George Houston - Filmography

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

Border Roundup 1942

Texas Justice 1942

The Lone Rider and the Bandit 1942

Outlaws of Boulder Pass 1942

The Lone Rider in Cheyenne 1942

The Lone Rider Rides On 1941

The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio 1941

The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury 1941

The Lone Rider Fights Back 1941

The Lone Rider in Ghost Town 1941

The Lone Rider Ambushed 1941

The Howards of Virginia 1940

Laughing at Danger 1940

Frontier Scout 1938

The Great Waltz 1938

Blockade 1938

What Price Safety! 1938

Wallaby Jim of the Islands 1937

Conquest 1937

Captain Calamity 1936

Let's Sing Again 1936

Masks and Memories 1934