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"In Europe, an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum." Anthony Quinn

Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Quinn had his glory years during the 1950s when he garnered awards for playing Emiliano Zapata's (Marlon Brando) brother in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata (1952) and playing Vincent Van Gogh's (Kirk Douglas) friend in Vincente Minnelli's biopic Lust for Life (1956). Quinn's most prominent role was the titular role in Michael Cacoyannis' Zorba the Greek (1964), which offered him an Oscar nomination. An actor since the 1930s, Quinn starred in such films as La Strada (1954), Wild Is the Wind (1957), A High Wind in Jamaica (1965), The Magus (1968) and in the brief-running TV series "The Man and the City" (1971-1972). He w ..[Full version]