Anthony Quinn

1915-2001

Biography: life and films

Anthony Quinn was a Mexican-American actor whose birth name was Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca. He was born in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico on 21st April 1915 and died in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 3rd June 2001, aged 86.

His best films as an actor include Federico Fellini's La Strada (1954), Victor Saville's The Long Wait (1954), J. Lee Thompson's The Guns of Navarone (1961), David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Moustapha Akkad's The Message (1976).

Anthony Quinn appeared in 140 films and directed 1 film.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Robert Florey (5 films), Budd Boetticher (5), Louis King (4), Edward Dmytryk (4), Phil Karlson (3), J. Lee Thompson (3), Guy Green (3), Cecil B. DeMille (3), William A. Wellman (2), Stanley Kramer (2), Richard Wallace (2), Richard Fleischer (2), Ray Enright (2), Raoul Walsh (2), Moustapha Akkad (2), Lew Landers (2), John Farrow (2), James P. Hogan (2), Henri Verneuil (2), Harry Horner (2), Gregory Ratoff (2), George Cukor (2) and Daniel Mann (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (94 films), romance (18), Western (17), comedy (14), War (14), Biography (12), history (8), comedy-romance (6), Thriller (5), comedy-drama (3), Fantasy (3), Documentary (3) and Horror (2).

Our average rating for Anthony Quinn over all films is: 3.0

Filmography

Key: a = actor; d = director

Night Waitress (1936) [a]

Parole (1936) [a]

The Plainsman (1936) [a]

Daughter of Shanghai (1937) [a]

Partners in Crime (1937) [a]

Swing High, Swing Low (1937) [a]

The Last Train from Madrid (1937) [a]

Under Strange Flags (1937) [a]

Waikiki Wedding (1937) [a]

Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938) [a]

Dangerous to Know (1938) [a]

Hunted Men (1938) [a]

King of Alcatraz (1938) [a]

The Buccaneer (1938) [a]

Tip-Off Girls (1938) [a]

Island of Lost Men (1939) [a]

King of Chinatown (1939) [a]

Television Spy (1939) [a]

Union Pacific (1939) [a]

City for Conquest (1940) [a]

Emergency Squad (1940) [a]

Parole Fixer (1940) [a]

Road to Singapore (1940) [a]

The Ghost Breakers (1940) [a]

The Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940) [a]

Blood and Sand (1941) [a]

Bullets for O'Hara (1941) [a]

Knockout (1941) [a]

The Perfect Snob (1941) [a]

They Died with Their Boots On (1941) [a]

Thieves Fall Out (1941) [a]

Larceny, Inc. (1942) [a]

Road to Morocco (1942) [a]

The Black Swan (1942) [a]

Guadalcanal Diary (1943) [a]

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) [a]

Buffalo Bill (1944) [a]

Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944) [a]

Ladies of Washington (1944) [a]

Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) [a]

Back to Bataan (1945) [a]

China Sky (1945) [a]

Where Do We Go from Here? (1945) [a]

California (1946) [a]

Black Gold (1947) [a]

Sinbad the Sailor (1947) [a]

The Imperfect Lady (1947) [a]

Tycoon (1947) [a]

Mask of the Avenger (1951) [a]

The Brave Bulls (1951) [a]

Against All Flags (1952) [a]

The Brigand (1952) [a]

The World in His Arms (1952) [a]

Viva Zapata! (1952) [a]

Blowing Wild (1953) [a]

Cavalleria rusticana (1953) [a]

City Beneath the Sea (1953) [a]

East of Sumatra (1953) [a]

Il Più comico spettacolo del mondo (1953) [a]

Ride, Vaquero! (1953) [a]

Seminole (1953) [a]

Attila (1954) [a]

Donne proibite (1954) [a]

La Strada (1954) [a]

The Long Wait (1954) [a]

Ulisse (1954) [a]

Seven Cities of Gold (1955) [a]

The Magnificent Matador (1955) [a]

The Naked Street (1955) [a]

Lust for Life (1956) [a]

Man from Del Rio (1956) [a]

Notre Dame de Paris (1956) [a]

The Wild Party (1956) [a]

The Ride Back (1957) [a]

The River's Edge (1957) [a]

Wild Is the Wind (1957) [a]

Hot Spell (1958) [a]

The Black Orchid (1958) [a]

The Buccaneer (1958) [d]

Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) [a]

Warlock (1959) [a]

Heller in Pink Tights (1960) [a]

Portrait in Black (1960) [a]

The Savage Innocents (1960) [a]

Barabba (1961) [a]

The Guns of Navarone (1961) [a]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) [a]

Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) [a]

Alexis Zorbas (1964) [a]

Behold a Pale Horse (1964) [a]

The Visit (1964) [a]

A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) [a]

La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo (1965) [a]

Lost Command (1966) [a]

L'Avventuriero (1967) [a]

La Vingt-cinquième heure (1967) [a]

The Happening (1967) [a]

La Bataille de San Sebastian (1968) [a]

The Magus (1968) [a]

The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) [a]

A Dream of Kings (1969) [a]

The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) [a]

A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970) [a]

Flap (1970) [a]

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) [a]

R.P.M. (1970) [a]

Arruza (1972) [a]

Los Amigos (1972) [a]

The Don Is Dead (1973) [a]

The Marseille Contract (1974) [a]

Bluff storia di truffe e di imbroglioni (1976) [a]

L'Eredità Ferramonti (1976) [a]

The Message (1976) [a]

Caravans (1978) [a]

The Children of Sanchez (1978) [a]

The Greek Tycoon (1978) [a]

The Passage (1979) [a]

High Risk (1981) [a]

Lion of the Desert (1981) [a]

The Salamander (1981) [a]

Regina Roma (1982) [a]

Valentina (1982) [a]

Ingrid (1984) [a]

Pasión de hombre (1989) [a]

Stradivari (1989) [a]

Ghosts Can't Do It (1990) [a]

Revenge (1990) [a]

A Star for Two (1991) [a]

Jungle Fever (1991) [a]

Mobsters (1991) [a]

Only the Lonely (1991) [a]

Last Action Hero (1993) [a]

Somebody to Love (1994) [a]

A Walk in the Clouds (1995) [a]

Il Sindaco (1996) [a]

Seven Servants (1996) [a]

Tierra de cañones (1999) [a]

Avenging Angelo (2002) [a]

Architect of Chaos (2012) [a]

Rise of the Black Bat (2012) [a]



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