Francesco Quinn, Italian-born American actor (Platoon, The Young and the Restless), son of Anthony Quinn, died from a heart attack he was , 48.

Francesco Daniele Quinn was an Italian-born actor died from a heart attack he was , 48. The third son of Oscar winner Anthony Quinn and Jolanda Addorlori (Anthony Quinn's second wife), Francesco is perhaps best known for his breakout role as Rhah in Oliver Stone’s Academy Award-winning Platoon (1986). His final role was the voice of the Autobot, Mirage in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.


(March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011)

Early years

Francesco Quinn was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Anthony Quinn and second wife Iolanda Addolori, a noted costume designer to whom Anthony Quinn was married to for 31 years.^[1] Quinn had Mexican, Irish, and Italian ancestry.

Career

Film

Quinn appeared in many feature films including the New York Independent Film Festival winner Placebo Effect. He acted with his father in several films, including A Star For Two with Lauren Bacall. The two Quinns also had the opportunity to share the role of Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea, son and father playing the character as a young and old man.
Quinn sometimes played moody, dangerous characters, such as vampire Vlad Tepes in the 2003 direct to video alt-historical thriller Vlad, and wandering warrior Thane Le Mal in the short film The Gnostic. Like his father, Quinn also appeared in historical dramas, playing such roles as Latino Captain Salamanca in Steven Spielberg’s mini-series Into the West (2005) and a lead role in TNT's Rough Riders (1997) (TV). One of Quinn’s earliest roles was as Marcus Vinicius in the 1985 mini-series Quo Vadis?.
More recent examples of Quinn's work include Park, which won the audience award at 2007 CineVegas, and the short film Muertas, starring Golden Globe-winner America Ferrera. In 2007, he appeared as Ruben Vega in the Academy Award-nominated short film The Tonto Woman, adapted from the Elmore Leonard short story.

Television

From 1999 to 2001, Francesco appeared on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as Nina Webster's boyfriend, Tomas del Cerro, and was nominated for an ALMA Award (an award reserved for Latino/a performers) as Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Soap Opera for his work as Tomas Del Cerro, an aloof writer from New York.
Quinn has also appeared extensively in television guest star roles in crime and thriller dramas. He was lead guest star in an episode of JAG (1995). On CBS's The Fugitive, Quinn played Victor Gutierrez, a DEA agent with an edge, and he has played the recurring role of villain Syed Ali on Fox's series 24. Other TV guest starring roles have occurred in Criminal Minds, ER, CSI: Miami, The Glades, Navy NCIS, Alias, Crossing Jordan, In the Heat of the Night, Miami Vice, Red Shoe Diaries, The Handler, Soldier of Fortune, Good vs. Evil, Vengeance Unlimited, and The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. Quinn also portrayed the final criminal/villain, Guillermo Beltran, in the long-running F/X series, The Shield. In 2008, Quinn joined Luke Perry and C. Thomas Howell in the western film A Gunfighter's Pledge.
Quinn was one of the earlier working actors to branch out into contributing to video games with his role as a main character in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (1999). In 2010–2011, he took part in the second season of the Italian TV series Il commissario Manara.^[2]

Personal life

Quinn's marriage to Irish American Julie McCann, niece of Belfast snooker champion, Alex Higgins, ended in divorce. They resided in Sherman Oaks, California with their twin children Max and Michela.^[3]
Quinn died on August 5, 2011, in Malibu after experiencing what was believed to be a heart attack while running with his son, Max.^[4][5] He had two children, Michela, and Max.^[6] Quinn has ten surviving siblings, including Alex, Antonia, Catalina, Christina, Danny, Duncan, Lorenzo Quinn, Ryan, Sean, and Valentina Quinn. His eldest sibling Christopher drowned in 1941, aged two.

Athletic pursuits

Quinn pursued sports such as skiing, snowboarding, windsurfing, free diving, road cycling, mountain biking, and actively raced motocross and street bikes. Quinn also was an avid motorcycler, and was a spokesman for The Motorcycle Industry Council and Honda. A world traveler, he was fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian.
Quinn was a contestant on Ty Murray’s Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge on CMT, until he was sidelined with a broken rib after being stomped on by a Level 2 bull.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Platoon	Rhah
1988	Love Dream	Peter Janson
1989	Stradivari	Alessandro
	The Favorite	Adult Mahmud
	Indio	Daniel Morell
	Casablanca Express	Captain Franchetti
1990	The Old Man and the Sea	Santiago as a Young Man	TV movie
1991	A Star for Two	Young Gabriel Todd
	Murder Blues	John Reed
1992	Judgment	Jimmy Sollera
1993	Deadly Rivals	Bunny Wedman
1995	The Dark Dancer	Ramone
	Top Dog	Mark Curtains
	Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass	Tommy	Video
1996	Cannes Man	Frank 'Rhino' Rhinoslavsky
1997	Deadly Ransom	Luis Mendes
	Rough Riders	Rafael Castillo	TV movie.
1998	Nowhere Land	Walfredo
	Placebo Effect	Zac
2000	The Translator	Jean-Paul Esselen
2001	Almost a Woman	Don Carlos
2003	Vlad	Vlad Țepeș
2006	Man vs. Monday	Juan Carlos
	Cut Off	Agent Jones
	Park	Smoldering Park Worker
2007	The Tonto Woman	Ruben Vega
	The Gnostic	Warrior
	Muertas	Carlos
	Afghan Knights	Amad
2008	Danny Fricke	Pablo Vicente
	A Gunfighter's Pledge	Sheriff	TV movie
	Broken Promise	Santos
	Hell Ride	Machete
2009	Four Single Fathers	Dom
2010	Conflict of Interest	Ron Garcia
	Rollers	Quinn	Completed
2011	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Mirage/Dino (voice)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Quo Vadis?	Marcus Vinicius	TV mini-series.
1987	Miami Vice	Francesco Cruz	"God's Work"
1992	Red Shoe Diaries		"Double or Nothing"
	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Francois	"Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal"
	In the Heat of the Night	Ramon Salazar	"Sanctuary"
1997	Soldier of Fortune, Inc.	Ramon Boharo	"La Mano Negra"
	JAG	Kabir Atef	6 episodes (1997–2002)
1998	Vengeance Unlimited	Col. Oscar Ponce	"Security"
2000	G vs E	Agent Shaw	"Ambulance Chaser"
	The Young and the Restless	Tomas del Cerro	31 episodes (2000–2001)
2002	Alias	Minos Sakkoulas	"The Confession"
	Crossing Jordan	The Lead Cuban	"For Harry, with Love & Squalor"
2003	24	Syed Ali	5 episodes.
	The Handler	Detective Lopez	"Hardcore"
2004	NCIS	Gunnery Sgt. Freddie Alvarez	"One Shot, One Kill"
	ER	Dr. Alfonso Ramirez	"Time of Death"
	CSI: Miami	Fidel	"Murder in a Flash"
2005	Into the West	Captain Salamanca	TV mini-series.
	Criminal Minds	Michael Russo	"Natural Born Killer"
2006	NCIS	Luis Romero	"Once a Hero"
2007	Tinseltown	Arturo
2008	The Shield	Beltran	2 episodes
2010 - 2011	The Glades	Eduardo Garcia	2 episodes

 

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