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Huston co-starred with Joan Crawford in the 1932 drama Rain.
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Huston starred in the title role of Shakespeare's Othello on Broadway in 1937 but the play only lasted 21 performances.
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Huston was cremated upon his death and his ashes are buried next to those of his third wife in the Belmont Memorial Park cemetary in Fresno.
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In his younger days, Huston studied to be an engineer before being bitten by the acting bug.
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Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1937 for Dodsworth but did not win.
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Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1942 for The Devil and Daniel Webster but did not win.
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Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1943 for Yankee Doodle Dandy but did not win.
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Huston stood 6 feet tall in his prime.
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Huston played a bit part in the classic 1941 private eye film The Maltese Falcon. The picture marked son John's directoral debut.
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Huston's first big splash on the Broadway stage was in Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under the Elms.
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Huston, son John, and granddaughter Anjelica are the only Hollywood family to win Academy Awards over three generations.
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Huston is the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston.
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Huston's only child was a son, John, with first wife Rhea Gore.
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Huston was married three times: to Rhea Gore from 1904 to 1912, to Bayonne Whipple from 1915 to 1924, and to Ninetta Sunderland from 1931 until his death.
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Huston won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1949 for Treasure of the Sierra Madre. His son, John, directed the film.
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Huston's final film was The Furies released in 1950.
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In famed director D. W. Griffith's only talking film he cast Huston in the title role of 1930's Abraham Lincoln.
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Huston's first major film role was in the 1929 western The Virginian in which he co-starred with Gary Cooper.
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Huston has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6626 Hollywood Boulevard.