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Anthony Quinn
By Joe Bella
Anthony Quinn was an Oscar winning Mexican-American stage, film and
television actor, writer and painter. He is best remembered for his
roles in the movies ‘Viva Zapata!’ (1952), ‘Lust for Life’ (1956),
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962), ‘Zorba the Greek’ (1964) and for his
role on the television series ‘Hercules’ which ran in the early
1990s. He also holds the record for being the Oscar winner who has
starred in more movies with other Oscar winners than any other Oscar
winner. And that’s a lot of Oscar winners.
Antonion Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn was born in
Chihuahua, Mexico on April 21, 1915. His Irish father and Mexican
mother lent him a racial background that allowed him some diversity
in the roles he would be able to play as an adult.
Though a native to Mexico, he spent most of
his childhood growing up in Los Angeles, California in the Boyle
Heights area. Dropping out of high school, Quinn pursued work as a
boxer and as a painter. He achieved moderate success in both areas,
but would not come into prominence until began his acting career in
1936.
Quinn’s first work was on stage in a number of
small roles, though he found bigger roles in the films ‘Parole’, and
‘The Milky Way’. His ethnicity landed him in a number of villain
roles throughout the 1940s, that being a period when the darker
skinned actor usually played the darker toned roles.
His first real breakthrough role came with
‘Viva Zapata!’ in 1952, starring Marlon Brando. The role won him his
first Oscar, for best supporting actor. With an Oscar under his
belt, he began getting a better selection of roles, and appeared in
a few movies in Italy in the coming years. He won a second best
supporting actor Oscar for the movie ‘Lust for Life’ in 1956.
The 1960s offered Quinn a couple of roles that
he is arguably best known for. He played the devious Bedouin villain
in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, and played the lead in ‘Zorba the Greek’.
His role as Zorba won him an Oscar nomination. Towards the end of
the decade, his career seemed to be on a downspin and many people
began to loose interest in his work.
This trend continued through the 1970s, and
Quinn did not make many film appearances. The nature of acting in
movies around this time was changing dramatically, and Quinn was
something of a relic. His career seemed to breath a little new life
in the 80s when he performed in the Broadway musical version of
‘Zorba’ and starred in the movie ‘The Lion of the Desert’.
In the 90s he continued to act in a strange
variety of movies, including ‘Jungle Fever’ (1991), and ‘Last Action
Hero’ (1993). His last film role was in the 2001 movie ‘Avenging
Angelo’. He died shortly after, on June 3rd, 2001, from a
respiratory failure.
With two Oscars to his name, and countless
movies, Anthony Quinn’s career was all in all hugely successful, and
he will go down in memory as being one of early Hollywood’s more
versatile actors.
