George Houston
Actor
Biography
George Houston, having success on the Broadway stage, was enticed to Hollywood for some singing work in musicals in the mid 1930s. Hired by Grand National Studios, he appeared in the lead role for the tuneful seafaring yarn Captain Calamity (1936) and as Wild Bill Hickcock in Frontier Scout (1938). With the success of singing cowboys in motion pictures, he was signed at MGM, starring in The Great Waltz, and for Warner Bros. in Blockade, both 1938. From 1939 to 1940 he starred in an eight-part short film production, Tales of Billy the Kid, for PRC (Producers Distributing Corporation), but the series was never released. Houston's last film was The Lone Rider (1942).
Filmography
Conquest
as Grand Marshal George Duroc 1937
The Great Waltz
as Schiller 1938
Blockade
as The Troubador 1938
The Howards of Virginia
as George Washington 1940
Let's Sing Again
as Leon Alba 1936
Captain Calamity
as (Cap't) Bill Jones 1936
The Lone Rider Ambushed
as Tom Cameron / Keno Harris 1941
Frontier Scout
as Wild Bill Hickok 1938
What Price Safety!
as Foreman Cooper 1938
The Lone Rider and the Bandit
as Tom Cameron 1942
Wallaby Jim of the Islands
as Wallaby Jim 1937
The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
as Tom Cameron 1941
Outlaws of Boulder Pass
as Tom Cameron 1942
The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio
as Tom Cameron aka The Lone Rider 1941
The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
as Tom Cameron 1941
Masks and Memories
as Uncle Andy 1934