Edward Everett Horton
Acting
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
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movieThe Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
movieCold Turkey
1971
Hiram C. Grayson
movie2000 Years Later
1969
Evermore
tvThe Name of the Game
1968
Philip Armistead
movieThe Perils of Pauline
1967
Caspar Coleman
tvBatman
1966
Chief Screaming Chicken
movieSex and the Single Girl
1964
The Chief
movieOne Got Fat
1963
Narrator (voice)
movieIt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
Mr. Dinckler
tvBurke's Law
1963
Grover Leander Smith / Wilbur Starlington
tvSaints and Sinners
1962
Mr. Hollister
tvFractured Fairy Tales
1959
Narrator (voice)
tvThe Bullwinkle Show
1959
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
tvThe Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
1959
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
tvDennis the Menace
1959
Uncle Ned Matthews
movieThe Story of Mankind
1957
Sir Walter Raleigh
movieThree Men on a Horse
1957
Mr. Carver
tvThe Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
1956
Storyteller (voice)
tvThe Steve Allen Show
1956
Self - Guest
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953
Mr. Parkinson
tvI Love Lucy
1951
Mr. Ritter
movieHer Husband's Affairs
1947
J.B. Cruikshank
movieDown to Earth
1947
Messenger 7013
movieEarl Carroll Sketchbook
1946
Dr. Milo Edwards
movieFaithful in My Fashion
1946
Hiram Dilworthy
movieCinderella Jones
1946
Keating
movieLady on a Train
1945
Mr. Haskell
movieSteppin' in Society
1945
Judge Avery Webster
movieThe Town Went Wild
1944
Everett Conway
movieBrazil
1944
Everett St. John Everett
movieSan Diego I Love You
1944
Philip McCooley
movieArsenic and Old Lace
1944
Mr. Witherspoon
movieSummer Storm
1944
Count "Piggy" Volsky
movieThe Gang's All Here
1943
Peyton Potter
movieThank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Farnsworth
movieForever and a Day
1943
Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
movieThe Magnificent Dope
1942
Horace Hunter
movieWeekend for Three
1941
Fred Stonebraker
movieThe Body Disappears
1941
Professor Shotesbury
movieHere Comes Mr. Jordan
1941
Messenger 7013
movieBachelor Daddy
1941
Joseph Smith
movieSunny
1941
Henry Bates
movieZiegfeld Girl
1941
Noble Sage
movieYou're the One
1941
Death Valley Joe Frink
movieThat's Right – You're Wrong
1939
Tom Village
movieThe Gang's All Here
1939
Treadwell
movieParis Honeymoon
1939
Ernest Figg
movieHoliday
1938
Nick Potter
movieCollege Swing
1938
Hubert Dash
movieBluebeard's 8th Wife
1938
Marquis De Loiselle
movieHitting a New High
1937
Lucius B. Blynn
movieAngel
1937
Graham
movieThe Perfect Specimen
1937
Mr. Grattan
movieDanger – Love at Work
1937
Howard Rogers
movieWild Money
1937
P.E. Dodd
movieShall We Dance
1937
Jeffrey Baird
movieOh, Doctor
1937
Edward J. Billop
movieThe King and the Chorus Girl
1937
Count Humbert Evel Bruger
movieLost Horizon
1937
Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
movieThe Man in the Mirror
1936
Jeremy Dilke
movieLet's Make a Million
1936
Harrison Gentry
movieNobody's Fool
1936
Will Wright
movieThe Singing Kid
1936
Davenport Rogers
movieHer Master's Voice
1936
Ned Farrar
movieYour Uncle Dudley
1935
Dudley Dixon
movieHis Night Out
1935
Homer B. Bitts
movieLittle Big Shot
1935
Mortimer Thompson
movieTop Hat
1935
Horace Hardwick
movieThe Private Secretary
1935
Rev. Robert Spalding
movieGoing Highbrow
1935
Augie Winterspoon
movieIn Caliente
1935
Harold Brandon
movie$10 Raise
1935
Hubert T. Wilkins
movieThe Devil Is a Woman
1935
Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
movieAll the King's Horses
1935
Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
movieThe Night Is Young
1935
Baron Szereny
movieBiography of a Bachelor Girl
1935
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
movieThe Merry Widow
1934
Ambassador Popoff
movieThe Gay Divorcee
1934
Egbert Fitzgerald
movieLadies Should Listen
1934
Paul Vernet
movieKiss and Make-Up
1934
Marcel Caron
It's a Boy
1934
Dudley Leake
movieSmarty
1934
Vernon
movieSing and Like It
1934
Adam Frink - Producer
movieUncertain Lady
1934
Elliot Crane
movieSuccess at Any Price
1934
Harry Fisher
movieThe Poor Rich
1934
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
movieDesign for Living
1933
Max Plunkett
movieAlice in Wonderland
1933
Mad Hatter
movieThe Way to Love
1933
Professor Gaston Bibi
movieA Bedtime Story
1933
Victor Dubois
movieSoldiers of the King
1933
Sebastian Marvello
movieTrouble in Paradise
1932
Francois
movieBut the Flesh Is Weak
1932
Sir George Kelvin
movieThe Great Junction Hotel
1931
The Groom
movieThe Age for Love
1931
Horace Keats
movieSmart Woman
1931
Billy Ross
movieSix Cylinder Love
1931
Monty Winston
movieThe Front Page
1931
Bensinger
movieLonely Wives
1931
Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
movieReaching for the Moon
1930
Roger, the Valet
movieHoliday
1930
Nick Potter
movieWide Open
1930
Simon Haldane
movieThe Aviator
1929
Robert Street
movieThe Sap
1929
The Sap, Bill Small
movieThe Hottentot
1929
Sam Harrington
movieSonny Boy
1929
Crandall Thorpe
movieVacation Waves
1928
Eddie Davis
movieThe Terror
1928
Ferdinand Fane
movieHorse Shy
1928
Eddie Hamilton
movieBehind the Counter
1928
Eddie Baxter
movieCall Again
1928
Eddie
movieScrambled Weddings
1928
Eddie Howe
movieFind the King
1927
Edward Fairchild
movieNo Publicity
1927
Eddie Howard
movieTaxi! Taxi!
1927
Peter Whitby
movieThe Whole Town's Talking
1926
Chester Binney
moviePoker Faces
1926
Jimmy Whitmore
The Nutcracker
1926
Horatio Slipaway
movieLa Bohème
1926
Benoit - Janitor
movieBeggar on Horseback
1925
Neil McRae
movieHelen's Babies
1924
Uncle Harry
movieTo the Ladies
1924
Leonard Beebe
movieThe Man Who Fights Alone
1924
Bob Alten
movieTry and Get It
1924
Glenn Collins
movieFlapper Wives
1924
Vincent Platt
movieRuggles of Red Gap
1923
Ruggles
movieA Front Page Story
1922
Rodney Marvin
movieThe Ladder Jinx
1922
Arthur Barnes
movieToo Much Business
1922
John Henry Jackson
The Right Bed
Bobby Kent