Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian-born American actor. Born Walter Houghston in Toronto, Ontario Canada to an Irish Anglican father and a Scottish mother, he began his Broadway career in 1924, he achieved fame in character roles once talkies began in Hollywood. His first major role was in 1929's The Virginian, opposite Gary Cooper. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1936 for Dodsworth, in which he had appeared on Broadway two years earlier. Huston stayed busy throughout the 1930s and 1940s, both on stage and screen (becoming one of America's most distinguished actors), including introducing September Song in Knickerbocker Holiday. Among his films, he starred in Rain (1932) and Mission to Moscow (1943), a pro-Soviet World War II propaganda film as Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. He won the Academy A

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