《安東尼．昆 探戈獨舞》(One Man Tango (1995).台北：智庫文化，1997) ---這是他的第二本回憶錄：第一本是《安東尼．昆原罪: 自畫像》(The Original Sin: A Self Portrait (1972) )Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001) was a
Mexican-American actor, as well as a
painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including
Zorba the Greek,
Lawrence of Arabia,
The Guns of Navarone,
The Message , "
Lion of the Desert" and
Federico Fellini's
La strada. He won the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice; for
Viva Zapata! in 1952 and
Lust for Life in 1956.
[edit]Early life
Quinn was born
Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca in
Chihuahua,
Chihuahua,
Mexico, during the
Mexican Revolution. His mother, Manuela "Nellie" Oaxaca, was of
Aztec Indian ancestry.
[1][2] His father, Francisco Quinn, an
Irish Mexican, was also born in Mexico. Frank Quinn rode with
Pancho Villa, then later moved to
Los Angeles and became an assistant cameraman at a movie studio. In Quinn's autobiography
The Original Sin: A Self-Portrait by Anthony Quinn he denied being the son of an "Irish adventurer" and attributed that tale to Hollywood publicists.
[3]When he was six years old, Quinn attended a
Catholic church (even thinking he wanted to become a
priest). At age eleven, however, he joined the
Pentecostals in the
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (the Pentecostal followers of
Aimee Semple McPherson).
[4]Quinn grew up first in
El Paso, Texas, and later the
Boyle Heights and the
Echo Park areas of
Los Angeles,
California. He attended St. Hammel Elementary School, Belvedere Junior High School, Polytechnic High School and finally
Belmont High School with future baseball player and
General Hospital star,
John Beradino, but left before graduating. Tucson High School in Arizona, many years later, awarded him an honorary high school diploma.
As a young man Quinn
boxed professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture under
Frank Lloyd Wright, both at Wright's Arizona residence and his Wisconsin studio,
Taliesin. The two very different men became friends. When Quinn mentioned he was drawn to acting, Wright encouraged him. Quinn said he had been offered $800 a week by a film studio and didn't know what to do. Wright replied, "Take it, you'll never make that much with me."
[cite this quote]In a rerun of an interview done with Anthony Quinn in 1999 for Turner Classic Movies'"Private Screenings with Robert Osborne" (repeated 21 April 2009), Mr. Quinn said that the contract was for $300 a week.
After a short time performing on the stage, Quinn launched his film career performing character roles in the 1936 films
Parole (his debut) and
The Milky Way. He played "ethnic" villains in Paramount films such as
Dangerous to Know (1938) and
Road to Morocco, and played a more sympathetic
Crazy Horse in
They Died with Their Boots On with
Errol Flynn. By 1947, he had appeared in over 50 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 returned to the theater, playing Stanley Kowalski in
A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway.
In 1947, he became a
naturalized citizen of the United States.
[2] He came back to Hollywood in the early 1950s, specializing in tough roles. He was cast in a series of B-adventures such as
Mask of the Avenger (1951). His big break came from playing opposite
Marlon Brando in
Elia Kazan's
Viva Zapata! (1952). Quinn wanted to play the lead role of Zapata but Brando coming off his recent success in the film
Streetcar Named Desire was Kazan's first choice. However his supporting role as Zapata's brother won Quinn an
Oscar while Brando lost the Oscar for Best Actor to
Gary Cooper in
High Noon. He was the first Mexican-American to win any Academy Award. He appeared in several Italian films starting in 1953, turning in one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish and volatile strongman in
Federico Fellini's
La strada (1954) opposite
Giulietta Masina. Quinn won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor by portraying the painter
Paul Gauguin in
Vincente Minnelli's
van Goghbiopic,
Lust for Life (1956). The award was remarkable as he was on screen for only 8 minutes. The following year, he received an Oscar nomination for his part in
George Cukor's
Wild Is the Wind. In
The River's Edge (1957), he played the husband of the former girlfriend (played by
Debra Paget) of a killer (
Ray Milland), who turns up with a stolen fortune and forces Quinn and Paget at gunpoint to guide him safely to Mexico. Quinn starred in
The Savage Innocents 1959 (film) as Inuk, an
Eskimo who finds himself caught between two clashing cultures.
As the decade ended, Quinn allowed his age to show and began his transformation into a major character actor. His physique filled out, his hair grayed, and his once smooth, swarthy face weathered and became more rugged. He played a Greek resistance fighter in
The Guns of Navarone (1961), an ideal ex-boxer in
Requiem for a Heavyweight, and a natural for the role of
Auda abu Tayi in
Lawrence of Arabia (both 1962). That year he also played the title role in
Barabbas, based on a novel by
Pär Lagerkvist. The success of
Zorba the Greek in 1964 was the high water mark of his career and resulted in another Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Other films include
The 25th Hour (1967), with
Virna Lisi;
The Magus (1968), with
Michael Caine and
Candice Bergen, and based on the novel by
John Fowles;
La Bataille de San Sebastian (
Guns for San Sebastian) with
Charles Bronson; and
The Shoes of the Fisherman, where he played a Ukrainian pope. In 1969, he starred in
The Secret of Santa Vittoria with
Anna Magnani.
He appeared on
Broadway to great acclaim in
Becket, as King Henry II to
Laurence Olivier's Thomas Becket in 1960. An erroneous story arose in later years that during the run, Quinn and Olivier switched roles and Quinn played Becket to Olivier's King. In fact, Quinn left the production for a film, never having played Becket, and director
Peter Glenville suggested a road tour with Olivier as Henry. Olivier happily agreed and
Arthur Kennedy took on the role of Becket for the tour and brief return to Broadway.
[5][6]In 1971, after the success of a TV movie named
The City, where Quinn played
Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala, he starred in the single-season
ABCtelevision series entitled
The Man and the City. Though the program was filmed in
Albuquerque,
New Mexico, the name of the city is not disclosed on the program. His subsequent television appearances were sporadic, among them
Jesus of Nazareth.
In 1977, he starred in the movie
Mohammad, Messenger of God (also known as
The Message), about the origin of Islam, as Hamzah, a highly revered warrior instrumental in the early stages of Islam. In 1982, he starred in the
Lion of the Desert, together with
Irene Papas,
Oliver Reed,
Rod Steiger, and
John Gielgud. Quinn played the real-life
Bedouin leader
Omar Mukhtar who fought
Benito Mussolini's Italian troops in the deserts of
Libya. The film, produced and directed by
Moustapha Akkad, is now critically acclaimed, but performed poorly at the box office because of negative publicity in the West at the time of its release, stemming from its having been partially funded by
Libya's
Muammar Gaddafi. In 1983, he reprised his most famous role, playing Zorba the Greek for 362 performances in a successful revival of the
Kander and Ebb musical
Zorba. Quinn performed in this musical both on Broadway in New York City and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C,
Quinn's film career slowed during the 1990s, but he nonetheless continued to work steadily, appearing in
Revenge (1990),
Jungle Fever (1991),
Last Action Hero (1993),
A Walk in the Clouds (1995) and
Seven Servants (1996). In 1994, he played Zeus in the five TV movies that led to the syndicated series
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. (However, he did not continue in the actual series, and the role was eventually filled by several other actors).
Quinn made an appearance at the
John Gotti trial, according to John H. Davis, author of
Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family. He told reporters he wanted to play
Paul Castellano, the boss of the Gambino family after
Carlo Gambino. Gotti had Castellano murdered, becoming the boss of the Gambino family thereafter. Gotti was on trial concerning a variety of felony charges when Quinn visited the court room. Although he tried to shake hands with Gotti, federal marshals prevented him from doing so, Davis says. The actor interpreted the testimony of Sammy ("The Bull") Gravano, Gotti's underboss, against Gotti as "a friend who betrays a friend." He hadn't come to "judge" Gotti, Quinn insisted, but because he wanted to portray Castellano, who inspired the actor because he had had a "thirty-year-old" mistress, which Quinn believed was "a beautiful thing." He would later portray Gambino family underboss
Aniello Dellacroce in the 1996 HBO film
Gotti.
Armand Assante portrayed John Gotti and
Richard C. Sarafian portrayed Paul Castellano. Quinn was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Dellacroce.
[edit]Painting and writing
Art critic Donald Kuspit, explains, "examining Quinn's many expressions of creativity together—his art and acting—we can see that he was a creative genius..."
[7]Early in life Quinn had interest in painting and drawing. Throughout his teenage years he won various art competitions in
California and focused his studies at Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles on drafting. Later, Quinn studied briefly under
Frank Lloyd Wright through the Taliesin Fellowship—an opportunity created by winning first prize in an architectural design contest. Through Wright's recommendation, Quinn took acting lessons as a form of post-operative speech therapy, which led to an acting career that spanned over six decades.
Apart from art classes taken in Chicago during the 1950s, Quinn never attended art school; nonetheless, taking advantage of books, museums, and amassing a sizable collection, he managed to give himself an effective education in the language of modern art. Although Quinn remained mostly self-taught, intuitively seeking out and exploring new ideas, there is observable history in his work because he had assiduously studied the modernist masterpieces on view in the galleries of
New York,
Mexico City,
Paris, and
London. When filming on location around the world, Quinn was exposed to regional contemporary art styles exhibited at local galleries and studied art history in each area.
In an endless search for inspiration, he was influenced by his Mexican ancestry, decades of residency in
Europe, and lengthy stays in
Africa and the
Middle East while filming in the 1970s and 1980s.
By the early 1980s, his work had caught the eyes of various gallery owners and was exhibited internationally, in New York,
Los Angeles, Paris, and Mexico City. His work is now represented in both public and private collections throughout the world.
He wrote two memoirs,
The Original Sin (1972) and
One Man Tango (1997), a number of scripts, and a series of unpublished stories currently in the collection of his archive.
[edit]Personal life
Quinn's personal life was as volatile and passionate as the characters he played in films. His first wife was the adopted daughter of
Cecil B. DeMille, the actress
Katherine DeMille, whom he married in 1937. The couple had five children: Christopher (born 1939), Christina (born December 1, 1941), Catalina (born November 21, 1942), Duncan (born August 4, 1945), and Valentina (born December 26, 1952).
[8] One of their sons, Christopher, age 2, drowned in the swimming pool of next-door neighbor
W.C. Fields.
[8] Quinn and DeMille were divorced in 1965.
The following year, he married costume designer Iolanda Quinn (Jolanda Addolori). They had three children:
Francesco (born March 22, 1962), Danny (born April 16, 1964), and
Lorenzo (born May 7, 1966). The union ended in 1997, after Quinn fathered a child with his secretary, Kathy Benvin. He then married Benvin, with whom he had two children, Antonia (born July 23, 1993) and Ryan Nicholas (born July 5, 1996).
[9] Quinn and Benvin remained together until his death.
Quinn also fathered two other children with Friedel Dunbar: Sean Quinn (born February 7, 1973), a
New Jersey real estate agent, and Alexander Anthony Quinn (born December 30, 1976), an event producer in Los Angeles, CA.
[9][10]Quinn spent his last years in
Bristol, Rhode Island. He died aged 86 in
Boston,
Massachusetts from
pneumonia and respiratory failure while suffering from
throat cancer shortly after completing his role in his last film,
Avenging Angelo (2002).
His funeral was held in the
First Baptist Church in America in the
College Hill section of Providence, Rhode Island; late in life, he had joined the
Foursquare evangelical Christian community. He is buried in a family plot in Bristol, Rhode Island.
[edit]Tributes
There is a statue of Anthony Quinn (a native son of Chihuahua) doing his famous "Zorba the Greek" dance In Chihuahua Mexico
[11]On January 5, 1982, the
Belvedere County Public Library in
East Los Angeles was renamed in honor of Anthony Quinn. The present library sits on the site of his family's former home.
[12]There is an
Anthony Quinn Bay and Beach in
Rhodes,
Dodecanese,
Greece, just 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south of the village of
Faliraki (aka Falirakion or Falirákion).
[13][14] The land was bought by Quinn during the filming of
The Guns of Navarone in Rhodes; however, it was reclaimed by the Greek government in 1984 due to a change in property law.
[15]The
National Council of La Raza gives the Anthony Quinn Award for excellence in motion pictures as an
ALMA Award.
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