Anthony Quinn Net Worth

Anthony Quinn's Quotes

• In Europe, an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
• [when asked about his ethnicity] It doesn't make a difference as long as I'm a person in the world.
• I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.
• I can't retire. I mean, I started working when I was a year and a half old, and I worked all my life.
• [In the 1980s] I don't see many men today. I see a lot of guys running around on television with small waists, but I don't see many men.

Interesting Facts about Anthony Quinn

1. Had appeared in more movies with other Oscar-winning actors than any other Oscar-winning actor - a total of 46 Oscar-winning co-stars (28 male, 18 female).
2. Had five children, Christopher Quinn (born October 27, 1938 - died March 15, 1941), Christina Quinn (born December 1, 1941), Catalina Quinn (born November 21, 1942), Duncan Quinn (born August 4, 1945) and Valentina Quinn (born December 26, 1952), with Katherine DeMille. Had three children, Francesco Quinn (born March 22, 1963 - died August 5, 2011), Danny Quinn (born April 16, 1964) and Lorenzo Quinn (born May 7, 1966), with Jolanda Addolori. Had two children, Sean Quinn (born February 7, 1973) and Alex A. Quinn (born December 30, 1976), with Friedel Dunbar and had two children, Antonia Quinn (born July 23, 1993) and Ryan Quinn (born July 5, 1996), with Kathy Benvin.
3. Became a naturalized United States citizen in 1947, just before he was "gray-listed" for his association with Communists such as screenwriter John Howard Lawson and what were termed "fellow travelers", though he himself was never called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. When warned of his gray-listing by 20th Century-Fox boss Darryl F. Zanuck (a liberal), Quinn decided to go on the Broadway stage where there was no blacklist rather than go through the process of refuting the suspicions.
4. He had to shave his hair for The Magus (1968). He had an insurance policy against the risk that it might not grow back.
5. Lived in Bristol, Rhode Island, and befriended controversial Providence mayor Buddy Cianci. Quinn was posthumously inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2015.
6. Before he launched his acting career, Quinn worked odd jobs as a butcher, a boxer, street corner preacher and a slaughterhouse worker. He also won a scholarship to study architecture with Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom he developed a close relationship.
7. Won his second Oscar for a movie in which he only appeared on screen for a total of 23 minutes and 40 seconds.
8. Brother-in-law of screenwriter Martin Goldsmith.
9. Anthony Quinn was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1915, during the Mexican revolution, in which his father was allegedly a soldier in the army of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. After the revolution, the family moved to Los Angeles, California, where Quinn's father eventually secured a job as a cameraman at Selig Film Studios. Quinn often accompanied his father to work, and became acquainted with such stars as Tom Mix and John Barrymore, with whom he kept up the friendship into adulthood. Quinn's first job in Hollywood was tending animals at the Selig Studio. Quinn's father died when Anthony was 9 years old. He grew up in East Los Angeles, shining shoes and selling newspapers. For extra cash, he entered dance contests and sold the statues he won.
10. In 1991 he was scheduled to appear in David Lean's adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, but Lean's death in April 1991 brought the production to an end.
11. Was nominated for Broadway's 1961 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for Becket.
12. Around 1972, he announced his desire to play Henry Cristophe, the 19th-century emperor of Haiti. Upon this announcement, several prominent black actors, including Ossie Davis and Ellen Holly, stated that they were opposed to a "white man" playing "black". Davis stated, "My black children need black heroes on which to model their behavior. Henry Cristophe is an authentic black hero. Tony, for all my admiration of him as a talent, will do himself and my children a great disservice if he encourages them to believe that only a white man, and Tony is white to my children, is capable of playing a black hero.".
13. Studied acting with Stella Adler and with Michael Chekhov.
14. According to Joseph McBride's Searching for John Ford (St. Martin's Press, 2001 - ISBN 0312242328), director John Ford was urged to cast Richard Boone and Quinn as the Little Wolf and Dull Knife characters in Cheyenne Autumn (1964), as both allegedly had Native American blood. Ricardo Montalban and Gilbert Roland, who were of Mexican ancestry, were cast instead.
15. In later years, he would recount how, while growing up in Echo Park, young Chicano toughs would come over to his house to enlist his help in brawling with the Irish gangs, and that later in the same day, young Irish bruisers would visit him to enlist his services in fighting the Mexicans. He would always beg off choosing sides by having his mother chase the young delinquents out of her house, after which he would resume one of his favorite pastimes, drafting and drawing.
16. Ex-father-in-law of Lauren Holly and Melissa Quinn.
17. He was one of the few actors to move easily and successfully between starring and supporting roles throughout his career. In both categories, the Irish-Mexican Quinn played a vast array of characters and ethnicities, including American, Arab, Basque, Chinese, English, French, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hun, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Mongol, Native American, Filipino, Portuguese, Spaniard and Ukranian.
18. Donated blood to John Barrymore whenever the older actor needed a transfusion.
19. Underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery in February 1990.
20. Was very fond of Keanu Reeves. They became friends during the filming of A Walk in the Clouds (1995).