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_{John Huston was one of the most colorful and talented of all American filmmakers.}

_{His career began with a brief fling as an actor, following in the footsteps of his father, Walter Huston. But after working successfully as a staff writer at Warner Bros. in the late 1930s, he found his niche as a filmmaker with his first directing effort, “The Maltese Falcon,” in 1941.}

_{His films include such classics as “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Huston’s father as a salty old prospector; “The Asphalt Jungle,” “Beat the Devil,” “Moulin Rouge,” “Key Largo,” “Red Badge of Courage,” “The African Queen,” “Night of the Iguana,” “Fat City” and “The Man Who Would Be King,” a commercial success with Michael Caine and Sean Connery in the Kipling story. [x]}