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John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906–August 28, 1987) was an Irish-American film director and actor.

Biography

He was born in Nevada, Missouri, the son of the Canadian-born actor, Walter Huston. He began his film career as a screenwriter and made films mainly from proven books or plays. The six foot two inch, brown-eyed director also acted in a number of films, with distinction in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal for which he was nominated for the Academy award for Best Supporting Actor and in Roman Polanski's Chinatown as the film's central heavy against Jack Nicholson.

In 1941, Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for The Maltese Falcon and again in 1948 for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
. He was also an accomplished painter who created the 1982 label for Château Mouton Rothschild, the French winery with whose chatelaine, Pauline de Rothschild, he reportedly had a brief affair in the 1940s.

A legendary Romeo (who, according to Paul Newman, "never talked about it"), Huston was married to (1) Dorothy Harvey, (2) Lesley Black, (3) Evelyn Keyes, (4) Enrica Soma, and (5) Celeste Shane. All but the marriage to Soma, who died, ended in divorce. Among his children are the director Danny Huston and the actress Anjelica Huston. In addition to Rothschild, his lovers included the actresses Nora Eddington, Olivia de Havilland, and Susan Tyrrell, and socialite Marietta Peabody Tree. He was very friendly with fellow maverick director Orson Welles and author Ernest Hemingway.

Something of a "tough guy" himself, Huston was known to have a mean streak when it came to handling actors, and infuriated John Wayne, whom Huston nearly matched in height but not in mass, so much while filming The Barbarian and the Geisha
that at one point Wayne lost his temper and punched Huston, knocking him out.

He became an Irish citizen (although it is not clear if he had to relinquish his U.S. citizenship), and his daughter Anjelica attended school in Ireland for a number of years.

John Huston has the unique distinction of directing both his father Walter and his daughter Anjelica in Oscar-winning performances (in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
and Prizzi's Honor
, respectively).

In the 1970s, he was a frequent actor in Italian B-films.

Although diagnosed with emphysema in 1978, Huston continued to smoke cigarettes until the end of his life. He died on August 28, 1987 following a severe attack of the lung disease and pneumonia, at the age of 81.

He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.

Filmography

As director

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
In This Our Life (1942)
Across the Pacific (1942)
The Battle of San Pietro
(1945)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
(1947)
Key Largo
(1948)
We Were Strangers (1949)
The Asphalt Jungle
(1950)
The Red Badge of Courage
(1951)
The African Queen
(1951)
Moulin Rouge (1953)
Beat the Devil (1953)
Moby Dick (1956)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
(1957)
The Barbarian and the Geisha
(1958)
The Roots of Heaven
(1958)
The Unforgiven
(1960)
The Misfits
(1960)
The Secret Passion (1962)
The List of Adrian Messenger
(1963)
The Night of the Iguana
(1964)
The Bible: In The Beginning
(1966)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Sinful Davey (1969)
A Walk with Love and Death (1969)
The Kremlin Letter
(1970)
Fat City (1972)
Man in the Wilderness
(1971)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
The Mackintosh Man (1973)
The Man Who Would Be King
(1975)
The Hobbit (1977)
Wise Blood
(1979)
Phobia (1980)
Victory (1980)
Annie
(1982)
Under the Volcano
(1984)
Prizzi's Honor
(1985)
The Dead (1987)

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