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The Final Resting Place of John Huston.
John Huston
5th.August 1906 - 28th.August 1987.
Located west side of lake section 8.
Early life
He was born in Nevada, Missouri, the son of the Canadian-born actor, Walter Huston, and Rhea Gore; he was of Scottish and Irish descent on his father's side. Huston was raised by his maternal grandparents, Adelia Richardson and John Marcellus Gore.
Career
He began his film career as a screenwriter and made films mainly adapted from books or plays. The six-foot-two-inch, brown-eyed director also acted in a number of films, with distinction in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal for which he was nominated for the Academy award for Best Supporting Actor and in Roman Polanski's Chinatown as the film's central heavy against Jack Nicholson.
Huston's films were insightful about human nature and human predicaments. They also sometimes included scenes or brief dialogue passages that were remarkably prescient concerning environmental issues that came to public awareness in the future, in the period starting about 1970; examples include The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947) and Night of the Iguana (1964). Huston also directed The Misfits (film) with an all-star cast including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach. Famously, Huston spent long evenings carousing in the Nevada casinos after filming, surrounded by reporters and beautiful women, gambling, drinking, and smoking cigars. Gable remarked during this time that 'if he kept it up he would soon die of it'. Ironically, and tragically, Gable died three weeks after the end of filming from a massive heart attack while Huston went on to live for twenty-six more years.
In the 1970s, he was a frequent actor in Italian films.
Academy Awards
In 1941, Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Maltese Falcon. He was nominated again and won in 1948 for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, for which he also received the Best Director award. He was also an accomplished painter who created the 1982 label for Château Mouton Rothschild.
John Huston received 15 Oscar nominations in the course of his career. He has the unique distinction of directing both his father Walter and his daughter Anjelica in Oscar-winning performances (in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Prizzi's Honor, respectively), making the Hustons the first family to have three generations of Academy Award winners.
Personal life
Huston, an Episcopalian, was married to (1) Dorothy Harvey, (2) Lesley Black, (3) Evelyn Keyes, (4) Enrica Soma, and (5) Celeste Shane. All but the marriage to Soma, who died, ended in divorce; according to his third wife, Huston had an affair with the American fashion designer and writer Pauline Fairfax Potter in the 1940s. Among his children are the director Danny Huston and the actress Anjelica Huston.
Among his friends were Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway. Huston visited Ireland in 1951 and stayed at Luggala, County Wicklow, the home of Garech Browne, a member of the Guinness family. He
visited Ireland several times afterwards and on one of these visits he purchased and restored a Georgian home, St Clerans, between Loughrea and Craughwell, County Galway. He became an Irish citizen and his daughter Anjelica attended school in Ireland at Kylemore Abbey for a number of years. Huston is also the inspiration for the 1990 film White Hunter Black Heart starring Clint Eastwood, who also directed.
He died from emphysema on August 28, 1987 in Middletown, Rhode Island, at the age of 81. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.