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John Huston

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John Huston

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Also known as John Marcellus Huston

American film director, screenwriter, and actor (1906–1987)

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John Huston was a male figure associated with Hollywood, active from 1930 until his death in 1987. Born on August 5, 1906, and standing 187 units tall, he had five children. His professional output included fourteen works, among which are *Sanitary survey of Appleton, Wisconsin*, *American Airpower Comes of Age -General Henry H. Hap Arnold's World War II Diaries*, *Frankie and Johnny*, *Path to the Ebonwald*, and *Open Book*.

Huston received recognition in the Academy Award Best Director collection and is included in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. His work has been referenced by 1,791 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Works
14

Top works

  • Sanitary survey of Appleton, Wisconsin
  • American Airpower Comes of Age -General Henry H. Hap Arnold's World War II Diaries
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • Path to the Ebonwald
  • Open Book

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Hollywood
Active from
1906-08-05
Active to
1987-08-28

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Listeners
567
Total plays
1,475

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplay 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), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits (1961), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). During his 46-year career <a href="https://www.last.fm/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,416x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,543x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,882x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,543x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 29,119x

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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
Award
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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
Category:John Huston
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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