Edward Everett Horton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 17, 1886
- Died
- September 29, 1970 (aged 84)
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Everett Horton Jr. (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton began his stage career in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in vaudeville and in Broadway productions. In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began acting in Hollywood films. His first starring role was in the comedy Too Much Business (1922), but he portrayed the lead role of an idealistic young classical composer in the drama Beggar on Horseback (1925). In the late 1920s, he starred in two-reel silent comedies for Educational Pictures, and made the transition to talking pictures with Educational in 1929. As a stage-trained performer, he found more film work easily, and appeared in some of Warner Bros.' early talkies, including The Terror (1928) and Sonny Boy (1929). Horton initially used his given name, Edward Horton, professionally. His father persuaded him to adopt his full name professionally, reasoning that other actors might be named Edward Horton, but only one named Edward Everett Horton. Horton soon cultivated his own special variation of the time-honored double take (an actor's reaction to something, followed by a delayed, more extreme reaction). In Horton's version, he would smile ingratiatingly and nod in agreement with what just happened; then, when realization set in, his facial features collapsed entirely into a sober, troubled mask. Horton starred in many comedy features in the 1930s, usually playing a mousy fellow who put up with domestic or professional problems to a certain point, and then finally asserted himself for a happy ending. He is best known, however, for his work as a character actor in supporting roles. These include The Front Page (1931), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Alice in Wonderland (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934, the first of several Astaire/Rogers films in which Horton appeared), Top Hat (1935), Danger - Love at Work (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), Holiday (1938), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964). His last role was in the comedy film Cold Turkey (1971), in which his character communicated only through facial expressions.
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Filmography
The Right Bed
Movie · as Bobby Kent
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Cold Turkey
Movie · as Hiram C. Grayson
Nanny and the Professor
TV · 1 ep
2000 Years Later
Movie · as Evermore
Love, American Style
TV · as Elmo · 1 ep
The Name of the Game
TV · as Philip Armistead · 1 ep
The Perils of Pauline
Movie · as Caspar Coleman
Batman
TV · as Chief Screaming Chicken · 2 eps
F Troop
TV · 3 eps
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
Movie · as Narrator
Sex and the Single Girl
Movie · as The Chief
The Cara Williams Show
TV · 1 ep
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie · as Mr. Dinckler
One Got Fat
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Burke's Law
TV · as Grover Leander Smith, Wilbur Starlington · 1 ep
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Saints and Sinners
TV · as Mr. Hollister · 1 ep
Pocketful of Miracles
Movie · as Hudgins
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Wonderful World of Trains
Movie · as Professor Hotbox
Dennis the Menace
TV · as Uncle Ned Matthews · 3 eps
Fractured Fairy Tales
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
The Bullwinkle Show
TV · as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) · 815 eps
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
TV · as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) · 163 eps
The Story of Mankind
Movie · as Sir Walter Raleigh
Three Men on a Horse
Movie · as Mr. Carver
The Lux Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Movie · as Noah
The Steve Allen Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
TV · as Storyteller (voice) · 13 eps
Matinee Theater
TV · 3 eps
December Bride
TV · 1 ep
Max Liebman Presents
TV · 1 ep
The George Gobel Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
General Electric Theater
TV · as Mr. Parkinson · 1 ep
I Love Lucy
TV · as Mr. Ritter · 1 ep
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · 1 ep
Down to Earth
Movie · as Messenger 7013
The Ghost Goes Wild
Movie · as Eric
Her Husband's Affairs
Movie · as J.B. Cruikshank
Faithful in My Fashion
Movie · as Hiram Dilworthy
Cinderella Jones
Movie · as Keating
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Movie · as Dr. Milo Edwards
Lady on a Train
Movie · as Mr. Haskell
Steppin' in Society
Movie · as Judge Avery Webster
Arsenic and Old Lace
Movie · as Mr. Witherspoon
Summer Storm
Movie · as Count "Piggy" Volsky
San Diego I Love You
Movie · as Philip McCooley
The Town Went Wild
Movie · as Everett Conway
Brazil
Movie · as Everett St. John Everett
Her Primitive Man
Movie · as Orrin
Forever and a Day
Movie · as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
The Gang's All Here
Movie · as Peyton Potter
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Movie · as Farnsworth
Springtime in the Rockies
Movie · as McTavish
The Magnificent Dope
Movie · as Horace Hunter
I Married an Angel
Movie · as Peter
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Movie · as Messenger 7013
Sunny
Movie · as Henry Bates
Weekend for Three
Movie · as Fred Stonebraker
Ziegfeld Girl
Movie · as Noble Sage
The Body Disappears
Movie · as Professor Shotesbury
Bachelor Daddy
Movie · as Joseph Smith
You're the One
Movie · as Death Valley Joe Frink
Paris Honeymoon
Movie · as Ernest Figg
The Gang's All Here
Movie · as Treadwell
That's Right – You're Wrong
Movie · as Tom Village
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Movie · as Marquis De Loiselle
Holiday
Movie · as Nick Potter
College Swing
Movie · as Hubert Dash
Little Tough Guys in Society
Movie · as Oliver
Lost Horizon
Movie · as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Shall We Dance
Movie · as Jeffrey Baird
Angel
Movie · as Graham
Hitting a New High
Movie · as Lucius B. Blynn
The Perfect Specimen
Movie · as Mr. Grattan
Danger – Love at Work
Movie · as Howard Rogers
The Great Garrick
Movie · as Tubby
The King and the Chorus Girl
Movie · as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Wild Money
Movie · as P.E. Dodd
Oh, Doctor
Movie · as Edward J. Billop
The Singing Kid
Movie · as Davenport Rogers
Hearts Divided
Movie · as John
Her Master's Voice
Movie · as Ned Farrar
The Man in the Mirror
Movie · as Jeremy Dilke
Nobody's Fool
Movie · as Will Wright
Let's Make a Million
Movie · as Harrison Gentry
Top Hat
Movie · as Horace Hardwick
The Devil Is a Woman
Movie · as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
Little Big Shot
Movie · as Mortimer Thompson
Going Highbrow
Movie · as Augie Winterspoon
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Movie · as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
The Night Is Young
Movie · as Baron Szereny
In Caliente
Movie · as Harold Brandon
$10 Raise
Movie · as Hubert T. Wilkins
All the King's Horses
Movie · as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
His Night Out
Movie · as Homer B. Bitts
The Private Secretary
Movie · as Rev. Robert Spalding
Your Uncle Dudley
Movie · as Dudley Dixon
Things You Never See on the Screen
Movie · as Self
The Gay Divorcee
Movie · as Egbert Fitzgerald
The Merry Widow
Movie · as Ambassador Popoff
Ladies Should Listen
Movie · as Paul Vernet
Kiss and Make-Up
Movie · as Marcel Caron
It's a Boy
Movie · as Dudley Leake
Easy to Love
Movie · as Eric
The Poor Rich
Movie · as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Sing and Like It
Movie · as Adam Frink - Producer
Smarty
Movie · as Vernon
Success at Any Price
Movie · as Harry Fisher
Uncertain Lady
Movie · as Elliot Crane
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · as Mad Hatter
Design for Living
Movie · as Max Plunkett
A Bedtime Story
Movie · as Victor Dubois
The Way to Love
Movie · as Professor Gaston Bibi
Soldiers of the King
Movie · as Sebastian Marvello
Trouble in Paradise
Movie · as Francois
But the Flesh Is Weak
Movie · as Sir George Kelvin
Roar of the Dragon
Movie · as Busby
The Front Page
Movie · as Bensinger
Lonely Wives
Movie · as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Smart Woman
Movie · as Billy Ross
The Great Junction Hotel
Movie · as The Groom
Kiss Me Again
Movie · as Rene
Six Cylinder Love
Movie · as Monty Winston
The Age for Love
Movie · as Horace Keats
Take the Heir
Movie · as Smithers
Once a Gentleman
Movie · as Oliver
Reaching for the Moon
Movie · as Roger, the Valet
Holiday
Movie · as Nick Potter
Wide Open
Movie · as Simon Haldane
Ask Dad
Movie · as Dad
The Sap
Movie · as The Sap, Bill Small
The Aviator
Movie · as Robert Street
The Hottentot
Movie · as Sam Harrington
Sonny Boy
Movie · as Crandall Thorpe
Dad's Choice
Movie · as Eddie
Behind the Counter
Movie · as Eddie Baxter
The Terror
Movie · as Ferdinand Fane
Horse Shy
Movie · as Eddie Hamilton
Vacation Waves
Movie · as Eddie Davis
Scrambled Weddings
Movie · as Eddie Howe
Call Again
Movie · as Eddie
No Publicity
Movie · as Eddie Howard
Find the King
Movie · as Edward Fairchild
Taxi! Taxi!
Movie · as Peter Whitby
The Whole Town's Talking
Movie · as Chester Binney
La Bohème
Movie · as Benoit - Janitor
Poker Faces
Movie · as Jimmy Whitmore
The Nut-Cracker
Movie · as Horatio Slipaway
Beggar on Horseback
Movie · as Neil McRae
The Business of Love
Movie · as Edward Burgess
To the Ladies
Movie · as Leonard Beebe
Helen's Babies
Movie · as Uncle Harry
Flapper Wives
Movie · as Vincent Platt
The Man Who Fights Alone
Movie · as Bob Alten
Try and Get It
Movie · as Glenn Collins
Ruggles of Red Gap
Movie · as Ruggles
Too Much Business
Movie · as John Henry Jackson
The Ladder Jinx
Movie · as Arthur Barnes
A Front Page Story
Movie · as Rodney Marvin