John Huston
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08/04/1906
Nevada, MO |
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| Made six films with Humphrey Bogart: The Maltese Falcon (1941), Across the Pacific (1942), Key Largo (1948), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The African Queen < |
| While Sierra Madre was filming in Mexico, the government ordered that production shut down when a newspaper published word that the movie was anti-Mexican. Filming resumed after friends interce |
| Served a short stint as a lieutenant in the Mexican army cavalry. |
| An accomplished sculptor and painter, Huston created the label for the 1982 vintage of Chateau Mouton Rothschild. |
| Dropped out of high school at age 15 and became a champion amateur lightweight boxer. |
| Made his big-screen directing debut in 1941 with the noir classic The Maltese Falcon. |
| Let There Be Light — a documentary about soldiers with post-traumatic stress that he filmed while serving in World War II — was confiscated by the U.S. Army in 1946. It wasn't |
| Directed both his father Walter Huston's and his daughter Anjelica Huston's Oscar-winning performances, in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Prizzi's Honor (19 |
