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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1906-08-05
- event Death Date 1987-08-28
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 5.9
- info Birth Place Nevada, Missouri, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by John Huston
6.4
The Return of the King
1980-05-11
6.5
The Hobbit
1977-11-27
6.5
The Cardinal
1963-12-12
5.9
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1989-01-01
8
Chinatown
1974-06-20
7.1
Momo
1986-07-16
8
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948-01-15
7.2
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017-12-08
7.1
Moby Dick
1956-06-27
7.3
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966-09-28
5.7
Report from the Aleutians
1943-07-30
6.4
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
1966-11-30
6.3
Breakout
1975-05-21
5.9
Cannery Row
1982-02-12
5.3
Casino Royale
1967-04-13
6.5
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972-12-18
5.8
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976-10-18
4.5
Myra Breckinridge
1970-06-24
5.8
Winter Kills
1979-05-11
6.2
Wise Blood
1979-10-24
7.2
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
2021-11-28
6.6
The Wind and the Lion
1975-05-22
5.2
Agee
1980-11-14
0
Hollywood and the Stars
1964-05-04
5.1
Candy
1968-12-17
0
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998-10-02
6.2
Man in the Wilderness
1971-11-24
4.7
Tentacles
1977-02-25
4.5
The Biggest Battle
1978-02-07
5.5
Lovesick
1983-02-18
5.2
The Visitor
1979-03-14
4
Jaguar Lives!
1979-08-09
7.2
Rocky Road to Dublin
1968-09-30
6
A Walk with Love and Death
1969-10-05
6.1
The Kremlin Letter
1970-02-01
3.4
De Sade
1969-08-27
6
The Deserter
1970-12-04
5.5
Hollywood on Trial
1976-11-01
4.1
The Bermuda Triangle
1978-02-10
5.9
We Were Strangers
1949-04-27
6.4
The Red Badge of Courage
1951-09-27
6.5
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003-09-30
6.3
A Minor Miracle
1983-05-31
5
The Bridge in the Jungle
1971-01-01
3.9
Head On
1980-09-08
6
Welles' Language
1990-01-01
2
Observations Under the Volcano
1984-07-03
0
Two Americans
1929-06-22
6.7
The Other Side of the Wind
2018-11-02
6
San Pietro
1945-05-03
6
The Screen Director
1951-03-12
0
American Caesar
1983-01-01
0
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
1997-01-05
6.8
Hell's Heroes
1929-12-27
6.6
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963-05-23
5.7
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973-06-15
5.8
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
2017-06-09
0
Notes from Under the Volcano
1984-09-09
6.4
The Black Cauldron
1985-07-24
6.9
The Misfits
1961-02-01
5
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
1987-12-31
0
City Lights: John Huston
1979-10-10
6.7
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010-03-23
6
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964-04-30
0
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
1982-03-26
6.2
Epic
1985-05-13
4.7
Buñuel
1984-01-01
0
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
1970-02-17
0
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997-01-05
7.2
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018-08-31
6.2
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005-07-17
0
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
2017-12-13
0
Making 'The Misfits'
2002-10-02
5.4
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985-03-03
0
Happy Birthday, Marilyn!
1980-01-01
7.7
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991-10-28
7
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
6.7
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014-12-12
0
Directed by William Wyler
1986-05-01
6.5
Annie
1982-05-21
0
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved
1978-12-19
5
Circasia
1976-04-08
4.4
Angela
1977-11-10
6.5
Freud: The Secret Passion
1962-12-12
7
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020-11-26
6.9
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010-05-05
8
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001-10-07
0
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983-01-01
0
Lights, Camera, Annie!
1982-03-07
7.9
Five Came Back
2017-03-31
0
Ride This Way Grey Horse
1970-01-01
6.3
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000-09-05
0
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
0
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985-05-05
7.3
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985-09-29
5.3
The Merv Griffin Show
1962-10-01
7
The Oscars
1953-03-19
6.2
The Rhinemann Exchange
1977-03-10
0
Appointment With Destiny
1971-11-19
6.5
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20
4.5
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973-04-02
6.5
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20
5
The Word
1978-11-12
5.7
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957-07-29
0
Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25
0
Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25
5.2
National Geographic Specials
1965-09-10
6.6
The Dick Cavett Show
1968-06-06
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6.6
The Man Who Would Be King
1975-12-03
6.6
The Man Who Would Be King
1975-12-03
6.6
The African Queen
1952-01-07
6.6
Moby Dick
1956-06-27
6.6
Moby Dick
1956-06-27
6.6
Moby Dick
1956-06-27
6.6
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966-09-28
6.6
Jezebel
1938-03-26
6.6
The Maltese Falcon
1941-10-18
6.6
The Maltese Falcon
1941-10-18
6.6
Prizzi's Honor
1985-06-14
6.6
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948-01-15
6.6
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948-01-15
6.6
Moulin Rouge
1952-12-23
6.6
Moulin Rouge
1952-12-23
6.6
Moulin Rouge
1952-12-23
6.6
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967-10-13
6.6
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967-10-13
6.6
Key Largo
1948-07-16
6.6
Key Largo
1948-07-16
6.6
Beat the Devil
1953-11-26
6.6
Beat the Devil
1953-11-26
6.6
Beat the Devil
1953-11-26
6.6
The Misfits
1961-02-01
6.6
The Unforgiven
1960-04-06
6.6
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963-05-23
6.6
Report from the Aleutians
1943-07-30
6.6
Report from the Aleutians
1943-07-30
6.6
The MacKintosh Man
1973-11-08
6.6
Casino Royale
1967-04-13
6.6
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972-12-18
6.6
Three Strangers
1946-01-28
6.6
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932-01-27
6.6
High Sierra
1941-01-23
6.6
Under the Volcano
1984-06-20
6.6
Freud: The Secret Passion
1962-12-12
6.6
Wise Blood
1979-10-24
6.6
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957-03-13
6.6
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957-03-13
6.6
The Night of the Iguana
1964-08-06
6.6
In This Our Life
1942-05-08
6.6
The Asphalt Jungle
1950-05-12
6.6
The Asphalt Jungle
1950-05-12
6.6
Fat City
1972-07-26
6.6
Fat City
1972-07-26
6.6
Annie
1982-05-21
6.6
The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958-09-30
6.6
Sergeant York
1941-09-27
6.6
The Kremlin Letter
1970-02-01
6.6
Escape to Victory
1981-06-17
6.6
The Dead
1987-09-03
6.6
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938-07-20
6.6
The Kremlin Letter
1970-02-01
6.6
The Kremlin Letter
1970-02-01
6.6
Across the Pacific
1942-09-04
6.6
We Were Strangers
1949-04-27
6.6
We Were Strangers
1949-04-27
6.6
Phobia
1980-09-09
6.6
San Pietro
1945-05-03
6.6
The Roots of Heaven
1958-10-15
6.6
Law and Order
1932-02-09
6.6
The Red Badge of Courage
1951-09-27
6.6
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940-02-23
6.6
Juarez
1939-06-10
6.6
Let There Be Light
1946-12-16
6.6
A Walk with Love and Death
1969-10-05
6.6
Sinful Davey
1969-02-10
6.6
The Misfits
1961-02-01
6.6
Winning Your Wings
1942-05-28
6.6
Death Drives Through
1935-02-25
6.6
It Happened in Paris
1935-06-30
6.6
Tunisian Victory
1944-03-23
6.6
The Prowler
1951-05-25
6.6
The African Queen
1952-01-07
6.6
The Night of the Iguana
1964-08-06
6.6
The Killers
1946-08-30
6.6
Mr. North
1988-07-22
6.6
The Last Run
1971-07-07
6.6
The Asphalt Jungle
1950-05-12
6.6
Independence
1976-07-04
6.6
A House Divided
1931-12-05
6.6
The Killers
1946-08-30
6.6
Jezebel
1938-03-26
6.6
Let There Be Light
1946-12-16
6.6
Report from the Aleutians
1943-07-30
6.6
The Storm
1930-08-17
6.6
Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945-08-09
6.6
Sinful Davey
1969-02-10
6.6
Mr. North
1988-07-22
6.6
The Red Badge of Courage
1951-09-27
6.6
The Stranger
1946-07-02
6.6
A Walk with Love and Death
1969-10-05
6.6
The Stranger
1946-07-02