Walter Huston
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.
The Maltese Falcon
as Captain Jacoby (uncredited)A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a...
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
as HowardTwo jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in...
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Dodsworth
as Sam DodsworthA retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that...
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Duel in the Sun
as The SinkillerBeautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds...
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The Furies
as T. C. JeffordsA New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
as Jerry CohanA film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George...
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And Then There Were None
as Edward ArmstrongTen strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host...
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The North Star
as Dr. KurinA Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited...
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Dragonwyck
as Ephraim WellsFor Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin,...
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The Outlaw
as Doc HollidayNewly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in...
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Rain
as Alfred DavidsonDue to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago...
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All That Money Can Buy
as Mr. ScratchFarmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr....
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The Shanghai Gesture
as Sir Guy CharterisA gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
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Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
as NarratorThe second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a...
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A Compassionate Spy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los...
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Why We Fight: Prelude to War
as Self - Narrator (voice)Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series,...
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
as Captain CorlaixOn the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night....
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Ann Vickers
as Barney DolphinAfter a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her...
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage)Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most...
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In This Our Life
as Bartender (uncredited)An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining...
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Abraham Lincoln
as Abraham LincolnA biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining...
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Edge of Darkness
as Dr. Martin StensgardThe film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth...
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Of Human Hearts
as Ethan WilkinsThis is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil...
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The Criminal Code
as Mark BradyAfter young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is...
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The Beast of the City
as Capt. Jim FitzpatrickPolice Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed...
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Let There Be Light
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. Some...
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Dragon Seed
as Ling TanThe lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An...
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American Madness
as Thomas DicksonSocially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of...
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The Virginian
as TrampasA good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he...
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Mission to Moscow
as Ambassador Joseph E. DaviesAmbassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns...
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December 7th
as Uncle Sam 'U.S.'"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the...
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Know Your Enemy: Japan
as NarratorFrank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States'...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas,...
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American...
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Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
as NarratorThe fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case...
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Summer Holiday
as Mr. Nat MillerDanville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class...
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The Great Sinner
as General OstrovskyA young man succumbs to gambling fever.
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Why We Fight: The Battle of China
as Abraham LincolnThe sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series illustrates Japan's...
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The Light That Failed
as TorpenhowA London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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Gentlemen of the Press
as Wickland SnellA newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters...
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Swamp Water
as Thursday RaganA hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love...
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
as uncreditedWinners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United...
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Night Court
as Judge Andrew J. MoffettA corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a...
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Report from the Aleutians
as Voices of officers (voice)A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands...
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Gabriel Over the White House
as Hon. Judson Hammond - The President of the United StatesA political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a...
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A House Divided
as Seth LawA New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.
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The Tunnel
as President of the United StatesAn engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
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Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
as Howard (archive footage)An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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The Virtuous Sin
as Gregory PlatoffMarya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.
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Kongo
as FlintThe ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god,...
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Law and Order
as Frame 'Saint' JohnsonA legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of...
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The Ruling Voice
as Jack BannisterA mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
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Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of...
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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
as NarratorThe third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi...
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The Wet Parade
as Pow TarletonThe evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the...
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Armored Attack!
as Dr. KurinA Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version...
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Storm at Daybreak
as Mayor Dushan RadovicSarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the...
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War Comes to America
as NarratorThe seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series....
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...
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The Star Witness
as District Attorney WhitlockA tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an...
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Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits,...
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Know Your Ally: Britain
as NarratorKnow Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter...
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The Bad Man
as Pancho LopezFilm version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
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The Prizefighter and the Lady
as Edwin J. Bennett ("The Professor")An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
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Hell Below
as Lieut. Comdr. T.J. Toler USNOn leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married,...
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
as Self (archive footage)Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy...
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Behind the Make-Up
as Joe in Clark & White's Office (uncredited)Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who...
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Jerry Cohan (archive footage)This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon...
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Always in My Heart
as MacKenzie ScottA man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers...
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
as SelfMr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a...
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For God and Country
as NarratorThe story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains,...
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Safeguarding Military Information
as The GeneralWorld War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military...
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Rhodes of Africa
as Cecil John RhodesRhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was...
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Our Russian Front
as NarratorUsing footage taken by Soviet battlefront cameramen, this penetrating documentary about Russian...
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The Lady Lies
as Robert RossiterMuch to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a...
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Filmed Prologue to Birth of a Nation
as uncreditedA dialogue between director D. W. Griffith and actor Walter Huston on the subject of Griffith...
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Keep 'Em Rolling
as Sgt. Benjamin E. WalshWorld War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
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Intimate Interviews: Walter Huston
as SelfOne of a series of short subjects created for movie theaters in the 1930s, each an interview...
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War Department Report
as Narrator (voice)The first official War Department Report by the Office of Strategic Services using American...
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