John Huston
Directing
Born: August 5, 1906 · Nevada, Missouri, USA
Died: August 28, 1987 (aged 81)
Highest Rated
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
Chinatown
1974
The Maltese Falcon
1941
The Black Cauldron
1985
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973
The African Queen
1952
Escape to Victory
1981
Casino Royale
1967
Annie
1982
The Man Who Would Be King
1975
The Stranger
1946
Key Largo
1948
Photos (4)
Movies (54)
Chinatown
Noah Cross
The Black Cauldron
Narrator (voice)
Casino Royale
McTarry
Annie
Actor on Radio (uncredited)
Candy
Dr. Arnold Dunlap
Moby Dick
Barman / Ship's Lookout (voice) (uncredited)
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Noah
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
The Lawgiver
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
American in Tampico in White Suit (uncredited)
The Misfits
(uncredited)
The Hobbit
Gandalf the Grey (voice)
The Return of the King
Gandalf (voice)
The Cardinal
Kardinal Glennon
Breakout
Harris Wagner
The Wind and the Lion
John Hay
The Visitor
Jerzy Colsowicz
Man in the Wilderness
Captain Filmore Henry
Momo
Meister Hora
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Grizzly Adams
The Other Side of the Wind
J.J. 'Jake' Hannaford
Winter Kills
Pa Kegan
Myra Breckinridge
Buck Loner
Tentacles
Ned Turner
The List of Adrian Messenger
Lord Ashton (uncredited)
Wise Blood
Grandfather
Angela
Hogan
The Biggest Battle
Sean O'Hara
The Kremlin Letter
Admiral
The Red Badge of Courage
Grizzled Union Veteran (uncredited)
Freud: The Secret Passion
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
Soul Collector
De Sade
The Abbe
The Bermuda Triangle
Edward
The Deserter
General Miles
Sherlock Holmes in New York
Professor James Moriarty
Jaguar Lives!
Ralph Richards
We Were Strangers
Señor Muñoz
100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
(archive footage)
Cannery Row
Narrator
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Glennon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Epic
The Narrator (US version)
The Battle of San Pietro
Narrator
Hell's Heroes
Church Member (uncredited)
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Narrator
Report from the Aleutians
Narrator (voice)
A Walk with Love and Death
Robert the Elder
Lovesick
Larry Geller, M.D.
The Bridge in the Jungle
Sleigh
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
Narrator
A Minor Miracle
Father Cardenas
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
1995
Circasia
Ringmaster
Hollywood on Trial
Narrator
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
Narrator
TV Shows (3)
Self / Appearances (54)
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · 2 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self · 1 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 3 eps
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · 1 eps
Buñuel
Self
Five Came Back
Self (archive footage) · 3 eps
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
Self (archive footage)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Self (archive footage)
Pelé Forever
Self (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self (archive footage)
Directed by William Wyler
Self
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Self (archive footage)
Five Came Back
Self (archive footage)
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Arthur Miller: Writer
Self (archive footage)
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Self (archive footage)
The Myth of Marilyn Monroe
Self (voice)
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Self (archive footage)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Making 'The Misfits'
Self - Director (archive footage)
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Self (archive footage)
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
Self
On the Trail of the Iguana
Self
The Screen Director
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marilyn at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
Self
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Self
Rocky Road to Dublin
Self
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Self (archive footage)
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
Self (archive footage)
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
Self (archive footage)
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Self (Archive Footage)
Agee
Self
The Orson Welles Story
Self
Welles' Language
Self
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
Self (archive footage)
Observations Under the Volcano
Self
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved
Self
Notes from Under the Volcano
Self
Happy Birthday, Marilyn!
Self
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
Self - Interviewee
American Caesar
Self - Host
City Lights: John Huston
Self
Directing (44)
Casino Royale
Director
Annie
Director
The Maltese Falcon
Director
Moby Dick
Director
Escape to Victory
Director
The Man Who Would Be King
Director
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Director
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Director
The African Queen
Director
Prizzi's Honor
Director
The Misfits
Director
The Unforgiven
Director
The Night of the Iguana
Director
Beat the Devil
Director
The Dead
Director
The Asphalt Jungle
Director
Key Largo
Director
Moulin Rouge
Director
The MacKintosh Man
Director
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Director
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Director
Fat City
Director
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Director
Under the Volcano
Director
The List of Adrian Messenger
Director
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Director
Wise Blood
Director
The Kremlin Letter
Director
The Red Badge of Courage
Director
Love and Bullets
Director
Freud: The Secret Passion
Director
In This Our Life
Director
Across the Pacific
Director
Phobia
Director
The Roots of Heaven
Director
We Were Strangers
Director
Sinful Davey
Director
The Battle of San Pietro
Director
Winning Your Wings
Director
Let There Be Light
Director
Report from the Aleutians
Director
A Walk with Love and Death
Director
Independence
Director
Tunisian Victory
Director
Writing (33)
The Maltese Falcon
Screenplay
Moby Dick
Screenplay
The Man Who Would Be King
Screenplay
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Screenplay
The African Queen
Screenplay
The Night of the Iguana
Screenplay
The Killers
Writer
Sergeant York
Screenplay
Beat the Devil
Screenplay
The Asphalt Jungle
Screenplay
Key Largo
Screenplay
Moulin Rouge
Screenplay
High Sierra
Screenplay
Mr. North
Screenplay
Jezebel
Screenplay
The Stranger
Co-Writer
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Screenplay
The Kremlin Letter
Screenplay
The Red Badge of Courage
Writer
Juarez
Screenplay
Freud: The Secret Passion
Screenplay
Three Strangers
Screenplay
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Screenplay
We Were Strangers
Screenplay
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Screenplay
Let There Be Light
Writer
Report from the Aleutians
Writer
Know Your Enemy: Japan
Writer
A House Divided
Dialogue
Death Drives Through
Story
Law and Order
Adaptation
It Happened in Paris
Adaptation
The Storm
Dialogue
Producing (14)
Moby Dick
Producer
The Misfits
Producer
Beat the Devil
Producer
The Asphalt Jungle
Producer
Moulin Rouge
Producer
Mr. North
Executive Producer
The MacKintosh Man
Producer
The Stranger
Producer
Fat City
Producer
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Producer
The Kremlin Letter
Producer
The Prowler
Producer
Sinful Davey
Executive Producer
A Walk with Love and Death
Producer
