John Huston was born on August 5, 1906 in Nevada, Missouri.
Huston passed away on August 28, 1987 in Middletown, Rhode Island,
from emphysema.
John had many interests - painting, boxing, sculpture, gambling,
fox-hunting, etc. Huston was a licenced pilot...and a prankster.
John Huston once flew over a golf course and dropped 5,000 ping-pong
balls while a celebrity golf tournament was in progress.
In 1980 John Huston wrote a somewhat sanitized autobiography
"An Open Book."
Huston is the son of actor Walter Huston, whom he directed
in THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948).
John would frequently gives his father Walter Huston a small
role in his movies.
John has acted with 2 of his children. His son Tony Huston
in THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER (1963), and his daughter Anjelica
Huston in A WALK WITH LOVE AND DEATH (1969).
In 1964 John Huston becasme an Irish Citizen. John is the only
person to have ever directed a parent Walter Huston and a child
Anjelica Huston to Academy Award wins.
Entertainment Weekly voted John Houston the 13th Greatest Director
of all time. After John and wife Ricki separated, she became
pregnant by another man. When she died, Huston brought her daughter
Allegra to live with him and adopted her.
John wrote his first play, Frankie and Johnny, in 1928. With
the help of his father, John Huston was given a Universal screenwriting
contract in 1932.
John Huston's other notable credits include...
THE DEAD (1987)
ANNIE (1982)
INDEPENDENCE (1976)
CHINATOWN
(1974)
THE KERMLIN LETTER (1970)
REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE (1967)
THE UNFORGIVEN (1960)
MOULIN ROUGE (1952)
WE WERE STRANGERS (1949)
THE MALTESE
FALCON (1941)
