John Huston (August 5, 1906 - August 28, 1987) was an American film director.
He was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, the son of the Canadian-born actor Walter Huston. He began his film career as a screenwriter and made films mainly from proven books or plays.
He acted in a number of films, with distinction in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal and in Roman Polanski's Chinatown.
John Huston is the father of actress Anjelica Huston.
In 1941, Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for The Maltese Falcon and again in 1948 for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. He was also an accomplished painter who created the 1982 label for Château Mouton Rothschild.
He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
