QUICK FACTS
Activity Actor
Real name Walter Thomas Huston
Canadian Nationality
Birth April 5, 1883 (Ontario – Canada)
Death April 7, 1950
BIOGRAPHY
Walter Thomas Huston was a renowned Canadian actor and singer, born on April 5, 1883 in Toronto, Ontario. The son of a couple who formed his construction company, Huston spent part of his childhood and adolescence helping the family business, before becoming interested in acting and studying at the Shaw School of Acting. He made his theater debut in 1902 and was an emblematic part of the theater in his country before moving to the United States and working on the stages of New York. He made his film debut with a brief role in the film Gentlemen of the Press (1929) and little by little he established himself in Hollywood cinema, managing to become one of the actors with the greatest presence in the golden age. Nominated four times for the Academy Award, Walter won the statuette, in the category of best supporting actor, for the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), one of his last films. Among her career, which exceeded 50 credits, notable participations in films such as The Maltese Falcon (1941), Women of Shanghai (1941), Mission in Moscow (1943), Duel in the Sun (1946) and The Great Sinner (1949), among other. Father of the legendary director John Huston and grandfather of the actress Anjelica Huston, Walter died, at the age of 66, on April 7, 1950, in Los Angeles, California, victim of an aortic aneurysm.
