Anthony Quinn, from unlikely beginnings in revolutionary Mexico, is today internationally recognized as a consummate actor with over one hundred films to his credit. After he made his debut at twenty-one in a film called Parole (1936), Quinn made his way through a spate of "B movies" and went on to star in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), La Strada (1954), Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Zorba the Greek (1965), as well as his Oscar-winning roles in Viva Zapata (1952) and Lust for Life (1956). During his years as an actor, Quinn has also maintained a working interest in sculpture, painting, and architecture, and has written screenplays. In 1972 he published The Original Sin: A Self-Portrait, which, as described in the New York Times Book Review (8 October 1972), is "a story that is by turns embarrassingly candid, boldly awkward, funny, tragic, moving and full of life."

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