George Houston
Date of birth: 1896-01-11
Place of birth: Hampton, New Jersey, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: George Fleming Houston, George Byron, George F. 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).
Movie Credits
Conquest
1937-10-22
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging
The Howards of Virginia
1940-09-19
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries d
Frontier Scout
1938-09-16
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John)
What Price Safety!
1938-02-05
Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger
Let's Sing Again
1936-05-07
An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
Captain Calamity
1936-11-28
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
The Lone Rider and the Bandit
1942-01-16
A singing cowboy and his sidekick rescue miners from a bad deal.
Wallaby Jim of the Islands
1937-12-17
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a valuable source of pearls in the South Pacific. But Jim's
Blockade
1938-06-17
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along th
The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
1941-08-08
A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher.
The Great Waltz
1938-11-04
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Outlaws of Boulder Pass
1942-11-28
Harkness controls Boulder Pass and his men are overcharging the ranches for its usage. When Tom Came
Masks and Memories
1934-05-12
In this musical short, three individuals try to entice a reclusive uncle to join the festivities dur
The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio
1941-02-28
Tom Cameron, aka the Lone Rider, and his faithful sidekick, Fuzzy Jones, flee across the Rio Grande
Laughing at Danger
1940-08-12
Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the r
The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
1941-05-16
Tom and Fuzzy investigate a ghost town which, in this case, is supposedly haunted by real ghosts. Th
Border Roundup
1942-09-18
In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron and his pal Fuzzy Jones are deputy sheriff
Texas Justice
1942-06-05
Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with
The Lone Rider Ambushed
1941-08-29
The Lone Rider Tom assumes a former outlaw's identity (Keno) to learn where the gold from his last b
The Lone Rider Fights Back
1941-12-17
Opera star-cum-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's The Lone Rider Fights Back. Appropriately e
The Lone Rider Rides On
1941-01-10
Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole
The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
1942-03-20
Tom Cameron must prove himself innocent after he is wrongfully charged with the murder of a prison g
Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France,
The Melody Lingers on
1935-07-11
A piano virtuoso has a child out of wedlock; the father, her fiancé, is killed trying to save her li