Anthony quinn biography imdb 2016

When Anthony was 11, tragedy struck when his father was killed outside their home by a passing automobile. Anthony vowed to help support his mother, sister and grandmother, so he started skipping school and working at odd jobs — anything he could find, to help the family survive.

Before the age of 18, he had worked as a migrant farm worker, a newsboy, preacher, taxi driver, just to name a few. He also made five and ten dollars a fight as a welterweight boxer, but was told by his trainer to quit because he was too kindhearted to become a good boxer.

Anthony entered another contest during his junior year in high school, with an architectural plan for a marketplace and again, he was named a winner — the prize was to study and work with the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright — an encounter which was to change Anthony’s life forever.

Wright taught him that the average man does not know how to live, and that it is the job of the architect to teach, and to build, n