Daniel Sallis "Danny" Huston is an award-winning American actor, writer and director. Huston got his start directing Mr. North starring Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum and his sister, Anjelica Huston. Later, Huston gave his breakthrough acting performance in the independent ...
Katie Jane Evans (m. 2001–2008), Virginia Madsen (m. 1989–1992)
Children
Stella
Parents
John Huston, Zoe Sallis
Siblings
Anjelica Huston, Allegra Huston, Tony Huston, Pablo Huston
Nicknames
Daniel S. Huston , Danny Houston , Daniel S. "Danny" Huston , Daniel Sallis "Danny" Huston , Daniel Sallis Huston
Star Sign
Taurus
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Quote
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I seem to play a lot of losers.
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Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head. I'm always amazed that there are more to come out, but one day something triggers something off and a new memory of him emerges, like a ghost.
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Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
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Fact
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Visited 12. Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia) to promote his Movie "The Proposition". [August 2006]
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His father was of English, Scottish, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), distant German, and remote Portuguese, ancestry. His mother was of English and Indian ancestry.
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He and his Hitchcock (2012) cast mate, Anthony Hopkins have both played King Richard the Lionheart. Hopkins made his film debut in that role in The Lion in Winter (1968), while Huston played the part in Robin Hood (2010). They have also both played members of the Adams political clan: Huston played Samuel Adams in John Adams (2008), while Hopkins played his cousin John Quincy Adams in Amistad (1997).
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His divorce from Katie Evans was never finalized. She committed suicide in 2008.
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In 1943, his grandfather Walter Huston starred in a film called Edge of Darkness (1943). In 2009, he starred in a film with the same name Edge of Darkness (2010), based on the British mini-series.
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He is known for his ear for dialects, which often vary from role to role for him. This may be due partially to his assimilation to various regions while his parents moved him around as a kid.
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