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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 s…
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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.
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John Huston's Filmography
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100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
as (archive footage)
The Myth of Marilyn Monroe
as Self (voice)
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
as Self (archive footage)
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
as Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
as Self (archive footage)
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Other Side of the Wind
as J.J. 'Jake' Hannaford
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
as Self (archive footage)
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Arthur Miller: Writer
as Self (archive footage)
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Five Came Back
as Self (archive footage)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
as Self (archive footage)
Marilyn at the Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self (archive footage)
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
as Self (archive footage)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
as Self (Archive Footage)
Pelé Forever
as Self (archive footage)
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
as Self (archive footage)
Making 'The Misfits'
as Self - Director (archive footage)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
as Self
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
as Self (archive footage)
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
as Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
as Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Glennon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Welles' Language
as Self
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage)
Mister Corbett's Ghost
as Soul Collector
Momo
as Meister Hora
Directed by William Wyler
as Self
The Black Cauldron
as Narrator (voice)
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
as Narrator
Epic
as The Narrator (US version)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
Notes from Under the Volcano
as Self
Observations Under the Volcano
as Self
No Poster
To The Western World
Buñuel
as Self
A Minor Miracle
as Father Cardenas
Lovesick
as Larry Geller, M.D.
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Self
American Caesar
as Self - Host
Annie
as Actor on Radio (uncredited)
The Orson Welles Story
as Self
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
as Self - Interviewee
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
as Self
Cannery Row
as Narrator
Agee
as Self
No Poster
Head On
as Clarke Hill
The Return of the King
as Gandalf (voice)
Happy Birthday, Marilyn!
as Self
No Poster
John Huston's Dublin
Wise Blood
as Grandfather
City Lights: John Huston
as Self
Jaguar Lives!
as Ralph Richards
Winter Kills
as Pa Kegan
The Visitor
as Jerzy Colsowicz
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved
as Self
The Bermuda Triangle
as Edward
The Biggest Battle
as Sean O'Hara
The Hobbit
as Gandalf the Grey (voice)
Angela
as Hogan
Tentacles
as Ned Turner
Hollywood on Trial
as Narrator
Sherlock Holmes in New York
as Professor James Moriarty
Circasia
as Ringmaster
The Wind and the Lion
as John Hay
Breakout
as Harris Wagner
Chinatown
as Noah Cross
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
as The Lawgiver
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
as Grizzly Adams
Man in the Wilderness
as Captain Filmore Henry
The Bridge in the Jungle
as Sleigh
The Deserter
as General Miles
Myra Breckinridge
as Buck Loner
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
as Narrator
The Kremlin Letter
as Admiral
No Poster
Ride This Way Grey Horse
as Director
A Walk with Love and Death
as Robert the Elder
De Sade
as The Abbe
Candy
as Dr. Arnold Dunlap
Rocky Road to Dublin
as Self
Casino Royale
as McTarry
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
as Narrator
The Bible: In the Beginning...
as Noah
On the Trail of the Iguana
as Self
The Cardinal
as Kardinal Glennon
The List of Adrian Messenger
as Lord Ashton (uncredited)
Freud: The Secret Passion
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Misfits
as (uncredited)
Moby Dick
as Barman / Ship's Lookout (voice) (uncredited)
The Red Badge of Courage
as Grizzled Union Veteran (uncredited)
The Screen Director
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
We Were Strangers
as Señor Muñoz
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
as American in Tampico in White Suit (uncredited)
The Battle of San Pietro
as Narrator
Report from the Aleutians
as Narrator (voice)
Hell's Heroes
as Church Member (uncredited)
No Poster
Two Americans
No Poster
The Return of the King
as Gandalf (voice)