什么是赫斯顿

Huston, John

美国电影导演和电影剧本作家。演员华特.赫斯顿的儿子。在从事剧本写作以前曾短暂担任拳击手、墨西哥骑兵军官、记者及演员。他首次执导的电影是《枭巢喋血战》（1941），开始了他辉煌的电影事业，其他经典影片还有︰《碧血金沙》（1948，获奥斯卡最佳导演奖和剧本奖）、《盖世枭雄》（1948）、《夜阑人未静》（1950）、《非洲皇后》（1951）、《青楼情孽》（1952）、《鬣蜥之夜》（1964）、《大战巴墟卡》（1975）、《现代教父》（1985）和《死者》（1987）。赫斯顿所导的电影其剧本大多是自己撰写，其他还有《红衫泪痕》（1938）、《华雷斯》（1939）和《高山》（High Sierra, 1941）。他还继续其表演事业，最着名的是《唐人街》（1974）。其女安洁莉卡（生於1951年）在下列电影中证明自己是个优秀演员︰《现代教父》（1985，获奥斯卡奖）、《死者》（1987）、《敌人，一个爱的故事》（1989）和《致命赌局》（1990），同时她也参与电视影集《来自卡罗来纳的私生女》（1996）的导演工作。

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.