New from our friends at European Filmstar Postcards -
IMPORTED FROM THE USA: ANTHONY QUINN
Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn (1915-2001) started as a contract player
at Paramount, where he mainly played villains and ethnic types. He moved to
Broadway and replaced Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. This
performance boosted his film career. For his role as Brando's brother in Viva
Zapata! (Elia Kazan, 1952), Quinn won the Best Supporting Actor Academy
Award. He gave one of his best performances as the circus strongman in Federico
Fellini's masterpiece La Strada (1954). Quinn won his second Supporting
Actor Oscar in 1957 for his role as Gauguin in Lust for Life (Vincente
Minnelli, 1956), opposite Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh. Over the next
decades Quinn alternated between Hollywood and the European cinema. READ
MORE HERE http://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2016/10/imported-from-usa-anthony-quinn.html
Editor's Note: Quinn was also wonderful in THE GUNS OF
NAVARONE as Colonel Andrea Stavrou.
He will always be the pope in the shoes of the fisherman to me.
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