Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 05, 1906
Died
Aug 28, 1987
Place of Birth
Nevada, Missouri, USA
Credits
164 titles
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
Filmography
100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
(archive footage)
The Myth of Marilyn Monroe
Self (voice)
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Self (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Other Side of the Wind
J.J. 'Jake' Hannaford
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Self (archive footage)
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Arthur Miller: Writer
Self (archive footage)
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Five Came Back
Self (archive footage)
Five Came Back
Self (archive footage)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self (archive footage)
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Self (archive footage)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self (archive footage)
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Self (Archive Footage)
Pelé Forever
Self (archive footage)
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Self (archive footage)
Making 'The Misfits'
Self - Director (archive footage)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Self
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Self (archive footage)
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Glennon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Welles' Language
Self
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Self (archive footage)
Mr. North
Screenplay
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
Soul Collector
The Dead
Director
Momo
Meister Hora
Directed by William Wyler
Self
The Black Cauldron
Narrator (voice)
Prizzi's Honor
Director
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Narrator
Epic
The Narrator (US version)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
Notes from Under the Volcano
Self
Observations Under the Volcano
Self
Under the Volcano
Director
To The Western World
Buñuel
Self
A Minor Miracle
Father Cardenas