Walter Huston

b. Walter Houghston, 6 April 1884, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, d. 7 April 1950, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA. Although Huston had studied engineering, he became an actor and worked in vaudeville and on the legitimate stage in New York. Following his marriage and the birth of his son, John Huston (who would become a noted Hollywood film director), he returned to engineering. The call of the stage was too strong, however, and by 1909 Huston was back in vaudeville working as a singer and dancer both as a single and in duo as the song and dance act of Whipple And Hust...