Anthony quinn

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (Chihuahua, April 21, 1915-Boston, Massachusetts, June 3, 2001), known as Anthony Quinn, was an actor Mexican American. He received multiple awards, including two Oscars.

Childhood

Hand and foot prints by Anthony Quinn on the outskirts of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca was born on April 21, 1915 in Chihuahua, Mexico at a time when the country was immersed in a political and social revolution; The hacendados, caciques and landowners controlled most of the fertile lands in Mexico while the laborers who worked on the haciendas in a kind of semi-slavery starved to death. Revolutionary armies were formed to which farm laborers, workers and peasants joined, who imprisoned the leaders Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa to recover their lands. According to the actor, his parents were Francisco Quinn, of Irish origin, and Manuela Oaxaca, a Mexican descendant of Aztecs. His father had participated in the Mexican Revolution in which he fought the dictator Victoriano Huerta alongside Pancho Villa, and there he met what would be his mother.

He had a brother who couldn't stay with him because he changed his last name to Miranda.

At a very young age, his family moved to Texas and then to Los Angeles, California; living his early childhood in Boyle Heights and in Echo Park in the midst of absolute poverty. His mother spent a long time following in the footsteps of her husband, a member of the hosts of Pancho Villa, who shot an uncle of his and with great self-sacrifice and self-sacrifice worked as a laundress to support his son Antonio on haciendas in Ciudad Juárez and El Step, Texas.

Finally, in 1919, husband and wife reunited and moved as immigrants to California. Antonio, when he was five years old, began working as a fruit picker and day laborer.

In 1920, the Quinns moved to Los Angeles to try their luck; her father made great efforts to support his family without being able to take off from poverty. Antonio worked as a shoe shiner and street newspaper vendor.

He studied in educational establishments in his neighborhood, without actually finishing his studies, due to the death of his father in 1926, which forced him to look for informal jobs to help his family. The loss of his father marked him deeply, as he admired him for his tenacity.

Spurred by poverty and with an overflowing spirit of self-improvement, he worked doing various jobs such as farm laborer, dishwasher or postal worker. For that time he was an intelligent, rude, bellicose and rudimentary young man in his manners, but he had already proposed to emerge at whatever price was necessary.

Adolescence

In his teens, he became interested in art and tried his hand at being a portrait artist for movie stars. She would draw the stars of her choosing from newspaper photos and mail their work to them. Only Douglas Fairbanks responded, and by return mail she received $10 for her sketch.

He tried to make a living by impersonating stars like Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong, among others, or jestering at little parties, but he didn't have the success he hoped for, so he went back to work as a construction worker and butcher.

At the age of 16, taking advantage of his complexion and his height (1.88 m), he practiced professional boxing for the same purpose. He won 16 fights, but in the 17th he was blown up by a better opponent, and retired from the trade.

At the age of 17, he married a woman named Silvia, 17 years his senior, who introduced him to the study of art and philosophy. At that age, he was still a construction worker, and Silvia made him take diction classes to improve his oral expression and improve his rustic manners.

Beginnings in the cinema

Later, in 1935, he studied painting and acting at Polytechnic High School and architecture with Frank Lloyd Wright, winning first prize for an architectural design he produced. However, he was attracted to a film career thanks to the support of the star of that moment, Mae West, who endorsed him as an extra, and, after dabbling in the theater environment, he made his debut, at the age of 21, as an extra in the film The Milky Way (1936) and with a role in the film Parole (1936). He took the cancer-stricken grandmother to see her premiere, who said after watching the film: "Now I can die in peace."

Anthony Quinn in the film Blood and sand (1941).

At that time he met and fell in love with director Cecil B. De Mille's daughter, Katherine, and decided to end his 4-year union with Silvia. In 1937 he married her; however, his mother-in-law did not greatly help him in his career, and his acceptance as his son-in-law was highly conditioned due to his economic precariousness. In fact, Quinn was not allowed to invite any family or friends to his wedding party, to spare de Mille the embarrassment of having to mingle with people outside of his high social circle.

In 1939 his son Christopher was born, who accidentally died at the age of two by drowning in a neighbor's pool, which hit the nascent actor hard. His other children with Katherine De Mille were Christina Quinn, Kathleen Quinn, Valentina Quinn and Duncan Quinn.

Due to his "multi-ethnic" appearance and his stint with boxing in his factions, he continued to play supporting roles as a Native American, Italian mobster, gangster, Chinese, Arab, Filipino, and Hispanic throughout the 1940s. He rolled around of 15 films, classifying himself in the roles of thugs, villains and characters of dubious reputation. This transcended in real life, and the high society of Hollywood at the time did not admit him in their circles, discriminating against him.

He obtained his US citizenship in 1947, the same year he landed his first leading role in the color film Black Gold (1947), where he played a Native American who becomes an oil millionaire, in addition to having the participation of his wife Katherine.

In the late 1940s he returned to the stage, scoring success on Broadway in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire.

Quinn in the film The black swan (1942).

He continued his career in some television series between 1949 and 1951, returning to the cinema with the film Toros bravos (The Brave Bulls, 1950), together with the beautiful and tragic Czechoslovakian actress Miroslava Stern. In this decade he began to get better roles, such as the one he obtained in the film Viva Zapata! (1952), by director Elia Kazan, where he received his first Oscar for best supporting actor for his praised performance. as Eufemio Zapata, and this was the first time that an actor of Hispanic origin received the award. However, his appearance continued to pigeonhole him into macho or tough roles, and he continued to play pirates and adventurers in his subsequent films.

One of its main characteristics, since its inception, was to eclipse the role of the main actor, by standing out from supporting roles. His innate talent was so evident in consistency, simplicity and believability that none of these films did poorly at the box office. Around that time, he became friends with the famous Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, who tried to advise him to leave the cinema, but spurred on by his past poverty, Quinn stubbornly remained on the sets.

Stardom

In 1952 he played a buccaneer in the film Against the Flags alongside an already decadent Errol Flynn and the consecrated beauty Maureen O'Hara.

In 1953 he traveled to Italy where, after taking part in a few films, he landed the lead role in Federico Fellini's La Strada (1954), which won numerous international awards. With this film, he began a new interpretive facet, marked by the drama and intensity in the roles that he embodied in his following films, under the direction of important directors such as George Cukor, Martin Ritt, Edward Dmytryk, John Sturges and Nicholas Ray, among others.. Also the passage to maturity (he turned 40 in 1955) changed his physical appearance, which helped him get character roles.

In 1956, he received his second Oscar for best supporting actor, for his role as the painter Paul Gauguin in the film The Fool with Red Hair, by director Vincente Minnelli, about the life of Vincent Van Gogh. It is noteworthy to mention that Quinn only appears for eight minutes in the film. The main role was played by Kirk Douglas, with whom he had collaborated in the film Ulysses in 1954, and with whom he would also collaborate in the 1959 film Last Train from Gun Hill .

In 1956 he gave a notable performance as Quasimodo in the film Notre Dame de Paris, alongside Gina Lollobrigida. In 1958 he himself directed a new version of the film The Buccaneer ( The Buccaneer ), in which he had participated in a supporting role in 1938. This second version would be the only one participation of him as a film director.

Anthony Quinn and Marlon Brando in Long live Zapata! (1952).

In the early 1960s, and in the Hollywood “historical” fashion, he played leading roles in the films The Guns of Navarone (1961), Barabbas (1961) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

In 1962, his marriage to Katherine De Mille was in bad shape and he fell in love with Iolanda Addolari, an Italian wardrobe assistant, while filming Barabbas. He divorced Katherine and married Iolanda in 1965. From his marriage to Iolanda Addolari three children were born: Francesco, Lorenzo and Daniele.

In 1964 he would play the role that would mark him for the rest of his life, in the interpretation of the old Alexis Zorba in Zorba, the Greek (1964), by Cypriot director Michael Cacoyannis, for which he was Oscar nominee for Best Lead Actor. The music for the film was created by the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. Anthony Quinn was also involved as a co-producer on the film.

In the late 1960s he played memorable roles; for example, in La hora 25 (1967), where he plays a Romanian prisoner turned German soldier, whose profile & # 34;aryan & # 34; he is canonized by the Nazis; a bandit mistaken for a clergyman in The cannons of San Sebastián (1967), a fictional pope in The Fisherman's Sandals (1968) and an alcoholic in The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), in which he displayed his best histrionic skills. The 1960s were undoubtedly the best stage of his career.

In the following decades he was again typecast in roles, this time based on his previous films. However, in the film Los amigos (1973), of the spaghetti western genre, together with the Italian actor Franco Nero, he achieved a very convincing role as a deaf.

In 1977, he masterfully played Caiaphas in the television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth, by Franco Zeffirelli.

In 1977 he also played Hamza Ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib, Muhammad's uncle, in the film The Message, directed by the Syrian Moustapha Akkad (producer of Halloween , by John Carpenter), which depicts the life of Muhammad and the beginnings of Islam. This movie was filmed in Libya and Morocco. As a curious fact, Akkad filmed at the same time a version in Arabic with an Arabic cast for the Arabic-speaking public, so that it was two films shot at the same time. The film The Message is today highly valued by Muslims, as it faithfully adheres to the canonical story of Muhammad, being the only Hollywood film to date that, according to Muslims, tells the true story. of the beginnings of Islam.

In 1979 he filmed his last great film: The Lion of the Desert, in which he masterfully played the Libyan leader Omar Mukhtar, and also worked on Valentina, based on the trilogy by Ramón J. Sender Crónica del alba.

Last years

In the 1980s, he participated in a dozen films, without much notoriety. At this time she dedicates herself mainly to his great passion: painting and sculpture in bronze and marble, where he earns money from his exhibitions.

Anthony Quinn in his last years with Yolanda Addolori.

In the 1990s, he acted in the television series Hercules and began to appear making “cameos” in several films, that is, brief appearances to reinforce the commercial hook of said productions; as was the case with Ghosts Can't Do It, a racy comedy starring Bo Derek.

He also acted in a new television version of The Old Man and the Sea (1990), together with his son Francesco. That same year she appears together with actors Kevin Costner and Madeleine Stowe in the movie Revenge , in which she masterfully plays a cheated husband. She later worked on Wild Fever by Spike Lee and in 1995 on A walk in the clouds , with Keanu Reeves and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón.

In 1997, his marriage to Addolori ends, due to his own nine-year infidelity and deteriorating marital relationship: he soon after marries his young secretary, 31-year-old Kathy Benvin, when he was already 82. From this relationship two children were born.

In 1999, he acted in the Brazilian film Oriundi, together with his son Lorenzo, also participating as a co-producer. Later he took part in Tierra de cañones , by Antoni Ribas. His last role was that of a mafia boss in the film The Protector (2002), alongside Sylvester Stallone and Madeleine Stowe.

Other of his artistic facets were sculpture, painting and jewelry design; His works are appreciated and valued for their quality.

It can also be mentioned his participation as a singer in the recorded versions of the theatrical performances of Zorba, the Greek, together with Lila Kedrova, and a record entitled Life Itself Will Let You Know, a dialogue with a child and the harmonica musical background of Jean "Toots" Thielemans. In addition, she traveled many times to Barcelona, a city that she liked a lot.

Offspring

Quinn had a total of twelve children by four different women.

His second wife, after Silvia, whom he married in 1932, was the actress Katherine DeMille (June 29, 1911 - April 27, 1995), the adopted daughter of Cecil B. DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959), whom he married on December 7, 1937 and divorced on January 21, 1965. The couple had a total of five children:

• Christofer (born in 1939 - 1941), he died drowned at the age of two years in the pool of the neighbor, the actor and comedian W. C. Fields.
• Christina (1 December 1941)
• Catalina (21 November 1942)
• Duncan (4 August 1945)
• Valentina (26 December 1952)

The year after their divorce, he married Italian costume designer Yolanda Addolori on January 2, 1966. The marriage ended when Quinn became a father to a third wife, divorcing on August 19, 1997. They had three children:

• Francesco (22 March 1963 - 5 August 2011), died of a heart attack, while running near his home in Malibu, California
• Danny. (16 April 1964)
• Lorenzo (7 May 1966)

He also fathered two other children with Friedel Dunbar:

• Sean Quinn (7 February 1973)
• Alexander Anthony Quinn (30 December 1976)

Finally, he had an affair with his secretary Katherine Benvin, which cost him his second marriage. They were married on December 7, 1997 and were together until Quinn passed away on June 3, 2001. Together they had two children:

• Antonia (23 July 1993)
• Ryan Nicholas (5 July 1996)

Death

He and his last wife and children died in a Boston hospital in 2001, aged 86, from severe pneumonia contracted after undergoing chemotherapy for esophageal cancer. A portion of his ashes were dumped in the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua and the rest of his ashes lie on his farm in Rhode Island.

Filmography

As an actor

Hollywood

• 1936 - Night Waitress (EUA)
• 1936 - The Plainsman / Buffalo Bill (EUA)
• 1936 - Sworn Enemy (EUA)
• 1936 - Parole! (EUA)
• 1936 - The Milky Way / The Milky Way (EUA)
• 1937 - Daughter of Shanghai / Daughter of the Orient (EUA)
• 1937 - Partners in Crime (EUA)
• 1937 - The Last Train from Madrid (EUA)
• 1937 - Under Strange Flags (EUA)
• 1937 - Waikiki Wedding (EUA)
• 1937 - Swing High, Swing Low / Started in the Tropic (EUA)
• 1938 - King of Alcatraz / The tyrant of Alcatraz (EUA)
• 1938 - Bulldog Drummond in Africa (EUA)
• 1938 - Hunted Men (EUA)
• 1938 - Tip-Off Girls (EUA)
• 1938 - Dangerous to Know (EUA)
• 1938 - The Buccaneer / Florida Corsaries (EUA)
• 1939 - Television Spy / Spy TV (EUA)
• 1939 - Island of Lost Men / The island of perdition (EUA)
• 1939 - Union Pacific / Pacific Union (EUA)
• 1939 - King of Chinatown (EUA)
• 1940 - City for Conquest / Conquest City (EUA)
• 1940 - The Ghost Breakers / The Castle (EUA)
• 1940 - Road to Singapore / Route to Singapore (EUA)
• 1940 - Parole Fixer / Crime Marketing (EUA)
• 1940 - Emergency Squad (EUA)
• 1940 - The Texas Rangers Ride Again / Legion of Shooters (EUA)
• 1941 - Blood and Sand / Blood and sand (EUA)
• 1941 - The Perfect Snob
• 1941 - They Died with Their Boots On / Die with boots placed (EUA)
• 1941 - Bullets for O'Hara (EUA)
• 1941 - Thieves Fall Out (EUA)
• 1941 - Knockout (EUA)
• 1942 - Road to Morocco / Route to Morocco (EUA)
• 1942 - Larceny, Inc. (EUA)
• 1942 - The Black Swan / The Black Swan (EUA)
• 1943 - Guadalcanal Diary / Guadalcanal (EUA)
• 1943 - The Ox-Bow Incident / Ox-Bow Incident (EUA)
• 1944 - Irish Eyes Are Smiling (EUA)
• 1944 - Roger Touhy, Gangster (EUA)
• 1944 - Ladies of Washington (EUA)
• 1944 - Buffalo Bill / The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (EUA)
• 1945 - China Sky / Chanta guerrillas (EUA)
• 1945 - Back to Bataan / Colonel Jackson's patrol (EUA)
• 1945 - Where Do We Go from Here? (EUA)
• 1946 - California (EUA)
• 1947 Tycoon / Prey Men (EUA)
• 1947 Sinbad, the Sailor / Simbad the marine (EUA)
• 1947 The Imperfect Lady / Almost a lady (EUA)
• 1947 Black Gold / Black Gold (EUA)
• 1950 - The Brave Bulls / Brave Bulls (EUA)
• 1951 - Mask of the Avenger / The sword of Montecristo (EUA)
• 1952 - Against All Flags / The Island of the Corsars (EUA)
• 1952 - The Brigand / Enemies of the King (EUA)
• 1952 - The World in His Hands / The World in His Hands (EUA)
• 1952 - Viva Zapata! / Viva Zapata! (EUA)
• 1953 - Ride cowboy! / One life for another (EUA)
• 1953 - East of Sumatra / East of Sumatra (EUA)
• 1953 - City Beneath the Sea / The submerged city (EUA)
• 1953 - Seminole / Tradition at Fort King (EUA)
• 1953 - Blowing Wild (EUA, Mexico)
• 1954 - The Long Wait / Behind your own tracks (EUA)
• 1955 - Seven Cities of Gold / Seven Gold Cities (EUA)
• 1955 - The Naked Street / The Naked Street (EUA)
• 1955 - The Magnificent Matador / Santos the magnificent (EUA)
• 1956 - The Wild Party (EUA)
• 1956 - Lust for Life / The Crazy Red Hair (EUA)
• 1956 - Man From Del Rio / The One Who Didn't Know To Fear / A Solitary Rover (EUA)
• 1957 - Wild Is the Wind / Wild Wind (EUA)
• 1957 - The Ride Back / The Return of the Outlaw (EUA)
• 1957 - The River's Edge / At the edge of the river (EUA)
• 1958 - The Black Orchid / Black Orchid (EUA)
• 1958 - Hot Spell / Tragic fascination (EUA)
• 1959 - Last Train from Gun Hill / Gun Hill's Last Train (EUA)
• 1959 - Warlock / The Man of the Gold Guns (EUA)
• 1960 - Heller in Pink Tights / Cheyenne gunman (EUA)
• 1960 - Portrait in Black / Black Portrait (EUA)
• 1960 - The teeth of the devil (EUA).
• 1961 - Barabbas / Barabbas (EUA, Italy)
• 1962 - Requiem for a Heavyweight / Réquiem by a champion (EUA)
• 1964 - Behold a Pale Horse / And came the day of vengeance (EUA)
• 1964 - Alexis Zorbas / Zorba The Greek / Zorba, the Greek (EUA, Greece)
• 1964 - The visit of the grudge (The visit/Der Besuch) Bernhard Wicki
• 1966 - Lost Command / Lost Command / Centurions (EUA)
• 1967 - The Happening / The Event (EUA)
• 1968 - The Shoes of the Fisherman / The Fish Sandals (EUA)
• 1969 - A Dream of Kings / Dream of Kings (EUA)
• 1969 - The Secret of Santa Vittoria / The Secret of Santa Vittoria (EUA)
• 1970 - Flap / The Altive Indian (EUA)
• 1970 - R.P.M. / RPM: revolutions per minute (EUA)
• 1970 - A Walk in the Spring Rain / Secrets of a wife (EUA)
• 1972 - Across 110th Street / Panic on 110th Street (EUA)
• 1973 - The Don Is Dead / The Don is Dead (EUA)
• 1977 - The Children of Sanchez / The Children of Sanchez (EUA, Mexico)
• 1978 - Caravans / Caravans (EUA, Iran)
• 1978 - The Greek Tycoon / The Greek Gold (EUA)
• 1979 - Lion of the Desert / The Lion of the Desert (EUA, Libya)
• 1981 - High Risk / High Risk (EUA, UK, Mexico)
• 1981 - The Salamander / The red salamander (EUA, UK, Italy)
• 1982 - Regina Rome (EUA)
• 1989 - Ghosts Can't Do It / Ghosts can't... (EUA)
• 1990 - Revenge / Revenge (EUA, Mexico)
• 1991 - Mobsters / The Empire of Evil (EUA)
• 1991 - Jungle Fever / Wild Fever (EUA)
• 1991 - Only the Lonely / Me, you and Mom (EUA)
• 1993 - Last Action Hero / The last great hero (EUA)
• 1994 - Someone to Love / Someone to love (EUA)
• 1995 - A Walk in the Clouds / Walking through the clouds / A walk through the clouds (EUA, Mexico)
• 2001 - Avenging Angelo / The Protector (EUA, France, Switzerland)

Italy

• 1953 - Il più comico spettacolo del mondo (Italy)
• 1954 - Donne proibite / Destiny of three lives (Italy)
• 1954 - Ulisses / Ulysses (Italy)
• 1954 - Attila / Attila: man or demon (Italy, France)
• 1954 - La strada / La calle (Italy)
• 1955 - Cavalleria rusticana (Italy)
• 1967 - L'avventuriero / The rebel (Italy)
• 1973 - Friends (Italy)
• 1976 - L'eredità Ferramonti / The Ferramonti heritage (Italy)
• 1976 - Bluff, storia di truffe e di imbroglioni / Bluff - The embryos (Italy)
• 1988 - Stradivari / Stradivarius (Italy, France)
• 1996 - Il sindaco (Italy)

France

• 1956 - Notre-Dame de Paris / Our Lady of Paris (France, Italy)
• 1965 - Marco Polo's adventure fabuleuse / The conquest of empire (France, Italy, Afghanistan, Egypt, Yugoslavia)
• 1967 - La vingt-cinquième heure / La hora 25 (France, Italy, Yugoslavia)
• 1967 - La Bataille de San Sebastian / The Cannons of San Sebastian (France, Italy, Mexico)

United Kingdom

• 1960 - The Savage Innocents / Devil's teeth (UK, France, Italy)
• 1961 - The Guns of Navarone / The Cannons of Navarone (UK, USA)
• 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia / Lawrence of Arabia (UK)
• 1965 - A High Wind in Jamaica / Wind in the candles (UK)
• 1968 - The Magus / The Magician (UK)
• 1976 - The Message / Mohammed, the messenger of God (UK, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Kuwait)
• 1974 - The Marseille Contract / Contract in Marseille (UK, France)
• 1979 - The Passage / The Passage (UK)

Mexico

• 1972 - The Murder of Julius Caesar (Mexico, Italy) [Cortometraje]

South Africa

• 1977 - Target of an Assassin / Tigers do not cry (South Africa)

Spain

• 1982 - Alba Chronicle. Valentina (Spain)
• 1989 - Men's Passion / A Man of Passion (Spain)
• 1999 - Cannon land (Spain)

Canada

• 1991 - A Star for Two (Canada, France)

Germany

• 1996 - Seven Servants (Germany)

Brazil

• 1999 - Oriundi / My old man (Brazil)

As director

• 1958 - The Buccaneer / The Buccaneers (EUA)

As a producer

• 1964 - Alexis Zorbas / Zorba The Greek / Zorba, the Greek (EUA, Greece)
• 1964 - The Visit / The visit of the grudge (EUA, France, Germany, Italy)
• 1972 - Across 110th Street / Panic on 110th Street (EUA)
• 1981 - Circle of Power (EUA)
• 1982 - Kiss My Grits (EUA)
• 1999 - Oriundi / My old man (Brazil)

TV Movies

• 1971 - The City (EUA)
• 1981 - Crosscurrent (EUA)
• 1988 - Onassis: The Richest Man in the World / Onassis: the richest man in the world (EUA, Spain)
• 1990 - The Old Man and the Sea / The Old and the Sea (UK)
• 1994 - This Can't Be Love / Back in Love (EUA)
• 1994 - Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur / Hercules and the Maze of the Minotaur (EUA, New Zealand)
• 1994 - Hercules in the Underworld / Hercules in the Underworld (EUA, New Zealand)
• 1994 - Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Hercules and the Circle of Fire (EUA, New Zealand)
• 1994 - Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Hercules and the Lost Kingdom / Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (EUA, New Zealand)
• 1994 - Hercules and the Amazon Women / Hercules y las amazonas (EUA, New Zealand)
• 1995 - Il mago (Italy)
• 1996 - Gotti (EUA, Canada)

TV series

• 1948-1956 - The Philco Television Playhouse (EUA) [Episode: "Pride's Castle" (September 11, 1949)]
• 1946-1952 - Lights Out (EUA) [Episode: "The House of Dust" (5 February 1951)]
• 1948-1951 - The Ford Theatre Hour (EUA) [Episode: "Ticket to Oblivion" (April 6, 1951)]
• 1950-1955 - Danger (EUA) [Episode: "Blue" (24 April 1951)]
• 1950-1951 - Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (EUA) [Episode: "Partners" (31 January 1951)]
• 1950-1952 - Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (EUA) [Episode: "Ned McCobb's Daughter" (January 12, 1951)]
• 1951-1959 - Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (EUA) [Episodes: "Dark Fleece" (21 December 1951), "The Long Trail" (19 November 1954) and "Bandit's Hide-Out" (7 October 1955)]
• 1955-1974 - ITV Play of the Week (UK) [Episode: "Rain on the Just" (9 July 1956)]
• 1971-1972 - The Man and the City / The Man and the City (EUA) [15 episodes]
• 1977 - Jesus of Nazareth / Jesus of Nazareth (UK, Italy) [2 episodes]
• 1987 - Treasure Island / Treasure Island in Outer Space (Italy, Germany)
• 1984-1992 - The Cosby Show / Bill Cosby Time (EUA) [Episode: "Surf's Up" (September 28, 1989)]
• 1995-1996 - The night of the castles (Spain) [8 episodes (1995)]
• 1999 - Camino de Santiago (Spain) [3 episodes]
• 1996-2000 - Cosby (EUA) [Episode: "Lucas Illuminus" (17 March 1999)]

Awards and distinctions

Oscar Awards

Golden Globe Awards

BAFTA Awards

In 1995, he won the Donostia Award at the San Sebastian Festival.