--- name: "Anthony Quinn" canonical: "https://film.one/person/anthony-quinn" fi1m_id: "anthony-quinn" imdb_id: "nm0000063" tmdb_id: 5401 wikidata_id: "Q83484" roles: ["Actor"] born: "21 April 1915" died: "3 June 2001" reviewed_on_fi1m: 5 average_fi1m_score: 75 average_as: "actor" average_over: 5 updated: "2026-10-04T23:17:05.722008+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Anthony Quinn ## Identity Anthony Quinn - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anthony-quinn - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** anthony-quinn - **IMDb ID:** nm0000063 - **TMDB ID:** 5401 - **Wikidata ID:** Q83484 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Quinn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83484, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000063/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5401 Actor. Born 21 April 1915 in Chihuahua, Mexico. Died 3 June 2001. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 21 April 1915, Chihuahua, Mexico - **Died:** 3 June 2001 - **Active:** 1943–1993 - **Also known as:** Антонио Родольфо Оахака Куинн, Энтони Куинн, Antonio Rodolfo Oaxaca Quinn, 안소니 퀸, Антони Куинн, Энтони Куин, Антони Куин, 安东尼·奎恩, آنتونی کویین, آنتونی کوئین - **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscars (2 won · 2 nominated) - **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as actor, over 5 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 84 (1), 1960s 77 (3), 1990s 62 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 69 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 5 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Adventure 2, Drama 2, War 2, Action 1, Comedy 1, Fantasy 1 - **Screen time:** 12 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $245m across 4 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Quinn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83484, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000063/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5401 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Lawrence of Arabia*](https://film.one/film/lawrence-of-arabia.md) (90), [*The Guns of Navarone*](https://film.one/film/the-guns-of-navarone.md) (74) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Last Action Hero*](https://film.one/film/last-action-hero.md) (62) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Anthony Quinn > Anthony Quinn played big men plainly: appetite, temper and a body that filled the frame. In small parts he could turn a scene with a look; in later leads he played Zorba again and again. In *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943) Anthony Quinn has almost nothing to do and makes it count. He is one of three men a posse has decided to hang, and while Dana Andrews argues, then reasons, then pleads, Quinn stands a little apart and looks at his captors as though they were the ones on trial. He has worked out that they can take everything from him except his contempt, so he keeps that. We found the look harder to sit with than the rope, because William A. Wellman has made the mob sound so reasonable that Quinn's silence is the only answer nobody in it can argue with. It is a small part in a short film and it shows most of what he was good at: he could stand still and let us read the man. He had been in pictures since 1936, mostly in small roles, and Hollywood used him as its all-purpose foreigner, cast as whatever nationality the script needed and often as the heavy. The parts grew through the 1940s and the 1950s made him: Eufemio Zapata for Elia Kazan in 1952, the strongman Zampanò for Federico Fellini in *La Strada* (1954), Gauguin opposite Van Gogh in *Lust for Life* (1956). He worked for six decades and more than a hundred roles, and was still at it in 2001. By *Lawrence of Arabia* (1962) he could walk into David Lean's desert and look as though he owned a share of it. Auda abu Tayi is loud, hungry and delighted with himself, and Quinn plays him as a man who enjoys being watched, which sets him against Peter O'Toole's flickering Lawrence and Omar Sharif's stillness. Alongside Alec Guinness and Sharif he makes the story feel populated by more than witnesses to Lawrence. Quinn's share of that work is appetite. He wants things, and he wants them in front of people, and a film that long needs someone who does. Then came *Zorba the Greek* (1964), for Michael Cacoyannis, and the part took over the actor. Zorba insists that life is for living and for living loudly, and Quinn played him so completely that much of what followed was Zorba under other names. He said as much himself, that he had become more like Zorba from the day he played him. The complaint about the later work is overstatement, and it is fair. The man in Ox-Bow kept something back; the later Quinn kept less and less, and vitality stopped being something the character had and became something the audience was asked to admire. Start with the small parts. His minutes in *The Ox-Bow Incident* are the quietest in the film and his in *Lawrence* are among the loudest, and it is plainly the same actor in both, taking exactly as much room as the scene allows him. The leads came later, and so did the habit of taking a little more. ## Biography Anthony Quinn was a Mexican-American actor. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, he appeared in numerous films and television series over a career spanning more than six decades. He is known for roles including Auda abu Tayi in *Lawrence of Arabia* (1962), Zampanò in *La Strada* (1954), Col. Andrea Stavros in *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), and Hamza in *The Message* (1976). Quinn received Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for *Viva Zapata!* (1952) and *Lust for Life* (1956). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, encyclopedia.com.* ## On Fi1m (5) - *Last Action Hero* (1993), Fi1m 62, as Tony Vivaldi — [page](https://film.one/film/last-action-hero.md) - *Zorba the Greek* (1964), Fi1m 67, as Alexis Zorba — [page](https://film.one/film/zorba-the-greek.md) - *Lawrence of Arabia* (1962), Fi1m 90, as Auda abu Tayi — [page](https://film.one/film/lawrence-of-arabia.md) - *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), Fi1m 74, as Col. Andrea Stavros — [page](https://film.one/film/the-guns-of-navarone.md) - *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943), Fi1m 84, as Juan Martínez/Francisco Morez — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ox-bow-incident.md) ## Complete filmography (167) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Green Fog* (2018), Actor - *This Is Bob Hope...* (2017), as actor in 'The Ghost Breakers' (archive footage) (uncredited) - *Avenging Angelo* (2002), as Angelo Allieghieri - *Terra de canons* (2000), as Sr. de Sicart - *Oriundi* (2000), as Giuseppe Padovani · Producer - *Camino de Santiago* (1999), series, as Félix Foulé - *The Mayor* (1997), as Antonio Baracano - *Seven Servants* (1996), as Archie - *Gotti* (1996), as Neil Dellacroce - *A Walk in the Clouds* (1995), as Don Pedro Aragón - *The Magician* (1995), as Ercole - *Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur* (1994), as Zeus - *Hercules in the Underworld* (1994), as Zeus - *Hercules and the Circle of Fire* (1994), as Zeus - *Somebody to Love* (1994), as Emillio - *Hercules and the Lost Kingdom* (1994), as Zeus - *Hercules and the Amazon Women* (1994), as Zeus - *This Can't Be Love* (1994), as Michael Reyman - *Last Action Hero* (1993), as Tony Vivaldi — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/last-action-hero.md) - *Enopios Enopio* (1991), series, as Guest - *A Star for Two* (1991), as Dr. Gabriel Todd - *Mobsters* (1991), as Don Giuseppe 'Joe the Boss' Masseria - *Jungle Fever* (1991), as Lou Carbone - *Only the Lonely* (1991), as Nick Acropolis - *The Old Man and the Sea* (1990), as Santiago - *Revenge* (1990), as Tiburon 'Tibey' Mendez - *27 Wagons Full of Cotton* (1990), as Narrator - *Ghosts Can't Do It* (1989), as Scott - *A Man of Passion* (1989), as Mauricio - *Stradivari* (1988), as Antonio Stradivari - *Onassis: The Richest Man in the World* (1988), as Socrates Onassis - *Treasure Island in Outer Space* (1987), series, as Long John Silver - *The Cosby Show* (1984), series, as Mr. Fuentes - *Brainwash* (1983), Executive Producer - *Rembetika* (1983), as Narrator - *Valentina* (1982), as Mosen Joaquín - *Regina Roma* (1982), as Papa - *High Risk* (1981), as Mariano - *The Salamander* (1981), as Bruno Manzini - *Lion of the Desert* (1981), as Omar al-Mukhtar - *The Passage* (1979), as The Basque - *Los hijos de Sanchez* (1978), Actor - *Caravans* (1978), as Zulffiqar - *The Children of Sanchez* (1978), as Jesús Sánchez - *The Greek Tycoon* (1978), as Theo Tomasis - *Target of an Assassin* (1977), as Ernest Hobday 'Sailor' Slade - *Jesus of Nazareth* (1977), series, as Caiaphas - *The Inheritance* (1976), as Gregorio Ferramonti - *The Con Artists* (1976), as Philip Bang - *The Message* (1976), as Hamza - *The Marseille Contract* (1974), as Steve Ventura - *The Don Is Dead* (1973), as Don Angelo DiMorra - *Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears* (1973), as Erastus 'Deaf' Smith - *Across 110th Street* (1972), as Capt. Frank Mattelli · Executive Producer - *Arruza* (1972), as Narrator - *The Murder of Julius Caesar* (1972), as Julius Caesar - *The Man and the City* (1971), series, as Thomas Jefferson Alcala - *The City* (1971), as Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala - *Flap* (1970), as Flapping Eagle - *R.P.M.* (1970), as Prof. F.W.J. 'Paco' Perez - *A Walk in the Spring Rain* (1970), as Will Cade - *The Secret of Santa Vittoria* (1970), as Italo Bombolini - *A Dream of Kings* (1969), as Matsoukas - *The Shoes of the Fisherman* (1968), as Kiril Lakota - *The Magus* (1968), as Maurice Conchis - *The Movie Orgy* (1968), as Kubla Khan (archive footage) - *The Rover* (1967), as Peyrol - *The Happening* (1967), as Roc Delmonico - *Guns for San Sebastian* (1967), as Leon Alastray - *The 25th Hour* (1967), as Johann Moritz - *Lost Command* (1966), as Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy - *Marco the Magnificent* (1965), as Kublai Khan - *A High Wind in Jamaica* (1965), as Chavez - *Zorba the Greek* (1964), as Alexis Zorba · Associate Producer — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/zorba-the-greek.md) - *Behold a Pale Horse* (1964), as Viñolas - *The Visit* (1964), as Serge Miller · Producer - *Lawrence of Arabia* (1962), as Auda abu Tayi — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/lawrence-of-arabia.md) - *Requiem for a Heavyweight* (1962), as Lewis 'Mountain' Rivera - *Barabbas* (1961), as Barabbas - *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), as Col. Andrea Stavros — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-guns-of-navarone.md) - *Portrait in Black* (1960), as Dr. David Rivera - *The Savage Innocents* (1960), as Inuk - *Heller in Pink Tights* (1960), as Tom Healy - *Last Train from Gun Hill* (1959), as Craig Belden - *Warlock* (1959), as Tom Morgan - *The Black Orchid* (1959), as Frank Valente - *The Buccaneer* (1958), Director - *Hot Spell* (1958), as Jack Duval - *Wild Is the Wind* (1957), as Gino - *The Ride Back* (1957), as Bob Callen - *The River's Edge* (1957), as Ben Cameron - *The Wild Party* (1956), as Tom Kupfen - *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1956), as Quasimodo - *Man from Del Rio* (1956), as Dave Robles - *Lust for Life* (1956), as Paul Gauguin - *Seven Cities of Gold* (1955), as Capt. Gaspar de Portola - *The Naked Street* (1955), as Phil Regal - *The Magnificent Matador* (1955), as Luís Santos - *Attila* (1954), as Attila - *Ulysses* (1954), as Antinous - *La Strada* (1954), as Zampanò - *The Long Wait* (1954), as Johnny McBride - *Angels of Darkness* (1954), as Francesco Caserto - *Fatal Desire* (1954), as Alfio - *Blowing Wild* (1953), as Ward 'Paco' Conway - *East of Sumatra* (1953), as Kiang - *Ride, Vaquero!* (1953), as José Esqueda - *City Beneath the Sea* (1953), as Tony Bartlett - *Seminole* (1953), as Osceola - *Against All Flags* (1952), as Captain Roc Brasiliano - *The World in His Arms* (1952), as Portugee - *The Brigand* (1952), as Prince Ramón - *Viva Zapata!* (1952), as Eufemio Zapata - *Schlitz Playhouse of Stars* (1951), series, as Jason Burrage, Clay Waldon, Pepe - *Mask of the Avenger* (1951), as Viovanni Larocca - *The Brave Bulls* (1951), as Raul Fuentes - *Danger* (1950), series, Actor - *The Ford Theatre Hour* (1948), series, Actor - *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, Actor - *Tycoon* (1947), as Ricky Vegas - *Black Gold* (1947), as Charley Eagle - *California* (1947), as Don Luís Rivera y Hernandez - *Sinbad the Sailor* (1947), as Emir - *The Imperfect Lady* (1946), as Jose Martinez - *Back to Bataan* (1945), as Captain Andres Bonifacio - *Where Do We Go from Here?* (1945), as Chief Badger - *China Sky* (1945), as Chen-Ta - *Irish Eyes Are Smiling* (1944), as Al Jackson - *Roger Touhy, Gangster* (1944), as George Carroll - *Ladies of Washington* (1944), as Michael Romanescue - *Buffalo Bill* (1944), as Chief Yellow Hand - *Guadalcanal Diary* (1943), as Jesus ('Soose') Alverez - *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943), as Juan Martínez/Francisco Morez — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ox-bow-incident.md) - *The Black Swan* (1942), as Wogan - *Road to Morocco* (1942), as Mullay Kasim - *Larceny, Inc.* (1942), as Leo Dexter - *The Perfect Snob* (1941), as Alexander Moreno - *They Died with Their Boots On* (1941), as Crazy Horse - *Bullets for O'Hara* (1941), as Tony Van Dyne / Tony Millard - *Blood and Sand* (1941), as Manolo de Palma - *Thieves Fall Out* (1941), as Chic Collins - *Knockout* (1941), as Harry Trego - *The Texas Rangers Ride Again* (1940), as Joe Yuma - *City for Conquest* (1940), as Murray Burns - *The Ghost Breakers* (1940), as Ramon Mederes / Francisco Mederes - *Road to Singapore* (1940), as Caesar - *Parole Fixer* (1940), as Francis 'Big Boy' Bradmore - *Emergency Squad* (1940), as Nick Buller - *Television Spy* (1939), as Forbes - *Island of Lost Men* (1939), as Chang Tai - *Union Pacific* (1939), as Cordray - *King of Chinatown* (1939), as Mike Gordon - *King of Alcatraz* (1938), as Lou Gedney - *Bulldog Drummond in Africa* (1938), as Henchman Fordine - *Hunted Men* (1938), as Mack McGloyne - *Tip-Off Girls* (1938), as Marty - *Dangerous to Know* (1938), as Nicolai Kusoff - *The Buccaneer* (1938), as Beluche - *Daughter of Shanghai* (1937), as Harry Morgan - *Partners in Crime* (1937), as Nicholas Mazaney - *The Last Train from Madrid* (1937), as Capt. Ricardo Álvarez - *Waikiki Wedding* (1937), as Kimo - *Swing High, Swing Low* (1937), as The Don - *Night Waitress* (1936), as Gangster - *The Plainsman* (1936), as Cheyenne Indian - *Sworn Enemy* (1936), as Gangster (uncredited) - *The Milky Way* (1936), Actor ## Gallery - ![Anthony Quinn](https://film.one/media/person/59338/gallery-3b1cfea86188.jpg) Anthony Quinn — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Anthony_Quinn_around_the_1960s.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Anthony Dexter in The Brigand (film) (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/59338/gallery-d2fe3a914134.jpg) Anthony Dexter in The Brigand (film) (2021) — Columbia Pictures, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Anthony_Dexter_in_The_Brigand_%28film%29_06.jpg/1280px-Anthony_Dexter_in_The_Brigand_%28film%29_06.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anthony Dexter in The Brigand (film) (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/59338/gallery-e74c56c9f592.jpg) Anthony Dexter in The Brigand (film) (2021) — Columbia Pictures, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Anthony_Dexter_in_The_Brigand_%28film%29_15.jpg/1280px-Anthony_Dexter_in_The_Brigand_%28film%29_15.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anthony Dexter in The Brigand (film) (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/59338/gallery-02b50c33419b.jpg) Anthony Dexter in The Brigand (film) (2021) — Columbia Pictures, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Anthony_Dexter_in_The_Brigand_%28film%29_16.jpg/1280px-Anthony_Dexter_in_The_Brigand_%28film%29_16.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anthony Quinn](https://film.one/media/person/59338/gallery-5e92023babd0.jpg) Anthony Quinn — Image via TMDB - ![Anthony Quinn](https://film.one/media/person/59338/gallery-1e0a34615659.jpg) Anthony Quinn — Image via TMDB - ![Anthony Quinn](https://film.one/media/person/59338/gallery-79817bbba92a.jpg) Anthony Quinn — Image via TMDB - ![October 3, 2000 Hispanic awards Kennedy center Wash. D.C.](https://film.one/media/person/59338/gallery-15a1eebc2fc6.jpg) October 3, 2000 Hispanic awards Kennedy center Wash. D.C. — John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Anthony_Quinn%2C_2000.jpg/1280px-Anthony_Quinn%2C_2000.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anthony Quinn, actor, USA at Kastrup Airport CPH, passed Copenhagen by SAS after filming for "Top of the World" in Greenland and Italy for five months. 1959-09-](https://film.one/media/person/59338/gallery-ed15c00b9608.jpg) Anthony Quinn, actor, USA at Kastrup Airport CPH, passed Copenhagen by SAS after filming for "Top of the World" in Greenland and Italy for five months. 1959-09- — SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Anthony_Quinn%2C_actor%2C_USA_at_Kastrup_Airport_CPH.jpg/1280px-Anthony_Quinn%2C_actor%2C_USA_at_Kastrup_Airport_CPH.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anthony Quinn](https://film.one/media/person/59338/gallery-eb392482daa5.jpg) Anthony Quinn — Image via TMDB - ![Anthony Quinn](https://film.one/media/person/59338/gallery-b44122f38bb0.jpg) Anthony Quinn — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 2 won, 2 nominated - 1965: Best Actor (nominated), for *Zorba the Greek* - 1958: Best Actor (nominated), for *Wild Is the Wind* - 1957: Best Supporting Actor (won), for *Lust for Life* - 1953: Best Supporting Actor (won), for *Viva Zapata!* ### Other awards — 1 won, 2 nominated - Donostia Award 1995: Donostia Award (won) - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award 1992: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award (nominated), for *Mobsters* - Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play 1961: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (nominated) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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