John Huston
Directing
- Born:
- 1906-08-05
- Died:
- 1987-08-28
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
The Myth of Marilyn Monroe
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
Morceaux de Cannes
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
The Other Side of the Wind
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
Arthur Miller: Writer
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
Five Came Back
Five Came Back
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn at the Movies
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Pelé Forever
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Making 'The Misfits'
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
Bogart: The Untold Story
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Welles' Language
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Mister Corbett's Ghost
Momo
Directed by William Wyler
The Black Cauldron
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Epic
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Notes from Under the Volcano
Observations Under the Volcano
To The Western World
Buñuel
A Minor Miracle
Lovesick
American Caesar
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
Annie
The Orson Welles Story
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
Cannery Row
Agee
Head On
The Return of the King
Happy Birthday, Marilyn!
John Huston's Dublin
Wise Blood
City Lights: John Huston
Jaguar Lives!
Winter Kills
The Visitor
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved
The Word
The Bermuda Triangle
The Biggest Battle
The Hobbit
Angela
The Rhinemann Exchange
Tentacles
Hollywood on Trial
Sherlock Holmes in New York
Circasia
The Wind and the Lion
Breakout
Spécial cinéma
Chinatown
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Man in the Wilderness
Appointment With Destiny
Film '72
The Bridge in the Jungle
The Deserter
Myra Breckinridge
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
The Kremlin Letter
Ride This Way Grey Horse
A Walk with Love and Death
De Sade
Candy
Rocky Road to Dublin
The Dick Cavett Show
Casino Royale
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
The Bible: In the Beginning...
National Geographic Specials
On the Trail of the Iguana
The Cardinal
The List of Adrian Messenger
Freud: The Secret Passion
The Merv Griffin Show
The Misfits
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Moby Dick
The Oscars
The Red Badge of Courage
The Screen Director
We Were Strangers
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Battle of San Pietro
Report from the Aleutians
Hell's Heroes
Two Americans