Movies List
TV Show List
The Furies

as T. C. Jeffords

1950
Summer Holiday

as Mr. Nat Miller

1948
The Outlaw

as Doc Holliday

1943
Dragonwyck

as Ephraim Wells

1946
Duel in the Sun

as The Sinkiller

1946
And Then There Were None

as Edward Armstrong

1945
Why We Fight: The Battle of China

as Abraham Lincoln

1944
Dragon Seed

as Ling Tan

1944
Know Your Ally: Britain

as Narrator

1944
Report from the Aleutians

as Voices of officers (voice)

1943
The North Star

as Dr. Kurin

1943
Edge of Darkness

as Dr. Martin Stensgard

1943
December 7th

as Uncle Sam 'U.S.'

1943
Yankee Doodle Dandy

as Jerry Cohan

1942
Prelude to War

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1942
Always in My Heart

as MacKenzie Scott

1942
All That Money Can Buy

as Mr. Scratch

1941
The Shanghai Gesture

as Sir Guy Charteris

1941
Swamp Water

as Thursday Ragan

1941
Of Human Hearts

as Ethan Wilkins

1938
Dodsworth

as Sam Dodsworth

1936
Ann Vickers

as Barney Dolphin

1933
The Prizefighter and the Lady

as Edwin J. Bennett ("The Professor")

1933
Gabriel Over the White House

as Hon. Judson Hammond - The President of the United States

1933
Hell Below

as Lieut. Comdr. T.J. Toler USN

1933
Storm at Daybreak

as Mayor Dushan Radovic

1933
The Beast of the City

as Capt. Jim Fitzpatrick

1932
Walter Huston Walter Huston

Birthday

1883-04-05

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography

Walter Huston was a Canadian-born American actor. He was the father of actor and director John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston and actor Danny Huston. Born Walter Houghston in Toronto, Ontario to an Ulster-Scottish father and a Scottish Canadian mother, he began his Broadway career in 1924. Once talkies began in Hollywood, he achieved fame in character roles. His first major role was in 1929's The Virginian with Gary Cooper. He appeared in the Broadway theatrical adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' novel Dodsworth in 1934 and the play's film version two years later. Huston stayed busy throughout the 1930s and 1940s, both on stage and screen (becoming one of America's most distinguished actors); he performed "September Song" in the original Broadway production of Knickerbocker Holiday in 1938. Among his films are Rain (1932), The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) and Mission to Moscow (1943), a pro-Soviet World War II propaganda film as Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1948 for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which was directed by his son, John Huston. His last film was The Furies in 1950 with Barbara Stanwyck. Along with Anthony Veiller, he narrated the Why We Fight series of World War II documentaries directed by Frank Capra. He died in Hollywood from an aortic aneurysm, one day after his 66th birthday. Walter Huston has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6626 Hollywood Blvd.
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