John Huston

Directing · 1.9 popularity

Age

120

Movies

105

Born: August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987
From: Nevada, Missouri, USA

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.

Works

105 films

Candy

19685.1

Chinatown

19747.9

Casino Royale

19675.3

The Black Cauldron

19856.4

The Misfits

19617.0

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

19735.7

Moby Dick

19567.1

Annie

19826.6

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

19488.0

The Bible: In the Beginning...

19667.3

The Hobbit

19776.6

Momo

19867.0

Breakout

19756.2

Angela

19774.7

Buñuel

19846.0

The Biggest Battle

19784.7

The Kremlin Letter

19705.9

De Sade

19693.4

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

19726.5

The Other Side of the Wind

20186.7

The Return of the King

19806.4

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

20195.0

The Wind and the Lion

19756.5

The List of Adrian Messenger

19636.7

Man in the Wilderness

19716.3

Tentacles

19774.6

Wise Blood

19796.4

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

20187.1

Myra Breckinridge

19704.6

Freud: The Secret Passion

19626.5

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Winter Kills

19795.8

The Visitor

19795.3

We Were Strangers

19496.3

The Bermuda Triangle

19784.1

Directed by William Wyler

1986

The Cardinal

19636.5

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose

20222.0

The Deserter

19706.5

John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul

20216.8

Jaguar Lives!

19794.2

Epic

19857.1

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

20146.5

The Red Badge of Courage

19516.5

Cannery Row

19825.8

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

19918.0

Mr. Corbett's Ghost

19876.3

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

20207.1

Sherlock Holmes in New York

19766.0

The Myth of Marilyn Monroe

2023

A Walk with Love and Death

19696.1

The Battle of San Pietro

19456.1

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery

19988.0

100 Years of Marilyn Monroe

20269.0

Two Americans

19297.0

Lovesick

19835.7

Five Came Back

20177.9

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

20106.7

Hell's Heroes

19297.1

Arthur Miller: Writer

20177.1

Pelé Forever

20047.2

Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler

1983

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

20037.4

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

20018.5

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

19886.0

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

20056.8

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

19855.8

The Screen Director

19517.0

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

20107.0

Notes from Under the Volcano

19849.0

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

20237.2

Rocky Road to Dublin

19687.2

Report from the Aleutians

19436.1

Marilyn at the Movies

2011

On the Trail of the Iguana

19646.5

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

19956.6

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

20127.2

Making 'The Misfits'

20027.0

Bogart: The Untold Story

1997

Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

2017

B.Traven: A Mystery Solved

1978

Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid

19978.0

Federico Fellini's Autobiography

20006.4

John Huston's Dublin

1979

Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise

19857.0

Observations Under the Volcano

19844.5

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe

19666.7

Agee

19805.6

Ride This Way Grey Horse

1970

The Orson Welles Story

19828.5

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

19827.0

Head On

19804.0

Welles' Language

19907.3

City Lights: John Huston

1979

Circasia

19765.0

The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin

20048.5

Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

20175.8

A Minor Miracle

19836.8

The Bridge in the Jungle

19715.8

Happy Birthday, Marilyn!

198010.0

The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy

197010.0

Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston

1982

To The Western World

1984

American Caesar

198310.0

Hollywood on Trial

19765.9