Huston: Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
Huston was cremated upon his death and his ashes are buried next to those of his third wife in the Belmont Memorial Park cemetary in Fresno.
Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1937 for Dodsworth but did not win.
Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1943 for Yankee Doodle Dandy but did not win.
Huston played a bit part in the classic 1941 private eye film The Maltese Falcon. The picture marked son John's directoral debut.
Huston, son John, and granddaughter Anjelica are the only Hollywood family to win Academy Awards over three generations.
Huston's only child was a son, John, with first wife Rhea Gore.
Huston won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1949 for Treasure of the Sierra Madre. His son, John, directed the film.
In famed director D. W. Griffith's only talking film he cast Huston in the title role of 1930's Abraham Lincoln.
Huston has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6626 Hollywood Boulevard.
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