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
Cast Credits
Outlaws of Boulder Pass
Character: Tom Cameron
MOVIE • 1942
Border Roundup
Character: Tom Cameron
MOVIE • 1942
Texas Justice
Character: Tom Cameron
MOVIE • 1942
The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
Character: Tom Cameron
MOVIE • 1942
The Lone Rider and the Bandit
Character: Tom Cameron
MOVIE • 1942
The Lone Rider Fights Back
Character: Tom Cameron - The Lone Rider
MOVIE • 1941
The Lone Rider Ambushed
Character: Tom Cameron / Keno Harris
MOVIE • 1941
The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
Character: Tom Cameron
MOVIE • 1941
The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
Character: Tom Cameron
MOVIE • 1941
The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio
Character: Tom Cameron aka The Lone Rider
MOVIE • 1941
The Lone Rider Rides On
Character: Tom Cameron
MOVIE • 1941
The Howards of Virginia
Character: George Washington
MOVIE • 1940
Laughing at Danger
Character: Dan Haggerty
MOVIE • 1940
The Great Waltz
Character: Schiller
MOVIE • 1938
Frontier Scout
Character: Wild Bill Hickok
MOVIE • 1938
Marie Antoinette
Character: Marquis De St. Priest (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1938
Blockade
Character: The Troubador
MOVIE • 1938
What Price Safety!
Character: Foreman Cooper
MOVIE • 1938
Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Character: Wallaby Jim
MOVIE • 1937
Conquest
Character: Grand Marshal George Duroc
MOVIE • 1937