Maternal great-grandfather was Col. William P. Richardson who led the 25th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War.

Appears in The Return of the King (1980) (TV), which was remade as The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) with Sean Astin. Astin's father John Astin appeared in "The Addams Family" (1964) television series, playing Gomez Addams. The Addams Family films starred Anjelica Huston as Gomez' wife Morticia.

While making a movie in Mexico during his marriage to Evelyn Keyes, he befriended a boy named Pablo. Pablo came to spend the night at Huston's hotel one evening, and Huston discovered the next morning that the boy was a homeless orphan. Huston decided that he had no choice but to bring him back to the USA and adopt him. He wrote in his autobiography that he met his wife Evelyn at the airport and surprised her by introducing her to their new son. She was in shock, but from then on did her best to be a good mother. He eventually married an Irish girl, had three children, then deserted his family and became a used car dealer.

Was originally supposed to direct Quo Vadis (1951), but walked out following arguments about the script. He was replaced by Mervyn LeRoy.

Was awarded the "One World Committee Award" in 1949.

Although Huston was often described as being 6' 4" tall, his actual measured height at his peak was 6' 2".

Mike Nichols, in the director's commentary on the Catch-22 (1970) DVD, recalled that one day he was shooting street scenes at Rome's Studi di Cinecittà when he saw Huston at a pay phone. Huston was at Cinecittà helming The Kremlin Letter (1970), considered by many to be the nadir of his directorial career. Nichols says that Huston was on the phone placing bets with his bookie back in the US while the red light of the soundstage in which "Kremlin" was being shot was on. This meant that Huston's movie was being shot, but that it was not being directed by him. Such is the strange way by which movies were made, Nichols explains cryptically.

Father of Danny Huston, from his relationship with Zoe Sallis.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 484-493. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

There are three generations of Oscar winners in the Huston family: John, his father Walter Huston and his daughter Anjelica Huston. They are the first family to do so, the second family were the Coppolas - Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Nicolas Cage and Carmine Coppola.

Is portrayed by John Ireland in Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980) (TV)

Directed 15 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Sydney Greenstreet, Walter Huston, Claire Trevor, Sam Jaffe, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Deborah Kerr, Grayson Hall, Susan Tyrrell, Albert Finney, Anjelica Huston, Jack Nicholson and William Hickey. Bogart and Trevor won Oscars for their performances, as did Huston's father Walter Huston and daughter Anjelica Huston

He is the only person to have ever directed a parent (Walter Huston) and a child (Anjelica Huston) to Academy Award wins.

Is portrayed by William Frankfather in This Year's Blonde (1980) (TV).

Father of Tony Huston and Anjelica Huston, from his marriage to Ricki Soma.

His WW II documentary Let There Be Light (1946) was one of the first, if not the first, films to deal with the issue of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder of soldiers returning from the war. Huston actually said that, "If I ever do a movie that glorifies war, somebody shoot me." This documentary was based on his front-line experiences covering the European war and what he saw soldiers go through during and returning from the war.

Father-in-law of Pat Delaney.

He and his father Walter Huston are the first Oscar-winning father-son couple. They are also the first father-son couple to be Oscar-nominated the same year (1941) and the first to win the same year (1949).

Former father-in-law of Virginia Madsen.

Got the D.W. Griffith Career Achievement Award in 1985.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 446-448. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Was voted the 13th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

Clint Eastwood`s movie White Hunter Black Heart (1990) is about the making of Huston`s movie The African Queen (1951). The movie is based upon a screenplay by Peter Viertel, Huston`s assistant during the making of The African Queen (1951). The character Eastwood plays is based upon Huston.

Is one of the few people to receive at least one Oscar nomination in five consecutive decades (1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s).

Became an Honorary Doctor of Literature at the Trinity University in Dublin, Ireland in 1964.

Although not diagnosed with emphysema until 1978, it is widely believed he was already developing the lung disease while directing The Misfits (1961), following decades of heavy smoking.

He was first considered to star as the blind monk Jorge De Burgos in Name der Rose, Der (1986). He accepted the part but had to leave due to his bad health.

Mother was newspaper reporter.

Was amateur lightweight boxing champion of California.

Born in Nevada, Missouri but was raised in Weatherford, Texas until his family moved to Los Angeles.

Was known to have a mean streak when handling actors, and reportedly irritated John Wayne (who was slightly taller than Huston and much more massive) so much while filming The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) that Wayne lost his temper and punched Huston, knocking him out cold.

Once described Charles Bronson as "a grenade with the pin pulled".

After he and wife Ricki separated, she became pregnant by another man. When she died, Huston brought her daughter Allegra to live with him and adopted her.

Huston was a licenced pilot...and a prankster. He once flew over a golf course and dropped 5,000 ping-pong balls while a celebrity golf tournament was in progress.

Became an Irish citizen in 1964.

Interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever), Hollywood, California, USA.

Appeared with daughter Anjelica Huston in A Walk with Love and Death (1969).

Son Tony Huston appeared with him in The List of Adrian Messenger (1963).

Son of actor Walter Huston, whom he directed in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).

At one time he kept a pet monkey. His wife of the time, Evelyn Keyes, became fed up with the noise and the mess and told Huston that either she or the monkey would have to leave. "Honey," replied Huston, "it`s you!"

Married five times.