Biography: life and films
John Huston was an American actor, film director and screenwriter whose birth name was John Marcellus Huston. He was born in Nevada, Missouri, USA on 5th August 1906 and died in Middletown, Rhode Island, USA on 28th August 1987, aged 81.His best films as an actor include Report from the Aleutians (1943), The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Roman Polanski's crime-thriller Chinatown (1974), William Richert's comedy-thriller Winter Kills (1979) and Christian Blackwood's Observations Under the Volcano (1984), and whose best work as a film director include The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951) and The Man Who Would Be King (1975).
John Huston appeared in 45 films, directed 45 films (including 1 short) and scripted 36 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: William Wyler (6 films), William Dieterle (2), Orson Welles (2), Frank Capra (2) and Edward L. Cahn (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (55 films), Thriller (19), romance (11), crime-thriller (10), comedy (10), Western (9), War (9), Documentary (9), comedy-drama (8), Biography (8), comedy-romance (5), Horror (5), comedy-thriller (3), Fantasy (3) and history (2).
Our average rating for John Huston over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
The Shakedown (1929) [a]
Hell's Heroes (1930) [a]
The Storm (1930) [a,w]
A House Divided (1931) [w]
Law and Order (1932) [w]
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) [w]
The Mighty Barnum (1934) [w]
Death Drives Through (1935) [w]
It Happened in Paris (1935) [w]
Jezebel (1938) [w]
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) [w]
Juarez (1939) [w]
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) [w]
High Sierra (1941) [w]
Sergeant York (1941) [w]
The Maltese Falcon (1941) [d,w]
Across the Pacific (1942) [d]
Report from the Aleutians (1943) [a,d,w]
Dark Waters (1944) [w]
Tunisian Victory (1944) [d]
Know Your Enemy: Japan (1945) [w]
Let There Be Light (1946) [d,w]
Key Largo (1948) [d,w]
On Our Merry Way (1948) [d]
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) [a,d,w]
We Were Strangers (1949) [a,d,w]
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) [d,w]
The African Queen (1951) [d,w]
The Red Badge of Courage (1951) [d,w]
Moby Dick (1956) [a,d]
A Farewell to Arms (1957) [d]
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) [d,w]
The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) [d]
The Roots of Heaven (1958) [d]
The Unforgiven (1960) [d]
The Misfits (1961) [a,d]
Freud (1962) [a,d]
The Cardinal (1963) [a]
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) [a,d]
The Night of the Iguana (1964) [d]
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) [a,d]
Casino Royale (1967) [a,d]
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) [d]
Candy (1968) [a]
A Walk with Love and Death (1969) [a,d]
De Sade (1969) [a]
Sinful Davey (1969) [d]
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) [d]
Myra Breckinridge (1970) [a]
The Kremlin Letter (1970) [a,d,w]
Man in the Wilderness (1971) [a]
The Bridge in the Jungle (1971) [a]
The Deserter (1971) [a]
The Last Run (1971) [d]
Fat City (1972) [d]
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) [d]
The Other Side of the Wind (1972) [a]
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) [a]
The MacKintosh Man (1973) [d]
Chinatown (1974) [a]
Breakout (1975) [a]
The Man Who Would Be King (1975) [d,w]
The Wind and the Lion (1975) [a]
Tentacoli (1977) [a]
Angela (1978) [a]
Il Grande attacco (1978) [a]
The Bermuda Triangle (1978) [a]
Jaguar Lives! (1979) [a]
Love and Bullets (1979) [d]
Stridulum (1979) [a]
Winter Kills (1979) [a]
Wise Blood (1979) [a,d]
Agee (1980) [a]
Head On (1980) [a]
Phobia (1980) [d]
Victory (1981) [d]
Annie (1982) [d]
Cannery Row (1982) [a]
A Minor Miracle (1983) [a]
Lovesick (1983) [a]
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984) [a]
Notes from Under the Volcano (1984) [a]
Observations Under the Volcano (1984) [a]
Under the Volcano (1984) [d]
Prizzi's Honor (1985) [d]
The Black Cauldron (1985) [a]
The Dead (1987) [d]
Mr. North (1988) [w]
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) [a]
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