Today is Anthony Quinn's birthday
Antonio Rodolfo Oaxaca Quinn (April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001) was a Mexican-American actor, painter and writer.
He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including:
- La Strada
- The Guns of Navarone
- Zorba the Greek
- Guns for San Sebastian
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Shoes of the Fisherman
- The Message
- Lion of the Desert
- Last Action Hero
- A Walk in the Clouds
He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice for Viva Zapata in 1952 and
Lust for Life in 1956.
Quinn was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, grew up first in El Paso, Texas, then later the Boyle Heights and Echo Park areas of Los Angeles, California.
As a young man, Quinn boxed professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright at Wright's Arizona residence and his Wisconsin studio, Taliesin.
The two men became friends.
When Quinn mentioned that he was drawn to acting, Wright encouraged him.
By 1947, he had appeared in more than fifty films and had played Indians, Mafia dons, Hawaiian chiefs, Filipino freedom-fighters, Chinese guerrillas, and Arab sheiks, but was still not a major star.
He played Stanley Kowalski in the Broadway production of "A Streetcar named Desire"
In 1947, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Quinn's first wife was the adopted daughter of Cecil B. DeMille, the actress Katherine DeMille, they wed in 1937 and had five children.
Their first child, Christopher, aged two, drowned in the lily pond of next-door neighbor
W.C. Fields.
Anthony Quinn fathered twelve children.
His youngest son, Ryan Nicholas Quinn, was born in 1996, when Anthony Quinn was 81.
Quinn spent his last years in Bristol, Rhode Island.
He died of respiratory failure, pneumonia and throat cancer in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 86.
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