ACTOR
John Huston
- Known for
- The Hobbit (1977), The Other Side of the Wind (2018), Wise Blood (1979), The Bible in the Beginning... (1966)
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John Huston is an actor best known for The Hobbit, The Other Side of the Wind and Wise Blood.
9 Facts From John Huston's Career
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John Huston directed 15 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Sydney Greenstreet, Walter Huston, Claire Trevor, Sam Jaffe, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Deborah Kerr, Grayson Hall, Susan Tyrrell, Albert Finney, Anjelica Huston, Jack Nicholson and William Hickey. Bogart and Trevor won Oscars for their performances, as did Huston's father Walter Huston and his daughter Anjelica Huston.
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In his commentary on the Catch-22 (1970) DVD, director Mike Nichols recalled seeing Huston on a payphone one day while shooting street scenes at Studi di Cinecittà in Rome. Huston was there to direct The Kremlin Letter (1970), widely regarded as the low point of his directing career. Nichols says that while the red light was on in the scene where "Kremlin" was being shot, Huston was on the phone placing bets with his bookmaker in the US. This meant that Huston's film was being shot but not directed by him. Nichols explains, cryptically, that films are made in this strange way.
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John Huston directed four films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Moulin Rouge (1952) and Prizzi's Honor (1985). He wrote the first three of these as well as the Best Picture nominees Jezebel (1938) and Sergeant York (1941). He also acted in Chinatown (1974), which was likewise nominated for Best Picture.
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