John Huston

John Huston

Actor & Director (1906 - 1987)
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The ThumbScore for John Huston (75.9%) is the average audience approval rating across 33 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of John's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

33
Movies
75.9%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate John Huston’s films higher than 81% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): The Bermuda Triangle (Roku Channel, Plex, Tubi, Fawesome) · The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Kanopy) · The Misfits (YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla) · Chinatown (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Beat the Devil (Roku Channel, Fandango at Home, Pluto TV, Cineverse, Xumo Play, Tubi, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Moulin Rouge (Plex, Tubi, Fawesome) and 9 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Humphrey Bogart (4)Roman Polanski (2)Barton MacLane (2)Michael Caine (2)Albert Finney (2)

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1961), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Prizzi's Honor (1985). In his early years, Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, with little editing needed.

Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an "heroic quest," as in Moby Dick, or The Red Badge of Courage. In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming "destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension. Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, and war. Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a "renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on." During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice. He directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Huston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1906-08-05 in Nevada, Missouri, USA. Died 1987-08-28.

On ThumbScore, John Huston appears in 33 films with an average audience score of 75.9%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every John Huston movie, ranked by audience score

The Bible: In the Beginning...
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
👍 86%
The Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle
1978
👍 84%
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
👍 83%
The Misfits
The Misfits
1961
👍 82%
Chinatown
Chinatown
1974
👍 81%
Escape to Victory
Escape to Victory
1981
👍 81%
The Night of the Iguana
The Night of the Iguana
1964
👍 81%
Key Largo
Key Largo
1948
👍 80%
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957
👍 80%
Beat the Devil
Beat the Devil
1953
👍 79%
Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge
1952
👍 79%
Fat City
Fat City
1972
👍 78%
The Wind and the Lion
The Wind and the Lion
1975
👍 77%
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon
1941
👍 76%
The Asphalt Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
👍 76%
The Hobbit
The Hobbit
1977
👍 76%
The Unforgiven
The Unforgiven
1960
👍 76%
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
👍 76%
The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King
1975
👍 75%
The Dead
The Dead
1987
👍 75%
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967
👍 75%
The African Queen
The African Queen
1952
👍 74%
Prizzi's Honor
Prizzi's Honor
1985
👍 74%
Breakout
Breakout
1975
👍 73%
The Return of the King
The Return of the King
1980
👍 72%
Wise Blood
Wise Blood
1979
👍 72%
Annie
Annie
1982
👍 71%
The MacKintosh Man
The MacKintosh Man
1973
👍 71%
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano
1984
👍 70%
Man in the Wilderness
Man in the Wilderness
1971
👍 70%
Moby Dick
Moby Dick
1956
👍 69%
The Visitor
The Visitor
1979
👍 67%
Tentacles
Tentacles
1977
👍 67%