Originally posted by photomax7 Anthony Quinn Bay...did he film Zorba the Greek or Guns of Navarone here.
Aye for the Guns of Navarone, the Greek island of Rhodes provided locations and Quinn was so taken with the area that he bought land there in an area still called Anthony Quinn Bay. Some further scenes were shot on the islands of Gozo, near Malta, and Tino in the Ligurian Sea.
The Zorba the Greek film was shot on location on the Greek island of Crete. Specific locations featured include the town of Chania, the Apokoronas region and the Akrotiri peninsula. The famed scene in which Quinn's character dances the Sirtaki was filmed on the beach of the village of Stavros.