John Huston
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.
44 directing credits · 114 acting credits
Directing · 44
Casino Royale
1967
The Misfits
1961
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
Escape to Victory
1981
The Maltese Falcon
1941
Annie
1982
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
The Man Who Would Be King
1975
The African Queen
1952
The Unforgiven
1960
Moby Dick
1956
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
Key Largo
1948
The Dead
1987
Prizzi's Honor
1985
Beat the Devil
1953
The Night of the Iguana
1964
Love and Bullets
1979
Moulin Rouge
1952
Wise Blood
1979
The MacKintosh Man
1973
Freud: The Secret Passion
1962
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967
Under the Volcano
1984
Phobia
1980
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963
Fat City
1972
The Red Badge of Courage
1951
The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957
We Were Strangers
1949
In This Our Life
1942
The Kremlin Letter
1970
Across the Pacific
1942
A Walk with Love and Death
1969
The Roots of Heaven
1958
Independence
1976
Let There Be Light
1946
Sinful Davey
1969
Report from the Aleutians
1943
The Battle of San Pietro
1945
Tunisian Victory
1944
Winning Your Wings
1942
Acting · 114
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Oscars
1953
Spécial cinéma
1974
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Film '72
1971
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Candy
1968
Chinatown
1974
Casino Royale
1967
The Misfits
1961
The Black Cauldron
1985
The Word
1978
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
Annie
1982
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973
National Geographic Specials
1965
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
Moby Dick
1956
The Hobbit
1977
The Rhinemann Exchange
1977
The Wind and the Lion
1975
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
The Return of the King
1980
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
The Cardinal
1963
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
Myra Breckinridge
1970
Tentacles
1977
Winter Kills
1979
Man in the Wilderness
1971
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023
Wise Blood
1979
Momo
1986
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976
Freud: The Secret Passion
1962
The Visitor
1979
The Other Side of the Wind
2018
Breakout
1975
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
The Red Badge of Courage
1951
The Deserter
1970
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998
The Bermuda Triangle
1978
Five Came Back
2017
Cannery Row
1982
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018
Lovesick
1983
The Biggest Battle
1978
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
1982
Appointment With Destiny
1971
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
2017
We Were Strangers
1949
Jaguar Lives!
1979
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000
The Kremlin Letter
1970
De Sade
1969
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983
Hell's Heroes
1929
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
A Walk with Love and Death
1969
Directed by William Wyler
1986
The Screen Director
1951
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
Report from the Aleutians
1943
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
2017
Pelé Forever
2004
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
1982
Circasia
1976
Head On
1980
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
1966
To The Western World
1984
The Battle of San Pietro
1945
Angela
1977
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
1987
Notes from Under the Volcano
1984
Observations Under the Volcano
1984
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
Making 'The Misfits'
2002
Buñuel
1984
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
2004
A Minor Miracle
1983
The Bridge in the Jungle
1971
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
1997
Rocky Road to Dublin
1968
Two Americans
1929
Ride This Way Grey Horse
1970
Marilyn at the Movies
2011
Welles' Language
1990
The Orson Welles Story
1982
Happy Birthday, Marilyn!
1980
Epic
1985
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved
1978
Hollywood on Trial
1976
Agee
1980
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
1985
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
1970
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
2021
American Caesar
1983
City Lights: John Huston
1979
John Huston's Dublin
1979