John Huston Add to My Celebs Age 81 (passed away Aug. 28th, 1987) Birthday Aug. 5th, 1906 Born in Nevada, Missouri, USA Height 6' 2"

John Huston's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) ABC Stage 67 Narrator (2) Appointment with Destiny Narrator (3)

Main Movie Roles 1986 - Momo 1985 - The Black Cauldron 1982 - Annie 1982 - Cannery Row 1979 - Winter Kills 1979 - Wise Blood 1975 - The Wind and the Lion 1975 - Breakout 1974 - Chinatown 1973 - Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1972 - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean 1971 - Man in the Wilderness 1970 - The Kremlin Letter 1970 - Myra Breckinridge 1968 - Candy 1966 - The Bible: In the Beginning... 1963 - The Cardinal 1963 - The List of Adrian Messenger 1962 - Freud 1961 - The Misfits 1956 - Moby Dick 1948 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1943 - Report from the Aleutians

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

John Huston was a man of many interests - painting, boxing, sculpture, gambling, fox-hunting, etc. He had four children: Tony and Angelica (with Ricki Soma), Danny (with another woman), and Allegra (Ricki with another man, but Huston raised the girl after Ricki died in a car crash). Huston wrote a somewhat sanitized autobiography in 1980 (friends who read it said, "Good book, John - who's it about?").


TRIVIA:

• Former father-in-law of 'Virginia Madsen' (qv).
• He was first considered to star as the blind monk Jorge De Burgos in _Der Name der Rose (1986)_ (qv). He accepted the part but had to leave due to his bad health.
• Once described 'Charles Bronson' (qv) as "a grenade with the pin pulled".
• Was originally supposed to direct _Quo Vadis (1951)_ (qv), but walked out following arguments about the script. He was replaced by 'Mervyn LeRoy' (qv).
• Son 'Tony Huston (I)' (qv) appeared with him in _The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)_ (qv).
• Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 446-448. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
• While making a movie in Mexico during his marriage to 'Evelyn Keyes' (qv), he befriended a boy named Pablo. Pablo came to spend the night at Huston's hotel one evening, and Huston discovered the next morning that the boy was a homeless orphan. Huston decided that he had no choice but to bring him back to the USA and adopt him. He wrote in his autobiography that he met his wife Evelyn at the airport and surprised her by introducing her to their new son. She was in shock, but from then on did her best to be a good mother. He eventually married an Irish girl, had three children, then deserted his family and became a used car dealer.
• 'Mike Nichols (I)' (qv), in the director's commentary on the _Catch-22 (1970)_ (qv) DVD, recalled that one day he was shooting street scenes at Rome's Studi di Cinecittà when he saw Huston at a pay phone. Huston was at Cinecittà helming _The Kremlin Letter (1970)_ (qv), considered by many to be the nadir of his directorial career. Nichols says that Huston was on the phone placing bets with his bookie back in the US while the red light of the soundstage in which "Kremlin" was being shot was on. This meant that Huston's movie was being shot, but that it was not being directed by him. Such is the strange way by which movies were made, Nichols explains cryptically.

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