Filmmaker · United States
John Huston
Died in 1987
John Huston was born in 1906 in Nevada, Missouri, the son of the actor Walter Huston and a journalist. One of the best amateur boxers in California at fifteen, he was for a time attached to the Mexican cavalry, painted in Paris and drifted in London, then became a screenwriter and directed his first film in 1941. He made about forty, drawing his shots in advance. Settled in Ireland in 1952 out of disgust at the hunt for communists, he took Irish nationality in 1964. He died in 1987 in Middletown, Rhode Island.
In the catalogue 2
- CinemaThe Maltese FalconJohn Huston · 1941Cinema
- CinemaMoby DickJohn Huston · 1956Cinema