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John Huston

John Huston
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Huston in Chinatown, 1974
Born John Marcellus Huston
(1906-08-05)August 5, 1906
Nevada, Missouri, U.S.
Died August 28, 1987(1987-08-28) (aged 81)
Middletown, Rhode Island, U.S.
Cause of death Emphysema
Occupation Film director, screenwriter, actor
Years active 1930–1987
Spouse(s) Dorothy Harvey
(m. 1925; div. 1933)

Lesley Black
(m. 1937; div. 1945)

Evelyn Keyes
(m. 1946; div. 1950)

Enrica Soma
(m. 1950; her death 1969)

Celeste Shane
(m. 1972; div. 1977)
Partner(s) Zoe Sallis
Children 5, including Anjelica, Tony, Danny, and Allegra Huston

John Marcellus Huston (/ˈhjuːstən/; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. 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), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, won twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins in different films.

Huston was known to direct with the vision of an artist, having studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years. He continued to explore 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, making them both more economical and cerebral, with little editing needed.

Most of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting a "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.


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