Director, screenwriter, and actor John Huston was born in Nevada, Missouri, on August 5, 1906. After leaving school at the age of 14, Huston went on to work in all sorts of jobs: boxer, journalist, painter, novelist, soldier, horse breeder, hunter, art collector, etc.
After starting out in film as an extra, Huston would write a large number of screenplays during the thirties and early forties (The House of Discord, Sergeant York, The Last Refuge, Jezebel, etc.). His first film as a director, the film noir classic. The Maltese Falcon (1941), would not only make him one of the most important directors of classic cinema, but would also lay the foundations for one of the most popular characters in film history: the tough-but-sentimental type played by Humphrey Bogart. He would later work with Bogart again on films such as The treasure of Sierra Madre (1947) Key Largo (1948) o The queen of africa (1951). Among his later works as a director are films such as Reflections in a golden eye (1967) Under the volcano (1984) The Honor of the Prizzis or (1985) or Dubliners (1987)
Among her most notable performances are those in films such as The Bible (John Huston, 1966), the cardinal (Otto Preminger, 1963) or Chinatown (Roman Polansky, 1974).
He died on August 28, 1987 in Middletown.