John Huston

🎂 Data nașterii: 1906-08-05 (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 (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.

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John Huston

Filme în care a jucat

The Return of the King

The Hobbit

Cardinalul

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Cartierul chinezesc

Momo

Comoara din Sierra Madre

Arthur Miller: Scriitor

Moby Dick

Biblia: La început...

Report from the Aleutians

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe

Evadatul

Cannery Row

Casino Royale

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Sherlock Holmes in New York

Myra Breckinridge

Winter Kills

Wise Blood

John Huston, une âme libre

Leu în deșert

Agee

Candy

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery

Man in the Wilderness

Tentacoli

Il grande attacco

Lovesick

Stridulum

Jaguar Lives!

Rocky Road to Dublin

A Walk with Love and Death

The Kremlin Letter

De Sade

La spina dorsale del diavolo

Hollywood on Trial

Triunghiul Bermudelor

We Were Strangers

The Red Badge of Courage

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

A Minor Miracle

The Bridge in the Jungle

Head On

A Linguagem de Orson Welles

Observations Under the Volcano

Two Americans

The Other Side of the Wind

The Battle of San Pietro

The Screen Director

American Caesar

Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid

Hell's Heroes

The List of Adrian Messenger

Bătălia pentru Planeta maimuțelor

Ava Gardner, la vie est plus belle que le cinéma

Notes from Under the Volcano

Cazanul negru

The Misfits

Mr. Corbett's Ghost

City Lights: John Huston

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

On the Trail of the Iguana

Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston

Epic

Buñuel

The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy

Bogart: The Untold Story

Ei o să mă iubească când o să fiu mort

Cineastes contra magnats

Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

Making 'The Misfits'

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Boldog születésnapot, Marilyn!

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Directed by William Wyler

Annie