Anthony Quinn or original name Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca. Mexican-American actor with a long acting career in addition to that in Hollywood and in the international arena. Born April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution to Manuela "Nellie" (née Oaxaca) and Francisco "Frank" Quinn. His father Frank Quinn was said to be the son of an Irish immigrant from County Cork and a Mexican mother. Frank also reportedly took part with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, then moved to the East Los Angeles neighborhood of City Terrace, becoming an assistant cameraman at a film studio. Well, in Quinn's autobiography, The Original Sin: A Self-Portrait by Anthony Quinn, he denied being the son of an "Irish adventurer" and attributed the tale to Hollywood publicists. Quinn later said he was not accepted in Mexico because of his last name. From the age of six, he attended a Catholic church and even considered becoming a priest, but at the age of 11, he joined the "Pentecostals" in the International Gospel Church, which was founded and led by Evangelical preacher Aimee Semple. . McPherson. Quinn grew up first in El Paso, Texas, and later in East Los Angeles and the Echo Park area of Los Angeles, California. He attended Hammel Street Elementary School, Belvedere Junior High School, Polytechnic High School and Belmont High School in Los Angeles, with future baseball player and star John Beradino, but dropped out before graduating. In June 1987, Tucson High School in Arizona awarded him an honorary high school diploma. While still young, Quinn boxed professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright at the designer's Arizona residence and his Wisconsin studio, Taliesin. The two men became friends. When Quinn one day said she had retired from acting, Wright encouraged her. Quinn told his friend that he had been offered $800 a week by a movie studio and didn't know what to do. Wright replied, "Take it, don't hesitate, you'll never make that much money with me." However during a 1999 interview on Private Shows with Robert Osborne, Quinn said the contract was for just $300 a week. After a brief stint on the stage, Quinn began his film career performing character roles in 1936 films such as The Plainsman (as a Cheyenne Indian after Custer's defeat with Gary Cooper), Parole (in which he made his debut) and "Milky Way". First played "ethnic" villain roles in Paramount films such as "Dangerous to Know" (1938) with Anna May Wong and "Road to Morocco" with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, "They Died with their Boots On" with Errol Flynn . A breakthrough in his career occurred in 1941 when he received an offer to play a matador in the bull-themed film Blood and Sand starring Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth. In 1942, Quinn co-starred with Power in another critical and financial success, the horror adventure The Black Swan. In 1943, he had a role in the Oscar-nominated Western The Ox-Bow Incident. Also starred in "Sinbad the Sailor" (1947) with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Maureen O'Hara. 
By 1947, Quinn had appeared in more than 50 films and played a variety of characters, including Indians, mobsters, Hawaiian chiefs, Filipino freedom fighters, Chinese guerrillas, and Arab sheikhs. He returned to the theater, replacing Marlon Brandon in the role of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway. In 1947, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He returned to Hollywood in the early 1950s, being involved in a series of adventures, such as "The Mask of the Avenger" (1951). He cemented his position as one of Hollywood's leading actors in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952), opposite Marlon Brando. Quinn's performance as Zapata's brother earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, while Brando lost the Best Actor Oscar to Gary Cooper in High Noon. Quinn is considered the first Mexican-American to win an Academy Award. 
His long and successful career will continue in the period 1953-1959 in the international arena. In 1959, he will once again return to Hollywood, where he will stay until 1969. During 1970 – 1979, he will work on television and later make other films. From 1980 to 1994 will be the final period of his career. Better known by his stage name Anthony Quinn, he was noted for portraying a variety of characters as passionate "marked by a brutal and elemental masculinity" in many critically acclaimed films both in Hollywood and abroad. His most famous films include "La Strada", "The Guns of Navarone", "Guns for San Sebastian", "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Shoes of the Fisherman", "The Message", "Lion of the Desert ”, and “Jungle Fever”. He also had an Oscar-nominated title role in Zorba the Greek. 
Quinn won the Oscar twice for best supporting actor: "Viva Zapata"! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956. In addition, he received two Academy Award nominations in the Best Actor category, along with five Golden Globe nominations and two BAFTA Award nominations. In 1987, he was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. Through his artistic endeavors and civil rights activism, he remains a key figure in Latin American representation in the United States media. The Albanian spectator remembers the actor in the movie "The Old Man and the Sea" in 1990 in the role of the old fisherman, the movie that was broadcast by the TV of the time. 
Quinn spent his last years in Bristol, Rhode Island. Died of respiratory failure (due to complications from radiation treatment for lung cancer) on June 3, 2001, in Boston, aged 86. Translated and adapted for the page by P. Bj. The exclusivity on this page is dated January 29, 2023 ________________ Albanian cinematography in activity since 2013
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