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Anthony Quinn’s Milestones
| As a teenager, played saxaphone in evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson's orchestra | |
| Final screen appearance in "Avenging Angelo" (lensed 2001); released posthumously | |
| Forced to support mother, grandmother and sister at age 11 | |
| Hosted episodes of "American Playwrights Theater" (A&E) series, starting with "The Rope" | |
| Made TV acting debut performing on series such as "Ford Theater Hour" and "Philco TV Playhouse" | |
| Spirited across the border to El Paso, Texas during the Pancho Villa revolution | |
| Starred as the ruggedly independent mayor of a fast-growing city in the Southwest (filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico) in "The Man and the City" (ABC) | |
| Toured US cities as "Zorba!" | |
| Was a featured performer on CBS dramatic anthology series "Danger" | |
| While father was employed by Selig studios, almost thrust before the cameras at an early age but ran a fever, and the part instead went to a cousin | |
| 1936 | Appeared as an extra in Leo McCarey's "The Milky Way", starring Harold Lloyd |
| 1936 | Feature acting debut, "Parole" |
| 1936 | Spoofed John Barrymore in stage production, "Clean Beds", starring Mae West |
| 1937 | First film with future father-in-law director Cecil DeMille, "The Plainsman"; played a Cheyenne Indian |
| 1938 | Played Beluche in DeMille's "The Buccaneer" |
| 1939 | Last association with DeMille as director, "Union Pacific" |
| 1940 | Cast as a heavy in first "road" movie, "The Road to Singapore", with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour |
| 1941 | Acted the part of Crazy Horse in Raoul Walsh's "They Died With Their Boots On", one of three films with that director |
| 1941 | First association with Budd Boetticher (who served as assistant director), "Blood and Sand" |
| 1942 | Reteamed with Hope, Crosby and Lamour for "The Road to Morocco" |
| 1943 | First film with director William Wellman, "The Ox-Bow Incident" |
| 1944 | Another turn as an Indian (Yellow Hand) in Wellman's "Buffalo Bill" |
| 1945 | Second-in-command (and of Filipino descent) to John Wayne in Edward Dmytryk's "Back to Bataan", third of four films with Dmytryk |
| 1947 | Broadway debut, "The Gentleman from Athens" |
| 1948 - 1949 | Headlined a national tour of "A Streetcar Named Desire", playing Stanley Kowalski opposite Uta Hagen |
| 1950 | Assumed role of Stanley in Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
| 1952 | Won first Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "Viva Zapata!" |
| 1953 | Acted in three movies directed by Boetticher: "City Beneath the Sea", "Seminole" and "East of Sumatra" |
| 1954 | Played brutish strongman in Federico Fellini's "La Strada" (released in USA in 1956) |
| 1955 | First film opposite Sophia Loren, "Attila" (released in USA 1958) |
| 1955 | Reteamed with Boetticher as star of the "The Magnificent Matador"; fifth film with Maureen O'Hara but first starring opposite her |
| 1956 | Portrayed Paul Gaughin in "Lust for Life", snagging second Best Supporting Actor Academy Award |
| 1957 | Nominated for Best Actor Oscar for George Cukor's "Wild Is the Wind"; starred opposite Anna Magnani |
| 1957 | Played Quasimodo in the remake of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" |
| 1958 | Directed first (and only) feature, the remake of "The Buccaneer", executive produced by DeMille |
| 1959 | Starred opposite Loren in "The Black Orchid" |
| 1960 | Gave remarkable performance as a native Eskimo in Nicholas Ray's "Savage Innocents" |
| 1960 | Returned to Broadway as Henry II in "Beckett"; later switched roles with Laurence Olivier, taking over the cleric's role; earned a Tony nomination for his efforts |
| 1960 | Third film with Loren, Cukor's "Heller in Pink Tights" |
| 1961 | First film with director J Lee Thompson, "The Guns of Navaronne", playing tough Greek patriot Colonel Andrea Stavros |
| 1962 | Acted the part of a used-up boxer in "Requiem for a Heavyweight" |
| 1962 | Portrayed opportunistic Bedouin Auda Abu Tayi in David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" |
| 1962 | Starred as "Barabbas" |
| 1964 | Associate produced (also acted in to considerable acclaim) first feature, "Zorba the Greek"; garnered an Oscar nomination as Best Actor; first film with Lila Kedrova |
| 1965 | Acted again with Kedrova in "A High Wind in Jamaica" |
| 1966 | Starred in Mark Robson's "Lost Command" |
| 1968 | Played Russian Pope Kiril Lakota in "The Shoes of the Fisherman", adapted form the Morris West novel; Olivier co-starred as fellow Russian, Premier Kamanev |
| 1969 | Acted with Magnani in Stanley Kramer's "The Secret of Santa Vittoria" |
| 1969 | Fourth of six movies with Irene Papas, "A Dream of Kings", starring as robust man trying to find money to take his ailing son to Greece |
| 1970 | Portrayed Indian outcast in Carol Reed's "Flap" |
| 1971 | Narrated Boetticher's documentary "Arruza" |
| 1972 | Executive produced first feature, "Across 110th Street" (also acted) |
| 1977 | Miniseries acting debut, "Franco Zefferelli's "Jesus of Nazareth" (NBC) |
| 1978 | Acted the part of Theo Tomasis (a thinly disguised Aristotle Onassis) in Thompson's "The Greek Tycoon" |
| 1979 | Reteamed a third time with Thompson as Basque guide of "The Passage" |
| 1981 | Again portrayed a Bedouin, this time battling Mussolini in "Lion of the Desert", sixth and last film with Papas |
| 1982 | First of eight major exhibitions of artwork (in Hawaii; included serigraphs, oil paintings and sculptures) |
| 1983 | Starred on Broadway in the stage musical "Zorba!", reuniting with Kedrova and the 1964 film's director Michael Cacoyannis |
| 1985 | Played himself in "Ingrid" |
| 1988 | Earned an Emmy nomination for "The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Aristotle Onassis" |
| 1989 | Starred as Antonio Stradavarius in "Stradivari", a family affair featuring sons Francesco, Danny and Larry |
| 1990 | Portrayed Santiago in NBC movie remake of "The Old Man and the Sea", based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway; children Valentina and Francesco also featured |
| 1990 | Profiled by Cinemax's "Crazy About the Movies" TV documentary series |
| 1991 | Acted opposite O'Hara in "Only the Lonely" |
| 1991 | Third film with Kedrova, "A Star for Two" |
| 1994 | Played Zeus in five syndicated "The Legendary Journeys of Hercules" action adventure movies (i.e., "Hercules in the Underworld", "Hercules and the Lost Kingdom") |
| 1995 | Portrayed gregarious patriarch Don Pedro in "A Walk in the Clouds" |
| 1996 | Appeared as 'Mr. Neil' Dellacroce in HBO's "Gotti" |
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