Walter Huston of Huston's grandchildren have become actors, as well as his great-grandson. Granddaughter Anjelica sang his famous "September Song" on the May 7, 2012 episode of the NBC TV series "Smash". In 1998, John Weld wrote and published the biographical book "September Song – An Intimate Biography of Walter Huston". Walter Huston Walter Thomas Huston (; né Houghston; April 5, 1883 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", directed by his son John Huston. He is the patriarch of
John Huston best ever made. Huston died nearly four months before the film's release date. In the 1996 RTE documentary "John Huston: An t-Éireannach", Anjelica said that "it was very important for my father to make that film." She contends that Huston did not think that it was going to be his last film, but that it was his love letter to Ireland and the Irish. Toward the end of his career he also began to act in various films. In 1963, director Otto Preminger asked if he would portray a Boston prelate in "The Cardinal", and, writes author Philip Kemp, he