- Attended Fork Military Academy. Fork Military Academy is Fork Union Military Academy, Fork Union, Virginia.
- In two films, Huddleston has played a seemingly powerful character who manipulates a character played by Jeff Bridges to swindle money: Bad Company (1972) and The Big Lebowski (1998).
- Served for four years in the U.S. Air Force.
- King-sized American character who trained at AADA after serving with the Air Force and has played everything from a vicious outlaw in Bad Company (1972), to Olson Johnson in Blazing Saddles (1974) to St. Nick himself in Santa Claus: The Movie (1985).
- His wife told the L.A. Times that he considered his "crowning achievement" to be the role of Benajmin Franklin in the 1998 Broadway production of "1776" and in Washington, D.C. in 2003.
- His early ambition was to attend the University of Virginia law school and go into politics.
- Studied acting in New York on the G.I. Bill.
- He grew up in Villamont, Virginia, where he often performed in community theater productions.
- Alumnus of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1958.
- Father of actor Michael Huddleston.
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