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USA (1953 -). Actor norteamericano nacido en 1953 en Newbury, Michigan. With looks that speak common man and a keen ability to communicate his character's words and thoughts, O'Quinn became, in the 1980s and '90s, one of those actors whose face you immediately recognize, but whose name is left to trivia buffs. After sporadic employment in New York in such efforts as the NBC soap opera The Doctors and co-starring with Faye Dunaway in Curse of the Aching Heart on Broadway in 1982, he began to be cast in supporting roles in movies and TV. O'Quinn made his film debut in Michael Cimino's HEAVEN'S GATE (1980). A large boost to his career came with Robert Benton's EN UN LUGAR DEL CORAZON (1984), in which he was Buddy, a good ol' boy cotton mill owner who is also a nasty Ku Klux Klan member. That same year, he appeared in Gillian Armstrong's MRS. SOFFEL (1984). It took Joseph Ruben's low-buget LA MUERTE RONDA A CADA PASO (1987) to win O'Quinn notice. As the titular character, he delivers an intense, chilling portrait of a man who goes from cheerful and pleasant to menacing and deadly with ease. He went on to reprise the role in an unnecessary and inferior sequel LA MUERTE RONDA A CADA PASO II (1989). O'Quinn went on to deliver strong support in Christopher Cain's YOUNG GUNS (1988) as the lawyer who arranges for the youthful hired guns to search out a corrupt land owner (Jack Palance) and Joe Johnston's ROCKETEER (1991), in which he portrayed Howard Hughes. He was Moira Kelly's wealthy father in PASION DE CRISTAL (1992), the town mayor in TOMBSTONE (1993) and appears as a state attorneywith a grudge against the defense lawyer (Richard Gere) in Gregory Hoblit's PRIMAL FEAR (1996)). Since making his primetime TV debut in RIGHT TO KILL? (ABC, 1985), a fact-based story of domestic violence directed by John Erman, O'Quinn has reteamed with the director several times: he was one of Aidan Quinn's doctors in AN EARLY FROST (NBC, 1985), one of the first network films to deal with AIDS; he appeared as Bonnie Bedelia's husband in WHEN THE TIME COMES (ABC, 1987), which grappled with assisted suicide; and he played Tyne Daly's husband in the divorce drama THE LAST TO GO (ABC, 1991). In addition, O'Quinn was featured in AT MOTHER'S REQUEST (CBS, 1987), Gregory Hoblit's ROE VERSUS WADE (1989) (NBC, 1989), with Holly Hunter and Amy Madigan, CUSTER HIJO DE UNA MAÑANA ESTRELLADA (1991) (ABC, 1991), the biopic of General George Armstrong Custer in which he played General Alfred Terry, and DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS (USA, 1994), in which he was an alcoholic whose former wife suspects him of kidnapping their son.
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