FrameThrower · Actors · John Huston
John Huston
3 films · 186 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1961–2018
Born 5 August 1906 · Nevada, Missouri, USA · died 28 August 1987
John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1961), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Prizzi's Honor (1985).
In his early years, Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 186 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1961–2018
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay1949
- Academy Award for Best Director1949
- Golden Lion
- AFI Life Achievement Award1983
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- American Campaign Medal
- World War II Victory Medal
- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
- Legionnaire of Legion of Merit
How their films are shot
Measured across 186 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work John takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 55% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work John takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 186 frames from John Huston's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.