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John Huston
Known for: DirectingJohn 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.
Filmography 84
Casino Royale
as McTarry 
The Black Cauldron
as Narrator (voice) 
Chinatown
as Noah Cross 
The Man Who Would Be King
Director, Screenplay 
The Maltese Falcon
Director, Screenplay 
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
as American in Tampico in White Suit (uncredited) 
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
as The Lawgiver 
The African Queen
Director, Screenplay 
Escape to Victory
Director 
The Asphalt Jungle
Director, Screenplay 
The Bible: In the Beginning...
as Noah 
Candy
as Dr. Arnold Dunlap 
Prizzi's Honor
Director 
The Misfits
as (uncredited) 
Annie
Director 
The Unforgiven
Director 
Fat City
Director, Producer 
Five Came Back
as Self (archive footage) 
Moby Dick
as Barman / Ship's Lookout (voice) (uncredited) 
Sergeant York
Screenplay 
Tentacles
as Ned Turner 
The Other Side of the Wind
as J.J. 'Jake' Hannaford 
The Dead
Director 
The Killers
Writer 
The Stranger
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Producer 
Beat the Devil
Director, Screenplay 
High Sierra
Screenplay 
The Return of the King
as Gandalf (voice) 
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
as Grizzly Adams 
The Night of the Iguana
Director, Screenplay 
The Hobbit
as Gandalf the Grey (voice) 
Juarez
Screenplay 
In This Our Life
Director 
The Wind and the Lion
as John Hay 
Jezebel
Screenplay 
The Cardinal
as Kardinal Glennon 
Key Largo
Director, Screenplay 
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Director, Producer 
Moulin Rouge
Director, Screenplay 
Freud: The Secret Passion
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) 
Breakout
as Harris Wagner 
Man in the Wilderness
as Captain Filmore Henry 
Under the Volcano
Director 
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Director, Screenplay 
The List of Adrian Messenger
as Lord Ashton (uncredited) 
We Were Strangers
as Señor Muñoz 
Mr. North
Screenplay 
Winter Kills
as Pa Kegan 
The MacKintosh Man
Director, Producer 
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
as Self (archive footage) 
Momo
as Meister Hora 
The Kremlin Letter
as Admiral 
The Roots of Heaven
Director 
The Visitor
as Jerzy Colsowicz 
Mister Corbett's Ghost
as Soul Collector 
The Biggest Battle
as Sean O'Hara 
Three Strangers
Screenplay 
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Screenplay 
Across the Pacific
Director 
The Bermuda Triangle
as Edward 
Love and Bullets
Director 
De Sade
as The Abbe 
The Red Badge of Courage
as Grizzled Union Veteran (uncredited) 
Wise Blood
as Grandfather 
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Director 
The Prowler
Producer 
Cannery Row
as Narrator 
Let There Be Light
Director, Writer 
Phobia
Director 
Lovesick
as Larry Geller, M.D. 
Angela
as Hogan 
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
as Narrator 
The Deserter
as General Miles 
Sinful Davey
Director 
Jaguar Lives!
as Ralph Richards 
100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
as (archive footage) 
Report from the Aleutians
as Narrator (voice) 
Rocky Road to Dublin
as Self 
The Battle of San Pietro
as Narrator 
Know Your Enemy: Japan
Writer 
Tunisian Victory
Director 
Arthur Miller: Writer
as Self (archive footage) 
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
as Self (archive footage)