John (Marcellus) Huston - Filmography

Film director, screenwriter, and actor, born in Nevada, Missouri, USA. He is the son of Walter Huston, and father of actress Anjelica Huston. After his acting debut off Broadway (1925), he held various jobs (including a hitch in the Mexican cavalry) until 1938, when he became a scriptwriter in Hollywood. His successes included Jezebel (1938), Sergeant York (1941), and The Maltese Falcon (1941), with which he began his directorial career. After making three documentaries with the Signal Corps in World War 2, he made his masterpiece, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947), for which he won Academy Awards for best director and best screenplay. Among later films he directed and wrote are The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Red Badge of Courage (1951), The African Queen (1952), and Moby Dick (1956). A noted bon vivant, gambler, sportsman, and ladies' man, he made his base in Ireland from 1952. In his later years he returned to acting in films, and he died while directing The Dead (1987).

John Huston
Statue of John Huston, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Born	5 August 1906 Nevada, Missouri, USA
Died	28 August 1987 Middletown, Rhode Island, USA

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor.

Career

He began his film career as a screenwriter and made films mainly adapted from books or plays. The six-foot-two-inch, brown-eyed director also acted in a number of films, with distinction in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal for which he was nominated for the Academy award for Best Supporting Actor and in Roman Polanski's Chinatown as the film's central heavy against Jack Nicholson.

Huston's films were insightful about human nature and human predicaments. examples include The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947) and Night of the Iguana (1964). Huston also directed The Misfits (film) with an all-star cast including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach.

After filming the documentary Let There Be Light on the psychiatric treatment of soldiers for shellshock, Huston resolved to make a film about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis.

Academy Awards

In 1941, Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Maltese Falcon. He was nominated again and won in 1948 for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, for which he also received the Best Director award. He has the unique distinction of directing both his father Walter and his daughter Anjelica in Oscar-winning performances (in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Prizzi's Honor, respectively), making the Hustons the first family to have three generations of Academy Award winners. Among his children are the director Danny Huston and the actress Anjelica Huston.

Filmography

As director

The Maltese Falcon (1941) In This Our Life (1942) Across the Pacific (1942) The Battle of San Pietro (1945) Let There Be Light (1946) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947) Key Largo (1948) We Were Strangers (1949) The Asphalt Jungle (1950) The Red Badge of Courage (1951) The African Queen (1951) Moulin Rouge (1953) Beat the Devil (1953) Moby Dick (1956) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) The Roots of Heaven (1958) The Unforgiven (1960) The Misfits (1960) Freud the Secret Passion (1962) The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) The Night of the Iguana (1964) The Bible: In The Beginning (1966) Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Casino Royale (1967) Sinful Davey (1969) A Walk with Love and Death (1969) The Kremlin Letter (1970) Fat City (1972) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) The Mackintosh Man (1973) The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Wise Blood (1979) Phobia (1980) Victory (1980) Annie (1982) Under the Volcano (1984) Prizzi's Honor (1985) The Dead (1987)

Preceded by: Elia Kazan for Gentleman's Agreement

Academy Award for Best Director 1948 for Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Succeeded by: Joseph L. The Cardinal (1963, dir: Otto Preminger) Candy (1968, director: Christian Marquand) Rocky Road to Dublin (Documentary) (as Interviewee, 1968, director: Peter Lennon) De Sade (1969, dir: Cy Endfield) Myra Breckinridge (1970, dir: Michael Sarne) Man in the Wilderness (1971, dir: Richard C. Sarafian) The Bridge in the Jungle (1971) Rufino Tamayo: The Sources of his Art (documentary) (1972, dir: Gary Conklin) Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973, dir: J. Lee Thompson) Chinatown (1974, dir: Roman Polanski) Breakout (1975) The Wind and the Lion (1975, dir: John Milius) Tentacles (1977, dir: Ovidio G. Assonitis) The Greatest Battle (1978, dir: Umberto Lenzi) The Bermuda Triangle (1978, dir: René Cardona, Jr.) Angela (1978, dir: Boris Sagal) The Visitor (1979, dir: Giulio Paradisi) A Minor Miracle (1983, dir: Raoul Lomas) Notes from Under the Volcano (documentary) (as himself, 1984, dir: Gary Conklin) Lovesick (1984, dir: Marshall Brickman) Momo (1986, dir: Johannes Schaaf) Huston is also famous to a generation of fans of J.