George Houston
Birthday: 1896-01-11
Place of Birth: Hampton, New Jersey, USA
Biography: George Houston, having success on the Broadway stage, was enticed to Hollywood for some singing work in musicals in the mid 1930s. Hired by Grand National Studios, he appeared in the lead role for the tuneful seafaring yarn Captain Calamity (1936) and as Wild Bill Hickcock in Frontier Scout (1938). With the success of singing cowboys in motion pictures, he was signed at MGM, starring in The Great Waltz, and for Warner Bros. in Blockade, both 1938. From 1939 to 1940 he starred in an eight-part short film production, Tales of Billy the Kid, for PRC (Producers Distributing Corporation), but the series was never released. Houston's last film was The Lone Rider (1942).
Movies
Conquest
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging...
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The Howards of Virginia
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries d...
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Frontier Scout
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John)...
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What Price Safety!
Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger...
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Let's Sing Again
An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York....
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Captain Calamity
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure....
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The Lone Rider and the Bandit
A singing cowboy and his sidekick rescue miners from a bad deal....
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Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a valuable source of pearls in the South Pacific. But Jim's ...
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Blockade
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along th...
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The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher....
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The Great Waltz
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer....
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Outlaws of Boulder Pass
Harkness controls Boulder Pass and his men are overcharging the ranches for its usage. When Tom Came...
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Masks and Memories
In this musical short, three individuals try to entice a reclusive uncle to join the festivities dur...
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The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio
Tom Cameron, aka the Lone Rider, and his faithful sidekick, Fuzzy Jones, flee across the Rio Grande ...
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Laughing at Danger
Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the r...
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The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
Tom and Fuzzy investigate a ghost town which, in this case, is supposedly haunted by real ghosts. Th...
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Border Roundup
In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron and his pal Fuzzy Jones are deputy sheriff...
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Texas Justice
Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with...
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The Lone Rider Ambushed
The Lone Rider Tom assumes a former outlaw's identity (Keno) to learn where the gold from his last b...
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The Lone Rider Fights Back
Opera star-cum-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's The Lone Rider Fights Back. Appropriately e...
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The Lone Rider Rides On
Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole ...
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The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
Tom Cameron must prove himself innocent after he is wrongfully charged with the murder of a prison g...
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Marie Antoinette
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, ...
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The Melody Lingers on
A piano virtuoso has a child out of wedlock; the father, her fiancé, is killed trying to save her li...
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