Houston first came to prominence with his performance of the character Bobby in Wes Craven's 1977 horror film The Hills Have Eyes.
Warhol's silkscreen painting Torso (1977) is based on a Polaroid photo he took of Houston as part of his "landscapes" series depicting nude males.
[citation needed] Houston studied documentary filmmaking at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts before moving to Los Angeles.
[6] Houston and his partner Robert Hudson formed their own company, Tell The Truth Pictures, to promote and distribute the documentary film Rock The Boat (1998).
[8][9] The Legacy of Rosa Parks won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special after airing on HBO in 2005.
[6] There he met his current partner Eric Shamie, owner of Moon in the Pond Farm in Sheffield, Massachusetts.