John Huston
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
110
Gender
Male
Birthday
1906-08-05
Day of death
1987-08-28 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Nevada, Missouri, USA
John Huston
Biography
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1961), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Prizzi's Honor (1985). In his early years, Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, with little editing needed. Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an "heroic quest," as in Moby Dick, or The Red Badge of Courage. In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming "destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension. Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, and war. Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a "renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on." During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice. He directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Huston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Merv Griffin Show
Spécial cinéma
Spécial cinéma
The Dick Cavett Show
National Geographic Specials
The Ed Sullivan Show
Casino Royale
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
The Oscars
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
The Black Cauldron
The Wind and the Lion
The Return of the King
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
A Walk with Love and Death
The Misfits
Welles' Language
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Chinatown
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
The Cardinal
The Orson Welles Story
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
A Minor Miracle
Freud: The Secret Passion
Lovesick
Moby Dick
Bogart: The Untold Story
Head On
Annie
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
The Other Side of the Wind
Wise Blood
Hell's Heroes
Jaguar Lives!
The Bermuda Triangle
Happy Birthday, Marilyn!
Man in the Wilderness
Epic
The List of Adrian Messenger
Breakout
The Bridge in the Jungle
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Candy
Winter Kills
The Deserter
The Word
The Hobbit
Directed by William Wyler
Observations Under the Volcano
Cannery Row
Making 'The Misfits'
Notes from Under the Volcano
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Ride This Way Grey Horse
Tentacles
The Rhinemann Exchange
Five Came Back
Arthur Miller: Writer
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Kremlin Letter
Sherlock Holmes in New York
Circasia
Momo
Pelé Forever
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
The Red Badge of Courage
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
To The Western World
Myra Breckinridge
The Screen Director
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
American Caesar
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved
Appointment With Destiny
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
John Huston's Dublin
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
On the Trail of the Iguana
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
The Biggest Battle
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Angela
Two Americans
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
The Visitor
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
We Were Strangers
De Sade
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Buñuel
The Battle of San Pietro
Rocky Road to Dublin
Agee
Hollywood on Trial
Report from the Aleutians
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
City Lights: John Huston
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
