John Huston

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John Huston

John Huston AKA John Marcellus Huston

Born: 5-Aug-1906
Birthplace: Nevada, MO
Died: 28-Aug-1987
Location of death: Middletown, RI
Cause of death: Emphysema

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Film Director

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Maltese Falcon

Director of many files including The Maltese Falcon. Father of actress Anjelica Huston.

Father: Walter Huston (actor)
Mother: Rhea Gore (sports reporter)
Wife: Dorothy Harvey (m. 1925, div. 1926)
Wife: Lesley Black (m. 1937, div. 1945)
Wife: Evelyn Keyes (actress, m. 1946, div. 1950, one son adopted)
Wife: Enrica Soma ("Ricki", Russian ballet dancer, b. 1930, m. 1950, sep. 1962, d. 1969)
Wife: Celeste Shane (m. 1972, div. 1977)
Son: Tony
Daughter: Anjelica Huston (actress)
Son: Danny Huston (actor, b. 1962, mother is Zoe Sallis)
Daughter: Allegra
Son: Pablo Albarran (adopted, with Evelyn Keyes)
Girlfriend: Nora Eddington (1945)
Girlfriend: Marietta Peabody Tree
Slept with: Susan Tyrrell (according to her)

High School: Lincoln Heights High School, Los Angeles, CA
University: Smith Art School

American Film Institute Life Achievement Award 1983
Golden Globe Best Director, Prizzi's Honor 1985
Oscar for Best Director 1949 for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Driving While Intoxicated twice in 1933
Vehicular Manslaughter 1933, acquitted
Aneurysm 1977
Risk Factors: Smoking

FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
The Dead (11-Dec-1987)
Prizzi's Honor (13-Jun-1985)
Under the Volcano (12-Jun-1984)
Annie (20-May-1982)
Victory (30-Jul-1981)
Wise Blood (24-Oct-1979)
The Man Who Would Be King (17-Dec-1975)
The Mackintosh Man (25-Jul-1973)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (18-Dec-1972)
Fat City (26-Jul-1972)
The Kremlin Letter (1-Feb-1970)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (11-Oct-1967)
Casino Royale (13-Apr-1967)
The Bible (28-Sep-1966)
The Night of the Iguana (6-Aug-1964)
The List of Adrian Messenger (29-May-1963)
Freud (12-Dec-1962)
The Misfits (1-Feb-1961)
The Unforgiven (6-Apr-1960)
The Roots of Heaven (15-Oct-1958)
The Barbarian and the Geisha (30-Sep-1958)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (19-Apr-1957)
Moby Dick (27-Jun-1956)
Beat the Devil (24-Nov-1953)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
The African Queen (23-Dec-1951)
The Red Badge of Courage (16-Mar-1951)
The Asphalt Jungle (23-May-1950)
Key Largo (16-Jul-1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (6-Jan-1948)
Across the Pacific (4-Sep-1942)
In This Our Life (8-May-1942)
The Maltese Falcon (3-Oct-1941)

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Momo (17-Jul-1986)
The Black Cauldron (24-Jul-1985) Narrator [VOICE]
Lovesick (18-Feb-1983)
Cannery Row (12-Feb-1982) Narrator [VOICE]
The Return of the King (11-May-1980) [VOICE]
Jaguar Lives (Nov-1979)
Wise Blood (24-Oct-1979)
Winter Kills (11-May-1979)
The Visitor (22-Mar-1979)
The Bermuda Triangle (16-Mar-1978)
The Hobbit (27-Nov-1977) [VOICE]
Tentacles (17-Mar-1977)
Sherlock Holmes in New York (18-Oct-1976)
The Wind and the Lion (22-May-1975)
Breakout (07-Mar-1975)
Chinatown (20-Jun-1974)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (15-Jun-1973)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (18-Dec-1972)
Man in the Wilderness (24-Nov-1971)
The Deserter (25-Mar-1971)
Myra Breckinridge (24-Jun-1970)
The Kremlin Letter (1-Feb-1970)
Candy (17-Dec-1968)
Casino Royale (13-Apr-1967)
The Bible (28-Sep-1966)
The Cardinal (12-Dec-1963)
Freud (12-Dec-1962) Narrator [VOICE]

Author of books:
An Open Book (1980, memoir)

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