Anthony Quinn, Best Supporting Actor 1952 & 1956: MovieActors.com

VIVA ZAPATA! (Biography) Anthony Quinn won his Supporting Oscar for playing the wild Mexican rebel leader Emiliano Zapata in VIVA ZAPATA!

LUST FOR LIFE (Biography) Anthony Quinn won his second Supporting Oscar for playing the famed painter Gaughin who was Van Gogh's friend. Anthony Quinn (1915 - 2001) Mexican-born leading actor in films since 1936 Before going into acting Anthony Quinn went through several careers which included working as a butcher, a street corner preacher and a prize fighter. He was signed to work exclusivly for Paramount, appearing in their movies almost always as a gangster or an indian. During the Paramount years he was cast in several Cecil B. DeMille pictures, who ended up being Quinn's father in law when he married Katharine Demille in 1937 (divorced in 1963). In 1952 Anthony Quinn won his first supporting oscar for his performance in VIVA ZAPATA! He was married three times and fathered 13 children. One son though, Chris, drowned at age three in W.C. Field's swimming pool. In 1956 Anthony Quinn won his second supporting oscar for his performance in LUST FOR LIFE. Quinn was later nominated twice for Best Actor for his performances in WILD IS THE WIND (57) and ZORBA THE GREEK (64). His other films include: THE PLAINSMAN (1936) LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID (1936) UNION PACIFIC (1939) THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (1943) BUFFALO BILL (1944) BLOWING WILD (1953) THE LONG WAIT (1954) LA STRADA (1954) ULYSSES (1954) THE RIVER'S EDGE (1957) THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (1961) LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) LOST COMMAND (1966) THE HAPPENING (1967) THE ROVER (1967) THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN (1968) THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA (1969) MOHAMMED THE INHERITANCE (1976) THE GREEK TYCOON (1976) LION OF THE DESERT (1981) HIGH RISK (1981) REGINA ROMA (1982) VALENTINA (1982) STRADVARI (1988) A MAN OF PASSION (1989) GHOSTS CAN'T DO IT (1989) REVENGE (1990) A STAR FOR TWO (1993) ONLY THE LONELY (1991) JUNGLE FEVER (1991) MOBSTERS (1991) LAST ACTION HERO (1993) SOMEBODY TO LOVE (1994) A WALK IN THE CLOUDS (1995) THE MAYOR (1997) SEVEN SERVANTS (1996) ORIUNDI (2000) AVENGING ANGELO (2002) LAST ACTION HERO (1993) MOBSTER (1991) JUNGLE FEVER (1991) ONLY THE LONELY (1991) STRADIVARI (1988) Anthony Quinn's television credits include: JESUS OF NAZARETH (TV Mini Series) (1977) THE MAN AND THE CITY (TV Series)  (1972) COSBY (TV Series) (1999) GOTTI: (TV Movie) (1996) HERCULES IN THE MAZA OF THE MINOTAUR (TV Movie) (1994) HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEY-HERCULES AND THE CIRCLE OF FIRE (1994 ) HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEY HERCULES AND THE LOST KINGDOM (1994) HERCULES AND THE AMAZON WOMEN (TV MOVIE) (1994) THIS CAN'T BE LOVE (TV MOVIE) (1994) ONASSIS: THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD (TV MOVIE) (1988) THE OLD MAN AT THE SEA (1990) * * * * Anthony Quinn in THE OX-BOW INCIDENT. Anthony Quinn in GUADAL CANAL DAIRY. Anthony Quinn in ZORBA THE GREEK (1964) Anthony Quinn in THE GUNS OF NAVARONE Anthony Quinn in ACROSS 110TH STREET (1976) Anthony Quinn with Dorothy Lamour in ROAD TO SINGAPORE (1940) Quinn with Dorthy Lamour in ROAD TO MOROCCO (1942)