Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn received his first high school diploma from Tucson High School in Tucson, Arizona in the 1990s. Schiff was also in the 1998 blockbuster Deep Impact, where he played Don Beiderman. In the latter, Quinn is candid and apologetic about some of his past's darker moments. Schiff made his directorial debut with The West Wing, directing an episode entitled "Talking Points.". Anthony Quinn wrote and co-wrote two memoirs, The Original Sin (1972) and One Man Tango (1997). He won an Emmy Award for this role. In his free time, when he wasn't acting, Quinn continued to paint and became a well-known artist. Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955, Bethesda, Maryland) currently plays Toby Ziegler in the television drama The West Wing.

Quinn was a student and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright. Quinn, Francesco Quinn, Lorenzo Quinn, and Valentina Quinn. Father of Alex A. In total, Quinn has fathered thirteen children and has had three known mistresses.

The union crumbled in 1993 when Quinn had an affair with his secretary that resulted in a baby; the two shared a second child in 1996. The following year he embarked on a tempestuous thirty-one-year marriage to costume designer Iolanda Quinn. He divorced his wife Katherine, with whom he had three children, in 1956. Quinn proved as volatile and passionate as his screen persona in his personal life.

Shortly after completing his final film role in Avenging Angelo (2001), At the age of 86, Anthony Quinn died of respiratory failure in Boston, Massachusetts. Though his film career slowed considerably during the 1990s, Quinn continued to work steadily, appearing in films as diverse as Jungle Fever (1991), Last Action Hero (1993), and A Walk in the Clouds (1995). His subsequent television appearances were sporadic (among them Jesus of Nazareth (movie)), though in 1994, he became a semi-regular guest (playing Zeus) on the syndicated Hercules series. In 1971, he starred in the short-lived television drama Man in the City.

The 1970s offered little change and Quinn became known as a ham, albeit a well-respected one. The success of Zorba the Greek in 1964 was the highwater mark of Quinn's career during the '60s -- it offered him another Oscar nomination -- and as the decade progressed, the quality of his film work noticeably diminished. His careworn demeanor made him an ideal ex-boxer in Requiem for a Heavyweight and a natural for the villainous Bedouin he played in Lawrence of Arabia (both 1962). His formerly trim physique filled out, his hair grayed, and his once smooth, swarthy face weathered into an appealing series of crags and crinkles.

During the '50s, Quinn specialized in tough, macho roles, but as the decade ended, he allowed his age to show. The following year, he received another Oscar nomination for George Cukor's Wild is the Wind. Quinn won his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar portraying the painter Gaugin in Vincente Minnelli's Lust for Life (1956). He went to Italy in 1953 and appeared in several films, turning in one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish, and volatile strongman in Federico Fellini's La Strada (1954).

His supporting role as Zapata's brother won Quinn his first Oscar and after that, Quinn was given larger roles in a variety of features. He got one of his big breaks playing opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952). Upon his return to the screen in the early '50s, Quinn was cast in a series of B-adventures like Mask of the Avenger (1951). So he returned to the theater, where for three years he found success on Broadway in such roles as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.

By 1947, he was a veteran of over 50 films and had played everything from Indians, Mafia dons, Hawaiian chiefs, Chinese guerrillas, and comical Arab sheiks, but he was still not a major star. Quinn remained relegated to playing "ethnic" villains in Paramount films through the 1940s. He launched his film career playing character roles in several 1936 films, including Parole (his debut) and The Milky Way, after a brief stint in the theater. Before becoming an actor, Quinn had been a prizefighter and a painter.

He was born Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn in Chihuahua, Mexico. Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001) was a Mexican actor, painter, and writer.