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Article: Zorba the Great - Film legend Anthony Quinn dies in Hub.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- June 4, 2001
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Anthony Quinn, the barrel-chested Oscar winner remembered for his roles as the earthy hero of "Zorba the Greek" and the fierce Bedouin leader in "Lawrence of Arabia," died yesterday in Boston. He was 86.
At the request of Quinn's family, his death was announced by Providence Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci, a friend of the actor, who said Quinn succumbed to respiratory failure yesterday morning at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He had been hospitalized 17 days with pneumonia.
"He was larger than life," Cianci said. "I was proud to call him a friend."
For the past several years, Quinn had lived on Poppasquash Point in the seaside town of Bristol, ...