Stan Paregien, Editor
Johnny Quarles
Johnny Quarles, author, lives in Enid, Oklahoma. He joined Western Writers of America in September, 1989. He writes, "I began writing in April, 1985. My first novel was a spy thriller, Finders Keepers, Losers Die, which was completed that year. I followed that with a mainstream novel, Black Creek, about the last big coal mines to close in southern West Virginia in the 1960's. Right now, however, I am only interested in the Western field." He has two western novels with Berkley Publishing, Brack and Varro's Revenge.
Dr. Ron Querry
A native Oklahoman, Dr. Ron Querry has a background that includes service in the Marines, cattle ranching and university teaching. He has a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of New Mexico and is a fulltime writer.
Ron Querry's books include (University of New Mexico Press) and Growing Old at Willie Nelson's Picnic: And Other Sketches of Life in the Southwest (Texas A&M University Press, 1983).
Anthony Quinn
(Deceased)
Anthony Quinn, actor, was born Anthony Rudolfo Oxaca in Chihuahua, Mexico, on April 21, 1915. His parents, a Mexican mother and a Mexican-Irish father, were dirt poor. They immigrated to El Paso, Texas where his father worked on railroads. Then they moved to California where he did manual labor in the citrus orchards.
Anthony Quinn grew up in East Los Angeles. As a young man, he became interested in artistic endeavors. There is a story that he was an apprentice in the studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, the reknown architect. Supposedly, Wright suggested that the boy take up acting to cure a lazy tongue. And somewhere along the line Quinn also had plastic surgery, which improved his looks.
Quinn got himself into movies as an extra, after working at such jobs as hod carrier, construction worker, boxer, and taxi driver.
It was in "The Plainsman," Cecil B. De Mille's 1936 epic where he was a Cheyenne warrior, that he met his future father-in-law. That was the mighty Cecil B. De Mille himself. The very next year Quinn married his first wife, actress Katherine De Mille. She was De Mille's adopted daughter. She and Quinn were married for 19 years and together had three of his 13 children.
Despite his obvious connection to one of Hollywood's most powerful men, he continued in small character parts in B-movies like "Waikiki Wedding," "Bulldog Drummond in Africa," "Television Spy" and "Texas Rangers Ride Again."
However, Quinn had found a niche where he could live and work and get to know people. He became the Foreign Guy. He played in roles as a Mexican, Italian, Arab, American Indian, and Greek.
He won his first Oscar for his work in the 1952 film "Viva Zapata!" He played the brother of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata.
In 1956 he won his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing the Dutch artist Paul Gauguina in Lust for Life.
His role as Alexis Zorba in "Zorba the Greek" was the capstone of this great period. His role as Alexis Zorba seemed to personify the Quinn himself. It was one of those rare, perfect unions of man and part.
Anthony Quinn's Western films included The Plainsmen (1936), Union Pacific (1939), The Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940), They Died With Their Boots On (1941), The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Buffalo Bill (1944), California (1946), Viva Zapata! (1952), Seminole (1953), Ride, Vaquero! (1953), Man From Del Rio (1956), The Ride Back (1957), Warlock (1959) and Heller in Pink Tights (1960).
Quinn write his autobiography, The Original Sin, in 1972, and followed it with a second volume, Suddenly Sunset.
Anthony Quinn also was a talented painter and sculptor. He favored cubist and post-impressionist oils. In December of 1982, Quinn held an art show in Honolulu. His works sold for up to $40,000 each. He took in a cool two million dollars that day.
Anthony Quinn Library? Yes, there is an Anthony Quinn Library. It was originally named Belvedere Library. Belvedere Library was established in January 1914 as a pioneer branch of the newly founded Los Angeles County Public Library. By 1925, when the library was moved to a store-front facility at 111 North Ditman Ave., the collection had grown to several thousand books. In 1937 the library was relocated to 3713 Michigan Avenue. The library remained there until 1973, when it was moved to its present location. On January 5, 1982 the library was renamed in honor of actor Anthony Quinn; his childhood home occupied the site of the present-day library.
Quinn had a total of thirteen children (nine sons and four daughters) by three wives and three mistresses.A son from his first marriage, drowned at age 3 in W.C.Fields swimming pool.
Anthony Quinn died of pneumonia at a hospital in Boston, MA., on June 3, 2001. He was 86.
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