Movies List
TV Show List
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul

as Self (archive footage)

2021
The Other Side of the Wind

as J.J. "Jake" Hannaford

2018
Bogart: The Untold Story

as Self (archive footage)

1997
Momo

as Meister Hora

1986
Lovesick

as Larry Geller, M.D.

1983
The Return of the King

as Gandalf (voice)

1980
Winter Kills

as Pa Kegan

1979
Wise Blood

as Grandfather

1980
The Visitor

as Jerzy Colsowicz

1979
Jaguar Lives!

as Ralph Richards

1979
The Biggest Battle

as Sean O'Hara

1978
The Bermuda Triangle

as Edward

1978
The Hobbit

as Gandalf the Grey (voice)

1977
The Rhinemann Exchange

as Ambassador Henderson Granville

1977
Tentacles

as Ned Turner

1977
Sherlock Holmes in New York

as Professor Moriarty

1976
The Wind and the Lion

as John Hay

1975
Breakout

as Harris Wagner

1975
Chinatown

as Noah Cross

1974
Man in the Wilderness

as Captain Filmore Henry

1971
Myra Breckinridge

as Buck Loner

1970
The Deserter

as General Miles

1970
Candy

as Dr. Arnold Dunlap

1968
Rocky Road to Dublin

as Self

1968
The Cardinal

as Kardinal Glennon

1963
The Misfits

as Extra in Blackjack Scene (uncredited)

1961
John Huston John Huston

Birthday

1906-08-05

Place of Birth

Nevada, Missouri, USA

Biography

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. 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), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Prizzi's Honor (1985). In his early years, Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He explored 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, with little editing needed. Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an "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. Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a "renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on." During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice. He directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Huston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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