John Huston

Director, Actor, Escritor, Productor, Editor

5 de agosto de 1906 — 28 de agosto de 1987 (81 años)
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.

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Películas y series en Plex

  • El extraño
    El extraño1946
  • Vidas rebeldes
    Vidas rebeldes1961
  • Cumbres borrascosas
    Cumbres borrascosas1939
  • Dublineses
    Dublineses1987
  • Moulin Rouge
    Moulin Rouge1952
  • Fuga suicida
    Fuga suicida1975
  • El visitante del más allá
    El visitante del más allá1979
  • Candy
    Candy1968
  • Amor y balas
    Amor y balas1979
  • San Pietro
    San Pietro1945
  • El triángulo diabólico de las Bermudas
    El triángulo diabólico de las Bermudas1978
  • Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
    Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia2013
  • Report from the Aleutians
    Report from the Aleutians1943
  • El felino
    El felino1979
  • La quebrada del diablo
    La quebrada del diablo1970
  • 100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
    100 Years of Marilyn Monroe2026

Conocido por

  • El tesoro de Sierra Madre
    El tesoro de Sierra Madre1948
  • El halcón maltés
    El halcón maltés1941
  • Chinatown
    Chinatown1974
  • La reina de África
    La reina de África1951
  • El hombre que pudo reinar
    El hombre que pudo reinar1975
  • El honor de los Prizzi
    El honor de los Prizzi1985
  • La jungla de asfalto
    La jungla de asfalto1950
  • Annie
    Annie1982
  • Cayo Largo
    Cayo Largo1948
  • Evasión o victoria
    Evasión o victoria1981
  • Vidas rebeldes
    Vidas rebeldes1961
  • Moby Dick
    Moby Dick1956
  • Jezabel
    Jezabel1938
  • Dublineses
    Dublineses1987
  • Moulin Rouge
    Moulin Rouge1952
  • Sólo Dios lo sabe
    Sólo Dios lo sabe1957
  • Fat City, ciudad dorada
    Fat City, ciudad dorada1972
  • La burla del diablo
    La burla del diablo1953
  • El último refugio
    El último refugio1941
  • El extraño
    El extraño1946

Filmography