John Huston
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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
100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
2026
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
2021
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
The Other Side of the Wind
2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
2017
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
2017
Five Came Back
2017
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012
Marilyn at the Movies
2011
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
2004
Pelé Forever
2004
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
Making 'The Misfits'
2002
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
1997
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Welles' Language
1990
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
1987
Momo
1986
Directed by William Wyler
1986
The Black Cauldron
1985
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
1985
Epic
1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
Notes from Under the Volcano
1984
Observations Under the Volcano
1984
To The Western World
1984
Buñuel
1984
A Minor Miracle
1983
Lovesick
1983
American Caesar
1983
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983
Annie
1982
The Orson Welles Story
1982
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
1982
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
1982
Cannery Row
1982
Agee
1980
Head On
1980
The Return of the King
1980
Happy Birthday, Marilyn!
1980
John Huston's Dublin
1979
Wise Blood
1979
City Lights: John Huston
1979
Jaguar Lives!
1979
Winter Kills
1979
The Visitor
1979
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved
1978
The Word
1978
The Bermuda Triangle
1978
The Biggest Battle
1978
The Hobbit
1977
Angela
1977
The Rhinemann Exchange
1977
Tentacles
1977
Hollywood on Trial
1976
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976
Circasia
1976
The Wind and the Lion
1975
Breakout
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
Chinatown
1974
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
Man in the Wilderness
1971
Appointment With Destiny
1971
Film '72
1971
The Bridge in the Jungle
1971
The Deserter
1970
Myra Breckinridge
1970
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
1970
The Kremlin Letter
1970
Ride This Way Grey Horse
1970
A Walk with Love and Death
1969
De Sade
1969
Candy
1968
Rocky Road to Dublin
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Casino Royale
1967
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
1966
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
National Geographic Specials
1965
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964
The Cardinal
1963
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963
Freud: The Secret Passion
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Misfits
1961
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Moby Dick
1956
The Oscars
1953
The Red Badge of Courage
1951
The Screen Director
1951
We Were Strangers
1949
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
The Battle of San Pietro
1945
Report from the Aleutians
1943
Hell's Heroes
1929
Two Americans
1929