Robert Houston is an actor and an Academy-award winning director (Best documentary, short subjects: Mighty Times: The Children's March (2004), shared with Robert Hudson). His acting screen debut was as Bobby in a cult horror movie The Hills Have Eyes directed by Wes Craven. In the end of the seventies he started his career as a producer and a director, buying a few samurai films from Lone Wolf and a Cub series and re-directing and re-editing them in a single movie named Shogun Assassin, which was one of the highest grossing movies of 1980, which says a lot, considering that this was a year of blockbusters. Since the middle of the eighties he primarily shifted to directing documentaries, which brought him Oscar eventually.
