John Huston
The Maltese Falcon was Huston's directing debut. This topic is part of Film Directors within Movies & Television. This page currently draws on 9 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
John Huston trivia questions
John Huston directed which film starring Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade?
Answer: The Maltese Falcon
Bonus fact: The Maltese Falcon was Huston's directing debut.
Which adventure film did Huston direct with Bogart and Katharine Hepburn?
Answer: The African Queen
Bonus fact: Hepburn and Bogart star in the 1951 film.
Which Huston film won him Oscars for directing and screenplay?
Answer: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Bonus fact: His father Walter Huston also won an acting Oscar for the film.
Who co-wrote the screenplay for "Beat the Devil" with John Huston?
Answer: Truman Capote
Bonus fact: Capote worked on the script during filming, contributing to the movie's unusual comic tone.
What unusual family relationship connected director John Huston and Oscar winner Anjelica Huston?
Answer: They were father and daughter
Bonus fact: John Huston directed his daughter to an Oscar, continuing a multigenerational Hollywood family legacy.
Bradbury wrote the screenplay for which 1956 film adaptation of a Herman Melville novel?
Answer: Moby Dick
Bonus fact: John Huston directed the film.
Who directed the 1950 crime film "The Asphalt Jungle"?
Answer: John Huston
Bonus fact: The film became a landmark of the heist genre.
Who directed the 1953 film "Beat the Devil"?
Answer: John Huston
Bonus fact: The film mixes crime, adventure, and parody.
Who directed the 1985 film "Prizzi's Honor"?
Answer: John Huston
Bonus fact: The dark comedy about organized crime was one of Huston's late-career successes.