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John Huston

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.

Known For	Directing
Most Rating	20.187
Birthday	1906-08-05
Place of Birth	Nevada, Missouri, USA
Also Known As	John Marcellus Huston, Τζον Χιούστον, 존 휴스턴, Джон Хьюстон,

Chinatown

The Return of the King

The Hobbit

Momo

The Bible: In the Beginning...

Moby Dick

The Cardinal

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Report from the Aleutians

Breakout

Cannery Row

Casino Royale

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Sherlock Holmes in New York

Myra Breckinridge

Winter Kills

Wise Blood

The Wind and the Lion

Candy

Man in the Wilderness

Tentacles

The Biggest Battle

Lovesick

The Visitor

Jaguar Lives!

Rocky Road to Dublin

A Walk with Love and Death

De Sade

The Deserter

Hollywood on Trial

The Bermuda Triangle

A Minor Miracle

The Bridge in the Jungle

Head On

Welles' Language

The Other Side of the Wind

San Pietro

The Screen Director

Hell's Heroes

The List of Adrian Messenger

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Notes from Under the Volcano

The Black Cauldron

The Misfits

Mr. Corbett's Ghost

City Lights: John Huston

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

On the Trail of the Iguana

Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston

Epic

The Journey of Robert Kennedy

Buñuel

Bogart: The Untold Story

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

Making 'The Misfits'

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

And the Oscar Goes To...

Happy Birthday, Marilyn!

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Directed by William Wyler

Annie

B.Traven: A Mystery Solved

Circasia

Angela

Freud: The Secret Passion

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler

Lights, Camera, Annie!

Five Came Back

Ride This Way Grey Horse

Federico Fellini's Autobiography

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Arthur Miller: Writer

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe

John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul