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O[F]ten remembered as the father of legendary director John Huston, Walter Huston proved to be one of Hollywood's memorable character actors. While never enjoying a stellar career, he managed to make his mark in several films, including 1936's 'Dodsworth', 1941's 'The Devil and Daniel Webster', and his most memorable performance in 1948's 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre'.
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By 1924 vaudeville veteran Walter Huston had scored his first successes in the legitimate theater. That year John Huston had a small role in The Easy Mark, a play that starred his father. Huston acted in two other plays in 1924, Sherwood Anderson's The Triumph of the Egg and Ruint.
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Walter Huston made 62 films from 1929 to 1950. His Western films included "Duel in the Sun" (1946), "The Outlaw" (1943), "Law and Order" (1932), "The Virginian" (1929), and the film for which he received an Oscar for "Best Supporting Actor"---"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948), with Humprey Bogart and Tim Holt. His son, John Huston, directed the film.
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John Huston was the son of famed actor Walter Huston, born August 5, 1906, in Missouri. While he tried his hand at some acting and writing early on, mostly through his father's contacts, he didn't really begin to devote himself to films until 1938, when he began writing or contributing to scripts for various films. In 1941, he convinced Warner Bros. to let him direct a third version of Dashiell Hammett's detective story, and made the most of the opportunity. After WWII, he won his first and only pair of Oscars, for directing and writing The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1949)... starring Humphrey Bogart. The collaboration between Huston and Bogart was legendary; in fact, of the five films generally considered Huston's best, only The Man Who Would Be King (1975) doesn't include Humphrey Bogart in its cast.
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John Huston (1906–1987) was born in Nevada, Missouri, the son of actor Walter Huston and journalist Reah Gore Huston. As a teen he moved with his mother to Los Angeles, where he attended Lincoln High School. He dropped out to pursue boxing, then painting, studying the latter with Stanton MacDonald-Wright at the Art Students League of Los Angeles. Huston pursued acting in New York with the Provincetown Players in 1924. He started writing short stories and worked as a reporter for a New York newspaper. Huston came to Hollywood as a writer in the early 1930s, under contract first at Samuel Goldwyn, then at Universal.
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For other people named John Huston, see John Huston (disambiguation) John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 รข€“ August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. Biography Early life He was born in Nevada, Missouri, the son of the Canadian-born actor, Walter Huston, and Rhea Gore; he was of Scottish and Irish descent on his father's side. Huston was raised by his maternal grandparents, Adelia Richardson and John Marcellus Gore. Career He began his film career as a screenwriter and made films mainly adapted from books or plays. The six-foot-two-inch, brown-eyed director ... acted in
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