米格設計局

赫斯頓(1906~1987年)

Huston,John

美國電影導演和電影劇本作家。演員華特.赫斯頓的兒子。在從事劇本寫作以前曾短暫擔任拳擊手、墨西哥騎兵軍官、記者及演員。他首次執導的電影是《梟巢喋血戰》(1941),開始了他輝煌的電影事業,其他經典影片還有︰《碧血金沙》(1948,獲奧斯卡最佳導演獎和劇本獎)、《蓋世梟雄》(1948)、《夜闌人未靜》(1950)、《非洲皇后》(1951)、《青樓情孽》(1952)、《鬣蜥之夜》(1964)、《大戰巴墟卡》(1975)、《現代教父》(1985)和《死者》(1987)。赫斯頓所導的電影其劇本大多是自己撰寫,其他還有《紅衫淚痕》(1938)、《華雷斯》(1939)和《高山》(High Sierra,1941)。他還繼續其表演事業,最著名的是《唐人街》(1974)。其女安潔莉卡(生於1951年)在下列電影中證明自己是個優秀演員︰《現代教父》(1985,獲奧斯卡獎)、《死者》(1987)、《敵人,一個愛的故事》(1989)和《致命賭局》(1990),同時她也參與電視影集《來自卡羅來納的私生女》(1996)的導演工作。

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1906~1987年

Huston,John

U.S. film director and screenwriter. Born in Nevada,Mo.,the son of Walter Huston,he was briefly a boxer,Mexican cavalry officer,reporter,and actor before becoming a scriptwriter. His first work as a director,The Maltese Falcon (1941),began an illustrious career studded with film classics: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948,Academy Awards for best director and screenplay),Key Largo (1948),The Asphalt Jungle (1950),The African Queen (1951),Moulin Rouge (1952),The Night of the Iguana (1964),The Man Who Would Be King (1975),Prizzi's Honor (1985),and The Dead (1987). He wrote screenplays for many of his own films and such others as Jezebel (1938),Juarez (1939),and High Sierra (1941). He continued to act throughout his career,notably in Chinatown (1974). His daughter Anjelica (born 1951) proved herself an accomplished actress in Prizzi's Honor (1985,Academy Award),The Dead (1987),Enemies,A Love Story (1989),and The Grifters (1990),and made her directorial debut with Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) for television.