Line #35 Creator/JohnHuston


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[Film/ChinaTown Of course I'm respectable, I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.]]"'']]
3	->''"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it."''
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5	John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American director, screenwriter, and occasional actor who made films in a variety of genres across a long-spanning career. His films tended to match his own personality -- tough, stylish, always with a bit of a threatening edge.
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7	Huston worked as a writer-for-hire before breaking into directing with the noir classic ''The Maltese Falcon''; other noteworthy films he made include ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' (for which he won two [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]]), ''Film/KeyLargo'', ''Film/TheAsphaltJungle'', ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', ''Film/BeatTheDevil'' (as you can see, he worked well with Creator/HumphreyBogart), ''Film/MobyDick'', ''Film/TheMisfits'' (notable as the final film for both Creator/ClarkGable and Creator/MarilynMonroe), ''Film/{{Casino Royale\|1967}}'', ''Film/TheManWhoWouldBeKing'', ''Film/{{Annie\|1982}}'', ''Film/PrizzisHonor'', and ''Literature/WiseBlood''. He worked right up to his death at age 81; he directed his final film, ''The Dead'' from a wheelchair while hooked up to oxygen. The film was released posthumously.
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9	His UsefulNotes/WorldWarII documentaries ''Film/TheBattleOfSanPietro'' and ''Film/{{Let There Be Light\|1946}}'' are among the best ever made about the war.
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11	He was also a well-regarded character actor, benefitting from a craggily face and a very distinctive deep rich voice. He was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and won the Golden Globe for his turn in Otto Preminger's'' The Cardinal'' and played one of cinema's most iconic villains, Noah Cross in ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''. Indeed, his performance there was cited as an inspiration for Creator/PaulThomasAnderson's ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' where Creator/DanielDayLewis plays a similarly evil robber baron. Among nerdier, more fantasy-inclined circles, later in life he reigned for a time as ''the'' voice of [[WesternAnimation/TheHobbit Gandalf]], and his performance set the bar that Creator/IanMcKellen had to meet several decades later, he also voiced the narrator on the U.S. release of the Australian animated film ''WesternAnimation/Epic1984''. Decades after his death, Huston's final starring role, that of maverick filmmaker Jake Hannaford in Creator/OrsonWelles ''The Other Side of the Wind'' premiered in 2018 on Netflix.
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13	Huston is such a colorful character that his life has inspired other stories and movies. A novel about the making of ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'' (written by screenwriter Peter Viertel) was eventually adapted by Creator/ClintEastwood as ''Film/WhiteHunterBlackHeart'', where Eastwood plays John Wilson, a spoof of Huston's LargeHam womanizing [[TheDandy dandy]] personality.
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15	He was the son of Creator/WalterHuston; the father of [[Creator/AnjelicaHuston Anjelica]], Tony, and Creator/DannyHuston; and the grandfather of Creator/JackHuston (Richard Harrow on ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'').
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18	!! Filmography (as director)
19	[[index]]
20	* ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon\|1941}}'' (1941)
21	* ''Film/AcrossThePacific'' (1942)
22	* ''Film/InThisOurLife'' (1942)
23	* World War II documentaries:
24	** ''Film/ReportFromTheAleutians'' (1943)
25	** ''Film/TheBattleOfSanPietro'' (1945)
26	** ''Film/{{Let There Be Light\|1946}}'' (1946)
27	* ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' (1948)
28	* ''Film/KeyLargo'' (1948)
29	* ''Film/TheAsphaltJungle'' (1950)
30	* ''Literature/TheRedBadgeOfCourage'' (1951)
31	* ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'' (1951)
32	* ''Film/{{Moulin Rouge\|1952}}'' (1952)
33	* ''Film/BeatTheDevil'' (1953)
34	* ''Film/MobyDick'' (1956)
35	* ''Film/HeavenKnowsMrAllison'' (1957)
36	* ''Film/TheUnforgiven'' (1960)
37	* ''Film/TheMisfits'' (1961)
38	* ''Film/TheNightOfTheIguana'' (1964)
39	* ''Film/{{The Bible\|1966}}'' (1966)
40	* ''Film/{{Casino Royale\|1967}}'' (1967)[[labelnote:*]]Co-director; one of five credited directors.[[/labelnote]]
41	* ''Film/FatCity'' (1972)
42	* ''Film/TheLifeAndTimesOfJudgeRoyBean'' (1972)
43	* ''Film/TheManWhoWouldBeKing'' (1975)
44	* ''Literature/WiseBlood'' (1979)
45	* ''Film/{{Phobia}}'' (1980)
46	* ''Film/EscapeToVictory'' (1981)
47	* ''Film/{{Annie\|1982}}'' (1982)
48	* ''Literature/UnderTheVolcano'' (1984)
49	* ''Film/PrizzisHonor'' (1985)
50	* ''Film/{{The Dead\|1987}}'' (1987)
51	[[/index]]
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53	!! Selected Filmography (actor only):
54	* ''The Cardinal'' (1963, directed by Creator/OttoPreminger)
55	* ''Film/MyraBreckinridge'' (1970, directed by Michael Sarne)
56	* ''Film/TheDeserter'' (1971, directed by Burt Kennedy)
57	* ''Film/ManInTheWilderness'' (1971, directed by Richard C. Sarafian)
58	* ''Film/BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes'' (1973, directed by J. Lee Thompson)
59	* ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' (1974, directed by Creator/RomanPolanski)
60	* ''Film/TheWindAndTheLion'' (1975, directed by Creator/JohnMilius)
61	* ''Film/TheOtherSideOfTheWind'' (1976-2018, directed by Creator/OrsonWelles)
62	* ''Film/SherlockHolmesInNewYork'' (1976), directed by Boris Sagal
63	* ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit'' (1977, directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass)
64	* ''Film/WinterKills'' (1979, directed by William Richert)
65	* ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing'' (1980, directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr.)
66	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' (1985, directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich)

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