John Huston
Screenwriter

John Huston

Section Title: Screenwriter
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Year	Title	Director	Notes

1930	The Storm	William Wyler	(written with Charles Logue, Langdon McCormick, Tom Reed, and Wells Root)

1931	A House Divided	(written with John B. Clymer, Olive Edens, and Dale Van Every)

1932	Murders in the Rue Morgue	Robert Florey	(written with Tom Reed, and Dale Van Every)

1932	Law and Order	Edward L. Cahn	(written with Tom Reed, and Richard Schayer)

1935	Death Drives Through	Edward L. Cahn	(written with Katherine Strueby, and Gordon Wellesley)

It Happened in Paris	Robert Wyler Carol Reed	(written with Katherine Strueby, H. F. Maltby)

1938	The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse	Anatole Litvak	(written with John Wexley)

Jezebel	William Wyler	(written with Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, and Robert Buckner)

1940	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet	William Dieterle	(written with Norman Burnstine and Heinz Herald) Nominated—Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

1941	High Sierra	Raoul Walsh	(written with W. R. Burnett)

The Maltese Falcon	Himself	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Sergeant York	Howard Hawks	(written with Abem Finkel, Harry Chandler, and Howard Koch) Nominated—Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

1946	The Killers	Robert Siodmak	(written with Anthony Veiller) (uncredited)

The Three Strangers	Jean Negulesco	(written with Howard Koch)

1948	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Himself	Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay National Board of Review Award for Best Screenplay Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Western Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama

Key Largo	(written with Richard Brooks) Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama

1949	We Were Strangers	(written with Peter Viertel)

1950	The Asphalt Jungle	(written with Ben Maddow) Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay Nominated—The Robert Meltzer Award (Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene) Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama

1951	The African Queen	(written with James Agee) Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1952	Moulin Rouge	(written with Anthony Veiller) Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama

1953	Beat the Devil	(written with Truman Capote)

1956	Moby Dick	(written with Ray Bradbury) New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay (2nd place)

1957	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	(written with John Lee Mahin) Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama

1961	The Asphalt Jungle	Herman Hoffman	(written with Ben Maddow; teleplay by George Bellak) Television; episode "The Professor"

1964	The Night of the Iguana	Himself	(written with Anthony Veiller) Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama

1970	The Kremlin Letter	(written with Gladys Hill)

1975	The Man Who Would Be King	(written with Gladys Hill) Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium

1988	Mr. North	Danny Huston	(written with Janet Roach and James Costigan)

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John Huston's script High Sierra (1941) was directed by Raoul Walsh.

final_sentence: John Huston's script High Sierra (1941) was directed by Raoul Walsh.