John Marcellus Huston, naixiu deNevada (Missouri) o5 d'agosto de1906 y muerto enMiddletown (Rhode Island) o28 d'agosto de1987, estió undirector cinematografico,guionista yactorestausunidense, fillo de l'actorWalter Huston y pai de l'actrizAnjelica Huston. Estió activo en ocine estausunidense dende primerías d'osanyos 1940 y recibió cuantos premios por o suyo treballo mientres a suya carrera cinematografica.
D'entre a suya filmografía como director, se puet destacar ascintasThe Maltese Falcon (1941, conHumphrey Bogart,Mary Astor,Gladys George,Peter Lorre ySydney Greenstreet),The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, conHumphrey Bogart,Walter Huston,Tim Holt yBruce Bennett),Key Largo (1948, conHumphrey Bogart,Edward G. Robinson,Lauren Bacall,Lionel Barrymore,Claire Trevor yMarc Lawrence),The Asphalt Jungle (1950, conSterling Hayden,Louis Calhern,Jean Hagen,James Whitmore,Sam Jaffe yMarilyn Monroe),The African Queen (1951, conHumphrey Bogart,Katharine Hepburn yRobert Morley),Moulin Rouge (1952, conJosé Ferrer,Zsa Zsa Gabor ySuzanne Flon),Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957, conDeborah Kerr yRobert Mitchum),The Night of the Iguana (1964, conRichard Burton,Ava Gardner yDeborah Kerr),The Man Who Would Be King (1975, conSean Connery,Michael Caine,Christopher Plummer ySaeed Jaffrey),Escape to Victory (1981, conSylvester Stallone,Michael Caine,Max von Sydow yPelé),Under the Volcano (1984, conAlbert Finney yJacqueline Bisset), uPrizzi's Honor (1985, conJack Nicholson,Kathleen Turner,Robert Loggia yAnjelica Huston).
