Walter Huston
1883 – 1950 · aged 67
Canadian actor and singer (1883–1950)
- Born
- 6 Apr 1883 · Toronto
- Died
- 7 Apr 1950 · Hollywood
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 6 Apr 1883BornBorn in Toronto
- 1949AwardAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- 1949AwardGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
- 7 Apr 1950DiedDied in Hollywood
Loading from Wikipedia and Wikidata…
Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1883 – 1950).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
Biography
Walter Thomas Huston ( HEW-stən; April 6, 1883 or 1884 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian and American (by naturalization) actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son John Huston. He is the patriarch of the four generations of the Huston acting family, including his son John, grandchildren Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston, as well as great-grandchild Jack Huston.
Text from the Wikipedia article Walter Huston, CC BY-SA 4.0
About this information
- Sources disagree about the year of birth.
Dates and life events come from this person’s Wikidata entry.
We only show events that the sources give a date for. Anything without a date is left out rather than guessed.