[Vedette] Anthony Quinn (1915-2001)

[Rex Lee]

Inutile de faire les présentations...
Le plus "européen" des acteurs américains a deux euro-westerns à son actif:

La bataille de San Sebastian
Los amigos




La bataille de San Sebastian





Los amigos





Los amigos




Hors western mais toujours en Europe:





















Le secret de Santa Vittoria

[cyberpunk]

et il a ......"chanter"



belle voix quand même

[Personne]

A lire, son 'autobiographie' La Balade des Sept Collines. J'ai lu ça comme du petit lait!

De mémoire on y apprend que Les Raisins de la Colère sont inspirés par papa Quinn, qu'il faillit périr d'un accident d'avion pendant le tournage de Lawrence d'Arabie... Plein de souvenirs et d'anecdotes...

[COWBOY PAT]

Je me demandais justement si LA BATAILLE DE SAN SEBASTIAN comptait dans la liste de ce forum...  

Un de mes tout premiers westerns petit...

GRAND ACTEUR QUI COMPTE PARMI MES PREFERES...

[Personne]

Je me demandais justement si LA BATAILLE DE SAN SEBASTIAN comptait dans la liste de ce forum...  

Bien sûr! 

[old timer]

Egalement dans le célèbre "Ulysse" de Camerini:



Un séjour italien bien rempli, c'était en 1954 et il tournait coup sur coup : La Strada, Ulysse et Attila !

[cyberpunk]

quelle belle voix

[Tom Betts]

‘Zorba the Greek’ Star Anthony Quinn Once Personified Diversity in Hollywood

Decades before Hollywood got serious about the need for diversity, Anthony Quinn was diversity. This month marks the birthday of the Mexico-born, L.A.-raised actor who played Bedouins, Native Americans, Soviets — and even Mexicans and Americans in his 60-year career. He was the first Mexican-American to win an Oscar, for his supporting performance in “Viva Zapata!” (1952) and won another as French painter Gaugin in “Lust for Life” (1956). His two trademark performances were in “Zorba the Greek” (another Oscar nom) and as an Italian circus strongman in Fellini’s “La Strada.”

Antonio Rodolfo Oaxaca Quinn was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, on April 21, 1915, and began acting in 1936. His rise in Hollywood is especially remarkable considering the times. From 1929-36, the U.S.’ “Mexican Repatriation” program sent those of Mexican descent south of the border (even though many were U.S. citizens) out of fear they were taking jobs from whites. In 1943, Southern California was home to the Zoot Suit Riots, after whites physically attacked Mexican-American youths, claiming they were hoodlums.

Amid those events, in 1941, Fox released “Blood and Sand,” starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell. The movie’s highlight is a torrid dance by Quinn and Rita Hayworth — memorable by any standard, but especially impressive since it featured two Latinos stealing the show in a Hollywood era of non-diverse casting.

Quinn starred in more than 100 films, including “The Ox-Bow Incident” (1943), “Lawrence of Arabia,” “The Guns of Navarone,” “Behold a Pale Horse,” “The Secret of Santa Vittoria,” “Lion of the Desert,” and Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever.”

But his life was more interesting than most of the films.

He was born to a Mexican mother and an Irish father, who rode with Pancho Villa then moved to East Los Angeles and worked as a movie cameraman. Anthony Quinn played in the church band for famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, and appeared in a stage show with Mae West. On Broadway, he replaced Marlon Brando in “A Streetcar Named Desire” then alternated the lead roles with Laurence Olivier in Jean Anouilh’s “Becket.” Quinn also studied architecture with Frank Lloyd Wright, and always pursued his passions for painting and sculpture. He spent years trying to get a film made about Picasso, and he played the artist in a one-man show in 1989.

Other notables Quinn worked with: A-list directors, including Cecil B. DeMille (who was his father-in-law for 25 years), George Cukor, Elia Kazan, David Lean, Spike Lee, Nicholas Ray and Raoul Walsh. Among his co-stars were an eclectic group that featured Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Ann-Margret and Keanu Reeves.

His autobiography “The Original Sin: A Self-Portrait,” was published in 1972. Quinn died in Boston in 2001, at the age of 86, after a career in acting that spanned parts of eight decades.

[old timer]

Thanks, Tom.
Al I want to  add is that Anthony Quinn also officialy directed one movie; "The Buccaneer" (1958) produced by DeMille (who was supposed to direct it first, but could not because of his heart condition, so his son-in-law replaced him)

"Les Boucaniers" (The buccaneer) en 1958 est le seul film mis en scène par Anthony Quinn. C'était un projet prévu par et pour Cecil B. Demille qu'il a du renoncer à mener à bien pour raisons de santé. C'est un film étrange, avec Yul Brinner et Charlton Heston, un film qui se veut épique mais est réalisé à 100% en studio! Il est dispo en DVD chez Sidonis.

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