John Huston
1906-08-05 ( 118 years old ) in Nevada, Missouri, USA

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.

Movies

John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul 2021-11-28
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die 2020-11-26
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast 2019-02-27
The Other Side of the Wind 2018-11-02
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead 2018-08-31
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street 2017-12-13
Arthur Miller: Writer 2017-12-08
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies 2017-06-09
Five Came Back 2017-03-31
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles 2014-12-12
And the Oscar Goes To... 2014-02-01
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff 2010-05-05
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen 2010-03-23
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons 2005-07-17
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' 2003-09-30
Making 'The Misfits' 2002-10-02
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies 2001-10-07
Federico Fellini's Autobiography 2000-09-05
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery 1998-10-02
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid 1997-01-05
Bogart: The Untold Story 1997-01-05
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker 1991-10-28
Welles' Language 1990-01-01
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick 1988-10-24
Mr. Corbett's Ghost 1987-12-31
Momo 1986-07-16
Directed by William Wyler 1986-05-01
The Black Cauldron 1985-07-24
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise 1985-05-15
Epic 1985-05-13
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey 1985-03-03
Notes from Under the Volcano 1984-09-09
Observations Under the Volcano 1984-07-03
Buñuel 1984-01-01
A Minor Miracle 1983-05-31
Lovesick 1983-02-18
American Caesar 1983-01-01
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler 1983-01-01
Annie 1982-05-21
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston 1982-03-26
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical 1982-03-07
Cannery Row 1982-02-12
Agee 1980-11-14
Head On 1980-09-08
The Return of the King 1980-05-11
Happy Birthday, Marilyn! 1980-01-01
Wise Blood 1979-10-24
City Lights: John Huston 1979-10-10
Jaguar Lives! 1979-08-09
Winter Kills 1979-05-11
The Visitor 1979-03-14
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved 1978-12-19
The Bermuda Triangle 1978-02-10
The Biggest Battle 1978-02-07
The Hobbit 1977-11-27
Angela 1977-11-10
Tentacles 1977-02-25
Hollywood on Trial 1976-11-01
Sherlock Holmes in New York 1976-10-18
Circasia 1976-04-08
The Wind and the Lion 1975-05-22
Breakout 1975-05-21
Chinatown 1974-06-20
Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1973-06-15
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean 1972-12-18
Man in the Wilderness 1971-11-24
The Bridge in the Jungle 1971-01-01
The Deserter 1970-12-04
Myra Breckinridge 1970-06-24
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy 1970-02-17
The Kremlin Letter 1970-02-01
Ride This Way Grey Horse 1970-01-01
A Walk with Love and Death 1969-10-05
De Sade 1969-08-27
Candy 1968-12-17
Rocky Road to Dublin 1968-09-30
Casino Royale 1967-04-13
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe 1966-11-30
The Bible: In the Beginning... 1966-09-28
Hollywood and the Stars 1964-05-04
On the Trail of the Iguana 1964-04-30
The Cardinal 1963-12-12
The List of Adrian Messenger 1963-05-23
Freud: The Secret Passion 1962-12-12
The Misfits 1961-02-01
Moby Dick 1956-06-27
The Red Badge of Courage 1951-09-27
The Screen Director 1951-03-12
We Were Strangers 1949-04-27
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948-01-15
The Battle of San Pietro 1945-05-03
Report from the Aleutians 1943-07-30
Hell's Heroes 1929-12-27
Two Americans 1929-06-22

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