John Huston
Directing
Born August 5, 1906 in Nevada, Missouri, USA
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.
Filmography
100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
(archive footage)
The Myth of Marilyn Monroe
Self (voice)
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Self (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Other Side of the Wind
J.J. 'Jake' Hannaford
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Self (archive footage)
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Arthur Miller: Writer
Self (archive footage)
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Five Came Back
Self (archive footage)
Five Came Back
Self (archive footage)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self (archive footage)
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Self (archive footage)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self (archive footage)
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Self (Archive Footage)
Pelé Forever
Self (archive footage)
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Self (archive footage)
Making 'The Misfits'
Self - Director (archive footage)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Self
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Self (archive footage)
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Glennon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Welles' Language
Self
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Self (archive footage)
Mr. North
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
Soul Collector
The Dead
Momo
Meister Hora
Directed by William Wyler
Self
The Black Cauldron
Narrator (voice)
Prizzi's Honor
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Narrator
Epic
The Narrator (US version)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
Notes from Under the Volcano
Self
Observations Under the Volcano
Self
Under the Volcano
Buñuel
Self
A Minor Miracle
Father Cardenas
Lovesick
Larry Geller, M.D.
American Caesar
Self - Host
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
Self
Annie
Actor on Radio (uncredited)
The Orson Welles Story
Self
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
Self - Interviewee
Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
Self
Cannery Row
Narrator
Escape to Victory
Agee
Self
Phobia
The Return of the King
Gandalf (voice)
Happy Birthday, Marilyn!
Self
Wise Blood
Grandfather
City Lights: John Huston
Self
Jaguar Lives!
Ralph Richards
Winter Kills
Pa Kegan
Love and Bullets
The Visitor
Jerzy Colsowicz
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved
Self
The Word
Nathan Randall
The Bermuda Triangle
Edward
The Biggest Battle
Sean O'Hara
The Hobbit
Gandalf the Grey (voice)
Angela
Hogan
The Rhinemann Exchange
Ambassador Henderson Granville
Tentacles
Ned Turner
Hollywood on Trial
Narrator
Sherlock Holmes in New York
Professor James Moriarty
Independence
Circasia
Ringmaster
The Man Who Would Be King
The Wind and the Lion
John Hay
Breakout
Harris Wagner
Spécial cinéma
Self
Chinatown
Noah Cross
The MacKintosh Man
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
The Lawgiver
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Grizzly Adams
Fat City
Man in the Wilderness
Captain Filmore Henry
The Bridge in the Jungle
Sleigh
The Deserter
General Miles
Myra Breckinridge
Buck Loner
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
Narrator
The Kremlin Letter
Admiral
A Walk with Love and Death
Robert the Elder
De Sade
The Abbe
Sinful Davey
Candy
Dr. Arnold Dunlap
Rocky Road to Dublin
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Casino Royale
M / General MacTarry
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
Narrator
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Noah
National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice)
The Night of the Iguana
On the Trail of the Iguana
Self
The Cardinal
Kardinal Glennon
The List of Adrian Messenger
Lord Ashton (uncredited)
Freud: The Secret Passion
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Misfits
Extra in Blackjack Scene (uncredited)
The Unforgiven
The Roots of Heaven
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Moby Dick
Barman / Ship's Lookout (voice) (uncredited)
Beat the Devil
The Oscars
Self
Moulin Rouge
The African Queen
The Red Badge of Courage
Grizzled Union Veteran (uncredited)
The Prowler
The Asphalt Jungle
We Were Strangers
Señor Muñoz
Key Largo
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
American in Tampico in White Suit (uncredited)
Let There Be Light
The Killers
The Stranger
Three Strangers
Know Your Enemy: Japan
The Battle of San Pietro
Narrator
Tunisian Victory
Report from the Aleutians
Narrator (voice)
Across the Pacific
Winning Your Wings
In This Our Life
The Maltese Falcon
Sergeant York
High Sierra
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Juarez
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Jezebel
It Happened in Paris
Death Drives Through
Law and Order
Murders in the Rue Morgue
A House Divided
The Storm
Hell's Heroes
Church Member (uncredited)