noun
United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987)
• Syn: ↑Huston
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑film maker, ↑filmmaker, ↑film producer, ↑movie maker
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(1906–89) a US film ↑director, actor and writer. He won an ↑Oscar for ↑Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which he directed and wrote. He and his father, the actor Walter Huston, both acted in it. Other films that he directed include ↑Maltese Falcon, The African Queen (1952), ↑Moby-Dick, The Misfits (1960), The Dead (1987) and Prizzi’s Honor (1985) for which his daughter, Anjelica Huston, won an Oscar as Best Actress.
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