Edward Everett Horton
Acting
Born: March 17, 1886 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: September 29, 1970 (aged 84)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
Batman
1966
Top Hat
1935
Trouble in Paradise
1932
Holiday
1938
I Love Lucy
1951
Lost Horizon
1937
Design for Living
1933
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
The Gay Divorcee
1934
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941
Photos (2)
Movies (130)
Sex and the Single Girl
The Chief
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Mr. Dinckler
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mr. Witherspoon
Lost Horizon
Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Pocketful of Miracles
Hudgins
Top Hat
Horace Hardwick
Ziegfeld Girl
Noble Sage
Trouble in Paradise
Francois
Holiday
Nick Potter
Alice in Wonderland
Mad Hatter
Down to Earth
Messenger 7013
Uncertain Lady
Elliot Crane
The Gay Divorcee
Egbert Fitzgerald
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Marquis De Loiselle
The Front Page
Bensinger
Shall We Dance
Jeffrey Baird
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Messenger 7013
Ladies Should Listen
Paul Vernet
The Story of Mankind
Sir Walter Raleigh
His Night Out
Homer B. Bitts
In Caliente
Harold Brandon
The Gang's All Here
Peyton Potter
Cold Turkey
Hiram C. Grayson
Forever and a Day
Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
Angel
Graham
The Merry Widow
Ambassador Popoff
Design for Living
Max Plunkett
Horse Shy
Eddie Hamilton
Flapper Wives
Vincent Platt
Lady on a Train
Mr. Haskell
The Perfect Specimen
Mr. Grattan
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Farnsworth
The Nut-Cracker
Horatio Slipaway
Bachelor Daddy
Joseph Smith
Her Husband's Affairs
J.B. Cruikshank
Scrambled Weddings
Eddie Howe
Summer Storm
Count "Piggy" Volsky
Oh, Doctor
Edward J. Billop
Little Big Shot
Mortimer Thompson
Danger – Love at Work
Howard Rogers
The Great Garrick
Tubby
You're the One
Death Valley Joe Frink
College Swing
Hubert Dash
The Man Who Fights Alone
Bob Alten
The Perils of Pauline
Caspar Coleman
Holiday
Nick Potter
Springtime in the Rockies
McTavish
The Aviator
Robert Street
All the King's Horses
Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
The Body Disappears
Professor Shotesbury
The Night Is Young
Baron Szereny
Nobody's Fool
Will Wright
Sunny
Henry Bates
The Devil Is a Woman
Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
The Singing Kid
Davenport Rogers
The Gang's All Here
Treadwell
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
Try and Get It
Glenn Collins
La Bohème
Benoit - Janitor
Cinderella Jones
Keating
Hearts Divided
John
The Poor Rich
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Success at Any Price
Harry Fisher
Smart Woman
Billy Ross
Her Primitive Man
Orrin
The Age for Love
Horace Keats
Smarty
Vernon
A Front Page Story
Rodney Marvin
Let's Make a Million
Harrison Gentry
A Bedtime Story
Victor Dubois
Kiss and Make-Up
Marcel Caron
Hitting a New High
Lucius B. Blynn
The Magnificent Dope
Horace Hunter
Helen's Babies
Uncle Harry
The King and the Chorus Girl
Count Humbert Evel Bruger
I Married an Angel
Peter
Kiss Me Again
Rene
Her Master's Voice
Ned Farrar
The Town Went Wild
Everett Conway
Reaching for the Moon
Roger, the Valet
Beggar on Horseback
Neil McRae
Roar of the Dragon
Busby
Sonny Boy
Crandall Thorpe
Taxi! Taxi!
Peter Whitby
Six Cylinder Love
Monty Winston
To the Ladies
Leonard Beebe
Brazil
Everett St. John Everett
Sing and Like It
Adam Frink - Producer
The Way to Love
Professor Gaston Bibi
Little Tough Guys in Society
Oliver
But the Flesh Is Weak
Sir George Kelvin
Lonely Wives
Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Your Uncle Dudley
Dudley Dixon
That's Right – You're Wrong
Tom Village
Faithful in My Fashion
Hiram Dilworthy
The Hottentot
Sam Harrington
Steppin' in Society
Judge Avery Webster
The Sap
The Sap, Bill Small
San Diego I Love You
Philip McCooley
The Terror
Ferdinand Fane
Paris Honeymoon
Ernest Figg
Weekend for Three
Fred Stonebraker
Easy to Love
Eric
The Ghost Goes Wild
Eric
Too Much Business
John Henry Jackson
Wide Open
Simon Haldane
2000 Years Later
Evermore
The Ladder Jinx
Arthur Barnes
Call Again
Eddie
Going Highbrow
Augie Winterspoon
$10 Raise
Hubert T. Wilkins
Three Men on a Horse
Mr. Carver
Wild Money
P.E. Dodd
Behind the Counter
Eddie Baxter
The Whole Town's Talking
Chester Binney
The Private Secretary
Rev. Robert Spalding
Dad's Choice
Eddie
Find the King
Edward Fairchild
Soldiers of the King
Sebastian Marvello
Once a Gentleman
Oliver
The Great Junction Hotel
The Groom
The Man in the Mirror
Jeremy Dilke
Poker Faces
Jimmy Whitmore
No Publicity
Eddie Howard
One Got Fat
Narrator (voice)
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Dr. Milo Edwards
Ask Dad
Dad
Vacation Waves
Eddie Davis
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
Narrator
Ruggles of Red Gap
Ruggles
TV Shows (19)
Love, American Style
Elmo · 1 eps
Batman
Chief Screaming Chicken · 2 eps
The Philco Television Playhouse
1 eps
I Love Lucy
Mr. Ritter · 1 eps
The Bullwinkle Show
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) · 815 eps
Matinee Theater
3 eps
The Name of the Game
Philip Armistead · 1 eps
Burke's Law
Grover Leander Smith · 1 eps
Burke's Law
Wilbur Starlington · 1 eps
Dennis the Menace
Uncle Ned Matthews · 3 eps
December Bride
1 eps
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) · 163 eps
F Troop
3 eps
Nanny and the Professor
1 eps
Saints and Sinners
Mr. Hollister · 1 eps
The Cara Williams Show
1 eps
General Electric Theater
Mr. Parkinson · 1 eps
Fractured Fairy Tales
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
Storyteller (voice) · 13 eps
Self / Appearances (7)
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 2 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · 4 eps
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self · 1 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 1 eps
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
Things You Never See on the Screen
Self