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Article: Quinn, star with a giant lust for life; For Anthony Quinn, who has died at 86, life and art were inseparable, writes Neil Norman.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2001
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Byline: NEIL NORMAN
ANTHONY QUINN, one of the most vivid character actors of his generation, was to acting what Ernest Hemingway was to writing.
His art and life were inseparable - the adventures, peccadilloes and vitality for one feeding directly into the other. Thus, even when Quinn was cast in a role whose ethnicity was at some remove from his own Mexican heritage, he brought a conviction that bullied incredulity off the screen.
As Zorba The Greek or the French painter Paul Gauguin or an Italian circus strong man in Fellini's La Strada, Quinn was able to overcome problems of unlikely casting by the sheer zest of of his performances. He was ...
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