Donald Houston
Overview
- AKA Don Houston
- Occupation Actor
- Birthname Donald Daniel Houston
- Birthdate June 11, 1924
- Birthplace Tonypandy, North Wales, Great Britain
- Died October 13, 1991 (Coimbra, Portugal)
- Character Olaf Christiansen
Biography
Donald Houston was a very skillful Welsh actor, sometimes speaking with a nice Welsh accent and sometimes hiding this accent behind an English public-school veneer. His career is solid as a character actor in English films and he has good parts in several well-known films, like The Sea Wolves, 633 Squadron and The Longest Day. Hi strongest side as an actor is his portaits of authority figures, often military, such as the brilliant but tough David Caulder, the head of Moonbase 3 in the wellknown British miniseries. He is an all-round actor and can also handle comedy well, as he proved with Doctor In The House and the later Doctor In Distress, both with great successes in Europe. Even if Houston had good parts in many great movies he never became a big star. He died quietly in Portugal, well-liked by the British but not too well known in America.
Selected films
- Girl Must Live, A - 1939
- Double Cross - 1941
- Blue Lagoon, The - 1949
- Run for Your Money, A - 1949
- My Death Is a Mockery - 1951
- Small Town Story - 1953
- Paratrooper - 1953
- Happiness of Three Women - 1954
- Devil's Point - 1954
- Yangtse Incident - 1957
- Man Upstairs, The - 1958
- Room at the Top - 1959
- Breakout - 1959
- Mark, The - 1961
- Twice Round The Daffodils - 1962
- Prince and the Pauper, The - 1962
- Maniac - 1962
- Longest Day, The - 1962
- 633 Squadron - 1964
- Carry on Jack - 1964
- Study in Terror, A - 1965
- Where Eagles Dare - 1969
- My Lover My Son - 1970
- Sunstruck - 1972
- Voyage of the Damned - 1976
- Find the Lady - 1976
- Sea Wolves, The - 1980
- Girl in the Picture, The - 1986
Curiosa
- Donald Houston´s brother, Glen Houston, is also an actor.
- Donald Houston was married to Brenda Hogan.