John Huston
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.
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Movies (50)
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2019
The Other Side of the Wind
as J.J. 'Jake' Hannaford
2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2017
Arthur Miller: Writer
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Five Came Back
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self (archive footage)
2005
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
as Self (Archive Footage)
2004
Pelé Forever
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Making 'The Misfits'
as Self - Director (archive footage)
2002
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
as Self
2001
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
as Self (archive footage)
1998
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Glennon (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
Welles' Language
as Self
1990
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage)
1988
Mr. North
Screenplay (Writing)
1988
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
as Soul Collector
1987
The Dead
Director (Directing)
1987
Momo
as Meister Hora
1986
Directed by William Wyler
as Self
1986
The Black Cauldron
as Narrator (voice)
1985
Prizzi's Honor
Director (Directing)
1985
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
as Narrator
1985
Epic
as The Narrator (US version)
1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
1985
Notes from Under the Volcano
as Self
1984
Observations Under the Volcano
as Self
1984
Under the Volcano
Director (Directing)
1984
To The Western World
1984
Buñuel
as Self
1984
A Minor Miracle
as Father Cardenas
1983
Lovesick
as Larry Geller, M.D.
1983
American Caesar
as Self - Host
1983
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Self
1983
Annie
as Actor on Radio (uncredited)
1982
The Orson Welles Story
as Self
1982
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
as Self - Interviewee
1982
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
as Self
1982
Cannery Row
as Narrator
1982