Cast

John Huston

Directing

Cast

John Huston

Known for

Directing

Born

1906-08-05

From

Nevada, Missouri, USA

Died

1987-08-28

Also known as John Marcellus Huston, Τζον Χιούστον, 존 휴스턴

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.

John Huston

John Huston

Biography

Candy

Chinatown

Casino Royale

The Black Cauldron

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Moby Dick

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

The Bible: In the Beginning...

Annie

Momo

The Hobbit

Buñuel

Winter Kills

Breakout

The Misfits

The Return of the King

Freud: The Secret Passion

Directed by William Wyler

Tentacles

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Myra Breckinridge

The Red Badge of Courage

The Wind and the Lion

The Visitor

We Were Strangers

The Biggest Battle

Man in the Wilderness

The Cardinal

The Myth of Marilyn Monroe

Two Americans

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Morceaux de Cannes

Mr. Corbett's Ghost

Angela

The List of Adrian Messenger

The Kremlin Letter

The Other Side of the Wind

The Deserter

A Walk with Love and Death

John Huston's Dublin

Lovesick

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose

Wise Blood

The Battle of San Pietro

Cannery Row

Arthur Miller: Writer

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

100 Years of Marilyn Monroe

The Bermuda Triangle

Five Came Back

Epic

Report from the Aleutians

Jaguar Lives!

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

De Sade

Rocky Road to Dublin

Sherlock Holmes in New York

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise

The Screen Director

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

The Orson Welles Story

Pelé Forever

Bogart: The Untold Story

Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

Notes from Under the Volcano

Circasia

The Bridge in the Jungle

Hell's Heroes

On the Trail of the Iguana