John Huston

John Huston
Huston in Chinatown (1974)
Born	(1906-08-05)August 5, 1906 Nevada, Missouri, U.S.
Died	August 28, 1987(1987-08-28) (aged 81) Middletown, Rhode Island, U.S.
Resting place	Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Citizenship	United States (until 1964; 1978–1987[citation needed]) Ireland (1964–1978)
Occupations	Film director screenwriter actor
Years active	1930–1987
Spouses	Dorothy Harvey ​ ​ (m. 1925; div. 1933)​ Lesley Black ​ ​ (m. 1937; div. 1945)​ Evelyn Keyes ​ ​ (m. 1946; div. 1950)​ Enrica Soma ​ ​ (m. 1950; died 1969)​ Celeste Shane ​ ​ (m. 1972; div. 1977)​
Children	5, including Anjelica, Tony, Danny, and Allegra
Father	Walter Huston
Awards	Full list
Military career
Service / branch	United States Army
Years of service	1942–1946
Rank	Major
Unit	Army Signal Corps
Battles / wars	World War II Pacific Theater
Awards	Legion of Merit American Campaign Medal Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal

John Marcellus Huston (/ˈhjuːstən/ ^ⓘ HEW-stən; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1980.

Son of actor Walter Huston, he studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He then moved to Mexico and began writing, first plays and short stories, and later working in Los Angeles as a Hollywood screenwriter, and was nominated for several Academy Awards writing for films directed by William Dieterle and Howard Hawks, among others. His directorial debut came with The Maltese Falcon (1941), which despite its small budget became a commercial and critical hit; he continued to be a successful, if iconoclastic, Hollywood director for the next 45 years.

Huston directed acclaimed films such as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), The Misfits (1961), The Night of the Iguana (1964), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Annie (1982), Prizzi's Honor (1985) and The Dead (1987). During his 46-year career, Huston received 14 Academy Award nominations, winning twice. Huston acted in numerous films receiving nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for The Cardinal (1963), and Chinatown (1974) respectively. He also acted in Casino Royale (1967), Myra Breckinridge (1970) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). He voiced the wizard Gandalf in The Hobbit (1977).

Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a "renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry. He traveled widely, settling at various times in France, Mexico, and Ireland. Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced this to become an Irish citizen and resident in 1964. He eventually returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life.^[1] He was the father of actress Anjelica Huston, whom he directed to an Oscar win in Prizzi's Honor.