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name: "Tony Huston"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tony-huston"
fi1m_id: "tony-huston"
tmdb_id: 4031328
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "16 April 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:40:25.491123+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tony Huston

## Identity

Tony Huston

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tony-huston
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tony-huston
- **TMDB ID:** 4031328
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4031328

Writer. Born 16 April 1950 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 16 April 1950, Los Angeles County, California, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4031328

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Dead*](https://film.one/film/the-dead.md) (86)

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## Biography

Tony Huston is an American screenwriter and actor. Born on 16 April 1950 in Los Angeles County, California, he is the son of director John Huston. He wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film *The Dead*, an adaptation of the James Joyce short story directed by his father and starring his sister Anjelica Huston.

Huston received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for *The Dead*. His other writing credits include several low-budget films from the late 1960s and early 1970s, often under pseudonyms. He has also worked as an assistant director and director on a small number of projects. He was previously married to Lady Margot Lavinia Cholmondeley.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Dead* (1987), Fi1m 86, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-dead.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Dead* (1987), Writer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-dead.md)
- *The List of Adrian Messenger* (1963), as Derek Bruttenholm

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