Tony Huston
{{Short description|American actor}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Tony Huston
| birthname = Walter Anthony Huston
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|4|16}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
| education =
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|writer|assistant director}}
| years_active =
| spouse = {{marriage|Lady Margot Cholmondeley|1978||end=div}}
| children = 3, including Jack Huston
| parents = John Huston
Enrica Soma
| relatives = {{Plainlist|
- Anjelica Huston (sister)
- Allegra Huston (sister)
- Danny Huston
(paternal half-brother)
}}
}}
Walter Anthony HustonJohn Huston, Maker of Magic, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Houghton Mifflin, 1978, p. 216.The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1961-1970, American Film Institute, University of California Press, 1997, p. 306.The New Yorker, vol. 48, issue 19, 1972, p. 24. (born April 16, 1950) is an American actor, writer, and assistant director.{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/ben-hur/the-huston-family/ |title=How can you connect The Addams Family to Ben-Hur? |last=Smith |first=Adam |date=2016-08-30 |website=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |access-date=2018-02-04}}
Biography
Born April 16, 1950 in Los Angeles County, California, the son of director John Huston, and his fourth wife Enrica Soma. At birth, was named after paternal grandfather actor Walter Huston, who died just nine days earlier.
His siblings include Anjelica, Allegra and Danny Huston.
Unlike other members of his family, who went into acting, Huston specialized in writing screenplays. He is known for his work on The Hellcats (1968) and The Dead (1987). He later became an attorney and assistant director.
On 18 November 1978, he married Margot Cholmondeley, the daughter of the 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley, with whom he had three children, including Jack Huston.{{Cite book |url=https://dceff.org/filmmaker/huston-tony/ |title=Environmental Film Festival |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-17-ca-29556-story.html |title=Tony Huston Recalls the Joys of 'The Dead' |last=CHAMPLIN |first=CHARLES |date=1987-12-17 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |access-date=2018-02-04}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fwInSShlVUQC&pg=PA122 |title=Contemporary Irish Cinema: From The Quiet Man to Dancing at Lughnasa |last=MacKillop |first=James |date=1999 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=9780815605683 |language=en}} Huston and Margot later divorced.
Accolades
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| Academy Awards
| rowspan=4|The Dead (1987) | rowspan="4" {{nom}} | |
| Independent Spirit Awards
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| New York Film Critics Circle
| Best Screenplay (2nd place) | |
| colspan=2|USC Scripter Award
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Filmography
- The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) (Derek Bruttenholm) (as Walter Anthony Huston)
- The Eye Creatures (1967) (Culver's sergeant) (as Tony Houston)
- Zontar, the Thing from Venus (1967) (Keith Ritchie) (as Anthony Houston)
- Sam (as Anthony Houston)
- Curse of the Swamp Creature (1968) (Tom) (as Tony Houston)
- Mars Needs Women (1968) (Martian fellow #3) (as Anthony Houston)
- Comanche Crossing (1968)
- Apple's Way (1974) (man/man at perfume counter)
- The Runaways (1975) (marine driver)
- The Dead (1987) (screenwriter; nominated for an Academy Award)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0404154}}
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