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Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian
Canada

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-born American actor.

in Toronto
Toronto

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, Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
 to an Ulster-Scottish father and a Scottish Canadian
Scottish Canadian

Scottish Canadians are people of Scottish descent or cultural heritage living in Canada. As the third-largest ethnic group in Canada and among the first to settle in Canada, Scottish people have made a large impact on Canadian culture since colonial times....
 mother, he began his Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 career in 1924, he achieved fame in character roles once talkies began in Hollywood. His first major role was in 1929's The Virginian
The Virginian (1929 film)

The Virginian is a 1929 in film western movie starring Gary Cooper as the Virginian and Walter Huston as the villainous Trampas. The early sound film was directed by Victor Fleming....
, opposite Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper

Frank James ?Gary? Cooper was an Cinema of the United States film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Western movie he made....
. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 in 1936 for Dodsworth
Dodsworth (film)

Dodsworth is a 1936 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his Dodsworth of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis....
, in which he had appeared on Broadway two years earlier
Dodsworth (play)

Dodsworth is a three-act play by Sidney Howard based on Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis. Through the title character, it examines the differences between United States and European intellect, manners, and morals....
.

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
Knickerbocker Holiday

Knickerbocker Holiday is a Broadway theatre musical theater written by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson ; it was directed by Joshua Logan. It opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 19 1938 and closed on March 11 1939 after 168 performances....
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Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
-born American actor.

Biography

Born in Toronto
Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
, Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
 to an Ulster-Scottish father and a Scottish Canadian
Scottish Canadian

Scottish Canadians are people of Scottish descent or cultural heritage living in Canada. As the third-largest ethnic group in Canada and among the first to settle in Canada, Scottish people have made a large impact on Canadian culture since colonial times....
 mother, he began his Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 career in 1924, he achieved fame in character roles once talkies began in Hollywood. His first major role was in 1929's The Virginian
The Virginian (1929 film)

The Virginian is a 1929 in film western movie starring Gary Cooper as the Virginian and Walter Huston as the villainous Trampas. The early sound film was directed by Victor Fleming....
, opposite Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper

Frank James ?Gary? Cooper was an Cinema of the United States film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Western movie he made....
. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 in 1936 for Dodsworth
Dodsworth (film)

Dodsworth is a 1936 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his Dodsworth of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis....
, in which he had appeared on Broadway two years earlier
Dodsworth (play)

Dodsworth is a three-act play by Sidney Howard based on Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis. Through the title character, it examines the differences between United States and European intellect, manners, and morals....
.

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
Knickerbocker Holiday

Knickerbocker Holiday is a Broadway theatre musical theater written by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson ; it was directed by Joshua Logan. It opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 19 1938 and closed on March 11 1939 after 168 performances....
. Among his films, he starred in Rain
Rain (1932 film)

Rain is a 1932 in film motion picture directed by Lewis Milestone. The film stars Joan Crawford as prostitute Sadie Thompson and Walter Huston as a conflicted missionary who wants to reform Sadie, but whose own morals start decaying....
 (1932) and Mission to Moscow
Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow is a 1943 in film drama directed by Michael Curtiz, and book of the same name by Ambassador Joseph E. Davies.The movie, starring Walter Huston, was made in response to a request by Franklin D....
 (1943), a pro-Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 World War II propaganda
Propaganda

Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to Objectivity providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience....
 film as Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 in 1948 for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is John Huston's Cinema of the United States feature film adaptation of B. Traven's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in which two United States down-and-outers in 1920s Mexico hook up with an old-timer to prospect for gold....
, which was directed by his son, John Huston
John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
. His last film was The Furies
The Furies (film)

The Furies is a 1950 Western film directed by Anthony Mann and featuring Walter Huston in his last performance....
 in 1950 with Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck was an United States actor, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B....
.

Along with Anthony Veiller, he narrated the the Why We Fight
Why We Fight

Why We Fight is a film series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the United States government during World War II to demonstrate to American soldiers the reason for U.S....
 series of World War II documentaries directed by Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
.

He died in Hollywood from an aortic aneurysm
Aortic aneurysm

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, one day after his 66th birthday.

Walter Huston has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
 at 6626 Hollywood Blvd.

Partial filmography (with co-stars)

  • The Lady Lies
    The Lady Lies

    The Lady Lies is a 1929 in film film directed by Hobert Henley, and starring Walter Huston, Claudette Colbert and Charles Ruggles....
     (1929) with Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert

    Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.Born in Saint-Mand?, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway theater productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures....
  • The Virginian
    The Virginian (1929 film)

    The Virginian is a 1929 in film western movie starring Gary Cooper as the Virginian and Walter Huston as the villainous Trampas. The early sound film was directed by Victor Fleming....
     (1929) with Gary Cooper
    Gary Cooper

    Frank James ?Gary? Cooper was an Cinema of the United States film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Western movie he made....
  • The Virtuous Sin
    The Virtuous Sin

    The Virtuous Sin is a 1930 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor and Louis J. Gasnier. The screenplay by Martin Brown and Louise Long is based on the play The General by Lajos Zilahy....
     (1930) with Kay Francis
    Kay Francis

    Kay Francis was an Cinema of the United States stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway theatre in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Bros....
  • The Bad Man
    The Bad Man (1930 film)

    The Bad Man is an All-Talking western film starring Walter Huston which was produced and released by Warner Bros. in 1930. The movie is based on Porter Emerson Browne's 1920 play of the same name....
     (1930)
  • The Beast of the City
    The Beast of the City

    The Beast of the City is a 1932 in film pre-Code gangster movie featuring cops as vigilantes – predating Dirty Harry by almost 40 years – and known for its singularly vicious ending....
     (1932) with Jean Harlow
    Jean Harlow

    Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" and the "Blonde Bombshell" due to her famous platinum blonde hair, and ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time AFI's 100 Years......
     and Jean Hersholt
    Jean Hersholt

    'Jean Hersholt' was a Danish actor who lived in the United States where he was a leading film and radio talent, best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr....
  • American Madness
    American Madness

    American Madness is a 1932 in film American film directed by Frank Capra and starring Walter Huston as a New York banker embroiled in scandal....
     (1932) with Pat O'Brien
    Pat O'Brien (actor)

    Pat O'Brien was an American movie actor with over 100 screen credits....
  • Rain
    Rain (1932 film)

    Rain is a 1932 in film motion picture directed by Lewis Milestone. The film stars Joan Crawford as prostitute Sadie Thompson and Walter Huston as a conflicted missionary who wants to reform Sadie, but whose own morals start decaying....
     (1932) with Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
  • Gabriel Over the White House
    Gabriel Over the White House

    Gabriel Over the White House is a 1933 in film film depicting a fictional President of the United States who has a religious experience and attempts to solve his country's problems through authoritarianism means....
     (1933) with Franchot Tone
    Franchot Tone

    Franchot Tone was an United States actor....
  • Dodsworth
    Dodsworth (film)

    Dodsworth is a 1936 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his Dodsworth of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis....
     (1936) with Mary Astor
    Mary Astor

    Mary Astor was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress. Most famous for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon opposite Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long film career as a teenager in the silent films of the early 1920 in film....
     and David Niven
    David Niven

    James David Graham Niven was an English people Academy Award for Best Actor-winning actor probably best known for his roles as the punctuality-obsessed adventurer Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and the suave cat burglar Sir Charles Litton in The Pink Panther ....
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster
    The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941 film)

    All That Money Can Buy is a 1941 in film fantasy film, adapted from Stephen Vincent Ben?t's The Devil and Daniel Webster by Ben?t and Dan Totheroh....
     (1941) with James Craig
    James Craig

    James Craig may refer to:* James Craig , Scottish architect* James Henry Craig , British military officer and colonial administrator of The Canadas...
     and Edward Arnold
    Edward Arnold (actor)

    Edward Arnold was an United States actor. He was born on the Lower East Side of New York City as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider, the son of Germany immigrants Carl Schneider and Elizabeth Ohse....
  • Swamp Water
    Swamp Water

    Swamp Water is a 1941 in film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Walter Brennan, produced at 20th Century Fox, and based on the novel by Vereen Bell....
     (1941) with Walter Brennan
    Walter Brennan

    Walter Brennan was a three-time Academy Award winning United States actor. He is remembered as one of the premier character actors in motion picture history....
     and Anne Baxter
    Anne Baxter

    Anne Baxter was an Academy Award-winning United States actress....
  • The Shanghai Gesture
    The Shanghai Gesture

    The Shanghai Gesture is a United Artists film noir film starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston, with Victor Mature and Ona Munson.It was adapted for the screen by Josef von Sternberg, based on the stage play by John Colton, produced by Arnold Pressburger for United Artists, and directed by von Sternberg....
     (1942) with Gene Tierney
    Gene Tierney

    Gene Tierney was an United States film and Theatre actor. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Academy Award for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven ....
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy
    Yankee Doodle Dandy

    Yankee Doodle Dandy is a biopic about George M. Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway", starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston and Richard Whorf, and featuring Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney....
     (1942) with James Cagney
    James Cagney

    James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film star. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guy"s....
  • The Outlaw
    The Outlaw

    The Outlaw is a 1943 in film Cinema of the United States western film, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jane Russell. The supporting cast includes Jack Buetel, Thomas Mitchell , and Walter Huston....
     (1943) with Thomas Mitchell
    Thomas Mitchell (actor)

    Thomas Mitchell was an United States actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of the father of Scarlet O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life....
     and Jane Russell
    Jane Russell

    Jane Russell is an American film actress and sex symbol....
  • Edge of Darkness
    Edge of Darkness (film)

    Edge of Darkness is a World War II film released in 1943. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and stars Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, and Walter Huston....
     (1943) with Errol Flynn
    Errol Flynn

    Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
     and Ann Sheridan
    Ann Sheridan

    Ann Sheridan was an United Statesn film actor....
  • Mission to Moscow
    Mission to Moscow

    Mission to Moscow is a 1943 in film drama directed by Michael Curtiz, and book of the same name by Ambassador Joseph E. Davies.The movie, starring Walter Huston, was made in response to a request by Franklin D....
     (1943)
  • And Then There Were None (1945 film) (1945)
  • Dragonwyck (1946) with Gene Tierney
    Gene Tierney

    Gene Tierney was an United States film and Theatre actor. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Academy Award for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven ....
     and Vincent Price
    Vincent Price

    Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an United States film actor, remembered for his distinctive voice, his 6-foot 4-inch stature and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films done in the latter part of his career....
  • Duel in the Sun (1946) with Joseph Cotten
    Joseph Cotten

    Joseph Cheshire Cotten was an American actor of stage and film. He was perhaps best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles, which included Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons and Journey into Fear , which Cotten wrote, and for his work with Alfred Hitchcock in Shadow of a Doubt....
     and Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck

    Gregory Peck was an American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s....
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is John Huston's Cinema of the United States feature film adaptation of B. Traven's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in which two United States down-and-outers in 1920s Mexico hook up with an old-timer to prospect for gold....
     (1948) with Humphrey Bogart
    Humphrey Bogart

    Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an United_States_of_America actor and cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time....
     and Tim Holt
    Tim Holt

    Tim Holt was an U.S. film actor....
  • The Furies
    The Furies (film)

    The Furies is a 1950 Western film directed by Anthony Mann and featuring Walter Huston in his last performance....
     (1950) with Wendell Corey
    Wendell Corey

    Wendell Corey was an United States actor and politician.He was born Wendell Reid Corey in Dracut, Massachusetts, the son of Milton Rothwell Corey and Julia Etta McKenney ....


Academy Awards and nominations

  • 1937 - Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role
    Academy Award for Best Actor

    Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
     - Dodsworth
    Dodsworth (film)

    Dodsworth is a 1936 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his Dodsworth of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis....
  • 1942 - Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Devil and Daniel Webster
    The Devil and Daniel Webster

    "The Devil and Daniel Webster" is a short story by Stephen Vincent Ben?t. This retelling of the classic German Faust tale is based on the short story "The Devil and Tom Walker", written by Washington Irving....
  • 1943 - Nominated Best Actor in a Supporting Role
    Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

    Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
     - Yankee Doodle Dandy
    Yankee Doodle Dandy

    Yankee Doodle Dandy is a biopic about George M. Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway", starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston and Richard Whorf, and featuring Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney....
  • 1949 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is John Huston's Cinema of the United States feature film adaptation of B. Traven's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in which two United States down-and-outers in 1920s Mexico hook up with an old-timer to prospect for gold....


Trivia

  • Huston was mention in the 1994 western
    Western

    Western may refer to:*Western culture , the human cultures of European origin*Western Christianity, a term used to cover the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, the Churches of the Anglican Communion and Protestant Churches....
    -comedy
    Comedy

    Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
     City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
    City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

    City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold is a comedy film directed by Paul Weiland. It is the sequel to City Slickers . Although a financial success, the film was a critical failure, scoring a mere 20% "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and even received a Razzie nomination for Worst Remake or Sequel....
     and the "Walter Huston dance" after finding the buried gold.



See also

Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood
Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood

Film have been a part of the culture of Canada since the beginning. Hollywood, California and the development of its motion picture industry owes no small part of its success to a number of Canada pioneers in early Hollywood....


External links

  • , with an incorrect year of birth on the plaque.