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).
George Houston Biography / Wiki
| Name | George Houston |
| Also Know | George Fleming Houston, George Byron |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Hampton, New Jersey, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1896-01-11 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 48 |
| Deathday | 1944-11-12 |
George Houston Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Frontier Scout | Wild Bill Hickok | 1938-09-16 | Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John)…. |
| Captain Calamity | (Cap’t) Bill Jones | 1936-11-28 | A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure…. |
| Wallaby Jim of the Islands | Wallaby Jim | 1937-12-17 | Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a valuable source of pearls in the South Pacific. But Jim’s associate Norman has put the whole operation in je… |
| The Lone Rider and the Bandit | Tom Cameron | 1942-01-16 | A singing cowboy and his sidekick rescue miners from a bad deal…. |
| The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury | Tom Cameron | 1941-08-08 | A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher…. |
| The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio | Tom Cameron aka The Lone Rider | 1941-02-28 | Tom Cameron (George Houston), aka the Lone Rider, and his faithful sidekick, Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John), flee across the Rio Grande to avoid assassinat… |
| Outlaws of Boulder Pass | Tom Cameron | 1942-11-28 | Harkness controls Boulder Pass and his men are overcharging the ranches for its usage. When Tom Cameron steps in to rob the tollgate keepers and retur… |
| The Lone Rider in Ghost Town | Tom | 1941-05-16 | Tom and Fuzzy investigate a ghost town which, in this case, is supposedly haunted by real ghosts. The town is an outlaw gang’s hideout, and they scare… |
| Border Roundup | Tom Cameron | 1942-09-18 | In this ” Lone Rider” B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron (George Houston) and his pal Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John are deputy sheriffs helping their frie… |
| The Lone Rider Rides On | Tom Cameron aka The Lone Rider | 1941-01-10 | Tom Cameron (George Houston) is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole the deed to their land. Though he… |
| The Lone Rider Fights Back | Tom Cameron – The Lone Rider | 1941-12-17 | Opera star-cum-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC’s The Lone Rider Fights Back. Appropriately enough, Houston disguises himself as a musician to … |
| The Lone Rider Ambushed | Tom Cameron / Keno Harris | 1941-08-29 | The Lone Rider Tom assumes a former outlaw’s identity (Keno) to learn where the gold from his last big heist is hidden. He tries to get the info from … |
| The Lone Rider in Cheyenne | Tom Cameron | 1942-03-20 | Tom Cameron must prove himself innocent after he is wrongfully charged with the murder of a prison guard…. |
| Texas Justice | Tom Cameron | 1942-06-05 | Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with power hungry cattle rancher Huxley…. |
| What Price Safety! | Foreman Cooper | 1938-02-05 | Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety…. |
| Let’s Sing Again | Leon Alba | 1936-05-07 | An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York…. |
| Laughing at Danger | Dan Haggerty | 1940-08-12 | Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the operator… |
| Masks and Memories | Uncle Andy | 1934-05-12 | In this musical short, three individuals try to entice a reclusive uncle to join the festivities during Mardi Gras…. |
| The Great Waltz | Schiller | 1938-11-04 | Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer…. |
| Conquest | Grand Marshal George Duroc | 1937-10-22 | A polish countess dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte’s mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him … |
| The Howards of Virginia | George Washington | 1940-09-19 | Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the … |
| Blockade | The Troubador | 1938-06-17 | A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose f… |
| Marie Antoinette | Marquis De St. Priest (uncredited) | 1938-08-26 | The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv… |
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