George Houston

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).

Known For

Marie Antoinette

as Marquis De St. Priest (uncredited)

Conquest

as Grand Marshal George Duroc

The Great Waltz

as Schiller

The Howards of Virginia

as George Washington

Blockade

as The Troubador

Let's Sing Again

as Leon Alba

Captain Calamity

as (Cap't) Bill Jones

Frontier Scout

as Wild Bill Hickok

The Lone Rider and the Bandit

as Tom Cameron

The Lone Rider Ambushed

as Tom Cameron / Keno Harris