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 Tony Huston appeared with him in The List of Adrian Messenger (1963). Interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever), Hollywood, California, USA. He is the only person to have ever directed a parent (Walter Huston) and a child (Anjelica Huston) to Academy Award wins. Father of Danny Huston, from his relationship with Zoe Sallis. Was voted the 13th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. After he and wife Ricki separated, she became pregnant by another man. When she died, Huston brought her daughter, Allegra Huston, to live with him and adopted her. 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. Is portrayed by William Frankfather in This Year's Blonde (1980) (TV). Is portrayed by John Ireland in Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980) (TV) Former father-in-law of Virginia Madsen. Although Huston was often described as being 6' 4" tall, his actual measured height at his peak was 6' 2". 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. Born in Nevada, Missouri but was raised in Weatherford, Texas until his family moved to Los Angeles. Mother was newspaper reporter. He was first considered to star as the blind monk Jorge De Burgos in Der Name der Rose (1986). He accepted the part but had to leave due to his bad health. Although not diagnosed with emphysema until 1978, it is widely believed he was already developing the lung disease while directing The Misfits (1961), following decades of heavy smoking. Mike Nichols, in the director's commentary on the Catch-22 (1970) DVD, recalled that one day he was shooting street scenes at Rome's Studi di Cinecittà when he saw Huston at a pay phone. Huston was at Cinecittà helming The Kremlin Letter (1970), considered by many to be the nadir of his directorial career. Nichols says that Huston was on the phone placing bets with his bookie back in the US while the red light of the soundstage in which "Kremlin" was being shot was on. This meant that Huston's movie was being shot, but that it was not being directed by him. Such is the strange way by which movies were made, Nichols explains cryptically. Got the D.W. Griffith Career Achievement Award in 1985. Was awarded the "One World Committee Award" in 1949. Producer Walter Mirisch complains that Huston acted unprofessionally in the post-production period after the shooting of Sinful Davey (1969). The initial preview of Huston's cut of the film in New York was disastrous, and Huston refused to cut the film after attending another preview, informing Mirisch via his agent that "he liked it just the way it is." Huston's agent informed Mirisch that his client "didn't see any reason to be present at previews." United Artists, which financed the film, was upset over the previews and demanded a re-edit. Huston refused to re-cut the picture, and the re-editing process was overseen by Mirisch. "Sinful Davey" was a failure at the box office after it was released. In his 2008 memoir, "I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History," Walter Mirisch writes that, "John Huston, in his autobiography, said that he was aghast when he saw what I had done in the re-editing of his picture. Responding to preview criticism, I had tried to make it less draggy and more accessible to American audiences.... I saw John Huston again on a couple of occasions, many years after the release of "Sinful Davey," and he was very cold, as I was to him. I thought his behavior in abandoning the picture was unprofessional." The two, who had worked together on Huston's 1956 adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1956), never collaborated again. Is one of the few people to receive at least one Oscar nomination in five consecutive decades (1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s). Grandfather of Laura Huston and Jack Huston. Was best friends with Humphrey Bogart.