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Legendary American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor John Huston's Hollywood career spanned over fifty years and earned him over a dozen Oscar nominations.
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Fast Facts
- Birth name: John Marcellus Huston
- Also known as: Jhon Huston
- Born: August 5, 1906
- Birthplace: Nevada, Missouri
- Souses: Evelyn Keyes, Dorothy Harvey, Celeste Shane and Lesley Black
- Children: Anjelica Huston, Tony Huston, Danny Huston and Pablo Albarran
- Date of death: August 28, 1987
- Directed both his father and his daughter in Oscar-winning performances
- Walter Huston received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Anjelica Huston won the Best Supporting Actress for Prizzi's Honor
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Directorial Career
Huston's directorial debut, The Maltese Falcon was a critical and commercial success and was later named one of the 100 Greatest American Movies by the American Film Institute and admitted to the U.S. Film Registry as a film of cultural or historical significance.Yahoo! Movies: The Maltese Falcon Awards and Nominations Huston went on to direct such Hollywood blockbusters as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Moulin Rouge (1953), The African Queen, Prizzi's Honor, Key Largo, The Misfits, Asphalt Jungle, Annie and The Man Who Would Be King. -
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- Academy Awards:
- Best Director: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Golden Globe Awards:
- Best Director: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Best Supporting Actor: Cardinal (1963)
- Best Film (Musical or Comedy): Prizzi's Honor (1985)
- Best Director: Prizzi's Honor (1985)
- National Board of Review:
- Best Screenplay: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Best Director: Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- Best Director: Moby Dick (1956)
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Watched John Huston's “The Misfits” (1961). Good movie, qte depressing as meant to be. How come Montgomery Clift has been all but forgotten?
@quinola | November 08, 2009 09:40 PM -
First time John Huston got to direct a film, he made THE MALTESE FALCON. Jesus. And, in the ten years after, 4 or 5 more classics.
@andeparks | November 08, 2009 05:04 PM -
@ central-cinema for some dinner and The Breakfast Club. I <3 John Huston.
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John Huston: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) - $22.00
This collection of interviews brings the filmmaker John Huston vividly to life in his own words. Huston (1906-1987) had an extraordinary career that spanned more than forty years and nearly fifty films. Among these are such classics as T...
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Report from the Aleutians (1943) - $9.99
An official documentary movie about the misson of the US forces on an island of the Aleutians, from which US bombers are attacking the Japanese occupied island Kiska. The movie includes footage from a bombing raid over Kiska with B-17 and B...
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In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O’Connor, John Huston brings to life a world of vivid, poetic American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fres...
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John Huston Directing Timeline
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- 1906: Born on August 5 in Nevada, Missouri
- 1941: The Maltese Falcon - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1942: In This Our Life - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1942: Winning Your Wings - IMDb Listing
- 1942: Across the Pacific - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1943: Report from the Aleutians - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1944: Tunisian Victory - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1945: San Pietro - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1945: Let There Be Light - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1948: On Our Merry Way - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1948: Key Largo - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1949: We Were Strangers - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1950: Asphalt Jungle - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1951: The Red Badge of Courage - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1951: The African Queen - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1952: Moulin Rouge - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1953: Beat the Devil - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1956: Moby Dick - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1957: Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1957: A Farewell to Arms - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1958: The Barbarian and the Geisha - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1958: The Roots of Heaven - IMDb Listing
- 1960: The Unforgiven - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1961: The Misfits - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1962: Freud - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1963: The List of Adrian Messenger - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1964: The Night of the Iguana - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1966: The Bible: In the Beginning - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1967: Casino Royale - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1967: Reflections in a Golden Eye - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1969: Sinful Davey - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1969: A Walk with Love and Death - IMDb Listing
- 1970: The Kremlin Letter - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1971: The Last Run - IMDb Listing
- 1972: Fat City - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1972: The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1973: The MacKintosh Man - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1975: The Man Who Would Be King - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1976: Independence - IMDb Listing
- 1979: Love and Bullets - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1979: Wise Blood - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1980: Phobia - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1981: Victory - IMDb Listing
- 1982: Annie - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1984: Under the Volcano - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1985: Prizzi's Honor - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1987: The Dead - IMDb Listing



