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
Marie Antoinette
as Marquis De St. Priest (uncredited)
Conquest
as Grand Marshal George Duroc
The Great Waltz
as Schiller
Blockade
as The Troubador
The Howards of Virginia
as George Washington
Let's Sing Again
as Leon Alba
Captain Calamity
as (Cap't) Bill Jones
The Lone Rider Ambushed
as Tom Cameron / Keno Harris
Frontier Scout
as Wild Bill Hickok
What Price Safety!
as Foreman Cooper
The Lone Rider and the Bandit
as Tom Cameron
Wallaby Jim of the Islands
as Wallaby Jim
The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
as Tom Cameron
Outlaws of Boulder Pass
as Tom Cameron
The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio
as Tom Cameron aka The Lone Rider
Masks and Memories
as Uncle Andy
Laughing at Danger
as Dan Haggerty
The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
as Tom Cameron
Border Roundup
as Tom Cameron
Texas Justice
as Tom Cameron