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Walter Huston

Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1950)

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Born
April 5, 1883
Died
April 7, 1950
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1883

About Walter Huston

Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian 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. For his role as Sam Dodsworth, Huston won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and was Oscar nominated. Huston's recording of "September Song" is heard repeatedly in September Affair (1950).

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The world when Walter Huston was born

Walter Huston was born in 1883. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineBrooklyn Bridge opens after 14 years of construction
  • Technology milestoneFirst standardized time zones adopted
  • World population~1.43B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderChester A. Arthur
  • U.S. population52.8M

1883 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Walter Huston's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18832026
Population52.8M341 million

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