From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote 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), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits (1961), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston to Oscar wins in different films. Huston was known to direct with the vision of an artist, having studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years. He continued to explore the visual aspects of his films throughout his career: sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. In addition, while most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, making his films both more economical and more cerebral, with little editing needed. Most of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting a “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 or "destructive alliances,” giving the films a dramatic and visual tension. Many of his themes also involved some of the "grand narratives" of the twentieth century, such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism and war. Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II. 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." A statue of Huston, sitting in his directorial chair (pictured below), stands in Plaza John Huston Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Huston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | The Other Side of the Wind | J.J. "Jake" Hannaford | 2018-11-02 |
Movie | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-31 |
Movie | Arthur Miller: Writer | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-08 |
Movie | Five Came Back | Self (archive footage) | 2017-03-31 |
Movie | Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | 2017-12-13 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Movie | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | 2014-12-12 |
Movie | Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen | Self (archive footage) | 2010-03-23 |
Movie | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-05 |
Movie | Huston's Gamble | Himself - Stimme (Archivmaterial) | 2006-05-02 |
Movie | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Self (archive footage) | 2005-07-17 |
Movie | Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' | Self (archive footage) | 2003-09-30 |
Movie | Making 'The Misfits' | Self - Director (archive footage) | 2002-10-02 |
Movie | Sweet Revenge | Bartender | 2001-03-26 |
Movie | Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies | Self | 2001-10-07 |
Movie | Federico Fellini's Autobiography | Self (archive footage) | 2000-09-05 |
Movie | Bogart: The Untold Story | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-05 |
Movie | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Glennon (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1991-10-28 |
Movie | Welles' Language | Self | 1990-01-01 |
Movie | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage) | 1989-01-01 |
Movie | Mr. Corbett's Ghost | Soul Collector | 1987-12-31 |
Movie | Momo | Meister Hora | 1986-07-16 |
Movie | Epic | The Narrator (US version) | 1985-05-13 |
Movie | George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | Self | 1985-03-03 |
Movie | The Black Cauldron | Narrator (voice) | 1985-07-24 |
Series | The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1985-09-29 |
Movie | Buñuel | Self | 1984-01-01 |
Movie | Notes from Under the Volcano | Self | 1984-09-09 |
Movie | Lovesick | Larry Geller, M.D. | 1983-02-18 |
Movie | A Minor Miracle | Father Cardenas | 1983-05-31 |
Movie | Lights, Camera, Annie! | Self | 1982-03-07 |
Movie | Cannery Row | Narrator | 1982-02-12 |
Movie | Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston | Self - Interviewee | 1982-03-26 |
Movie | Annie | Actor on Radio (uncredited) | 1982-05-21 |
Movie | Happy Birthday, Marilyn! | 1980-01-01 | |
Movie | The Return of the King | Gandalf (voice) | 1980-05-11 |
Movie | Head On | Clarke Hill | 1980-09-08 |
Movie | Winter Kills | Pa Kegan | 1979-05-11 |
Movie | Jaguar Lives! | Ralph Richards | 1979-08-09 |
Movie | The Visitor | Jerzy Colsowicz | 1979-03-14 |
Movie | City Lights: John Huston | Self | 1979-10-10 |
Movie | Wise Blood | Grandfather | 1979-10-24 |
Movie | The Biggest Battle | Sean O'Hara | 1978-02-07 |
Movie | The Bermuda Triangle | Edward | 1978-02-10 |
Movie | B.Traven: A Mystery Solved | Self | 1978-12-19 |
Series | The Word | Nathan Randall | 1978-11-12 |
Movie | Tentacles | Ned Turner | 1977-02-25 |
Movie | The Hobbit | Gandalf the Grey (voice) | 1977-11-27 |
Series | The Rhinemann Exchange | Ambassador Henderson Granville | 1977-03-10 |
Movie | Sherlock Holmes in New York | Professor Moriarty | 1976-10-18 |
Movie | Hollywood on Trial | Narrator | 1976-11-01 |
Movie | The Wind and the Lion | John Hay | 1975-05-22 |
Movie | Breakout | Harris Wagner | 1975-05-21 |
Movie | Chinatown | Noah Cross | 1974-06-20 |
Movie | Battle for the Planet of the Apes | The Lawgiver | 1973-06-15 |
Movie | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Grizzly Adams | 1972-12-18 |
Movie | The Bridge in the Jungle | Sleigh | 1971-01-01 |
Movie | Man in the Wilderness | Captain Filmore Henry | 1971-11-24 |
Movie | The Journey of Robert Kennedy | Narrator | 1970-02-17 |
Movie | The Kremlin Letter | Admiral | 1970-02-01 |
Movie | Myra Breckinridge | Buck Loner | 1970-06-24 |
Movie | The Deserter | General Miles | 1970-12-04 |
Movie | De Sade | The Abbe | 1969-08-27 |
Movie | A Walk with Love and Death | Robert the Elder | 1969-10-05 |
Movie | Rocky Road to Dublin | Self | 1968-09-30 |
Movie | Candy | Dr. Arnold Dunlap | 1968-12-17 |
Movie | Casino Royale | M / General MacTarry | 1967-04-13 |
Movie | The Bible: In the Beginning... | Noah | 1966-09-28 |
Movie | On the Trail of the Iguana | Self | 1964-04-30 |
Movie | The List of Adrian Messenger | Lord Ashton (uncredited) | 1963-05-23 |
Movie | The Cardinal | Kardinal Glennon | 1963-12-12 |
Movie | Freud: The Secret Passion | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1962-12-12 |
Movie | The Misfits | Extra in Blackjack Scene (uncredited) | 1961-02-01 |
Movie | Moby Dick | Barman / Ship's Lookout (voice) (uncredited) | 1956-06-27 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
Movie | The Screen Director | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1951-03-12 |
Movie | The Red Badge of Courage | Grizzled Union Veteran (uncredited) | 1951-09-27 |
Movie | We Were Strangers | Señor Muñoz (uncredited) | 1949-04-27 |
Movie | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | American in Tampico in White Suit (uncredited) | 1948-01-15 |
Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Unknown | 1948-06-20 |
Movie | San Pietro | Narrator | 1945-05-03 |
Movie | Report from the Aleutians | Narrator (voice) | 1943-07-30 |
Movie | Hell's Heroes | Church Member (uncredited) | 1929-12-27 |