John Huston

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 - August 28, 1987) was a film director. He was born in Nevada, Missouri, the son of the actor Walter Huston. He began his film career as a screenwriter and made films mainly from proven books or plays.

He acted in a number of films, with distinction in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal and in Roman Polanski's Chinatown.

Father of Anjelica Huston.

Filmography

• 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 (1952)
• Moulin Rouge (1953)
• Beat the Devil (1954)
• 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)
• Night of the Iguana (1964)
• The Bible (1966)
• Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
• Sinful Davey (1969)
• A Walk with Love and Death (1969)
• The Kremlin Letter (1970)
• Fat City (1971)
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
• The Mackintosh Man (1973)
• The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
• Wise Blood (1979)
• Victory (1980)
• Annie (1982)
• Under the Volcano (1984)
• Prizzi's Honor (1985)
• The Dead (1987)