Robert Houston is an American

United States

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 actor

Actor

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 and filmmaker from California

California

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. Robert first became known for his character Bobby in Wes Craven

Wes Craven

Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven is an American actor, film director, writer, producer, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films, particularly slasher films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character, the...

's 1977 horror classic The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)

The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 American horror film directed by Wes Craven and starring Susan Lanier, Michael Berryman, and Dee Wallace. It is about a family on a road trip who become stranded in the Nevada desert, and are hunted by a clan of deformed cannibals in the surrounding hills...

. He directed the samurai

Samurai

is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...

 epic Shogun Assassin

Shogun Assassin

Shogun Assassin, known in Japan as , is a jidaigeki film made for the British and American markets and released in 1980. In 2006 it was restored and re-released on DVD in North America by AnimEigo....

in 1981. Robert also wrote and directed a few more mainly independent films in the 1980s. In 1995 Robert's partner died of AIDS

AIDS

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. Robert returned to cinema three years later with his first documentary, Rock The Boat. Robert has become a respected director with his two biggest films, Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks

Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks

Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks is a 2002 short documentary film directed by Robert Houston and produced by Robert Hudson. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.-Cast:* Coretta Scott King - Herself...

in 2002, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 and Mighty Times: The Children's March

Mighty Times: The Children's March

Mighty Times: The Children's March is a 2004 short documentary film about the Birmingham civil rights marches. It was directed by Robert Houston and produced by Robert Hudson. The film won an Academy Award in 2005 for Documentary Short Subject...

in 2004 which won an Academy Award in 2005.

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