An Autobiography: I was born in Nevada, Missouri, on August ___ 1906. My father, Walter Huston, was an actor, and my mother, Reah Gore Huston, was a journalist. My parents divorced when I was just six years old. As I teen I moved out to Los Angeles with my mom where I went to Lincoln High School, but I dropped out to pursuing boxing. I struggled to find myself and when boxing fell through I went on to attempt careers as a painter in Paris. I even studied at the Art Students of League of Los Angeles. Yet, I gave up that career path as well and moved to New York to take after my father and be an actor. While there I started writing short stories and even tried my hand as a reporter for a New York newspaper. It wasn’t until the early 1930s that I ventured to Hollywood as a writer. Although I started under contract with Samuel Goldwyn, I soon moved to Universal but continued to drift from studio to studio until I finally found my home at Warner Bros. There I transitioned into my career as a director with the film The Maltese Falcon which I had also written the screen play for. In 1942 my career with Warner Bros came to a temporary hiatus when I was drafted into the U.S Army to help the war efforts in World War II. While with the military I made three documentaries entitled: Report from the Aleutians, The Battle of San Pietro, and Let There Be Light. Despite the facts that some of my films were controversial, I moved up until I became the rank of major. I was also awarded the Legion of Merit for “courageous work under battle conditions”. After the war I returned to Warner Bros to continue with my directing career. In the aftermath of WWII Hollywood was under investigation for Communism by the HUAC, or the House Un-American Activities Committee. I co-founded and joined the Committee for the First Amendment to support the rights of the Hollywood ten who were put on trail during this time. The Committee and I went down to DC to protest the HUAC hearings with no success. After suspicions against the Committee rose I moved to Ireland in 1952 and gained my citizenship in 1964. It was during this time of my life that I directed many of my greatest films and acted in films as well. Throughout my life I married five times and divorced four—my last wife having died tragically in a car crash. All of my three children pursued made me proud careers in acting and directing. I even had the honor of working on a film with both my daughter, Anjelica Huston, and my father on a film. My downfall in life was that I was a smoker and even when I was on oxygen tanks, unable to breathe without them, I still continued to smoke. On August 28th, 1987, at the age of 81, I died of Emphysema in Middletown, Rhode Island. I am proud of the life I lived, and the accomplishments I achieved.
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