FrameThrower · Actors · Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
6 films · 432 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1941–1982
Born 21 April 1915 · Chihuahua, Mexico · died 3 June 2001
Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca, known professionally as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone, The Message, Lion of the Desert, and La Strada. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice; for Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956. Outside of acting, Quinn was also a writer, painter, and civil rights activist.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 432 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1941–1982
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1957
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1953
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
- Donostia Award1995
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 432 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Anthony takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 67% of their frames are day, 64% natural — the look of the work Anthony takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 432 frames from Anthony Quinn's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.