Huston Huddleston
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Huston Huddleston is an American writer and director, known for "The Greatest Show Ever" and "Six Chicks and a Dead Guy". He is also the founder of the Hollywood Sci-Fi Museum in 2012, and the Hollywood Horror Museum in 2015.
Biography
Huston is the son of Floyd Huddleston, an Oscar nominated songwriter, screenwriter, and television producer, and Nancy Adams, a singer. The elder Huddleston was best known for writing lyrics for songs in several films, including The Ballad of Josie and Midnight Cowboy. For Disney, he contributed the song, "Ev'rybody Wants to be a Cat", to The Aristocats and collaborated with his wife, Adams, who is best known for performing the 1973 Disney song, "Love" (which Huddleston also wrote) in the animated Robin Hood.
Huddleston's first job in Hollywood was working at Saint Joseph Medical Center, across the street from Disney Studios in Burbank, California, while he attended attended Buckley School and LA Valley College. In school, he majoring in Cinema and Broadcasting, wrote and directed several student films as well as wrote interviews and reviews for the LA Times, SFX Magazine and the book “Disney: A Mouse Under Glass”. He wrote special lyrics for the ABC-TV Frank Sinatra’s 80th Birthday TV Special, composed over 100 songs, wrote 25 screenplays, 3 stage plays, and 4 musicals.
He later worked in London at the BBC's Channel 4 as a writer, creating several TV pilots including The Wacky Dooley Show, The Spinal Tap Reunion Special, Vivien Leigh, and the comedy The Greatest Show Ever directed by Joe Dante and starring Mickey Rooney.
Returning to Los Angeles, he rewrote the feature film Valentine, wrote and directed "Six Chicks and a Dead Guy", produced and directed the documentary “Sweet Jane Doe”, the TV pilot “Paranormal Manifestation Squad”, collaborating with Don Bluth, and the pilot episode for the animated TV series “Captain Daddy” starring Ed Asner, Fred Willard, and Traci Lords.
He co-wrote the second episode of the web series Star Trek Continues entitled "Lolani".
He is also the founder and CEO of The Hollywood Science Fiction Foundation, and the Hollywood Horror Foundation. The Sci-Fi Museum is the world's first museum to teach filmmaking, space technology, and science through science fiction, while the Horror Museum will teach filmmaking, special effects, and the history of horror. Both will tour the world 2017-2023 and will open permanently in Los Angeles, California.