John Huston
Directing
Born: Aug 05, 1906 — Died: Aug 28, 1987
From: Nevada, Missouri, USA
Credits: 30 titles
Biography
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul | Self (archive footage) | 2021 | 6.778 |
| Arthur Miller: Writer | Self (archive footage) | 2017 | 7.1 |
| Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery | Self (archive footage) | 1998 | 8.0 |
| John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage) | 1988 | 6.0 |
| Momo | Meister Hora | 1986 | 6.987 |
| Lovesick | Larry Geller, M.D. | 1983 | 5.692 |
| Cannery Row | Narrator | 1982 | 5.883 |
| The Return of the King | Gandalf (voice) | 1980 | 6.412 |
| Agee | Self | 1980 | 5.6 |
| Winter Kills | Pa Kegan | 1979 | 5.8 |
| Wise Blood | Grandfather | 1979 | 6.388 |
| The Visitor | Jerzy Colsowicz | 1979 | 5.285 |
| The Biggest Battle | Sean O'Hara | 1978 | 4.767 |
| The Hobbit | Gandalf the Grey (voice) | 1977 | 6.57 |
| Tentacles | Ned Turner | 1977 | 4.631 |
| Sherlock Holmes in New York | Professor James Moriarty | 1976 | 5.926 |
| Breakout | Harris Wagner | 1975 | 6.313 |
| The Wind and the Lion | John Hay | 1975 | 6.522 |
| Chinatown | Noah Cross | 1974 | 7.9 |
| The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Grizzly Adams | 1972 | 6.5 |
| Man in the Wilderness | Captain Filmore Henry | 1971 | 6.253 |
| Myra Breckinridge | Buck Loner | 1970 | 4.602 |
| Candy | Dr. Arnold Dunlap | 1968 | 5.209 |
| Casino Royale | M / General MacTarry | 1967 | 5.256 |
| The Bible: In the Beginning... | Noah | 1966 | 7.265 |
| The Legend of Marilyn Monroe | Narrator | 1966 | 6.714 |
| The Cardinal | Kardinal Glennon | 1963 | 6.563 |
| Moby Dick | Barman / Ship's Lookout (voice) … | 1956 | 7.057 |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | American in Tampico in White … | 1948 | 8.0 |
| Report from the Aleutians | Narrator (voice) | 1943 | 6.071 |
| Known for | Directing |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1906 |
| From | Nevada, Missouri, USA |