George Houston

Birthday:: 01/11/1896
Place of birth:: Hampton, New Jersey, USA:
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).

Credits

	Outlaws of Boulder Pass (1942) as Tom Cameron
	Border Roundup (1942) as Tom Cameron
	Texas Justice (1942) as Tom Cameron
	The Lone Rider in Cheyenne (1942) as Tom Cameron
	The Lone Rider and the Bandit (1942) as Tom Cameron
	The Lone Rider Fights Back (1941) as Tom Cameron - The Lone Rider
	The Lone Rider Ambushed (1941) as Tom Cameron / Keno Harris
	The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury (1941) as Tom Cameron
	The Lone Rider in Ghost Town (1941) as Tom Cameron
	The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio (1941) as Tom Cameron aka The Lone Rider
	The Lone Rider Rides On (1941) as Tom Cameron
	The Howards of Virginia (1940) as George Washington
	Laughing at Danger (1940) as Dan Haggerty
	The Great Waltz (1938) as Schiller
	Frontier Scout (1938) as Wild Bill Hickok
	Marie Antoinette (1938) as Marquis De St. Priest (uncredited)
	Blockade (1938) as The Troubador
	What Price Safety! (1938) as Foreman Cooper
	Wallaby Jim of the Islands (1937) as Wallaby Jim
	Conquest (1937) as Grand Marshal George Duroc
	Captain Calamity (1936) as (Cap't) Bill Jones
	Let's Sing Again (1936) as Leon Alba
	The Melody Lingers on (1935) as Carlo Salvini
	Masks and Memories (1934) as Uncle Andy