Francesco Quinn | TV, film actor, 48
Francesco Quinn, 48, a television and film actor who appeared in Oliver Stone's searing 1986 Vietnam War film, Platoon, died Friday in Malibu, Calif. The son of actor Anthony Quinn, he collapsed on a street near his home. The cause was believed to be a heart attack.
He was perhaps best known for his supporting role in Platoon as Rhah, a raspy-voiced character who takes heroin from dead Vietnamese and tries to help new recruits in their first big battle.
In The Tonto Woman, a Western based on an Elmore Leonard story that became a 2008 Academy Award nominee for best live-action short, Mr. Quinn played a Mexican gunslinger.
His television credits include guest roles on Criminal Minds, ER, CSI: Miami, JAG, 24, and The Shield. In 1990, he played Santiago the fisherman as a young man in a television adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. His father played the adult Santiago.
- New York Times News Service