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2 | ->''"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."'' |
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4 | Walter Thomas Huston (April 5, 1883 – April 7, 1950) was a respected Canadian-born American character actor during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood. |
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6 | 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. |
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8 | On stage, he starred as Pieter Stuyvesant in the original production of ''Theatre/KnickerbockerHoliday'', in which he introduced the now-classic "September Song". |
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10 | 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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13 | !!Films on TV Tropes: |
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15 | * ''Film/{{Abraham Lincoln|1930}}'' (1930), StarMakingRole in which he played Honest Abe |
16 | * ''Film/{{Kongo}}'' (1932) |
17 | * ''[[Film/SadieThompson Rain]]'' (1932) |
18 | * ''Film/GabrielOverTheWhiteHouse'' (1933) |
19 | * ''Film/{{Dodsworth}}'' (1936) |
20 | * ''Film/TheLightThatFailed'' (1939) |
21 | * ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'' (1941, cameo) |
22 | * ''Literature/TheDevilAndDanielWebster'' (1941), as {{Satan}} |
23 | * ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'' (1942) |
24 | * ''Film/{{Edge of Darkness|1943}}'' (1943) |
25 | * ''Film/TheNorthStar'' (1943) |
26 | * ''Film/MissionToMoscow'' (1943) |
27 | * ''Series/WhyWeFight'' (1942–45, narrator) |
28 | ** ''Film/PreludeToWar'' (1942, narrator) |
29 | * ''Film/{{And Then There Were None|1945}}'' (1945) |
30 | * ''Film/{{Let There Be Light|1946}}'' (1946, narrator) |
31 | * ''Film/DuelInTheSun'' (1946) |
32 | * ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' (1948) |
33 | * ''Film/TheFuries'' (1950) |
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