John Huston

Directing · 2.2 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

Moby Dick

19567.1

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

19735.7

The Misfits

19617.0

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

Buñuel

19846.0

De Sade

19693.4

Breakout

19756.2

The Kremlin Letter

19705.9

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

19726.5

The Biggest Battle

19784.7

The Return of the King

19806.4

The Other Side of the Wind

20186.7

Angela

19774.7

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

20187.1

The Wind and the Lion

19756.5

Wise Blood

19796.4

The Cardinal

19636.5

Freud: The Secret Passion

19626.5

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

19918.0

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

20195.0

The List of Adrian Messenger

19636.7

Tentacles

19774.6

The Visitor

19795.3

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose

20222.0

Man in the Wilderness

19716.3

Winter Kills

19795.8

Directed by William Wyler

1986

Jaguar Lives!

19794.2

The Bermuda Triangle

19784.1

Myra Breckinridge

19704.6

The Red Badge of Courage

19516.5

The Deserter

19706.5

John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul

20216.8

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

20146.5

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery

19988.0

We Were Strangers

19496.3

A Walk with Love and Death

19696.1

The Battle of San Pietro

19456.1

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

20106.7

The Myth of Marilyn Monroe

2023

Cannery Row

19825.8

Epic

19857.1

100 Years of Marilyn Monroe

20269.0

Hell's Heroes

19297.1

Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler

1983

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

19886.0

Arthur Miller: Writer

20177.1

Two Americans

19297.0

Five Came Back

20177.9

Sherlock Holmes in New York

19766.0

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

20207.1

Lovesick

19835.7

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

20018.5

Marilyn at the Movies

2011

Mr. Corbett's Ghost

19876.3

Pelé Forever

20047.2

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

19855.8

Bogart: The Untold Story

1997

Notes from Under the Volcano

19849.0

Rocky Road to Dublin

19687.2

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

20107.0

On the Trail of the Iguana

19646.5

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

19956.6

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe

19666.7

Observations Under the Volcano

19844.5

Making 'The Misfits'

20027.0

Federico Fellini's Autobiography

20006.4

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

20237.2

Agee

19805.6

The Orson Welles Story

19828.5

The Screen Director

19517.0

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

20056.8

Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

2017

B.Traven: A Mystery Solved

1978

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

19827.0

John Huston's Dublin

1979

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

20127.2

Welles' Language

19907.3

Report from the Aleutians

19436.1

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

20037.4

Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid

19978.0

Head On

19804.0

Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise

19857.0

Ride This Way Grey Horse

1970

City Lights: John Huston

1979

Circasia

19765.0

Happy Birthday, Marilyn!

198010.0

A Minor Miracle

19836.8

Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston

1982

The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin

20048.5

Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

20175.8

The Bridge in the Jungle

19715.8

To The Western World

1984

The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy

197010.0

Hollywood on Trial

19765.9

American Caesar

198310.0