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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: John Huston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Danny Huston is a Hollywood film director, the brother of actress Anjelica Huston, the son of legendary director John Huston, and the grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston.
John Huston (1906-1987), American motion-picture director and actor, who created some of the most critically acclaimed films of American cinema in his long and distinguished career.
Huston's first venture as a director, the film version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective story written in 1930 by American writer Dashiell Hammett, was nominated for best picture at the 1941 Academy Awards.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Huston   (3062 words)

  
 John Huston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huston was raised by his maternal grandparents, Adelia Richardson and John Marcellus Gore.
John Huston has the unique distinction of directing both his father Walter and his daughter Anjelica in Oscar-winning performances (in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Prizzi's Honor, respectively), making the Hustons the first family to have three generations of Academy Award winners.
Huston, an Episcopalian,[1] was married to (1) Dorothy Harvey, (2) Lesley Black, (3) Evelyn Keyes, (4) Enrica Soma, and (5) Celeste Shane.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Huston   (583 words)

  
 John Huston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John Huston (August 5 1906 - August 28 1987) was an American film director.
John Huston is the father of actress Anjelica Huston.
Ably edited by independent scholar and freelance writer Robert Long, John Huston: Interviews is an informative and insightful compilation of interviews with the late John Huston (which took place from 1952 to 1985) in which he personally comments on his l...
www.freeglossary.com /John_Huston   (422 words)

  
 JOHN HUSTON
John Huston viste todo de blanco, es alto y fuerte: tiene 74 años, y él mismo maniobra con precisión el timón de la pequeña embarcación: vamos por aguas del Pacífico mexicano desde Puerto Vallarta hacia su hogar, que está en una especie de isla, unos treinta minutos mar adentro.
Huston ha venido por nosotros muy temprano al hotel en Vallarta, para trasladarnos en su jeep unas quince millas hacia el sur, hasta la aldea de pescadores de Boca Tomatlán, donde la carretera se aleja del mar y entra en las montañas, aquí hemos embarcado en su lanchón.
Abajo: John Huston en andas llevado por Ray Stark y Tennessee Williams durante la filmación de "La noche de la Iguana".
elviejoleon.galeon.com   (4587 words)

  
 John Huston - Wikipedia
Unter seiner Regie erhielt sein Vater Walter Huston für eine Rolle in Der Schatz der Sierra Madre einen Oscar als bester Nebendarsteller.
Seine Tochter Anjelica Huston erhielt für ihre Leistung in Die Ehre der Prizzis ebenfalls einen Nebendarsteller-Oscar.
Huston wurde insgesamt 15x für den Oscar nominiert, für Drehbuch und Regie bei Der Schatz der Sierra Madre erhielt er ihn.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Huston   (1417 words)

  
 John Huston film links UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In John Huston's AFRICAN QUEEN, the boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), saves prim and proper Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn) after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa.
John Huston narrates on the 1962 documentary The Legend Of Marilyn Monroe.
Narrated by John Huston, the film utilizes never-before-seen pictures, film footage and interviews with those closest to her in order to explore the life and times of Marilyn Monroe.
filmuk.dunmarsh.co.uk /film/johnhuston.html   (1171 words)

  
 John Huston
Huston (1906-1987) had an extraordinary career that spanned more than forty years and nearly fifty films.
Huston is known also for his innovative interaction with actors.
The Huston who emerges from these interviews is a gifted raconteur, an admirable professional, and indeed a figure whose real life matched his prodigious legend.
www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2001/john_huston_interviews.html   (364 words)

  
 John Huston: Interviews by Robert Emmet Long | PopMatters Book Review
Huston, son of one of the great film actors of his generation (Walter) and father of one of the great actresses of her generation (Anjelica), carved a career for himself that transcends generations entirely.
John Huston: Interviews, part of the University Press of Mississippi's "Conversations with Filmmakers" series, anthologizes interviews taken from a wide range of magazines, from Film Comment to Rolling Stone to Women's Wear Daily, beginning in 1952 and ending with a Playboy interview conducted just before Huston's death in 1987.
Huston liked to cast actors to fit their roles rather than have them invent the roles from whole cloth.
www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/j/john-huston-interviews.shtml   (1132 words)

  
 John Huston: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
John Huston discusses his early career, his difficulties with McCarthyism, and his successes and failures as a movie director.
Discusses John Huston's World War II documentary war trilogy, 'Report from the Aleutians', 'Battle of San Pietro' and 'Let there be light' and censorship of the latter.
"John Huston's "Red badge of courage" (1951) is examined as an example of literary capital under the strain of Cold War politics, the changing face of MGM, and a maverick director.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/hustonbib.html   (2744 words)

  
 Faithfulness vs Faith: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood by Pamela Demory
What is more, Huston presents Hazel’s quest for salvation seriously, as a sincere search for faith in a crass and commercial world.
But Huston shows us a religion that has warped minds, that is used by charlatans and fools to swindle more fools, that is wrapped up with violence, murder, child abuse, and self-mutilation rather than peace, love, and forgiveness.
John Huston’s Wise Blood may not offer its audience the hope of eternal salvation that O’Connor’s novel does, but the reader who also sees Huston’s film may come away with a greater appreciation for the significance of faith in O’Connor’s novel.
jsr.as.wvu.edu /wblood.htm   (5300 words)

  
 Film Noir Directors: John Huston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When John is 6, mum and dad divorce so he grows up traveling the vaudeville circuit with his father and the racetracks with his sports reporter mother.
Huston, who identifies himself politically as a Jeffersonian Democrat, joins the Committee for the First Amendment, a group that protests the House Un-American Activities Committee's efforts to root out communists in the film industry.
Huston begins acting in the film but poor health causes him to step down and old buddy Robert Mitchum to step in.
www.eskimo.com /~noir/directors/huston/index.shtml   (1122 words)

  
 John Huston''s Filmmaking Test & Preisvergleich ab 27,94 € bei Yopi.de
Always visually exciting, Huston's films sensitively portray humankind in all its incarnations, chronicling the attempts by protagonists to conceive and articulate their identities.
In this study, Lesley Brill shows Huston's films to be far more than formulaic adventures of masculine failure, arguing instead that they demonstrate the close connection among humanity, the natural world, and divinity.
John Huston's Filmmaking offers an analysis of the life and work of one of the greatest American independent filmmakers.
www.yopi.de /Brill_Lesley_Wayne_State_University_Michigan_John_Huston_s_Filmmaking_Theater_Ballett_Film_Fernsehen   (558 words)

  
 IMDb Name Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John Huston (I) (Director, The Maltese Falcon (1941))
John Houston (I) (Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Fly Away Home (1996))
John R. Johnston (I) (Art Department, Philadelphia (1993))
us.imdb.com /Name?Huston,+John   (89 words)

  
 John Huston
John Huston was the famous Hollywood producer, who in 1963 chose the sleepy fishing village called Puerto Vallarta to make his now-classic movie "Night of The Iguana.
John Huston was also a resident of Puerto Vallarta.
He had a home for many years near Majahuitas and was a frequent visitor to town.
www.virtualvallarta.com /vallarta/information/definitions/johnhuston.html   (83 words)

  
 John Huston, WGC, NEC Invitational, Golf, Interviews, August 22 1999, ASAPSports FastScripts, Quotes, Transcript   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Everyone, we have John Huston with us today on this soggy afternoon, and John was able to get through 14 holes at 2-under par.
JOHN HUSTON: Me, personally, being in the position that I was in, I'm on the 15th green with about a 3-footer for par.
JOHN HUSTON: Well, it would probably be -- I would have to say -- I would say Tiger, but it's too big of a crowd; so I would say Phil Mickelson.
www.asapsports.com /golf/1999wgcinvit/082699JH.html   (1533 words)

  
 Prisma: John Huston
Doch John flieht nach Mexiko, wo er sich 1925 in die amerikanische Armee aufnehmen lässt.
John folgt ihm und schreibt zunächst Dialoge für Spielfilme von William Wyler, bald folgt sein erstes eigenes Drehbuch, "Gesetz und Ordnung" (1932) nach einem Schlüsselroman über die Earp-Brüder: "Saint Johnson" von W. Burnett.
John Huston hat das faszinierende Drehbuch gemeinsam mit Richard Brooks geschrieben.
www.prisma-online.de /tv/person.html?pid=john_huston   (738 words)

  
 My three minutes with John Huston | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Although he was a producer, writer, and actor, Huston was most famous for directing films like "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948), "The African Queen" (1951), "The Night of the Iguana" (1964), and "Prizzi's Honor" (1985).
Huston still had a booming presence, and he spoke to us as colleagues, writers and filmmakers like himself.
Before I knew it, Huston was leaning out and turning toward me. When he caught my eye, he blew a kiss and whisked it along with a quick Irish wink that I'll never forget.
www.csmonitor.com /2005/0204/p18s02-hfes.html   (1081 words)

  
 John Huston: Die Spur des Falken (Filmtipp)
Originaltitel: The Maltese Falcon - Regie: John Huston - Buch: John Huston, nach dem Roman "Der Malteser Falke" von Dashiell Hammett - Kamera: Arthur Edeson - Schnitt: Thomas Richards - Musik: Adolph Deutsch - Darsteller: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Gladys George, Barton MacLane, Jerome Dowan u.a.
Unter dem Titel "Die Spur des Falken" verfilmte John Huston den Roman "Der Malteser Falke" ("The Maltese Falcon", 1930), einen stilbildenden Klassiker des legendären Kriminalautors Samuel Dashiell Hammett und begründete zugleich den film noir.
John Huston hielt sich eng an die literarische Vorlage, und die Hauptfigur — der zynische, wortkarge, stoische und einzelgängerische Privatdetektiv Sam Spade — wird von Humphrey Bogart kongenial verkörpert.
www.dieterwunderlich.de /Huston_falke.htm   (186 words)

  
 John Huston News
Anjelica Huston grew up immersed in movies as the daughter of the legendary director John Huston.
For an anatomy of the American male psyche, John Huston is the director to turn to.
The great John Huston, whose resume included The African Queen and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, had little good to say about his industry's maddening habit of repeating itself.
www.topix.net /who/john-huston   (580 words)

  
 John Huston
The Maltese Falcon (1941) - Director: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet...
John HUSTON (wearing a cap) directing an actor, during the filming of the movie "Moulin Rouge", by John HUSTON, starring Zsa-Zsa GABOR, JosERRER, Suzanne FLON, Christopher L (PAR123266)
John HUSTON (wearing cap), Jose FERRER, and an unidentified actor, during the filming of the movie "Moulin Rouge", by John HUSTON, starring Zsa-Zsa GABOR, JosERRER, Suzanne F (PAR45434)
www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0154793.html   (388 words)

  
 Kino Film: John Huston And The Dubliners
At the age of eighty, John Huston completed work on a film based on James Joyce's classic novella The Dead.
It was destined to be his last work and the crowning achievement of Huston's remarkable five-decade career, winning the Best Film Award from the National Society of Film Critics.
This unique family interplay, as well as the grand filmmaker practicing his art, are finely detailed in John Huston and the Dubliners.
www.kino.com /theatrical/th_item.php?film_id=154   (147 words)

  
 John Huston
(1955), Huston focused on groups whose goals are thwarted by greed and cross-purposes.
John Huston - John Huston director, writer, actor Born: 8/5/1906 Birthplace: Nevada, Missouri Film director,...
John Huston - Filmmaker/Actor, born 5 August 1906, Director of The Man Who Would Be King
www.factmonster.com /ce5/CE024931.html   (173 words)

  
 Dicky Drew-Smythe @ The Man Who Would Be King - John Huston's Film
He's a nice, amiable and amusing British gent into the bargain, which all goes to help when you're dealing, as he is, with such motion picture luminaries as John Huston, Sean Connery and Michael Caine, director and stars of John Foreman's production "The Man Who Would Be King".
John Foreman's production of John Huston's "The Man Who Would Be King" stars Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer and Saeed Jaffrey.
The Panavision Colour Film is produced by John Foreman and directed by John Huston from a screenplay by John Huston and Gladys Hill, based on Rudyard Kipling's classic story.
www.zipworld.com.au /~lnbdds/king   (978 words)

  
 A Tribute to John Huston
John Huston was the son of famed actor Walter Huston, born August 5, 1906, in Missouri.
But of all the things that could be said about John Huston, you could never say that he wasn't up to a challenge, or open to trying something new.
In 1983 Huston was given the D.W. Griffith Award by The Director's Guild, and that same year he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the American Film Institute.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa081201a.htm   (742 words)

  
 John Huston, Movie Director @ The 80's Movies Rewind
Find movies on The Rewind that were directed by John Huston during the 80s.
John Huston directed the following 1 80's movies on the 80s Rewind.
The man saying "I love you, I love you" is that of John Huston, the director.
www.fast-rewind.com /cgi-bin/search.cgi?target=John%20Huston&searchtype=Director   (171 words)

  
 John Huston
Brief profile of John Huston, plus access to extensive statistics on his golf career and playing record.
The official site of this manufacturer of golf clubs features a video clip of John Huston extolling the virtues of their drivers.
That leads you to the John Huston page, with a photo, victory list and a few little tidbits of information.
www.golfstarsonline.com /H/John_Huston   (158 words)

  
 Sports: What's in the bag? John Huston
Huston has a Callaway driver and 3-wood, an Orlimar 4-wood, 3-PW TaylorMade, a Cleveland sand wedge and lob wedge and a TaylorMade Rossa putter.
TOWELS AND GLOVES: Huston uses a new Maxfli Revolution golf glove each day, and keeps two to three spare ones in the bag.
His caddie brings a towel but puts an extra one in the bag if rain is on the horizon.
www.sptimes.com /2003/10/29/Sports/What_s_in_the_bag_Joh.shtml   (342 words)

  
 John Huston at Reel Classics
Huston was nominated for Best Director in 1951 for this film.
TV Now's monthly John Huston schedule -when his films will be on TV Philip's BEAT THE DEVIL Page
John Huston's THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
www.reelclassics.com /Directors/Huston/huston.htm   (147 words)

  
 John Huston - Filme / DVD
John Huston wurde am 05.08.1906 in Missouri, USA unter dem bürgerlichen Namen John Marcellus Huston geboren.
Er ist der Vater von Anjelica Huston und Danny Huston.
John Huston starb am 28.08.1987 in Middletown auf Rhode Island, USA.
www.new-video.de /darsteller-john-huston   (193 words)

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