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John Huston
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American film director, screenwriter, and actor (1906–1987)
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John Huston was a filmmaker whose career spanned from 1930 to 1987. He was born on August 5, 1906, and died on August 28, 1987. Huston had five children.
His work has been recognized in several notable collections. These include the Academy Award Best Director collection, the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection, and the Golden Lion collection.
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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…
Known for
- 100 Years of Marilyn Monroe — (archive footage)2026
- MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2023
- The Myth of Marilyn Monroe — Self (voice)2023
- An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose — Self (archive footage)2022
- John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul — Self (archive footage)2021
- Morceaux de Cannes — Self (archive footage)2021
- Babenco: Tell Me When I Die — Self (archive footage)2020
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2019
- The Other Side of the Wind — J.J. 'Jake' Hannaford2018
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead — Self (archive footage)2018
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Nevada
- Place of death
- Middletown
- Child
- Allegra Huston
- Father
- Walter Huston
- Occupation
- producer
- Employer
- United States Army Signal Corps
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Notable work
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Image
- JohnHustoninPV.jpg
- Height
- 187
- Number of children
- 5
- Work location
- Hollywood
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- Commons category
- John Huston
- topic's main category
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- date of birth
- 1906-08-05
- date of death
- 1987-08-28
- nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
- place of burial
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- name in native language
- John Marcellus Huston
- start of work period
- 1930-00-00
- end of work period
- 1987-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films with screenplays by John Huston
- writing language
- English language
- topic has template
- Template:John Huston
- Commons Creator page
- John Huston
- member of
- Writers Guild of America West
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
John Marcellus Huston (/ˈhjuːstən/ HEW-stən; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. In a career spanning more than five decades, he wrote the screenplays for many of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1980.
Son of actor Walter Huston, he studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He then moved to Mexico and began writing, first plays and short stories, and later working in Los Angeles as a Hollywood screenwriter, and was nominated for several Academy Awards writing for films directed by William Dieterle and Howard Hawks, among others. His directorial debut came with The Maltese Falcon (1941), which despite its small budget became a commercial and critical hit; he continued to be a successful, if iconoclastic, Hollywood director for the next 45 years.
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