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 appeared in a play, "Mr. Pitt". Several more Broadway plays solidified his fame, e.g., "Desire Under the Elms, Kongo, The Barker, Elmer the Great "and" Dodsworth." Once talkies began in Hollywood, he achieved fame in both character roles and as a leading man. His first major role was portraying the villainous Trampas in the western "The Virginian" (1929) with Gary Cooper. He starred as the title character in the Broadway theatrical adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel "Dodsworth" in 1934 and the play's film version two years later. For his role as Sam Dodsworth, Huston won the New York Critic's Circle