Want to know the best Anthony Quinn movies? How about the worst Anthony Quinn movies? Curious about Anthony Quinn’s box office grosses or which Anthony Quinn movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Anthony Quinn movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Anthony Quinn (1915-2001) was a Mexican-born American actor, painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including La Strada, The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Guns for San Sebastian, Lawrence of Arabia, The Message and Lion of the Desert. He won two Best Supporting Actor Oscars®: for Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956.
His IMDb page shows 168 acting credits from 1936-2002. This page ranks 90 Anthony Quinn movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos movies not released in North America and some of his movies that barely made a dent at the box office were not included in the rankings. (Hey Lyle….since this was your request….if you see a movie that needs to be added just let me know….and we will try and find the actual box office grosses for the missing movie.)
Anthony Quinn Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Anthony Quinn Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Anthony Quinn movies by movie title and movie trailers.
- Sort Anthony Quinn movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Anthony Quinn movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Anthony Quinn movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Anthony Quinnmovies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Anthony Quinn movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Anthony Quinn movie won.
- Sort Anthony Quinn movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Anthony Quinn
1. Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca on April 21, 1915 in Chihuahua, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution
2. Before acting…..Anthony Quinn boxed professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright. It was Wright’s suggestion that Quinn go after an acting career.
3. Anthony Quinn appeared in more movies with other Oscar-winning actors than any other Oscar-winning actor – a total of 46 Oscar®-winning co-stars (28 male, 18 female).
4. Anthony Quinn was nominated for four acting Oscars®. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscars® for Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956. He received two Best Actor Oscar® nominations for 1957’s Wild Is The Wind and 1964’s Zorba the Greek. Quinn was the first Mexican-American to win an Academy Award®.
5. Anthony Quinn only appeared on screen for a total of 23 minutes and 40 seconds in 1956’s Lust for Life. Though his screen time was short…..he did get an Oscar® for those 23 minutes.
6. Anthony Quinn was good friends with actress Maureen O’Hara, they starred together six times. The films are The Black Swan (1942), Buffalo Bill (1944), Sinbad, the Sailor (1947), Against All Flags (1952), The Magnificent Matador (1955) and Only the Lonely (1991).
7. Anthony Quinn was married 3 times. He had ten children. Quinn was married to Katharine DeMille from 1937-1965. That made Quinn the son-in-law of legendary director Cecil B. DeMille.
8. Anthony Quinn and two extremes. We have 25,103 movies in our database. Quinn’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is the 6th highest rated movie in our database. Meanwhile….coming in 25,101st (or 3rd worst) place is Quinn’s Ghosts Can’t Do It (1990).
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Now that’s a lot of films! Anthony Quinn was a busy actor and very popular too.
Let’s see I’ve seen… 1 2 3… 30 of the 81 films you’ve listed.
Good to see some of my favorites at the top of the moviescore. Lawrence, Navarone and Road to Morocco. The Black Swan was a fun swashbuckler in gorgeous Technicolor.
Of the critics top 10 I haven’t seen – The Message, La Strada or Requiem for a Heavyweight.
Quinn had a long movie career, he was playing villains in the 1930’s and nearly 60 years later was threatening Arnold Schwarzenegger in Last Action Hero.
10 children? whoa! Excellent job putting this together Bruce. Voted up.
Hey Steve thanks for the visit. Let’s see you are at 30…. I am at…drum roll…counting….21. Flora tops us both with 35. Requiem for a Heavyweight is a good movie….but a one and done movie for me. I have not the other highly rated movies either. I agree he had a long and very successful career. One of his 10 children was in Platoon. As always thanks for sharing your movie thoughts.
Hello Bruce, I’m so happy you did an Anthony Quinn page. Quinn was won of my favorite film stars from the 1960’s. Critics thought he just kept playing Zorba the Greek throughout the 1960’s. One of Quinn’s daughters said that Quinn was most like Zorba in real life so he was playing himself perhaps. So I figure the critics just didn’t like Quinn. But I loved Anthony Quinn. Some of my favorite Quinn films are “La Strada”, “Warlock”, “Lawrence of Arabia”, “The Guns of Navarone”, “Barabbas”, “Zorba the Greek”, “A High Wind in Jamaica”, “The 25th Hour”, “The Shoes of the Fisherman” and “The Secret of Santa Vittoria”.
Hey Lyle….glad you like your requested page. Actually the last three pages came from your requests…not sure how that worked out. Quinn had a very impressive movie career. I think critics liked him…when I look at my master file…which has 288 actors/actresses. His average rating per movie is 64.8%…that is 143rd of 288…so he is in the top half. One day I will get that table of information out there too…I think it is pretty interesting cumulative stats.
Of the movies you listed….only The 25th Hour escaped me…I will have to go back and see if I can find a box office number. Pretty sure it did not even come close to a million dollars in rentals…so its box office ceiling is pretty low. Hope your New Year is awesome.
Oh my! That’s was a task and a half!
Lots of work in that page..but it does cover 60 plus years of movies.
In my eye, Guns of Navarone is a better movie than Larry of Overrated. Just saying.
Hey Navarone….I think we will agree to disagree on that. Guns of Navarone is a great movie to…but Lawrence of Arabia is pretty good too….thanks for checking out my latest movie page.
Hey, he was a good actor – I really liked his role in Guns for Navarone with Gregory Peck. That was a good movie. I did not realize that he had that many children. I believe that he was a painter or had a great art collection. Enjoyed all the facts once again. LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE IN 2016! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Hey BERN1960…good to see you again.I figured you would mention Guns of Navarone. Mr Quinn was a very active person….pretty sure his youngest child is about Bryan’s age. He was indeed a painter…and it sounds like he was a very good painter. Glad you liked the page. Happy New Year to you too.