John Huston documentaries." Huston did an uncredited rewrite of Anthony Veiller's screenplay for "The Stranger" (1946), a film he was to have directed. When Huston became unavailable Orson Welles was offered the opportunity to direct. He had been cast in the role of a high-ranking Nazi fugitive who manages to settle in New England under an assumed name. His next picture, which he wrote, directed, and briefly appeared in as an American, asked to "help out a fellow American, down on his luck", was "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948). It would become one of the films which established his reputation
Walter Huston Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award. Huston remained busy throughout the 1930s and 1940s, both on stage and screen (becoming one of America's most distinguished actors). He performed "September Song" in the original Broadway production of "Knickerbocker Holiday" in 1938. Among his films are "Abraham Lincoln" (1930), "Rain" (1932), "Gabriel Over the White House" (1933), "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1941), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), and "Mission to Moscow" (1943), a pro-Soviet World War II propaganda film as Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. In 1941, Walter Huston portrayed the part of the ship's captain, who is