Walter Huston

Born: 1883-04-03

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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Dodsworth

as Sam Dodsworth
Released: 1936-09-23

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that...

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The Maltese Falcon

as Captain Jacoby (uncredited)
Released: 1941-10-18

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a...

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And Then There Were None

as Edward Armstrong
Released: 1945-10-31

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host...

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Duel in the Sun

as The Sinkiller
Released: 1946-12-31

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds...

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

as Howard
Released: 1948-01-15

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a...

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Rain

as Alfred Davidson
Released: 1932-10-12

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago...

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Abraham Lincoln

as Abraham Lincoln
Released: 1930-11-08

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining...

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Yankee Doodle Dandy

as Jerry Cohan
Released: 1942-05-29

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George...

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Dragonwyck

as Ephraim Wells
Released: 1946-04-19

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin,...

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The Outlaw

as Doc Holliday
Released: 1943-02-05

Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in...

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In This Our Life

as Bartender (uncredited)
Released: 1942-05-08

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining...

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The Furies

as T. C. Jeffords
Released: 1950-08-16

A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

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Mission to Moscow

as Ambassador Joseph E. Davies
Released: 1943-04-29

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns...

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American Madness

as Thomas Dickson
Released: 1932-08-15

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of...

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Ann Vickers

as Barney Dolphin
Released: 1933-09-26

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her...

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Edge of Darkness

as Dr. Martin Stensgard
Released: 1943-04-09

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth...

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December 7th

as Uncle Sam 'U.S.'
Released: 1943-03-01

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the...

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Prelude to War

as Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: 1942-05-27

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series,...

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1983-02-25

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas,...

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Hell Below

as Lieut. Comdr. T.J. Toler USN
Released: 1933-06-08

On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married,...

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The Woman from Monte Carlo

as Captain Corlaix
Released: 1932-01-09

On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night....

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All That Money Can Buy

as Mr. Scratch
Released: 1941-10-17

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr....

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Dragon Seed

as Ling Tan
Released: 1944-07-20

The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An...

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Swamp Water

as Thursday Ragan
Released: 1941-11-16

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love...

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The Shanghai Gesture

as Sir Guy Charteris
Released: 1941-12-25

A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.

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The Great Sinner

as General Ostrovsky
Released: 1949-06-29

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

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The North Star

as Dr. Kurin
Released: 1943-11-04

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited...

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Summer Holiday

as Mr. Nat Miller
Released: 1948-04-15

Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class...

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Armored Attack!

as Dr. Kurin
Released: 1957-01-01

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version...

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Report from the Aleutians

as Voices of officers (voice)
Released: 1943-07-30

A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands...

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The Light That Failed

as Torpenhow
Released: 1939-12-24

A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.

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The Beast of the City

as Capt. Jim Fitzpatrick
Released: 1932-02-13

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)
Released: 1984-01-01

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...

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The Criminal Code

as Mark Brady
Released: 1931-01-03

After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is...

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The Tunnel

as President of the United States
Released: 1935-10-27

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

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Of Human Hearts

as Ethan Wilkins
Released: 1938-02-11

This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil...

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The Virginian

as Trampas
Released: 1929-11-09

A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he...

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1975-08-06

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American...

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A House Divided

as Seth Law
Released: 1931-12-05

A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.

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Behind the Make-Up

as Joe in Clark & White's Office (uncredited)
Released: 1930-01-18

Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who...

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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

as Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: 2008-03-03

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of...

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Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)
Released: 1944-01-01

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits,...

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Know Your Enemy: Japan

as Narrator
Released: 1945-08-09

Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States'...

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The Ruling Voice

as Jack Bannister
Released: 1931-09-10

A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.

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A Compassionate Spy

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2022-08-31

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los...

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Law and Order

as Frame 'Saint' Johnson
Released: 1932-02-09

A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of...

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Night Court

as Judge Andrew J. Moffett
Released: 1932-06-04

A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a...

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Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

as Howard (archive footage)
Released: 2003-09-30

An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."

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Joan Crawford: Always the Star

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1996-09-30

Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy...

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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

as Self
Released: 1930-08-01

Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a...

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Storm at Daybreak

as Mayor Dushan Radovic
Released: 1933-06-14

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the...

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Bogart: The Untold Story

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-01-05

Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of...

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Kongo

as Flint
Released: 1932-10-01

The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god,...

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Always in My Heart

as MacKenzie Scott
Released: 1942-03-14

A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers...

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The Star Witness

as District Attorney Whitlock
Released: 1931-08-22

A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an...

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Let There Be Light

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1946-12-16

The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. Some...

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War Comes to America

as Narrator
Released: 1945-06-14

The seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series....

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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1989-01-01

Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most...

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Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain

as Narrator
Released: 1943-10-10

The fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case...

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Keep 'Em Rolling

as Sgt. Benjamin E. Walsh
Released: 1934-03-02

World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.

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For God and Country

as Narrator
Released: 1943-05-15

The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains,...

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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

as uncredited
Released: 1936-08-05

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United...

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The Prizefighter and the Lady

as Edwin J. Bennett ("The Professor")
Released: 1933-11-10

An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.

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Gabriel Over the White House

as Hon. Judson Hammond - The President of the United States
Released: 1933-03-31

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a...

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The Voice That Thrilled the World

as Jerry Cohan (archive footage)
Released: 1943-10-16

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon...

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The Virtuous Sin

as Gregory Platoff
Released: 1930-10-24

Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.

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The Bad Man

as Pancho Lopez
Released: 1930-09-11

Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.

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The Wet Parade

as Pow Tarleton
Released: 1932-03-26

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the...

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Know Your Ally: Britain

as Narrator
Released: 1944-01-01

Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter...

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Why We Fight: The Battle of China

as Abraham Lincoln
Released: 1944-11-01

The sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series illustrates Japan's...

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The Lady Lies

as Robert Rossiter
Released: 1929-09-21

Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a...

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Gentlemen of the Press

as Wickland Snell
Released: 1929-05-04

A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters...

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Our Russian Front

as Narrator
Released: 1942-12-14

Using footage taken by Soviet battlefront cameramen, this penetrating documentary about Russian...

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Safeguarding Military Information

as The General
Released: 1942-01-16

World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military...

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Intimate Interviews: Walter Huston

as Self
Released: 1931-12-31

One 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)
Released: 1943-12-07

WWII propaganda film.

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Filmed Prologue to Birth of a Nation

as uncredited
Released: 1930-10-24

A dialogue between director D. W. Griffith and actor Walter Huston on the subject of Griffith...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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