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John Huston
Age: 81 (passed away Aug. 28th, 1987)
Height: 6' 2"
Birth Place: Nevada, Missouri, USA
Born: Aug. 5th, 1906
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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:
- Is portrayed by 'John Ireland (I)' (qv) in _Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980) (TV)_ (qv)
- Was voted the 13th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
- Was amateur lightweight boxing champion of California.
- Father of 'Danny Huston' (qv), from his relationship with 'Zoe Sallis' (qv).
- Became an Honorary Doctor of Literature at the Trinity University in Dublin, Ireland in 1964.
- Although not diagnosed with emphysema until 1978, it is widely believed he was already developing the lung disease while directing _The Misfits (1961)_ (qv), following decades of heavy smoking.
- He is the only person to have ever directed a parent ('Walter Huston' (qv)) and a child ('Anjelica Huston' (qv)) to Academy Award wins.
- Got the D.W. Griffith Career Achievement Award in 1985.
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