Francesco Quinn, Prolific Second-Generation Hollywood Actor
The son of Oscar winner Anthony Quinn appeared in numerous movie and television productions, including recurring roles on such series as 24 and The Shield.
Francesco Quinn, the actor son of Academy Award winner Anthony Quinn, died August 5, 2011, at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. He was 48.
According to news reports, the cause was a suspected heart attack.
Francesco Quinn was the son of Anthony Quinn and Iolanda Addolori, an Italian wardrobe assistant the older actor met on the set of the film Barabbas and later married. The couple had two more children. The elder Quinn, who died in 2001 at age 86, had more than 10 children throughout his life.
His first credit came in 1985, with a role in the television miniseries Quo Vadis?
The following year he played Rhah, a drug-dealing soldier in Platoon, the Vietnam War drama directed by Oliver Stone that won the Academy Award for best picture. He went on to appear in many other feature films, including Priceless Beauty, Top Dog and Four Single Fathers. He also had a role in The Tonto Woman, a Western based on an Elmore Leonard story that earned an Academy Award nomination for best live-action short.
He also worked frequently in television. In addition to recurring roles in primetime series JAG, 24 and The Shield, he played writer Tomas del Cerro on the daytime drama The Young and the Restless.
His numerous guest roles included such series as Miami Vice, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, In the Heat of the Night, Alias, Crossing Jordan, CSI: Miami, ER, NCIS and The Glades.
In 1990 he appeared in a television movie version of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, which starred his father as the title character.
Quinn’s first marriage ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife, Valentina Castellani-Quinn, and three children.