Walter Huston
Walter Huston ( born April 6, 1884 in Toronto, Ontario, † April 7, 1950 in Hollywood, actually Walter Houghston ) was a Canadian actor and father of director John Huston. He won the 1949 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Life
Walter Huston initially studied engineering before he made as an actor career. In 1905 he was a household name in vaudeville and got the first offers to perform in New York. In the same year he married the journalist Ruth Gore. After the birth of his son John Huston 1906, he was temporarily reversed the stage 's back and worked as a power plant engineer. In 1909 he returned to vaudeville and was quickly back a successful entertainer. In 1924 he finally had his breakthrough as a dramatic actor in the play Mr. Pitt. Shortly thereafter, he was celebrated for his sensational display in Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill.
At the height of his Broadway career in 1929, he joined the exodus to the West, where he tried his luck in Hollywood. Performances in Gentlemen of the Press, in addition to Kay Francis and Abraham Lincoln in the adaptation of DW Griffith made him a well-known name, but not a star. Dissatisfied with the roles he was given, he returned to Broadway, where he could celebrate with Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis its greatest success. In the film adaptation time of love, time of farewell he repeated in 1936, directed by William Wyler his role as a successful industrialist who has to cope with a life crisis after he discovers that his wife, played by Ruth Chatterton, no longer loves him. For his intense portrayal Huston won the 1936 Award of the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actor.
An even greater success as a stage actor he had in the play Knickerbocker Holiday, whose song should be September Song to Huston's signature tune. However, his film career remained generally rather poor, apart from its appearance as a devil in The Devil and Daniel Webster, an adaptation of the story by Stephen Vincent Benét, directed by William Dieterle and as a lover of Ona Munson as Mother Gin Sling in Josef von Sternberg's late works settlement in Shanghai. 1949 Walter Huston won next to the Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as an experienced prospector in the movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son, John Huston. Shortly after completing the filming of The Furies, in which he played the father of Barbara Stanwyck, died of an actor.