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4 unusual facts about Anthony Quinn


Eddie Saenz

After his retirement from football, he worked as a stunt man for various movies and often served as a double for Anthony Quinn.

Renato Rascel

He also had a leading role in The Secret of Santa Vittoria with Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani, Seven Hills of Rome with Mario Lanza, Questi fantasmi with Eduardo De Filippo and Figaro qua Figaro là with Totò.

Road to Singapore

They rescue Mima (Dorothy Lamour), an exotic local (but not native) from her abusive dance-partner, Caesar (Anthony Quinn), and she moves into their hut.

Shema Yisrael

In The Shoes of the Fisherman, Anthony Quinn, as Pope Kiril, explores the back streets of Rome disguised as a simple priest, and recites the Shema at the bedside of a dying Jew.


Circle of Power

Circle of Power is a 1983 film, co-produced by Gary Mehlman, Anthony Quinn and Jeffrey White, and based on the non-fiction book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled.

Ernest Lehman

Lehman did complete adapted screenplays for two never-made films, one an adaptation of the Noël Coward classic Hay Fever, another a musical version of Zorba the Greek envisioned for director Robert Wise and actors Anthony Quinn and John Travolta.

Evelyn Keyes

Among the many Hollywood affairs she recounted in "Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister" were those with producer Michael Todd (who left Evelyn for Elizabeth Taylor), Glenn Ford, Sterling Hayden, Dick Powell, Anthony Quinn, David Niven and Kirk Douglas.

Inger Stevens

In addition to these marriages she had been romantically linked to Bing Crosby, Anthony Quinn, Dean Martin, Clint Eastwood, Harry Belafonte, Mario Lanza and Burt Reynolds.

Irina Demick

Her career continued with roles in OSS se déchaîne (1963), The Visit (1964), alongside Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, Un monsieur de compagnie (1964) with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Pierre Cassel and Up from the Beach (1965) opposite Cliff Robertson and Red Buttons.

Jo Eisinger

Among them are Oscar Wilde (1960), starring Sir Ralph Richardson and Robert Morley, The Rover (L'Avventuriero), (1967), from a novel by Joseph Conrad and starring Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and The Jigsaw Man (1984), starring Laurence Olivier and directed by Terence Young.

Occupation of Alcatraz

Grace Thorpe, daughter of Jim Thorpe (Sac and Fox), was one of the occupiers and helped convince celebrities like Jane Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Marlon Brando, Jonathan Winters, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Dick Gregory, to visit the island and show their support.

Parviz Gharib-Afshar

Many celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Anthony Quinn, William Holden, David Frost, and many more visiting Iran, were guests in his show.

The Brigand

The film bears a resemblance to The Prisoner of Zenda with Dexter playing a dual role of a rogue exile who impersonates a King in danger of being overthrown by his cousin played by Anthony Quinn.

Wolfgang Preiss

In film dubbing Preiss provided the voice for such actors as Lex Barker, Christopher Lee, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, Richard Widmark, as well as that of Conrad Veidt as "Major Strasser" in the remastered version of Casablanca.


see also

Antonio Margheriti

Treasure Island in Outer Space (1987) made for Italian TV, starring Anthony Quinn, David Warbeck & John Morghen

The Black Bat

In 2011 Anthony Quinn is stated as dead in the Clockwork Comics series Education Of A Superhero by Adam Dechanel and a new Black Bat under the alias Steve Ventura took on the daunting legacy.

Written mainly by Norman Daniels under the house name G. Wayman Jones, the stories describe the crime-fighting career of former District Attorney Anthony Quinn.