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 Canadian-born 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.

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

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: 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 (1971)
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
• Battle For The Planet of the Apes (1973)
• 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)