John Huston

Known for DirectingBorn 1906-08-05Died 1987-08-28Nevada, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

American Caesar

Happy Birthday, Marilyn!

Appointment With Destiny

The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy

Spécial cinéma

Notes from Under the Volcano

The Orson Welles Story

Independence

The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

Five Came Back

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery

Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Chinatown

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Arthur Miller: Writer

Pelé Forever

The Man Who Would Be King

Welles' Language

The Maltese Falcon

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Making 'The Misfits'

The Asphalt Jungle

John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul

Key Largo

Epic

The Bible: In the Beginning...

The African Queen

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

The Other Side of the Wind

Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise

Momo

Rocky Road to Dublin

The Night of the Iguana

The Killers

Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical

Fat City

Let There Be Light

National Geographic Specials

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

The Dead