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