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. Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a "renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on." During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice. He directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Huston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026100 Years of Marilyn Monroe — (archive footage)
• 2018The Other Side of the Wind — J.J. 'Jake' Hannaford
• 1995Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
• 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker — Glennon (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1988Mr. North — Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 1987Mister Corbett's Ghost — Soul Collector
• 1987The Dead — Director
• 1986Momo — Meister Hora
• 1985Epic — The Narrator (US version)
• 1985Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise — Narrator
• 1985Prizzi's Honor — Director
• 1985The Black Cauldron — Narrator (voice)
• 1984To The Western World
• 1984Under the Volcano — Director
• 1983A Minor Miracle — Father Cardenas
• 1983Lovesick — Larry Geller, M.D.
• 1982Annie — Actor on Radio (uncredited), Director
• 1982Cannery Row — Narrator
• 1981Escape to Victory — Director
• 1980Head On — Clarke Hill
• 1980Phobia — Director
• 1980The Return of the King — Gandalf (voice)
• 1979Jaguar Lives! — Ralph Richards
• 1979John Huston's Dublin
• 1979Love and Bullets — Director
• 1979The Visitor — Jerzy Colsowicz
• 1979Winter Kills — Pa Kegan
• 1979Wise Blood — Grandfather, Director
• 1978The Bermuda Triangle — Edward
• 1978The Biggest Battle — Sean O'Hara
• The Word — Nathan Randall
• 1977Angela — Hogan
• 1977Tentacles — Ned Turner
• 1977The Hobbit — Gandalf the Grey (voice)
• The Rhinemann Exchange — Ambassador Henderson Granville
• 1976Circasia — Ringmaster
• 1976Hollywood on Trial — Narrator
• 1976Independence — Director
• 1976Sherlock Holmes in New York — Professor James Moriarty
• 1975Breakout — Harris Wagner
• 1975The Man Who Would Be King — Director, Screenplay
• 1975The Wind and the Lion — John Hay
• 1974Chinatown — Noah Cross
• 1973Battle for the Planet of the Apes — The Lawgiver
• 1973The MacKintosh Man — Director, Producer
• 1972Fat City — Director, Producer
• 1972The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean — Grizzly Adams, Director
• Appointment With Destiny — Narrator
• 1971Man in the Wilderness — Captain Filmore Henry
• 1971The Bridge in the Jungle — Sleigh
• 1970Myra Breckinridge — Buck Loner
• 1970Ride This Way Grey Horse — Director
• 1970The Deserter — General Miles
• 1970The Kremlin Letter — Admiral, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1970The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy — Narrator
• 1969A Walk with Love and Death — Robert the Elder, Director, Producer
• 1969De Sade — The Abbe
• 1969Sinful Davey — Director, Executive Producer
• 1968Candy — Dr. Arnold Dunlap
• 1967Casino Royale — McTarry, Director
• 1967Reflections in a Golden Eye — Director, Producer
• 1966The Bible: In the Beginning... — Noah, Director
• 1966The Legend of Marilyn Monroe — Narrator
• National Geographic Specials — Narrator (voice)
• 1964The Night of the Iguana — Director, Screenplay
• 1963The Cardinal — Kardinal Glennon
• 1963The List of Adrian Messenger — Lord Ashton (uncredited), Director
• 1962Freud: The Secret Passion — Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• 1961The Misfits — (uncredited), Director, Producer
• 1960The Unforgiven — Director
• 1958The Barbarian and the Geisha — Director
• 1958The Roots of Heaven — Director
• 1957Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison — Director, Screenplay
• 1956Moby Dick — Barman / Ship's Lookout (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1953Beat the Devil — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 1952Moulin Rouge — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1952The African Queen — Director, Screenplay
• 1951The Prowler — Producer
• 1951The Red Badge of Courage — Grizzled Union Veteran (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1950The Asphalt Jungle — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1949We Were Strangers — Señor Muñoz, Director, Screenplay
• 1948Key Largo — Director, Screenplay
• 1948The Treasure of the Sierra Madre — American in Tampico in White Suit (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• 1946Let There Be Light — Director, Writer
• 1946The Killers — Writer, Additional Writing
• 1946The Stranger — Producer, Co-Writer
• 1946Three Strangers — Screenplay
• 1945Know Your Enemy: Japan — Writer
• 1945The Battle of San Pietro — Narrator, Director
• 1944Tunisian Victory — Director
• 1943Report from the Aleutians — Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Editor
• 1942Across the Pacific — Director
• 1942In This Our Life — Director
• 1942Winning Your Wings — Director
• 1941High Sierra — Screenplay
• 1941Sergeant York — Screenplay
• 1941The Maltese Falcon — Director, Screenplay
• 1940Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet — Screenplay
• 1939Juarez — Screenplay
• 1938Jezebel — Screenplay, Second Unit
• 1938The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse — Screenplay
• 1935Death Drives Through — Story
• 1935It Happened in Paris — Adaptation
• 1932Law and Order — Adaptation
• 1932Murders in the Rue Morgue — Additional Dialogue
• 1931A House Divided — Dialogue
• 1930The Storm — Dialogue
• 1929Hell's Heroes — Church Member (uncredited)
• 1929Two Americans

Appearances as themselves (55)

• 2023MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2023The Myth of Marilyn Monroe — Self (voice)
• 2022An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose — Self (archive footage)
• 2021John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Morceaux de Cannes — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Babenco: Tell Me When I Die — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2018They'll Love Me When I'm Dead — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2017Arthur Miller: Writer — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Five Came Back — Self (archive footage)
• Five Came Back — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2012Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Marilyn at the Movies — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Filmmakers vs. Tycoons — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Pelé Forever — Self (archive footage)
• 2004The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2003Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Making 'The Misfits' — Self - Director (archive footage)
• 2001Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies — Self
• 2000Federico Fellini's Autobiography — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery — Self (archive footage)
• 1997Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid — Self (archive footage)
• 1997Bogart: The Untold Story — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Welles' Language — Self
• 1988John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick — Self (archive footage)
• 1986Directed by William Wyler — Self
• 1985George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey — Self
• 1984Buñuel — Self
• 1984Notes from Under the Volcano — Self
• 1984Observations Under the Volcano — Self
• 1983American Caesar — Self - Host
• 1983Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler — Self
• 1982Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston — Self - Interviewee
• 1982Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical — Self
• 1982The Orson Welles Story — Self
• 1980Agee — Self
• 1980Happy Birthday, Marilyn! — Self
• 1979City Lights: John Huston — Self
• 1978B.Traven: A Mystery Solved — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self, Self (archive footage)
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
• Film '72 — Self, Self (archive footage)
• 1968Rocky Road to Dublin — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1964On the Trail of the Iguana — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• 1951The Screen Director — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self