Danny Huston

Highest Rated: 100% Frankenstein (2015)

Lowest Rated: 8% The Number 23 (2007)

Birthday: May 12, 1962

Birthplace: Rome, Italy

Intimidation often looms large for a legendary director's son who wishes to follow in the footsteps of his famous parent; perhaps for this reason, more than a few opt to establish themselves in another field. For Danny Huston, however -- the scion of mythically revered, Academy Award-winning filmmaker John Huston -- it wasn't at all a question of intimidation, merely one of circumstance. After pursuing directorial work fervently and dauntlessly, but encountering mixed success and frustration about his own inability to get studio backing for projects, Danny Huston found himself being drawn, one assignment at a time, into bit roles before the camera. In the process, Huston inadvertently launched himself as one of the most respected character actors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.Born May 14, 1962, in Rome, as the illegitimate child of John Huston and European actress Zoe Sallis (during the former's separation from his then-wife, the late Ricki Soma), Daniel Huston came of age in Ireland and London. He studied art and cinema as a young adult, often spending a considerable amount of time on his father's movie sets, and honed his skills in his early twenties not in the arena of directing (as might be expected), but in that of painting.Danny Huston's directorial assignments began inconspicuously, at the age of 24, with the 1987 made-for-television comic fantasies Bigfoot and Mr. Corbett's Ghost (the second of which featured John Huston in the cast). The elder Huston -- then riding on the tails of his mid-'80s comeback with Under the Volcano and Prizzi's Honor -- engineered Danny's premier A-list feature. For it, Danny signed to helm a cinematization of Thornton Wilder's picaresque fantasy novel Theophilus North, co-adapted by John Huston, Prizzi's Honor scribe Janet Roach, and James Costigan. The Hustons assembled a dream cast: Anthony Edwards, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Stuart Masterson, Anjelica Huston (Danny's half-sister), David Warner, and Virginia Madsen, who dated and then married Danny in the fall of 1989. Robert Mitchum replaced John Huston in a key role when he died during production. Mr. North stars Edwards as the title character, a Yale graduate who wheedles his way into the upper crust of Newport, RI, in 1926, thanks to an inherent surge of electricity in his body that enables him to relieve the ailments of locals and thus charm them irrepressibly.Unfortunately, Mr. North -- which took its stateside bows in early August 1988 -- received tepid and lackluster reviews. Perhaps for this reason, Huston found it difficult to lock down a follow-up. Within a decade, the assignments were few and far between, and he occasionally found himself directing embarrassing fare like the 1995 direct-to-video horror exploitationer The Maddening (where psychotic marrieds Burt Reynolds and Angie Dickinson trap a poor woman and her daughter in their home and torture them systematically), and waiting, ever so patiently, for additional projects to take shape. Huston's personal life also decrescendoed during the early '90s, given his separation and divorce from Madsen. With no other immediate options visible to him, Huston started accepting Hollywood friends' invitations to play on-camera bit roles -- and scored tremendous success in this arena to rival anything prior in his career. He debuted as a bartender in Mike Figgis' late-1995 critical smash Leaving Las Vegas, then followed it up with turns in such cause célèbres as Timecode (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Silver City (2004), and The Aviator (2004). Huston was particularly memorable as British agent Sandy Woodrow in Fernando Mereilles' The Constant Gardener (2005), and as sociopath Arthur Burns in John Hillcoat's ultraviolent Western The Proposition (2005). He would go on to appear in films like Robin Hood, Stolen, and on the series Magic City.

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Filmography

Movies

		Credit
39%	Angel Has Fallen	Wade Jennings	—	2019
10%	The Professor	Peter	—	2019
93%	Stan & Ollie	Hal Roach	—	2019
31%	Io	Henry	—	2019
80%	Samurai Marathon 1855	Actor	—	2019
85%	Game Night	Anderton	$33.6M	2018
27%	All I See Is You	Doctor	—	2017
93%	Wonder Woman	Ludendorff	$412.5M	2017
71%	The Last Photograph	Director Actor	—	2017
69%	Newness	Actor	—	2017
38%	Pressure	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Salvation	Caleb Bryant	—	2015
100%	Frankenstein	Viktor Frankenstein	—	2015
72%	Big Eyes	Dick Nolan	$8.1M	2014
40%	The Liberator	Martin Torkington	—	2014
73%	The Congress	Jeff Green	—	2014
33%	2 Jacks	Jack Hussar	—	2013
No Score Yet	Tigers	Actor	—	2013
60%	Hitchcock	Whitfield Cook	$6.1M	2012
20%	Stolen	Tim Harlend	$0.3M	2012
27%	Wrath of the Titans	Poseidon	$83.7M	2012
85%	Boxing Day	Actor	—	2012
55%	The Conspirator	Joseph Holt	$11.6M	2011
No Score Yet	Playoff	Max Stiller	—	2011
No Score Yet	Made in Romania	Danny Huston	—	2010
29%	The Warrior's Way	The Colonel	$5.7M	2010
80%	Made in Dagenham	Voice of American Boss	$1.1M	2010
43%	Robin Hood	King Richard the Lionheart	$105.3M	2010
33%	Boogie Woogie	Actor	—	2010
27%	Clash of the Titans	Poseidon	$163.2M	2010
56%	Edge of Darkness	Jack Bennett	$43.3M	2010
91%	You Don't Know Jack	Geoffrey Fieger	—	2010
56%	The Kreutzer Sonata	Edgar	—	2009
37%	X-Men Origins - Wolverine	William Stryker	$179.8M	2009
37%	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	Lawrence Maddox	$2.5M	2008
51%	30 Days of Night	Marlow	$39.6M	2007
51%	The Kingdom	Gideon Young	$47.5M	2007
No Score Yet	I Really Hate My Job	Himself	—	2007
8%	The Number 23	Dr. Isaac French/Dr. Miles Phoenix	$35.1M	2007
92%	Children of Men	Nigel	$35.2M	2006
56%	Marie Antoinette	Joseph	$16M	2006
29%	Fade to Black	Orson Welles	—	2006
No Score Yet	Robert Ludlum's Covert One: The Hades Factor	Frank Klein	—	2006
83%	The Constant Gardener	Sandy Woodrow	$33.6M	2005
86%	The Proposition	Arthur Burns	$1.8M	2005
No Score Yet	Alpha Male	Jim Ferris	—	2005
86%	The Aviator	Jack Frye	$102.6M	2004
38%	Birth	Joseph	$5.1M	2004
48%	Silver City	Danny O'Brien	$0.9M	2004
No Score Yet	Alpha Male	Actor	—	2004
80%	21 Grams	Michael	$16.2M	2003
41%	Hotel	Hotel Manager	—	2003
No Score Yet	Hotel	Actor	—	2003
77%	Ivans Xtc	Ivan Beckman	—	2002
68%	Timecode	Randy	—	2000
No Score Yet	Spanish Fly	John	—	1999
26%	Anna Karenina	Stiva	—	1997
90%	Leaving Las Vegas	Barman No. 2	—	1995
No Score Yet	Ice Princess	Director	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Maddening	Director	—	1995
No Score Yet	Becoming Colette	Director	—	1992
No Score Yet	John Huston - The Man, the Movies, the Maverick	Actor	—	1989
50%	Mr. North	Director	—	1988
No Score Yet	Mr. Corbett's Ghost	Director	—	1987

TV

		Credit
69%	Yellowstone 2018	Dan Jenkins	2019 2018
65%	Magic City 2012-2013	Ben 'The Butcher' Diamond Ben "The Butcher" Diamond	2013 2012
81%	John Adams 2008	Samuel Adams	2008

QUOTES FROM Danny Huston CHARACTERS

Marlow says: That which can be broken must be broken.

Arthur Burns says: Love, love is the king. Love and family.

Orson Welles says: If you are looking for facts, pick up a history book. Just be sure to check who wrote it.

Orson Welles says: When I first went to Hollywood, I had a legion of yahoos, all plotting my down fall. It was a waste of time,of course. I was perfectly capable of destrying myself.

Orson Welles says: Come now, Tomaso, I think you need to work on your self esteem a little.

Tommaso says: Maybe you could just lend me some.

Orson Welles says: She's magnificent!

Wade Wilson/Deadpool says: Col. William Stryker: Your country needs you! Logan/Wolverine: I'm Canadian.

Col. William Stryker says: Your country needs you!

Logan/Wolverine says: I'm Canadian.

Col. William Stryker says: Mutants. I don't hate them, I just know what they can do. You don't realize this, but we are at war. I took an oath: Protect this country. My name is William Stryker, and I am not a monster. I am simply a patriot.

Joseph Holt says: Was this the man? (Grabs a head of one of the Conspirators)

Joseph Holt says: Was this the man? [grabs a head of one of the Conspirators]

General David Hunter says: No sir.

Joseph Holt says: (He stands stunned, then realizing his mistake, he grabs another conspirator.) Was this the man?

Joseph Holt says: [he stands stunned, then realizing his mistake, he grabs another conspirator] Was this the man?

General David Hunter says: Yes sir.

Col. William Stryker says: Your country needs you!

Logan/Wolverine says: I'm Canadian

Logan/Wolverine says: I'm Canadian.

Col. William Stryker says: Mutants, I don't hate them. They must be controlled.

Col. William Stryker says: All the horrible things in your life... Your father, the wars, I can make all this go away. You can live knowing that the woman you loved was hunted down, or you can join me. I promise you will have your revenge.