Walter Huston
Birthday: 1883-04-03
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Huston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highl...
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. ...
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search...
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American Madness
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbi...
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And Then There Were None
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to ...
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The Beast of the City
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his police detective brother Ed...
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Dodsworth
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that the...
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Report from the Aleutians
A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Camp...
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The Outlaw
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, ...
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Duel in the Sun
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself...
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Dragonwyck
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be go...
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The Furies
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love....
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All That Money Can Buy
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scrat...
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The Virginian
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discove...
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The Shanghai Gesture
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint....
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The Criminal Code
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecute...
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Summer Holiday
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neigh...
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Rain
Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pag...
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Ann Vickers
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. Sh...
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Swamp Water
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with t...
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The Lady Lies
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful...
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The North Star
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and ...
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Edge of Darkness
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wa...
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The Star Witness
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an inn...
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is...
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Kongo
The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, throug...
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The Prizefighter and the Lady
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title....
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Let There Be Light
The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. Some returnin...
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Always in My Heart
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his...
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Gabriel Over the White House
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis...
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December 7th
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering ...
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Law and Order
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, A...
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Dragon Seed
Life in a small Chinese village is turned upside down when the Japanese invade it. A heroic young Ch...
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Of Human Hearts
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War...
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Abraham Lincoln
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining cha...
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The Wet Parade
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich ...
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Night Court
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special p...
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Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...
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Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."...
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The Virtuous Sin
Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed....
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The Ruling Voice
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime....
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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The Light That Failed
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind....
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Hell Below
On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but ...
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The Maltese Falcon
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MG...
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The Bishop's Candlesticks
Very early sound version of a one-act play based on the "Bishop" sequence in Victor Hugo's "Les Mise...
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Storm at Daybreak
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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Safeguarding Military Information
World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military info...
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Two Americans
Presents Lincoln's difficulties with Gen. McClellan and Secretary of State Seward, over the selectio...
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a din...
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A Compassionate Spy
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos w...
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The Tunnel
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States....
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winni...
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Know Your Ally: Britain
Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Hust...
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Gentlemen of the Press
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his...
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Rhodes of Africa
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was direc...
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Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nat...
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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conques...
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1930 Prelude to "The Birth of a Nation"
The prelude to our picture is the record of an intimate conversation between Mr. D. W. Griffith and ...
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Voice of Hollywood (Series 2, No. 3)
Rare footage of Jean Harlow and Bela Lugosi discussing Dracula, as well as Walter Huston performing ...
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Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned...
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Know Your Enemy: Japan
Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new e...
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War Comes to America
The seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series. This e...
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Why We Fight: The Battle of China
The sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series illustrates Japan's occupation o...
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Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
The fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for f...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 7: 'The Spoon'
Bobby Jones instructs a husband and the judge in his divorce proceedings on proper use of the Spoon....
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For God and Country
The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father ...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
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Bogart: The Untold Story
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film c...
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Armored Attack!
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of ...
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Intimate Interviews: Walter Huston
One of a series of short subjects created for movie theaters in the 1930s, each an interview with a ...
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Our Russian Front
Using footage taken by Soviet battlefront cameramen, this penetrating documentary about Russian life...
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the ...
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's e...
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States -...
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Behind the Make-Up
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has...
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Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
Part of Frank Capra's World War II propaganda series made for the U.S. Armed Forces, this program pr...
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Hollywood Hobbies
This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some...
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War Department Report
The first official War Department Report by the Office of Strategic Services using American newsreel...
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In This Our Life
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the l...
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Anniversary
Here you will see Marie Dressler, Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, Walter Huston and a host of other Ca...
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