Walter Huston
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| Walter Huston | ||||||||||
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| Image:Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre trailer.jpg in the trailer for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | ||||||||||
| Birth name | Walter Houghston | |||||||||
| Born | April 6 1884 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||
| Died | April 7 1950 (aged 66) Hollywood, California, U.S. | |||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Rhea Gore (1904-1912) Bayonne Whipple (1915-1924) Ninetta Sunderland (1931-1950) | |||||||||
| Children | John Huston (1906-1987) | |||||||||
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Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian-born American actor.
Born Walter Houghston in Toronto, Ontario Canada 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. His first major role was in 1929's The Virginian, opposite Gary Cooper. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1936 for Dodsworth, in which he had appeared on Broadway two years earlier.
Huston stayed busy throughout the 1930s and 1940s, both on stage and screen (becoming one of America's most distinguished actors), including introducing September Song in Knickerbocker Holiday. Among his films, he starred in Rain (1932) 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. He died in Hollywood from an aortic aneurysm, one day after his 66th birthday.
His son was John Huston, director of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, and many other films. The actors and directors Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston are his grandchildren.
Walter Huston has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6626 Hollywood Blvd.
Actor Billy Crystal makes a reference to Huston in the movie City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold when he does the "Walter Huston dance".
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[edit] Partial filmography (with co-stars)
- The Lady Lies (1929) with Claudette Colbert
- The Virginian (1929) with Gary Cooper
- The Beast of the City (1932) with Jean Harlow and Jean Hersholt
- American Madness (1932) with Pat O'Brien
- Rain (1932) with Joan Crawford
- Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
- Dodsworth (1936) with Mary Astor and David Niven
- The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) with James Craig and Edward Arnold
- Swamp Water (1941) with Walter Brennan and Anne Baxter
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) with James Cagney
- The Outlaw (1943) with Thomas Mitchell and Jane Russell
- Edge of Darkness (1943) with Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan
- Mission to Moscow (1943)
- Dragonwyck (1946) with Gene Tierney and Vincent Price
- Duel in the Sun (1946) with Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt
- The Furies (1950) with Wendell Corey
[edit] Academy Awards and nominations
- 1937 - Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role - Dodsworth
- 1942 - Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Devil and Daniel Webster
- 1943 - Nominated Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Yankee Doodle Dandy
- 1949 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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| Preceded by Edmund Gwenn for Miracle on 34th Street | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1948 for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Succeeded by Dean Jagger for Twelve O'Clock High |
| Preceded by Charles Laughton for Mutiny on the Bounty | NYFCC Award for Best Actor 1936 for Dodsworth | Succeeded by Paul Muni for The Life of Emile Zola |
[edit] See also
Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood
[edit] External links
- Walter Huston at the IMDB
- Walter Huston's Gravesite, with an incorrect year of birth on the plaque.de:Walter Huston
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Categories: Canadian film actors | Canadian stage actors | American film actors | Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winners | Canadian expatriate actors in the United States | Canadians of Anglo-Irish descent | Canadians of Scottish descent | Hollywood Walk of Fame | American Episcopalians | People from Toronto | Deaths from cardiovascular disease | 1884 births | 1950 deaths | Vaudeville performers
