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| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada195074|6}}| death_place = Beverly Hills, California, U.S.| resting_place =

• {{marriage|Rhea Gore|1904|1912|end=divorced{edih}
• {{marriage|Bayonne Whipple|1914|1931|end=divorced}}
• {{marriage|Ninetta (Nan) Sunderland|1931}}

}}| children = John Huston| relatives = Anjelica Huston (granddaughter)Danny Huston (grandson)| years_active = 1902–1950Actor|singer}}}}Walter Thomas Huston ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|juː|s|t|ən|audio=En-us-Houston.ogg}} {{respell|HEW|stən}};According to the Province of Ontario. Ontario, Canada Births, 1869–1911. ancestry.com 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, 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 and Danny Huston, as well as great-grandchild Jack Huston. The family has produced three generations of Academy Award winners: Walter, his son John, and granddaughter Anjelica.

Early life

Huston was born on April 5, 1883, in Toronto, Ontario, where he attended Winchester Street Public School.WEB,weblink Walter Huston - Northernstars.ca, October 2, 2012, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121115071335weblink">weblink November 15, 2012, He was the son of Elizabeth (née McGibbon) and Robert Moore Huston, a farmer who founded a construction company.BOOK, Morrison, Michael A., John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor (Volume 10 of Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama), Cambridge University Press, 1999, 75, 0-521-62979-9, He was of Scottish and Irish descent.BOOK, Huston, John, An Open Book, Da Capo Press, 1994, 9, 0-306-80573-1, He had a brother and two sisters, one of whom was the theatrical voice coach Margaret Carrington (1877–1941).{{Citation needed |date=October 2023}} His family moved, before his birth, from Melville,Arthur Huston, "Melville Junction", Wm. Perkins Bull fonds, ca. 1934. Available at the Region of Peel Archives, Brampton. just south of Orangeville, Ontario, where they were farmers. As a young man, he worked in construction and in his spare time attended the Shaw School of Acting. He made his stage debut in 1902. He went on to tour in In Convict Stripes, a play by Hal Reid, father of Wallace Reid and also appeared with Richard Mansfield in Julius Caesar. He again toured in another play, The Sign of the Cross. In 1904, he married Rhea Gore (1882–1938), a sports editor for various publications, and gave up acting to work as a manager of electric power stations in Nevada, Missouri. He maintained these jobs until 1909.{{Citation needed |date=October 2023}} The couple's only child John Huston was born on August 5, 1906, in Nevada, Missouri, at which point Rhea gave up her work to concentrate on motherhood.{{Citation needed |date=October 2023}}

Career

File:Walter Huston NM330.jpg|thumb|right|upright|The "first camera study" of Huston for his title role in D. W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930)"The Screen's Newest Lincoln", The New Movie Magazine (New York, N.Y.), March 1930, p. 82. Internet ArchiveInternet Archive File:Dodson promotional photo - Walter Huston and Ruth Chatterton.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Ruth Chatterton and Huston in Dodsworth (1936)]]File:Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre trailer.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)]]In 1909, with his marriage foundering, he appeared with an older actress named Bayonne Whipple (born Mina Rose, 1865–1937).WEB,weblink Walter Huston/Bayonne Whipple; response from Ancestry.com dated March 17, 2005, Archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com, 2005-03-17, 2016-06-14, They were billed as Whipple and Huston.Walter and Rhea Gore Huston divorced in 1913, and in December 1914, Huston married Mina Rose. Vaudeville was their livelihood into the 1920s, and Walter's son John was sent to live and study in boarding schools. During summer vacations, John traveled separately with each of his parents  â€“ with father Walter on vaudeville tours, and with his mother Rhea to horse races and other sports events. Walter Huston began his Broadway career on January 22, 1924, when he performed there in the play Mr. Pitt.WEB, April 8, 1950, From the Archives: Heart Attack Fatal to Actor Walter Huston,weblink Los Angeles Times, He then solidified his Broadway career with roles in productions such as Desire Under the Elms, Kongo, The Barker, and Elmer the Great.Once talkies began in Hollywood, he was cast in both character roles and as a leading man. His first major role was portraying the villainous Trampas in The Virginian (1929), a Western that costars Gary Cooper and Richard Arlen. Some of Huston's other early sound roles include Abraham Lincoln (1930), Rain (1932), and Gabriel Over the White House (1933).The career of Mina Rose (a.k.a. Bayonne Whipple) did not follow the same trajectory as Huston's, and their act -- and marriage -- collapsed after Huston began to accept solo work. After several years of separation, the two divorced in 1931.Daily Boston Globe (October 14, 1931): 16. Huston remarried that same year, to Ninetta (Nan) Sunderland,"Heart Attack Fatal to Actor Walter Huston" Los Angeles Times (April 8, 1950). and the two remained married until Huston's death.Huston remained busy on stage and screen throughout the 1930s and 1940s, becoming during that period one of America's most prominent actors. He starred as the title character in the 1934 Broadway adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel Dodsworth as well as in the play's film version released two years later. For his role as Sam Dodsworth, Huston won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and was Oscar nominated. He performed "September Song" in the original Broadway production of Knickerbocker Holiday (1938). Huston's recording of "September Song" is heard repeatedly in September Affair (1950).NEWS, Crowther, Bosley,weblink September Affair,' With Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten, Opens at the Music Hall, The New York Times, February 2, 1951, January 25, 2019, Huston makes an uncredited appearance in the 1941 film noir classic The Maltese Falcon, portraying the ship's captain who is shot just before delivering the black bird to Sam Spade, played by Humphrey Bogart. Walter's son, John Huston, directed the picture. As a practical joke during filming, John had his father enter the scene and die in more than 10 different takes.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}}Among several of his contributions to World War II Allied propaganda films, Huston in an uncredited role portrays a military instructor in the short Safeguarding Military Information (1942). That film was produced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and distributed by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry. He, along with Anthony Veiller, is also a narrator in the Why We Fight series of World War II documentaries directed by Frank Capra. Other films of this period in which he appears are The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) as Mr. Scratch, Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and Mission to Moscow (1943). In the latter feature, a pro-Soviet World War II propaganda film, he plays United States Ambassador Joseph E. Davies.Huston portrays the character Howard in the 1948 adventure drama The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which was also directed by his son John. Based on the mysterious B. Traven's novel, the film depicts the story of three gold prospectors in 1920s post-revolution Mexico. Walter Huston won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film, while John Huston won the Best Director Academy Award, thus making them the first father and son to win at the same ceremony. His last film is The Furies (1950) in which he costars with Barbara Stanwyck and Wendell Corey. In that Western, Huston's final line is "There will never be another one like me."

Death

On April 7, 1950, Huston died of an aortic aneurysm in his hotel suite in Beverly Hills, two days after his 67th birthday.NEWS,weblink Hollywood Death of Walter Huston, April 6, 1950, The Glasgow Herald, 4, February 14, 2016, Glasgow, Scotland, BOOK, Huston, John, 1994, An Open Book, Da Capo Press, 185, 0-306-80573-1, He was cremated.NEWS,weblink Services Planned for Walter Huston, April 10, 1950, Spokane Daily Chronicle, 9, February 14, 2016, Spokane, Washington,

Legacy

In 1960, a decade after his death, Huston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard, memorializing his contributions to the entertainment industry through his extensive, critically acclaimed work in motion pictures.WEB,weblink Walk of Fame Stars Walter Huston, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce/Walk of Fame, 25 October 2019, WEB,weblink Hollywood Star Walk: Walter Huston, Los Angeles Times, He was also a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.WEB,weblink Theater Hall of Fame members, Huston's son John initially became a screenwriter before becoming an Academy Award-winning director and acclaimed actor. All of Huston's grandchildren have become actors, as well as his great-grandson. Granddaughter Anjelica sang "September Song" on the May 7, 2012, episode of the NBC TV series Smash.{{Citation needed |date=December 2021}}In 1998, Scarecrow Press published John Weld's September Song—An Intimate Biography of Walter Huston.{{Citation needed |date=December 2021}}

Filmography{|class"wikitable sortable"

! Year! Title! Role! class="unsortable" |Notes 1929Gentlemen of the Press (1929 film)>Gentlemen of the Press |Wickland Snell|Film debutThe Lady Lies (film)>The Lady Lies |Robert Rossiter| The Virginian (1929 film)>The Virginian |Trampas| 1930|Behind the Make-Up|Joe in Clark & White's Office|UncreditedAbraham Lincoln (1930 film)>Abraham Lincoln |Abraham Lincoln|The Bad Man (1930 film)>The Bad Man |Pancho Lopez||The Virtuous Sin |Gen. Gregori Platoff| 1931|The Criminal Code |Mark Brady| |The Star Witness|District Attorney Whitlock||The Ruling Voice|Jack Bannister|A House Divided (1931 film)>A House Divided |Seth Law| 1932|The Woman from Monte Carlo|Captain Carlaix||The Beast of the City |Jim Fitzpatrick| Law and Order (1932 film)>Law and Order|Frame "Saint" Johnson||The Wet Parade|Pow Tarleton|Night Court (film)>Night Court |Judge Andrew J. Moffett| |American Madness |Thomas A. Dickson|Kongo (1932 film)>Kongo |Flint Rutledge|Rain (1932 film)>Rain |Alfred Davidson| 1933|Gabriel Over the White House |Hon. Judson Hammond| |Hell Below|Lieut. Comdr. T.J. Toler USN||Storm at Daybreak|Mayor Dushan Radovic|Ann Vickers (film)>Ann Vickers |Judge Barney "Barney" Dolphin| |The Prizefighter and the Lady|Professor Edwin J. Bennett||1934|Keep 'Em Rolling|Sgt. Benjamin E. 'Benny' Walsh||1935The Tunnel (1935 film)>Trans-Atlantic Tunnel|President of the United States| 1936|Rhodes of Africa Cecil Rhodes>Cecil John Rhodes|Dodsworth (film)>Dodsworth |Sam Dodsworth|New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActorNominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor|1938|Of Human Hearts|Ethan Wilkins||1939The Light That Failed (1939 film)>The Light That Failed |Torpenhow| 1941The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)>The Maltese Falcon |Captain Jacoby|UncreditedThe Devil and Daniel Webster (film)>The Devil and Daniel WebsterSatan>Mr. Scratch|Alternative title: All That Money Can BuyNominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor|Swamp Water |Thursday Ragan| |The Shanghai Gesture|Sir Guy Charteris| 1942Always in My Heart (film)>Always In My Heart|MacKenzie "Mac" Scott| |In This Our Life |Bartender|Uncredited|Yankee Doodle Dandy Four Cohans>Jerry Cohan|Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1943December 7th (film)>December 7th|Uncle Sam||The Outlaw |Doc Holliday| Edge of Darkness (1943 film)>Edge of Darkness |Dr. Martin Stensgard| |Mission to Moscow Joseph E. Davies>Ambassador Joseph E. Davies|The North Star (1943 film)>The North Star|Dr. Kurin||1944Dragon Seed (film)>Dragon Seed|Ling Tan||1945And Then There Were None (1945 film)>And Then There Were None |Dr. Edward G. Armstrong| 1946Dragonwyck (film)>Dragonwyck |Ephraim Wells| Duel in the Sun (film)>Duel in the Sun |The Sinkiller| 1948The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)>The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |Howard|Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion PictureNational Board of Review Award for Best ActorNew York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor (2nd place)Summer Holiday (1948 film)>Summer Holiday|Mr. Nat Miller||1949|The Great Sinner|General Ostrovsky||1950The Furies (1950 film)>The Furies |T.C. Jeffords|

See also

• Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood
• List of actors with Academy Award nominations

References

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Further reading

• BOOK, Alistair, Rupert, The Name Below the Title: 65 Classic Movie Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age, Walter Huston, 129–133, 2018, First, softcover, Independently published, Great Britain, 978-1-7200-3837-5,
• BOOK, Weld, John, John Weld, September Song: An Intimate Biography of Walter Huston edition= First

publisher= The Scarecrow Press isbn = 978-0-8108-3408-8,

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