Editing Anthony Quinn (section)

==Early life and education==
===1915–1936: Childhood, studies and early acting===
[[File:Anthony Quinn Baptism.jpg|thumb|left|Baptism paper for Quinn, which took place on July 11, 1915]]

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca was born April 21, 1915, in [[Chihuahua City|Chihuahua, Mexico]], during the [[Mexican Revolution]] to Manuela "Nellie" (née Oaxaca)<ref name=BBC-obit>{{cite web|url=http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/948702.stm |title=Anthony: The Mighty Quinn|website=[[BBC News]]|date=June 3, 2001|access-date= March 7, 2015}}</ref> and Francisco "Frank" Quinn.<ref name="nytobit">{{cite news| title=Anthony Quinn Dies at 86; Played Earthy Tough Guys| first=Anita| last=Gates| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/04/movies/anthony-quinn-dies-at-86-played-earthy-tough-guys.html| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=June 4, 2001}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite book| first=Scott L.| last=Baugh| title=Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, Concepts, and Trends| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i8n24V3bAO8C&q=Latino+American+Cinema:+An+Encyclopedia+of+Movies,+Stars,+Concepts,+and+Trends| page=221| publisher=Greenwood| location=Santa Barbara, Calif| year=2012| isbn=978-0-313-38036-5}}</ref> Frank Quinn was born to an [[Irish Mexican|Irish]] immigrant father from [[County Cork]] and a Mexican mother.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/filmsofanthonyqu00mari| url-access=registration| quote=Quinn's paternal grandfather had come to America from County Cork and managed to find work on the Southern Pacific Railroad as a laborer …| title=The films of Anthony Quinn| via=[[Internet Archive]]| publisher=Citadel Press| first=Alvin H.| last=Marill| year=1975| isbn=978-0806505701| pages=14–15| access-date=July 24, 2020}}</ref> Frank reportedly rode with Mexican revolutionary [[Pancho Villa]], then later moved to the East Los Angeles neighborhood of [[City Terrace, California|City Terrace]] and became an assistant cameraman at a movie studio.<ref name="nytobit"/> In Quinn's autobiography, ''[[The Original Sin (book)|The Original Sin: A Self-portrait by Anthony Quinn]]'', he denied being the son of an "Irish adventurer" and attributed that tale to Hollywood publicists.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{Cite news |last1=Kehr |first1=Dave |date=September 7, 2000 |title=A Role Model with a Hefty Collection of Roles |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/07/movies/a-role-model-with-a-hefty-collection-of-roles.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20150527132647/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/07/movies/a-role-model-with-a-hefty-collection-of-roles.html |archive-date=27 May 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> Quinn later said he was not accepted in Mexico because of his surname.<ref name="nytimes.com"/>

When he was six years old, Quinn attended a Catholic church and even contemplated becoming a priest, but at the age of 11, he joined the [[Pentecostals]] at the [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel]], which was founded and led by the evangelical preacher [[Aimee Semple McPherson]].<ref name=Adherents-AQ>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050802113508/http://www.adherents.com/people/pq/Anthony_Quinn.html Anthony Quinn]}}. – Adherents.com</ref> For a time, Quinn played in the church's band and was an apprentice preacher with the evangelist. "I have known most of the great actresses of my time, and not one of them could touch her," Quinn once said of the spellbinding McPherson, whom he credited with inspiring Zorba's gesture of the dramatically outstretched hand.<ref>{{cite magazine| author-link=Stephen M. Silverman| last=Silverman| first=Stephen M.| url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,20134697,00.html| title=Macho Actor Anthony Quinn Made Passion His Compass| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402131124/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,20134697,00.html| archive-date=April 2, 2015| magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]| access-date=March 30, 2015}}</ref>

Quinn grew up first in [[El Paso, Texas]], and later in [[Eastside Los Angeles|East Los Angeles]] and in the [[Echo Park, Los Angeles, California|Echo Park]] area of [[Los Angeles, California]]. He attended Hammel Street Elementary School, Belvedere Junior High School, Polytechnic High School, and [[Belmont High School (Los Angeles, California)|Belmont High School]] in Los Angeles, with future baseball player and ''[[General Hospital]]'' star [[John Beradino]], but left before graduating. In June 1987, [[Tucson High School]] in Arizona awarded him an honorary high-school diploma.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/120996292/| title=Tucson High School Awards Quinn Honorary Diploma| newspaper=[[The Arizona Republic]]| location=Phoenix| date=June 6, 1987| page=34| via=Newspapers.com| access-date=July 24, 2020| language=en}}</ref>

As a young man, Quinn [[Boxing|boxed]] professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture under [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] at the designer's Arizona residence and his Wisconsin studio, [[Taliesin (studio)|Taliesin]]. The two men became friends. When Quinn mentioned that he wanted to be an actor, Wright encouraged him. Quinn said he had been offered $800 per week by a film studio and did not know what to do. Wright replied, "Take it, you'll never make that much with me."<ref name=":3">{{Citation| title=Quinn, Anthony, (born April 20, 1964), writer| date=December 1, 2017|work=Who's Who| publisher=Oxford University Press| doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u289376}}</ref>{{quote without source|date=September 2009}} During a 1999 interview on ''Private Screenings with Robert Osborne'', Quinn said the contract was for only $300 per week.<ref>''Private Screenings with Robert Osborne'', Turner Classic Movies, re-aired April 21, 2009 (originally broadcast 1999).</ref>