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Do you know Anthony Tyler Quinn, the two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican-American actor? Here are some facts:

1. Anthony is best known for his performance in Hollywood movies Zobra the Greek and Viva Zapata.

2. Born on April 21, 1915 in Chihuahua, Mexico to an Irish father and a Mexican mother, Anthony Quinn has played roles in more than 100 Hollywood films. Besides, he is also knows as writer and a painter.

3. Anthony Quinn was bred and brought up in the Boyle Heights and the Echo Park neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California, where he studied at Polytechnic High School and later on at Belmont High School. After leaving school early, he was a prizefighter and a painter before becoming an actor.

4. Parole (1936) was his first film. Then Anthony Quinn played character roles in several 1936 films, including The Milky Way. He plays ethnic villains in Paramount films in the 1940s. By 1947, he had performed in over 50 films and had played everything from Indians, Mafia dons, Filipino freedom-fighters, Hawaiian chiefs, Chinese guerrillas, and comical Arab sheiks.

5. In 1952, Anthony Quinn got one of his big breaks playing opposite Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata. His supporting role as Zapata's brother won Quinn his first Oscar. He went to Italy in 1953 and appeared in several films.

6. Anthony Quinn won his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar portraying the painter Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli's Lust for Life (1956). The following year, he received another Oscar nomination for George Cukor's Wild Is the Wind.

7. His role in the war film The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Zorba the Greek in 1964, was the peak of his career. Anthony Quinn movies also include The Lion of the Desert movie, Jungle Fever, Last Action Hero and A Walk in the Clouds.

8. In his free time, when he was not acting, Anthony Quinn used to paint and became a well-known artist. Anthony Quinn arts include many abstract paintings based on modern themes. He also wrote and co-wrote two memoirs -- The Original Sin (1972) and One Man Tango (1997).

Article Published: Friday 5th January 2007