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Academy Award winning film legend John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) was a renowned screenwriter, director, producer and actor best known for directing iconic films such as The African Queen and The Maltese Falcon.

A father of five, Huston is the patriarch of a film dynasty, with daughter Anjelica (born to ballerina/model Enrica Soma), son Danny (born to actress/author Zoe Sallis), and grandson Jack (born to screenwriter Tony Huston and British aristocrat Lady Margot Lavinia) sitting down with The Hollywood Reporter for their Hollywood Legacies issue.

Anjelica, an Oscar winner in her own right (she won best supporting...

Part of a film dynasty, he's unforgettable on screen, but has never had an acting lesson. Is it all in the genes for John's late-flowering son, asks John Patterson

If you don't already know whose son Danny Huston is, the fastest way to figure it out is to close your eyes and listen to him speak. The words waft towards you on a breathy cloud, lent colour and character by a ­detectable lifelong smoking habit (no emphysema like the Old Man had, though, not yet). In a faded American accent that sounds as if it's been ­acquired or borrowed or even half-forgotten in ­exile. All inflected with an Irishman's love of words-as-song and a bullshitter's ­devotion to the art of speech. Every so often a story – and they're all well-told, like dad's were – will resolve itself into a generous, wheezy burst of laughter that's like an ­invitation to intimacy and friendship.

Actor Danny Huston, 46, the younger half-brother of Anjelica Huston, is said to be "devastated" by the suicide in La of Katie Jane Evans, his estranged wife of six years and mother of his daughter, Stella. Danny, the illegitimate son of John Huston and London-based actress Zoe Sallis, was separated from Evans, a model, when she jumped from the roof of her Manhattan Beach building. A friend told Britain's Daily Mirror, "Emma Parker Bowles had been with her...