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14 unusual facts about John Huston


Allegra Huston

When Huston was four, her mother died in a car accident and she was subsequently brought up by filmmaker John Huston (1906–87), her mother's estranged husband (Soma was his fourth wife).

Calcutta Film Society

Noted film personalities were invited to speak at the society which they did on several occasions, including Russian actor, Nikolay Cherkasov, directors Jean Renoir, John Huston.

Henry T. Waskow

Pyle's story informed John Huston's documentary The Battle of San Pietro (released in 1945) and heightened interest in it.

The column also publicized the documentary film The Battle of San Pietro, by John Huston, depicting the action in which Waskow died.

Her Brother

Ichikawa had been inspired by the photography for John Huston's 1956 adaptation of Moby-Dick.

Marie Kean

Her final movie appearance was in John Huston's The Dead (1987), in which she played the part of Mrs. Malins.

Nevada, Missouri

John Huston − actor, director, screenwriter and producer (born there)

Saro Urzì

He acted in Don Camillo sequels, John Huston's Beat the Devil, Luigi Comencini's Bread, Love and Jealousy, and international films such as Woman of Straw, and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather as Signor Vitelli, father of Michael Corleone's love Apollonia.

The Barbarian and the Geisha

Shot primarily on location in Japan, it was directed by John Huston.

The Carnival Man

The film is fifteen minutes long and it is the first-ever film appearance of Huston, the father of actor and director John Huston and grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston.

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean is a 1972 western film written by John Milius, directed by John Huston, and starring Paul Newman (at the height of his career, between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting).

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The book was adapted successfully as a 1948 film of the same name by John Huston.

White Hunter Black Heart

The main character is based on real-life director John Huston; at times, Eastwood can be heard drawing out his vowels, speaking in Huston's distinctive style.

Wise Blood

A film was made of Wise Blood in 1979, directed by John Huston, and starring Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes and John Huston himself as the evangelist grandfather.


Amru Sani

As an actress, Sani appeared in the early spaghetti western Maracatumba . . . ma non è una rumba (Italy, 1949), The Naked Maja (1958), and John Huston's The Bible: In the Beginning (1966).

David Martí

Early ambitions to become a comic book artist were soon abandoned: while watching the first of the Star Wars trilogy, and above all John Huston's The List of Adrian Messenger, in which numerous disguised characters remove their makeup at the film's finale, something clicked while working in advertising, Marti enrolled in the Dick Smith makeup correspondence course, perfect training for this future career.

Eiko Ando

When director John Huston was looking for an actress for the part of Okichi, a friend of Ando's who worked in the Tokyo office of 20th Century-Fox recommended Ando to Huston.

Eire Society of Boston

Recipients in entertainment have included filmmakers John Ford and John Huston, Irish actresses Siobhan McKenna, Anna Manahan and Maureen O'Hara, Irish poet Seamus Heaney, and musicians The Chieftains and Tommy Makem.

George Hill Hodel

He was a successful doctor who in the 1940s who knew people like Man Ray, John Huston, and many others.

Gladys Hill

She went on to be dialogue director on other films such as John Huston's We Were Strangers in 1949, and The Prowler in 1951 which was directed by Joseph Losey.

Howard Nostrand

For Fawcett Comics, he did work in Hot Rod Comics, an adaptation of the 1951 John Huston film The Red Badge of Courage and "a couple of Westerns", including the movie spin-off feature "Lash LaRue".

Jenny Runacre

Runacre left the cast after a year and starred in such films as Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales, John Huston's The Mackintosh Man, Robert Fuest's The Final Programme, Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger, and Derek Jarman's Jubilee (in which she starred as Elizabeth I and "Bod").

Jules Buck

He was cameraman for John Huston's war documentaries and began producing as assistant to Mark Hellinger.

Major Fred C. Dobbs

The title of this episode is a reference to the John Huston film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in which Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) becomes consumed with greed - a weakness to which Hawkeye and Trapper appeal in order to keep Frank from actually leaving.

The Return of the King

The Return of the King, 1980 animated feature made for television, featuring the voices of Orson Bean and John Huston.

Tunisian Victory

The direction of the final version involved no less than five individuals: Frank Capra, John Huston, Anthony Veiller, Hugh Stewart and Roy Boulting.

Walter Huston

He was the father of actor and director John Huston, the grandfather of Pablo Huston, Walter Anthony (Tony) Huston, Anjelica Huston, Danny Huston, and Allegra Huston, and the great-grandfather of actor Jack Huston.

William P. Richardson

His granddaughter, Rhea, was the mother of the famous American film director John Huston and grandmother of the actors Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston.