John Huston Biography

John Huston biography

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NAME: John Huston
OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Director
BIRTH DATE: August 05, 1906
DEATH DATE: August 28, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH: Nevada, Missouri
PLACE OF DEATH: Middletown, Rhode Island
Full Name: John Marcellus Huston

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American motion-picture director whose taut dramas, including The Maltese Falcon, were some of the most popular films from the 1940s on.

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John Huston was born August 5, 1906, in Nevada, Missouri. His first work as a film director was the classic hard-boiled detective tale The Maltese Falcon (1941), distinguished by sharply realistic dialogue and vividly realized characters. His early classic films starred Humphrey Bogart and marked the summit of that highly popular actor's career.

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