedel Dunbar, an event producer in Los Angeles, during his marriage to Addolori.
Quinn had two children with Katherine Benvin; daughter Antonia Rose Quinn (born July 23, 1993) and son Ryan Nicholas Quinn (born July 5, 1996). In August 1997, his marriage with Addolori came to an end. In December 1997, Benvin married Benvin and remained married to her until his death.
Quinn, who suffered with bigotry in Los Angeles, has worked on a number of civil rights and social causes. He sponsored the Spanish-Speaking People's Congress, a Latino advocacy group. In 1942, he participated in fundraising efforts for the legal defense of Mexican American children in the racially charged Sleepy Lagoon murder trial. According to Elliott Miller, writing in CounterPunch, he and several other prominent Americans compiled a petition opposing the 1963 March on Washington; the petition, which was reprinted in several high-profile publications, was designed to mobilize support among Americans living abroad. He travelled with Native American student activists occupying Alcatraz Island in 1969, promising to help. Quinn was a panelist at the Mexican-American Conference in 1970. He narrated an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission documentary film in 1971 that addressed workplace discrimination faced by Hispanic Americans. He was a supporter of the United Farm Workers group headed by Cesar Chavez, a former teacher and labour activist.
"Examining Quinn's many expressions of creativity together—his art, amassing, and acting—reveals that he was a genius," art critic Donald Kuspit explains.
Quinn aspired to paint and drawing early in life. He participated in numerous art competitions in California throughout his youth and concentrated his attention at Los Angeles' Polytechnic High School on drafts. Quinn then studied briefly under Frank Lloyd Wright through the Taliesin Fellowship, an opportunity that was not available if you won the first prize in an architectural design competition. Quinn began acting lessons as a part of post-operative speech therapy, which culminated in a six-decade career.
Quinn never attended art school, aside from art classes taught in Chicago in the 1950s; nevertheless, using books, museums, and amassing a sizable collection, he maintained a solid foundation in modern art. His artwork had captured the attention of various gallery owners by the 1980s and was on view throughout the country, including in Mexico City, Los Angeles, New York City, and Paris. His work is now on view in both public and private collections around the world.
He wrote two memoirs, The Original Sin (1972), One Man Tango (1997), a number of scripts, and a collection of unpublished stories that are currently in the collection of his archives.
According to John H. Davis, author of Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family, Quinn appeared at the John Gotti trial. After Carlo Gambino, he told reporters he wanted to play Paul Castellano, the Gambino family's chief. Gotti was murdered at Castellano and became the head of the Gambino family following. When Quinn appeared in courthouse, Gotti was on trial for a variety of criminal charges.
Although he tried to shake hands with Gotti, federal marshals barred him from doing so, Davis says. "The Bull" Gravano's underboss's testimony against Gotti was "a companion who betrays a friend," the actor interpreted as "a friend who betrays a friend." Quinn did not come to "judge" Gotti, but only because he wanted to portray Castellano, who inspired the actor because he had had a "thirty-year-old" mistress, which Quinn described as "a beautiful thing." In the 1996 HBO film Gotti, he will later portray Gambino's underboss Aniello Dellacroce as well as Joe Masseria in the 1991 film Mobsters.
Quinn had a personal acquaintance with Frank Costello, the head of Mafia's Mafia, and other Genovese gangsters.
Life and career
Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca was born in Chihua, Mexico, on the Mexican Revolution to Manuela "Nellie" (née Oaxaca) and Francisco "Frank" Quinn. Frank Quinn was born to an Irish immigrant father from County Cork and a Mexican mother. Frank lived in Pancho Villa, Mexico, for a brief time, before heading to City Terrace, East Los Angeles, where he served as an assistant cameraman at a film production. He denied being the son of an "Irish adventurer" in Quinn's autobiography, The Original Sin: A Self-Portrait, and attributed the tale to Hollywood publicists. Quinn later said that he was refused admission to Mexico because of his surname.
Quinn was a child of a Catholic church and had even considered becoming a priest. Nevertheless, he joined the Pentecostals at the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, which was founded and led by evangelical preacher Aimee Semple McPherson at age 11. For a time, Quinn was a member of the church's band and was an apprentice preacher with the evangelist. "I have met most of the great actors of my time, but not one of them could touch her," Quinn said of the spellbinding McPherson, who praised Zorba's gesture of the dramatically outstretched hand.
Quinn grew up first in El Paso, Texas, and later in East Los Angeles and the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. He attended Hammel Street Elementary School, Belvedere Junior High School, Polytechnic High School, and Belmont High School in Los Angeles, along with future baseball player and General Hospital actor John Beradino, but did not leave before graduating. In June 1987, Tucson High School in Arizona gave him an honorary high school diploma.
Quinn boxed professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright at the designer's Arizona home and his Wisconsin studio, Taliesin. The two guys became best friends. Wright encouraged Quinn as he recalled him being drawn to acting. Quinn said he had been offered $800 per week by a film studio but didn't know what to do. "You'll never make so much with me," Wright said. Quinn said in a 1999 interview on Private Screenings with Robert Osborne that the service was only $300 per week.
Quinn began acting on stage in 1936's The Plainsman (1936) as a Cheyenne Indian after Custer's loss to Gary Cooper, Parole (in which he made his debut) and The Milky Way, his first motion picture, though he was not credited. In Paramount films such as Dangerous to Know (1938) with Anna May Wong and Bob Hope, he played a more sympathetic Crazy Horse in They Died with Their Boots On with Errol Flynn, he played "ethnic" villains, as well as in Bing Crosby and Bob Hope (1938).
In 1941, he received the opportunity to play a matador in the bullfighting-themed Blood and Sand, with Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth. He co-starred with Power in another critical and financial triumph, The Black Swan, a 1941 adventure. He appeared in the Oscar-nominated western The Ox-Bow Incident in 1943. He co-starred in Sinbad the Sailor (1947), with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Maureen O'Hara.
He had appeared in more than fifty films and had played a variety of characters, including Indians, Mafia dons, Hawaiian chiefs, Filipino freedom-fighters, Chinese guerrillas, and Arab sheiks. Stanley Kowalski was back to the theater, replacing Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1947.
He returned to Hollywood in the early 1950s and was cast in a string of B-adventures such as Mask of the Avenger (1951). In Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata, he solidified his place as one of Hollywood's best actors. (1952) Marlon Brando (a) opposite Marlon Brando. Quinn's performance as Zapata's brother earned Quinn an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, while Brando and Gary Cooper in High Noon lost the Oscar for Best Actor. He is the first Mexican-American to win an Academy Award.
Quinn came to Rome in the late 1950s, where he collaborated with several well-known Italian filmmakers and established himself as a world cinema celebrity. He appeared in Attila the Hun with Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti, and in the Kirk Douglas film Ulysses, he appeared as Attila the Hun with Sophia Loren. In Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning La Strada (1954) opposite Giulietta Masina, he put on one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish, and tumultuous strongman.
Quinn was named as the Best Supporting Actor in Vincente Minnelli's Lust for Life (1956), alongside Kirk Douglas, who portrayed Vincent van Gogh. In the French language film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, he also appeared as Quasimodo. Quinn will continue to appear in European films on a regular basis after returning to the United States. His frequent appearance of Italian characters and appearance in Italian films led to the common belief that he was not Italian.
For his role in George Cukor's Wild Is the Wind, he was nominated for Best Actor the following year. Inuk, an Eskimo who finds himself trapped between two competing cultures, he appeared in the film The Savage Innocents (1959). In the western Last Train from Gun Hill (1959), he collaborated with Kirk Douglas once more.
In Becket, he was praised as King Henry II to Laurence Olivier's Thomas Becket in 1960. Becket received a Tony Award nomination for best leading actor and actress for his work, and his best actor for best play was named Tony Award-winning actor. In later years, an erroneous tale emerged, when Quinn and Olivier changed roles, and Quinn played Becket to Olivier's King. In reality, Quinn left the film for a film, never having played Becket, and producer Peter Glenville suggested a road tour with Olivier as Henry. Olivier embraced it, and Arthur Kennedy assumed the role of Becket for the tour and brief return to Broadway.
Quinn allowed his age to show and began his transformation into a leading character actor as the decade came to an end. His physique came out, his hair grayed, and his once smooth, swarthy face became more rugged. In The Guns of Navarone (1961), an elderly boxer in Requiem, as a Senior, and the Bedouin shaikh Abu Tayi in Lawrence of Arabia, he was a Greek resistance fighter (both 1962). Lawrence of Arabia will continue to win the Oscar and Golden Globe for best picture, and Quinn received a Golden Globe Award for best actor alongside co-star Peter O'Toole. In 1961 film Barabbas, based on a Pär Lagerkvist novel, he also played the title role. He appeared in Tchin-Tchin's Tony Award nominated Tchin-Tchin in 1962 and had the lead role in the film Requiem for a Heavyweight.
The success of Zorba the Greek in 1964 culminated in another Oscar nomination for Best Actor. The 25th Hour, The Magus, Guns for San Sebastian, and The Shoes of the Fisherman were among the other films on the list. He appeared in The Secret of Santa Vittoria with Anna Magnani in 1969; each was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Quinn appeared in the campus rebellion drama R. P. M. (1970), opposite Ann-Margret. In 1971, after the success of a television show The City, where Quinn played Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala, he appeared in The Man and the City, a television series. Quinn's subsequent television appearances were sporadic, including Jesus of Nazareth.
He co-starred with Yaphet Kotto in the blaxploitation film Across 110th Street in 1972. He was playing Mr. Frank Martelli, who, alongside Kotto, was investigating an Italian and Black gangster robbery in Harlem, New York City. Against Kotto's new, educated, enlightened Lieutenant, he played the old racist violent Captain.
He appeared in the film Mohammad, Messenger of God (also known as The Message) about Islam's origins as Hamza, a highly respected uncle of Mohammad, the prophet of Islam. He appeared in Lion of the Desert in 1981. In the deserts of Libya, Quinn faced Omar Mukhtar, a real-life Bedouin leader, who defied Benito Mussolini's Italian troops.
Quinn appeared in The Passage, a 1979 film in which he played a Basque shepherd during WWII. He was tasked with leading a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees, but Nazis were on his trail. James Mason and Malcolm McDowell appeared in the film as well.
He reprised his role as Zorba in a rousing musical version, as Zorba, opposite fellow film co-star Lila Kedrova, reenacting her role as Madame Hortense in 1983. Quinn appeared on Broadway and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where he appeared in both on Broadway and in the Kennedy Center.
He appeared in The Old Man and the Sea, a television film based on Ernest Hemingway's book, in 1990. Quinn's film career slowed during the 1990s, but he maintained it on film, appearing in Revenge (1990), A Walk in the Clouds (1995) and Seven Servants (1996).
Quinn appeared in five television films focusing on Hercules' legendary journeys in 1994. These were, in order, Hercules and the Amazon Women, Hercules and the Lost Kingdom, Hercules and the Circle of Fire, Hercules and the Circle of Fire, Hercules and the Underworld, Hercules and Hercules, and Hercules and the Minotaur mase.
Quinn appeared in his last film in Daryush Shokof's film Seven Servants.