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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 3, 1883
Place of Birth:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Walter Huston
Biography
Walter Thomas Huston (April 5, 1883 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), directed by his son John Huston. He is the patriarch of the four generations of the Huston acting family, including his son John, grandchildren Anjelica Huston, Danny Huston, Allegra Huston, and great-grandchild Jack Huston.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | A Compassionate Spy | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Various Roles (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' | Howard (archive footage) |
| 2000 | Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America | Narrator |
| 1997 | Bogart: The Untold Story | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | Joan Crawford: Always the Star | Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) |
| 1983 | Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1975 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) |
| 1957 | Armored Attack! | Dr. Kurin |
| 1950 | The Furies | T. C. Jeffords |
| 1949 | The Great Sinner | General Ostrovsky |
| 1948 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Howard |
| 1948 | Summer Holiday | Mr. Nat Miller |
| 1946 | Duel in the Sun | The Sinkiller |
| 1946 | Dragonwyck | Ephraim Wells |
| 1946 | Let There Be Light | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1945 | And Then There Were None | Edward Armstrong |
| 1945 | War Comes to America | Narrator |
| 1945 | Know Your Enemy: Japan | Narrator |
| 1944 | Dragon Seed | Ling Tan |
| 1944 | Know Your Ally: Britain | Narrator |
| 1944 | Why We Fight: The Battle of China | Abraham Lincoln |
| 1944 | Twenty Years After | (archive footage) |
| 1943 | Report from the Aleutians | Voices of officers (voice) |
| 1943 | The Outlaw | Doc Holliday |
| 1943 | The North Star | Dr. Kurin |
| 1943 | Edge of Darkness | Dr. Martin Stensgard |
| 1943 | December 7th | Uncle Sam 'U.S.' |
| 1943 | Mission to Moscow | Ambassador Joseph E. Davies |
| 1943 | Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike | Narrator |
| 1943 | Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer | Narrator |
| 1943 | Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain | Narrator |
| 1943 | For God and Country | Narrator |
| 1943 | The Voice That Thrilled the World | Jerry Cohan (archive footage) |
| 1943 | War Department Report | Narrator (voice) |
| 1942 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Jerry Cohan |
| 1942 | Always in My Heart | MacKenzie Scott |
| 1942 | Safeguarding Military Information | The General |
| 1942 | Why We Fight: Prelude to War | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1942 | Our Russian Front | Narrator |
| 1942 | In This Our Life | Bartender (uncredited) |
| 1941 | All That Money Can Buy | Mr. Scratch |
| 1941 | The Shanghai Gesture | Sir Guy Charteris |
| 1941 | Swamp Water | Thursday Ragan |
| 1941 | The Maltese Falcon | Captain Jacoby (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Light That Failed | Torpenhow |
| 1938 | Of Human Hearts | Ethan Wilkins |
| 1936 | Dodsworth | Sam Dodsworth |
| 1936 | Rhodes of Africa | Cecil John Rhodes |
| 1936 | Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs | |
| 1935 | The Tunnel | President of the United States |
| 1935 | Hollywood Hobbies | Himself |
| 1934 | Keep 'Em Rolling | Sgt. Benjamin E. Walsh |
| 1933 | Ann Vickers | Barney Dolphin |
| 1933 | The Prizefighter and the Lady | Edwin J. Bennett ("The Professor") |
| 1933 | Gabriel Over the White House | Hon. Judson Hammond - The President of the United States |
| 1933 | Hell Below | Lieut. Comdr. T.J. Toler USN |
| 1933 | Storm at Daybreak | Mayor Dushan Radovic |
| 1932 | American Madness | Thomas Dickson |
| 1932 | The Beast of the City | Capt. Jim Fitzpatrick |
| 1932 | Rain | Alfred Davidson |
| 1932 | The Woman from Monte Carlo | Captain Corlaix |
| 1932 | Kongo | Flint |
| 1932 | Law and Order | Frame 'Saint' Johnson |
| 1932 | The Wet Parade | Pow Tarleton |
| 1932 | Night Court | Judge Andrew J. Moffett |
| 1931 | The Criminal Code | Mark Brady |
| 1931 | The Star Witness | District Attorney Whitlock |
| 1931 | A House Divided | Seth Law |
| 1931 | The Ruling Voice | Jack Bannister |
| 1931 | Voice of Hollywood (Series 2, No. 3) | Self |
| 1931 | How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 7: 'The Spoon' | Judge Walter Huston (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Intimate Interviews: Walter Huston | Self |
| 1930 | Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| 1930 | The Virtuous Sin | Gregory Platoff |
| 1930 | An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee | Self |
| 1930 | The Bad Man | Pancho Lopez |
| 1930 | 1930 Prelude to "The Birth of a Nation" | Self |
| 1930 | Behind the Make-Up | Joe in Clark & White's Office (uncredited) |
| 1929 | The Virginian | Trampas |
| 1929 | The Lady Lies | Robert Rossiter |
| 1929 | The Bishop's Candlesticks | The Convict |
| 1929 | Two Americans | Abraham Lincoln |
| 1929 | Gentlemen of the Press | Wickland Snell |
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