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.
105 movies · 13 shows
100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
2026·9.0
The Myth of Marilyn Monroe
2023·0.0
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023·7.2
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022·2.0
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
2021·6.8
Morceaux de Cannes
2021·2.0
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020·7.1
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019·5.0
The Other Side of the Wind
2018·6.7
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018·7.1
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
2017·0.0
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017·7.1
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
2017·5.8
Five Came Back
2017·7.9
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014·6.5
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012·7.2
Marilyn at the Movies
2011·0.0
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010·6.7
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010·7.0
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005·6.8
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
2004·8.5
Pelé Forever
2004·7.2
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003·7.4
Making 'The Misfits'
2002·7.0
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001·8.5
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000·6.4
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998·8.0
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
1997·8.0
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997·0.0
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
1995·6.6
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991·8.0
Welles' Language
1990·7.3
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988·6.0
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
1987·6.3
Momo
1986·7.0
Directed by William Wyler
1986·0.0
The Black Cauldron
1985·6.4
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
1985·7.0
Epic
1985·7.1
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985·5.8
Notes from Under the Volcano
1984·9.0
Observations Under the Volcano
1984·4.5
To The Western World
1984·0.0
Buñuel
1984·6.0
A Minor Miracle
1983·6.8
Lovesick
1983·5.7
American Caesar
1983·10.0
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983·0.0
Annie
1982·6.6
The Orson Welles Story
1982·9.0
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
1982·0.0
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
1982·7.0
Cannery Row
1982·5.8
Agee
1980·5.6
Head On
1980·4.0
The Return of the King
1980·6.4
Happy Birthday, Marilyn!
1980·10.0
John Huston's Dublin
1979·0.0
Wise Blood
1979·6.4
City Lights: John Huston
1979·0.0
Jaguar Lives!
1979·4.2
Winter Kills
1979·5.8
The Visitor
1979·5.3
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved
1978·0.0
The Bermuda Triangle
1978·4.1
The Biggest Battle
1978·4.7
The Hobbit
1977·6.6
Angela
1977·4.7
Tentacles
1977·4.6
Hollywood on Trial
1976·5.9
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976·6.0
Circasia
1976·5.0
The Wind and the Lion
1975·6.5
Breakout
1975·6.3
Chinatown
1974·7.9
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973·5.7
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972·6.5
Man in the Wilderness
1971·6.3
The Bridge in the Jungle
1971·5.8
The Deserter
1970·6.5
Myra Breckinridge
1970·4.6
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
1970·10.0
The Kremlin Letter
1970·5.9
Ride This Way Grey Horse
1970·0.0
A Walk with Love and Death
1969·6.1
De Sade
1969·3.4
Candy
1968·5.1
Rocky Road to Dublin
1968·7.2
Casino Royale
1967·5.3
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
1966·6.7
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966·7.3
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964·6.5
The Cardinal
1963·6.6
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963·6.7
Freud: The Secret Passion
1962·6.5
The Misfits
1961·7.0
Moby Dick
1956·7.1
The Red Badge of Courage
1951·6.5
The Screen Director
1951·7.0
We Were Strangers
1949·6.3
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948·8.0
The Battle of San Pietro
1945·6.1
Report from the Aleutians
1943·6.1
Hell's Heroes
1929·7.1
Two Americans
1929·7.0