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  Walter Huston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian-born actor.
Born Walter Houghston in Toronto, Ontario to an Irish Anglican father and a Scottish mother, he began his Broadway career in 1924, he achieved fame in character roles once talkies began in Hollywood.
In addition to being the father of actor/director John Huston, Walter Houston is the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston.
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Walter Huston has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6626 Hollywood Blvd. 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday.
Walter Huston (April 6 April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years).
Walter Huston was the father of actor/director John Huston John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906–August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor.
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Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian-born (additional info and facts about Canadian-born) actor.
Born Walter Houghston in Toronto, Ontario (additional info and facts about Toronto, Ontario), he began his Broadway (A street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters) career in 1924, he achieved fame in character roles once talkies began in Hollywood (The film industry of the United States).
Walter Huston was the father of actor/director John Huston (United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987)) and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston (additional info and facts about Anjelica Huston).
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Deranged horror drama stars Walter Huston as a crippled madman living in the African jungles, bent on humiliating and torturing the "daughter" of his enemy.
Huston is the Earp character, Harry Carey is the Holliday character, as they smash the "Northup" family of crooks.
Hard hitting pre code drama stars Walter Huston as a corrupt judge who frames a woman (Anita Page) for prostitution when she sees his payoff list, then tries to silence her husband (Phillips Holmes) when he tries to get to the bottom of things.
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 Biography for Walter Huston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
By his own admission not much of a singer, Huston introduced the American pop music standard "September Song" in the 1938 Broadway show "Knickerbocker Holiday." His recording of the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson song was a best-seller that year on the Brunswick label.
Huston scored his greatest personal triumph in both stage and screen adaptations of Sinclair Lewis's Dodsworth playing the retired industrialist who sheds his nagging, unfaithful wife for true love with an American expatriate in Europe.
Huston received a 1936 Oscar nomination for his solid, intelligent work in that film, although he more or less abandoned movies for the next few years (except for supporting turns in 1938's Of Human Hearts and 1939's The Light That Failed He earned another Academy Award nomination for his canny performance as "Mr.
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 Huston Walter English
In 1906 Walter and Rhea became parents to their only child, John who would go on to become one of Hollywood's most acclaimed directors, on August 5th.
Walter was barley making a living in vaudeville, and decided that to look after his new family he would have to set aside life as an entertainer
Walter during most of his career split his time between the screen and the stage.
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 The religion of Walter Huston, actor
Walter Huston's son John Huston recounts that while living with his father, the family attended Episcopalian church services.
My father [Walter Huston] was born in 1884 in Toronto, Canada, of a Scottish mother...
John Huston recounts how as a teenager his father Walter Huston arranged for him to meet Jack Dempsy, the great Mormon (Latter-day Saint) boxer, in or slightly after 1923.
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 Walter Huston --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Canadian-born U.S. character actor Walter Huston had a career in films and theater that ranged from musical comedy to high drama.
German born U.S. orchestra conductor Bruno Walter was known for his interpretations of the works of composers of the Viennese school, especially Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner.
The English critic and man of letters Walter Raleigh was a prominent figure at the University of Oxford in his time.
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 Walter Huston - Northern Stars
He won the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actor in 1948 for The Treasure of Sierra Madre which was directed by his son John Huston, who also received an Oscar® as Best Director.
Walter had appeared in the first two films John directed, The Maltese Falcon in 1941 and In This Our Life in 1942.
Born at 11 Major Street in the College-Brunswick area of Toronto, Ontario, there's a plaque in a nearby park commemorating the event.
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 Walter Huston - Best Supporting Actor: MovieActors.com
Walter Huston won his Supporting Oscar for playing Howard, the grizzly old-time gold prospector.
Born in Canada Walter Huston became a hit on Broadway and in Hollywood in the 1920's after many years as an engineer and a struggling actor.
Walter Huston had small roles in John's first two films: THE MALTESE FALCON and IN THIS OUR LIFE.
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Actor Huston launched his movie career with Gentlemen of the Press (1929), and spent the 1930s playing everything from a Mexican bandit to President Lincoln.
In the 1938 Broadway musical comedy Knickerbocker Holiday, Huston, in the role of a 17th century New Amsterdam governor, achieved theatrical immortality with his poignant rendition of the show's top tune, "September Song".
Still, it was only after removing his expensive false teeth and trading his fancy duds for a dusty hobo's outfit that the actor would win an Academy Award, for his portrayal of the cackling old prospector Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), directed by his son, John Huston.
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 Walter Johnson --  Encyclopædia Britannica
in full Walter Perry Johnson, byname The Big Train American professional baseball player who had perhaps the greatest fastball in the history of the game.
Mondale, Walter F. 42nd vice president of the United States (1977–81) in the administration of President Jimmy Carter and Democratic candidate for president in 1984.
A liberal with a respected history in the Democratic party, U.S. public official Walter F. Mondale was chosen to be the vice-presidential running mate of Jimmy Carter in his successful 1976 presidential campaign.
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Starring Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Gloria Warren, Patty Hale, Frankie Thomas, Una O'Connor.
Starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor, Paul Lukas, David Niven, Spring Byington, Maria Ouspenskaya, Grant Mitchell, John Payne, Gregory Gaye.
Starring Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Madge Evans, Jimmy Durante, Eugene Pallette, Robert Young, David Newell, Charles Irwin, Sterling Holloway, Paul Porcasi.
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For many years Walter Huston had two passions: his career as an engineer...
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Huston, Walter (1884–1950), American actor, best known for his dramatic characterizations.
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Pitt and Desire Under the Elms; then, in 1929, he joined the mass exodus of Broadway players to the movies, which were just then switching to sound.
In his mid-40s by the time he crossed to films, Huston was nonetheless cast in some romantic leads as well as character parts and received enthusiastic press notices for his portrayal of the title role in D.W. Griffith's ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1930).
He received even greater accolades for his portrayal of the Devil in THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER (1941)/ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY, a delightful screen adaptation of Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster.
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Starring: Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi, Gene Reynolds, Guy Kibbee, Charles Coburn, John Carradine, Ann Rutherford, Leatrice Joy Gilbert, Charley Grapewin, Leona Roberts, Gene Lockhart, Clem Bevans, Arthur Aylesworth, Sterling Holloway, Charles Peck, Robert McWade, Minor Watson
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Canadian-born actor Walter Huston enjoyed an early theatrical life of roller-coaster proportions which he doggedly pursued, despite a lifelong...
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born Walter Houghston on April 6, 1884, in Toronto, Ontario
Dodsworth (1936) the New York Film Critics voted Huston best actor of 1936 for this performance
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) (aka All That Money Can Buy) as Mr.
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