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->''"I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple."''

Walter Thomas Huston (April 5, 1883 – April 7, 1950) was a respected Canadian-born American character actor during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood.

Huston mostly played hard-working middle-class types such as Sam Dodsworth in ''Film/{{Dodsworth}}''. However, he was much more versatile than this suggests; to wit, his single most famous performance was his [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]-winning turn in ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'', in which he seemed to channel WalterBrennan and defined the "grizzled old prospector" stereotype for generations to come. He's also well known for his role as the Devil in ''Film/TheDevilAndDanielWebster'', which Creator/ChristopherLee cited as an influence on his own villainous roles.

On stage, he starred as Pieter Stuyvesant in the original production of ''Theatre/KnickerbockerHoliday'', in which he introduced the now-classic "September Song".

Huston is probably better-known these days as ThePatriarch of ''the'' Hustons, including his son [[Creator/JohnHuston John]], his grandchildren [[Creator/AnjelicaHuston Anjelica]], [[Creator/TonyHuston Tony]], and [[Creator/DannyHuston Danny]], and great-grandson [[Creator/JackHuston Jack]] (Richard Harrow on ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''). Walter, John and Anjelica have all won Oscars. John, while primarily known as a director, later became an actor himself and critics noted that his character parts largely channelled [[GenerationXerox the work of his father]].

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!!Films on TV Tropes:

* ''Film/{{Abraham Lincoln|1930}}'' (1930), StarMakingRole in which he played Honest Abe
* ''Film/{{Kongo}}'' (1932)
* ''[[Film/SadieThompson Rain]]'' (1932)
* ''Film/GabrielOverTheWhiteHouse'' (1933)
* ''Film/{{Dodsworth}}'' (1936)
* ''Film/TheLightThatFailed'' (1939)
* ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'' (1941, cameo)
* ''Literature/TheDevilAndDanielWebster'' (1941), as {{Satan}}
* ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'' (1942)
* ''Film/{{Edge of Darkness|1943}}'' (1943)
* ''Film/TheNorthStar'' (1943)
* ''Film/MissionToMoscow'' (1943)
* ''Series/WhyWeFight'' (1942–45, narrator)
** ''Film/PreludeToWar'' (1942, narrator)
* ''Film/{{And Then There Were None|1945}}'' (1945)
* ''Film/{{Let There Be Light|1946}}'' (1946, narrator)
* ''Film/DuelInTheSun'' (1946)
* ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' (1948)
* ''Film/TheFuries'' (1950)
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