BORN: April 21, 1915
DIED: June 3, 2001
AGED: 86 yrs from pneumonia. he also had cancer
REAL NAME: Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn
MARRIED: Twice-the first to Katherine De Mille-Cecil B DeMille's dad-how'd you like that guy for a father in law
AFFAIRS: This guy loved to do the hubba, hubba and boasted about it. In fact fathered many kids including one in 1977 and another in 1993.
Passionate actor and a excellent one to boot. A talker of his many conquests he also, apparently when, on his wedding night, he found out his first wife was not a virgin he punched her in the face. A real woman's man wouldn't you say. ASS! I would have given him the spoon.....
OSCARS: Viva Zapata, Lust For Life
FILMS: Blood and Sand, La Strada, Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Only the Lonely
Wow, he got around! And to have a kid in your late seventies? No thanks.
ReplyDeleteYup he followed the Toney Randall school of having kids when they are too old
Delete"Do the hubba-hubba." You're hilarious!
ReplyDeleteIt was the best way to describe this:)
DeleteHe lived a full life. Might as well. Right? Untethered Realms
ReplyDeleteThat he did and loved telling it
DeleteWhat a fun subject for A-Z. I know about some of these people, but not all of them. It's nice to get a better understanding of, ummmmmm, the many aspects of their personalities :-)
ReplyDeleteLiz at Bead Contagion
That is a good way to put it:)
DeleteWhat despicable double standards! That shocked me. Ass indeed.
ReplyDeleteAnabel at Anabel's Travel Blog
Yes when I read that I was also shocked but then I saw him in more interviews and I could see it..the ass
DeleteI always thought he was full of himself. Possibly so. I agree, he was quite passionate in his performances. Sometimes I'd come across a movie on the TV and pass it by because I actually get emotionally tired watching him. :-)
ReplyDeleteThe View from the Top of the Ladder
hahahahahaa! I like how you put that and true and I think part of this is his belief in himself
DeleteI think I've seen Guns of Navarone and Only The Lonely. Is that the one with John Candy? : )
ReplyDeleteYes it is! I like that movie as it is very sweet and quiet film of John Candy's
DeleteHmmm. It's a little hard to about him now that I know so much about him. ASS is right!!
ReplyDeleteOops, that was supposed to be admire, not about!!
DeleteYes but I do appreciate his talent but I do not admire the man
DeleteHe made a career out of playing pretty much every ethnicity out there. Spanish, Mexican, Italian, Greek, Egyptian, etc.
ReplyDeleteSee ya 'round the web. All Things Kevyn
He did! I wasn't even sure where he came from when I was young until I read more about him
DeleteHere's something else you probably already know. Anthony's son was a fine actor named Francesco Quinn. He was in Platoon, Tonto Woman, and the Old Man and the Sea with his father. He died at 48 from a heart attack.
ReplyDeleteyes and such a shame he died so young
DeleteLove coming back to your blog and reading all the who, when and what , great job a to z challenger.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
Delete"...on his wedding night, he found out his first wife was not a virgin he punched her in the face..."
ReplyDeleteSee, after reading a bunch of Mickey Spillane novels, I really hoped that the way he treated women in his books was just a fictionalized misogyny... didn't need confirmation that it was really how people treated women back then.
Yes...well...he was a bit of an ass and I remember him being interviewed and talking about his prowess as well. Great actor but wouldn't want to know him
DeleteNasty man. And yet various woman found him attractive.
ReplyDeleteFunny isn't it that some nasty men can get so many women...what does that say about the security (or lack thereof) about the women
DeleteWell, I admit I have always like this man as an actor....but not so as a person after learning he punched his bride. Terrible.
ReplyDeleteShells–Tales–Sails
I know and I read this part in more than one book and heard him speak about his own prowess so I do tend to believe this
DeleteHe got around, didn't he?! I think he won the Cecil DeMille award at the Globes...how ironic is that!
ReplyDeletexxx Asha
he did? I don't remember but I wouldn't doubt it. At least it wasn't the jean Hersholt award:)
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