John Huston
Born: 1906-08-05 in Nevada, Missouri, USA
Died: 1987-08-28
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2023
- MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2022
- An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Morceaux de Cannes
- John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Babenco: Tell Me When I Die as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2018
- The Other Side of the Wind as J.J. 'Jake' Hannaford
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Five Came Back as Self (archive footage)
- Arthur Miller: Writer as Self (archive footage)
- Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2012
- Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Marilyn at the Movies as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self (archive footage)
- Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Filmmakers vs. Tycoons as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Pelé Forever as Self (archive footage)
- The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin as Self (Archive Footage)
2003
- Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Making 'The Misfits' as Self - Director (archive footage)
2001
- Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies as Self
2000
- Federico Fellini's Autobiography as Self (archive footage)
1998
- Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Bogart: The Untold Story as Self (archive footage)
- Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Glennon (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
- Welles' Language as Self
1988
- Mr. North ... (Screenplay)
- John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self (archive footage)
1987
- The Dead ... (Director)
- Mr. Corbett's Ghost as Soul Collector
1986
- Momo as Meister Hora
- Directed by William Wyler as Self
1985
- The Black Cauldron as Narrator (voice)
- Prizzi's Honor ... (Director)
- George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey as Self
- Epic as The Narrator (US version)
- Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise as Narrator
1984
- Under the Volcano ... (Director)
- Notes from Under the Volcano as Self
- Buñuel as Self
- Observations Under the Volcano as Self
- To The Western World
1983
- Lovesick as Larry Geller, M.D.
- A Minor Miracle as Father Cardenas
- Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler as Self
- American Caesar as Self - Host
1982
- Annie as Actor on Radio (uncredited)
- Cannery Row as Narrator
- Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical as Self
- The Orson Welles Story as Self
- Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston as Self - Interviewee
1981
- Escape to Victory ... (Director)
1980
- The Return of the King as Gandalf (voice)
- Phobia ... (Director)
- Head On as Clarke Hill
- Agee as Self
- Happy Birthday, Marilyn! as Self
1979
- Winter Kills as Pa Kegan
- Love and Bullets ... (Director)
- The Visitor as Jerzy Colsowicz
- Jaguar Lives! as Ralph Richards
- Wise Blood as Grandfather
- City Lights: John Huston as Self
- John Huston's Dublin
1978
- The Word as Nathan Randall
- The Bermuda Triangle as Edward
- The Biggest Battle as Sean O'Hara
- B.Traven: A Mystery Solved as Self
1977
- The Hobbit as Gandalf the Grey (voice)
- Tentacles as Ned Turner
- The Rhinemann Exchange as Ambassador Henderson Granville
- Angela as Hogan
1976
- Sherlock Holmes in New York as Professor James Moriarty
- Independence ... (Director)
- Circasia as Ringmaster
- Hollywood on Trial as Narrator
1975
- The Man Who Would Be King ... (Screenplay)
- The Wind and the Lion as John Hay
- Breakout as Harris Wagner
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Chinatown as Noah Cross
1973
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- Battle for the Planet of the Apes as The Lawgiver
- The MacKintosh Man ... (Director)
1972
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Grizzly Adams
- Fat City ... (Director)
1971
- Film '72 as Self
- Man in the Wilderness as Captain Filmore Henry
- Appointment With Destiny as Narrator
- The Bridge in the Jungle as Sleigh
1970
- Myra Breckinridge as Buck Loner
- The Kremlin Letter as Admiral
- Ride This Way Grey Horse as Director
- The Deserter as General Miles
- The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy as Narrator
1969
- De Sade as The Abbe
- A Walk with Love and Death as Robert the Elder
- Sinful Davey ... (Director)
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Candy as Dr. Arnold Dunlap
- Rocky Road to Dublin as Self
1967
- Casino Royale as M / General MacTarry
- Reflections in a Golden Eye ... (Producer)
1966
- The Bible: In the Beginning... as Noah
- The Legend of Marilyn Monroe as Narrator
1965
- National Geographic Specials as Narrator (voice)
1964
- The Night of the Iguana ... (Director)
- On the Trail of the Iguana as Self
1963
- The Cardinal as Kardinal Glennon
- The List of Adrian Messenger as Lord Ashton (uncredited)
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Freud: The Secret Passion as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1961
- The Misfits as Extra in Blackjack Scene (uncredited)
1960
- The Unforgiven ... (Director)
1958
- The Barbarian and the Geisha ... (Director)
- The Roots of Heaven ... (Director)
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison ... (Director)
1956
- Moby Dick as Barman / Ship's Lookout (voice) (uncredited)
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Beat the Devil ... (Director)
1952
- The African Queen ... (Director)
- Moulin Rouge ... (Director)
1951
- The Red Badge of Courage as Grizzled Union Veteran (uncredited)
- The Prowler ... (Producer)
- The Screen Director as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1950
- The Asphalt Jungle ... (Director)
1949
- We Were Strangers as Señor Muñoz
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as American in Tampico in White Suit (uncredited)
- Key Largo ... (Screenplay)
1946
- The Killers ... (Writer)
- The Stranger ... (Producer)
- Three Strangers ... (Screenplay)
- Let There Be Light ... (Director)
1945
- Know Your Enemy: Japan ... (Writer)
- The Battle of San Pietro as Narrator
1944
- Tunisian Victory ... (Director)
1943
- Report from the Aleutians as Narrator (voice)
1942
- In This Our Life ... (Director)
- Across the Pacific ... (Director)
- Winning Your Wings ... (Director)
1941
- The Maltese Falcon ... (Screenplay)
- Sergeant York ... (Screenplay)
- High Sierra ... (Screenplay)
1940
- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ... (Screenplay)
1939
- Juarez ... (Screenplay)
1938
- Jezebel ... (Screenplay)
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse ... (Screenplay)
1935
- Death Drives Through ... (Story)
- It Happened in Paris ... (Adaptation)
1932
- Murders in the Rue Morgue ... (Additional Dialogue)
- Law and Order ... (Adaptation)
1931
- A House Divided ... (Dialogue)
1930
- The Storm ... (Dialogue)
1929
- Hell's Heroes as Church Member (uncredited)
- Two Americans