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John Huston

Born John Marcellus Huston
August 5, 1906(1906-08-05)
Nevada, Missouri, U.S.
Died August 28, 1987 (aged 81)
Middletown, Rhode Island, U. Events 642 - Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Nevada (pronounced "nuh-VAY-duh" is a city in Vernon County, Missouri, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Middletown is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. Rhode Island ( officially named the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States S.
Spouse(s) Dorothy Harvey (1925-1926)
Lesley Black (1937-1945)
Evelyn Keyes (1946-1950)
Ricki Soma (1950-1969)
Celeste Shane (1972-1977)

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American Academy Award-winning film director and actor. Evelyn Keyes ( November 20 1916 &ndash July 4 2008) was an American Film actress. Events 642 - Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works He was known for directing several classic films, The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1960), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 Warner Bros film written and directed by John Huston, based on the novel of the same name The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950) is a Film noir directed by John Huston. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is John Huston 's 1948 Feature film adaptation of B Key Largo is a 1948 Crime film starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G The African Queen is a Drama film directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel (billed as "S The Misfits are an American The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling story of the same title. He was the son of actor Walter Huston and the father of actress Anjelica Huston and director Danny Huston. Walter Huston ( April 6 1884 &ndash April 7 1950) was an Academy Award -winning Canadian -born American actor Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe Award -winning American actress and former Danny Huston (born 14 May 1962) is an American actor and director

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Biography

Early life

Huston was born in Nevada, Missouri, the son of the Canadian-born actor, Walter Huston, and Rhea Gore, a sports reporter; he was of Scots-Irish descent on his father's side, his ancestral surname was Houston[1], and English and Welsh on his mother's. Nevada (pronounced "nuh-VAY-duh" is a city in Vernon County, Missouri, United States. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Walter Huston ( April 6 1884 &ndash April 7 1950) was an Academy Award -winning Canadian -born American actor The English people (from the adjective in Englisc) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to England who predominantly speak English The Welsh people ( Welsh: Cymro ("Welshman" Cymraes ("Welsh woman" Cymry ("Welshmen/women" Cymry Huston was raised by his maternal grandparents, Adelia Richardson and John Marcellus Gore.

As a ten year old he was stricken by a serious illness which left him all but bedridden for several years. On his recuperation, this acted as the spur to pursue a full life, both intellectually and physically.

Career

Huston began his film career as a screenwriter and made films mainly adapted from books or plays. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made 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. Otto Ludwig Preminger ( December 5[[ 906]]&ndash April 23[[ 986]] was an Austrian born Film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress is an accolade given by a group of Film or Theatre professionals in recognition of the work Chinatown is a American Neo-noir film directed by Roman Polanski. John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22 1937) is an American Actor, internationally renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals

Huston's films were insightful about human nature and human predicaments. They also sometimes included scenes or brief dialogue passages that were remarkably prescient concerning environmental issues that came to public awareness in the future, in the period starting about 1970; examples include The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and The Night of the Iguana (1964). The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is John Huston 's 1948 Feature film adaptation of B The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 film based on the play by Tennessee Williams. The Misfits (1960) was written by Arthur Miller and featured an all-star cast including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach, and was the last screen appearance of icons Gable and Monroe. The Misfits is a 1961 American Drama film, written by Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston, and starring Clark Arthur Asher Miller (October 17 1915 &ndash February 10 2005 was an American Playwright and Essayist. Clark Gable (February 1 &ndashNovember 16) was an iconic American Actor nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1 1926 &ndash August 5 1962 baptized Norma Edward Montgomery Clift ( October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American film actor Eli Herschel Wallach (born December 7, 1915) is an American BAFTA - Tony Award - and Emmy Award -winning and Golden Famously, Huston spent long evenings carousing in the Nevada casinos after filming, surrounded by reporters and beautiful women, gambling, drinking, and smoking cigars. Gable remarked during this time that 'if he kept it up he would soon die of it'. Ironically, and tragically, Gable died three weeks after the end of filming from a massive heart attack while Huston went on to live for twenty-six more years.

After filming the documentary Let There Be Light on the psychiatric treatment of soldiers for shellshock, Huston resolved to make a film about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. Let there be light is an English translation of the Hebrew יְהִי אוֹר (or yehiy 'or) Sigmund Freud (ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt born Sigismund Shlomo Freud (May 6 1856 &ndash September 23 1939 was an Austrian Psychiatrist who founded The film, Freud the Secret Passion, began as a collaboration between Huston and Jean-Paul Sartre. Freud the Secret Passion also known as Freud ( 1962) is a American Biographical film Drama based on the life Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 &ndash 15 April 1980 commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (ʒɑ̃ pol saʁtʁə was a French Sartre dropped out of the film and requested his name be removed from the credits. Huston went on to make the film starring Montgomery Clift as Freud. Edward Montgomery Clift ( October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American film actor

In the 1970s, he was a frequent actor in Italian films, but continued acting until the age of 80 (Momo, 1986), one year before he passed away. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Momo is a 1986 Fantasy Film directed by Johannes Schaaf and based on the 1973 novel by Michael Ende.

Huston is also famous to a generation of fans of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the Rankin/Bass animated adaptations of The Hobbit (1977) and The Return of the King (1980). Middle-earth refers to the fictional lands where most of the stories of author J In the fiction of J R R Tolkien, the Wizards of Middle-earth are a group of five beings outwardly resembling Men but possessing much greater physical Concept and creation Humphrey Carpenter in his 1977 biography relates that Tolkien owned a Postcard entitled Der Berggeist ("the mountain Rankin/Bass Productions Inc (formerly Videocraft International Ltd The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames J R R Tolkien 's The Hobbit was adapted into an animated Television movie by Rankin/Bass Productions in 1977 The Return of the King is an animated adaptation of the novel by J

Many of his films were edited by Russell Lloyd, who was nominated for an Oscar for editing The Man Who Would Be King (1975). Russell Lloyd ( 16 January 1916 – 21 January 2008) was a British-born American film editor who amassed fifty credits for editing feature films The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling story of the same title.

Academy Awards

In 1941, Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Maltese Falcon. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent Film awards in the United States The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 Warner Bros film written and directed by John Huston, based on the novel of the same name He was nominated again and won in 1948 for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, for which he also received the Best Director award. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is John Huston 's 1948 Feature film adaptation of B

Huston received 15 Oscar nominations in the course of his career. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. In fact, he is the oldest person ever to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar when, at 79 years old, he was nominated for Prizzi's Honor (1985). Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 Black comedy Film that tells the story of a mob Hit man and hit woman who fall in Love He also 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), making the Hustons the first family to have three generations of Academy Award winners. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is John Huston 's 1948 Feature film adaptation of B Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 Black comedy Film that tells the story of a mob Hit man and hit woman who fall in Love

Personal life

Huston, an Episcopalian,[2] was married five times, to:

It was during his marriage to Black that he embarked on an affair with married New York socialite Marietta FitzGerald. The Episcopal Church is the official name of the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous A socialite is a person who is known to be a part of fashionable Society because of his or her regular participation in social activities and fondness for spending a significant Marietta Peabody Tree ( 17 April, 1917 - 15 August, 1991) was an American Socialite and political supporter who represented While her lawyer husband was helping the war effort, the pair were once rumoured to have made love so vigorously, they broke a friend's bed. A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person [3] When her husband returned before the end of the Second World War, Huston returned to Hollywood to await Marietta's divorce. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including However, on a trip to Barbados she fell in love with billionaire bisexual British MP Ronald Tree, and decided to marry him instead. Barbados ( Portuguese word for bearded-ones, bɑrˈbeɪdoʊz -dɒs situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent Island nation Bisexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of both sexes or to a bisexual orientation A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Arthur Ronald Lambert Field Tree (b September 26, 1897 &ndash d

Huston was heart broken, and after an affair with the fashion designer and writer Pauline Fairfax Potter, married:

All but the marriage to Soma, who died, ended in divorce. Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the termination of a Marriage. In addition to his children with Soma, he also was the father of the director Danny Huston (by Zoe Sallis). Danny Huston (born 14 May 1962) is an American actor and director

Among his friends were Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway. George Orson Welles (May 6 1915 – October 10 1985 was an Academy Award -winning director, writer actor and producer for film stage radio and television Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 — July 2 1961 was an American novelist short-story writer, and Journalist.

According to a documentary film about Huston's life, he struck and killed a female pedestrian with his car at the corner of Gardner and Sunset in Los Angeles when he was in his late 20s. He was exonerated of wrongdoing at the follow-up inquest.

Huston visited Ireland in 1951 and stayed at Luggala, County Wicklow, the home of Garech Browne, a member of the Guinness family. Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Luggala ( also called Fancy Mountain) is a 595 m mountain in the Wicklow Mountains, in Ireland. County Wicklow (Contae Chill Mhantáin is a county on the east coast of Ireland, immediately south of Dublin. The Hon Garech Domnagh Browne, born 25 June 1939 is a member of the titled family of Oranmore and Browne in the West of Ireland and is a wealthy patron of Irish arts He visited Ireland several times afterwards and on one of these visits he purchased and restored a Georgian home, St Clerans, of Craughwell, County Galway. Georgian architecture is the name given in most English -speaking countries to the set of Architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840 Craughwell (Creachmhaoil is a Village in County Galway, Ireland. County Galway (Contae na Gaillimhe is located on the West Coast of Ireland. He became an Irish citizen and his daughter Anjelica attended school in Ireland at Kylemore Abbey for a number of years. Kylemore Abbey (Mainistir na Coille Móire is a Benedictine monastery founded in 1920 on the grounds of Kylemore Castle in Connemara, County Galway A film school is now dedicated to him on the NUIG campus. The National University of Ireland Galway ( NUI Galway) ( Irish Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh or OÉ Gaillimh) is a tertiary-level Huston is also the inspiration for the 1990 film White Hunter Black Heart starring Clint Eastwood, who also directed. The year 1990 in film involved some significant events Events CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for White Hunter Black Heart is a 1990 Film, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as John Wilson based on the book by Peter Viertel Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr (born May 31 1930 is a four-time Academy Award winning American Actor and Filmmaker.

Huston was an accomplished painter who wrote in his autobiography Nothing , has played a more important role in my life. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e As a young man he studied at the Smith School of Art in Los Angeles but dropped out within a few months. He later studied at the Art Students League of New York. The Art Students League of New York is an Art school located on West 57th Street in New York City. He painted throughout his life and was particularly interested in Cubism and the American school of Synchromism. Cubism was a 20th century Avant-garde Art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European Synchromism was an Art movement founded in 1912 by American Artists Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell. He had studios in each of his homes and owned a wide collection of art including a notable collection of Pre-Columbian art[4] In 1982 he created the label for Château Mouton Rothschild. Château Mouton Rothschild is a wine estate located in the village of Pauillac in the Médoc, 50 km (30 mi north-west of the city of Bordeaux

He died from emphysema on August 28, 1987 in Middletown, Rhode Island, at the age of 81. Emphysema is a chronic obstructive Pulmonary disease ( COPD) formerly termed a chronic obstructive Lung disease (COLD Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Middletown is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. Rhode Island ( officially named the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States A few weeks before, Marietta visited him and his electrocardiogram "started jumping with excitement as soon as she entered the room. " She was, his friends maintained, the only woman he ever really loved. [5]

Huston is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Statue of John Huston, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Statue of John Huston, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

As director

As screenwriter

As actor

Does not include films which he also directed

References

  1. ^ wc. Boris Sagal ( October 18, 1917 - May 22, 1981) was an American television and Film director. The Visitor ( 1979) is a Psychological thriller film directed by Giulio Paradisi, based on a story by the Egyptian writer Ovidio Gary Conklin is an independent American filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. Marshall Brickman (born August 25 1941 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter best known for his collaborations rootsweb. com
  2. ^ The religion of director John Huston
  3. ^ Running Around in High Circles
  4. ^ [Art by Directors, Karl French, Granta 86, 2004, ISBN 0 90 314169 8
  5. ^ Running Around in High Circles

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Awards
Preceded by
Omar Shariff
for Lawrence of Arabia		 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1964
for The Cardinal		 Succeeded by
Edmond O'Brien
for Seven Days in May
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NAME Huston, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huston, John Marcellus
SHORT DESCRIPTION American film director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Nevada, Missouri, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1987
PLACE OF DEATH Middletown, Rhode Island, U.S.
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