Celebrity Biographies
Anthony quinn
He won two Oscars and has more than a hundred films.
Anthony Quinn (b. Chihuahua, Mexico) died on June 3, 2001 in Boston, at the age of 86. Born to an Irish father and a Mexican mother, he later lived in the US, first in Texas, and then in California. The proximity of Hollywood determined his career. In the first place, because his father worked as a cameraman at the Selznick studios. Quinn was married three times (the first time to the adoptive daughter of Cecil B. DeMille ) and had thirteen children.
His exotic appearance led him to play an Indian in Buffalo Bill (Cecil B. DeMille, 1936). He would also play Crazy Horse in They Died With Their Boots On , the Michael Curtiz classic . In Arabic, he became the essential Lawrence of Arabia ( David Lean ), with a brusque but endearing character. And Eskimo was in The Devil’s Teeth ( Nicholas Ray ), where he reprized Peter O’Toole .
A character actor, Quinn could convey the qualities of impulsive, determined types with a certain primal innocence. He was tough, and yet vulnerable. He played Zapata’s brother in ¡Viva Zapata! ( Elia Kazan ), giving a reply to Marlon Brando ; the role earned him his first Oscar. The second came for The Fool with Red Hair ( Vincente Minnelli ), where he was Paul Gauguin, the counterpoint to Van Gogh- Kirk Douglas .
In adventure movies, he produced revelry and sly pirates like those in The World in Their Hands ( Raoul Walsh ), The Wind in Sails ( Alexander MacKendrick ) and Corsairs of the Caribbean (Cecil B. DeMille). Precisely his only incursion behind the camera was pirates: The buccaneers . If we analyze Quinn’s poetic side, it is obligatory to mention Federico Fellini ‘s La strada : there was the strongman Zampano, who lives a very special relationship with Giulietta Massina’s Gelsomina. We must also refer to his most celebrated character, which gave him honorary Greek citizenship and an Oscar nomination. We talk about Zorba the Greek(Michael Cacoyannis). He would also be nominated for Wild Wind ( George Cukor ), where he is a guy of Italian origin.
It was also on the screen Attila, Barabbas, Muhammad, the god Zeus, the Pope, the hunchback of Notre Dame… Quinn tried all kinds of characters and proved to be a race actor. He of universal race.