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?").
Wise Blood (1979): $125,000
The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958): $300,000
A Farewell to Arms (1957): $250,000
Beat the Devil (1953): $175,000

At one time he kept a pet monkey. His wife of the time, Evelyn Keyes, became fed up with the noise and the mess and told Huston that either she or the monkey would have to leave. "Honey," replied Huston, "it's you!" Son of actor Walter Huston, whom he directed in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Son Tony Huston appeared with him in The List of Adrian Messenger. Appeared with daughter Anjelica Huston in A Walk with Love and Death. Interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever), Hollywood, California, USA. Became an Irish citizen in 1964. He is the only person to have ever directed a parent (Walter Huston) and a child (Anjelica Huston) to Academy Award wins. Father-in-law of Pat Delaney. Father of Danny Huston, from his relationship with Zoe Sallis Huston was a licenced pilot...and a prankster. He once flew over a golf course and dropped 5,000 ping-pong balls while a celebrity golf tournament was in progress. Was voted the 13th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890- 1945". Pages 484-493. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. After he and wife Ricki separated, she became pregnant by another man. When she died, Huston brought her daughter Allegra to live with him and adopted her. Father of Tony Huston and Anjelica Huston, from his marriage to Ricki Soma While making a movie in Mexico during his marriage to Evelyn Keyes, 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. 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 daughter Anjelica Huston Is portrayed by William Frankfather in Moviola: This Year's Blonde He and his father Walter Huston are the first Oscar-winning father-son couple. They are also the first father-son couple to be Oscar-nominated the same year (1941) and the first to win the same year (1949). Is portrayed by John Ireland in Marilyn: The Untold Story Once described Charles Bronson as "a grenade with the pin pulled". Former father-in-law of Virginia Madsen Was known to have a mean streak when handling actors, and reportedly irritated John Wayne (who was slightly taller than him and much more massive) so much while filming "The Barbarian And The Geisha" (1958) that Wayne lost his temper and punched Huston, knocking him out cold. Although Huston was often described as being 6' 4" tall, his actual measured height at his peak was 6' 2". Appears in The Return of the King (1980), which was remade as The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, with Sean Astin. Sean Astin's father John Astin appeared in the Addams Family television series. The films starred Anjelica Huston. There are three generations of Oscar winners in the Huston family: John, his father Walter Huston and his daughter Anjelica Huston. They are the first family to do so, the second family were the Coppolas - Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Nicolas Cage and Carmine Coppola. His WW2 film/documentary "Let There Be Light" was one of the first, if not the first films to deal with the issue of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder of soldiers returning from the war. Huston actually said that "If I ever do a movie that glorifies war, somebody shoot me". This documentary was based on his front line coverage of the European war front and what he saw soldiers go through during and returning from the war. Born in Nevada, Missouri but was raised in Weatherford, Texas until his family moved to Los Angeles. Was amateur lightweight boxing champion of California. Mother was newspaper reporter. Maternal great-grandfather was Col. William P. Richardson who led the 25th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. He was first considered to star as the blind monk Jorge De Burgos in Der Name Der Rose (1986). He accepted the part but then he had to leave due to his bad health conditions. Accidentally struck and killed a Hollywood dancer, Tosca Roulien, while driving on Sunset Boulevard on September 25, 1933. Walter Huston appealed to Louis B. Mayer to use his influence with the LAPD regarding any questions of alcohol being involved. A subsequent inquest was completed and Huston was absolved of any blame. Although not diagnosed with emphysema until 1978, it is widely believed he was already developing the lung disease while directing The Misfits, following decades of heavy smoking. Clint Eastwood's movie White Hunter Black Heart is about the making of Huston's movie The African Queen. The movie is based upon a screenplay by Peter Viertel, Huston's assistant during the making of The African Queen. The character Eastwood plays is based upon Huston.