John Huston
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 ...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
1982
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
1970
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
Annie
1982
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
2017
Chinatown
1974
The Visitor
1979
Observations Under the Volcano
1984
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
2017
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Breakout
1975
The Red Badge of Courage
1951
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
The Wind and the Lion
1975
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012
Man in the Wilderness
1971
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
The Kremlin Letter
1970
The Black Cauldron
1985
Pelé Forever
2004
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973
Casino Royale
1967
Candy
1968
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
1982
Making 'The Misfits'
2002
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
1966
Myra Breckinridge
1970
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
2004
Notes from Under the Volcano
1984
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
The Misfits
1961