He was born in Detroit on the 12th of November 1920. After acting in theatre when he was a child, he debuted in 1934 in The world moves on, a movie directed by John Ford. In 1953 he filmed his first movie Napoletani a Bagdad and started a series of unpretending comedies with Mickey Rooney followed by Una cadillac tutta d’oro with Judy Holiday and Una strega in paradiso with James Stewart and Kim Novak. In 1955 he started to work with Jack Lemmon (Mia sorella Evelina), and they met again other four times (Attenti alle vedove, La nave più scassata dell’esercito, L’affittacamere and Come uccidere vostra moglie). Instead, in the 1970s William Holden was the performer of Il mondo di Suzie Wong and Insieme a Parigi (with Audrey Hepburn). The last Quine’s movie is from 1979, Il prigioniero di Zenda with Peter Sellers. He died in Los Angeles in 1989.
