Edward Everett Horton
Known for Acting · 164 credits
- Born
- 1886-03-17
- Died
- 1970-09-29
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- E.E. Horton · Edward Horton · Edward Everett Horton Jr.
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
TV Shows (26)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
The Bullwinkle Show
1959
as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
Matinee Theater
1955
Love, American Style
1969
as Elmo
Batman
1966
as Chief Screaming Chicken
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
I Love Lucy
1951
as Mr. Ritter
Burke's Law
1963
as Grover Leander Smith / Wilbur Starlington
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
The Name of the Game
1968
as Philip Armistead
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
Dennis the Menace
1959
as Uncle Ned Matthews
The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Guest
F Troop
1965
December Bride
1954
Nanny and the Professor
1970
The George Gobel Show
1954
as Self
Saints and Sinners
1962
as Mr. Hollister
General Electric Theater
1953
as Mr. Parkinson
The Cara Williams Show
1964
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
1959
as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
The Lux Show
1957
as Self
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
1956
as Storyteller (voice)
Fractured Fairy Tales
1959
as Narrator (voice)
Max Liebman Presents
1954
Movies (138)
Sex and the Single Girl
1964
as The Chief
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
as Mr. Dinckler
Top Hat
1935
as Horace Hardwick
Lost Horizon
1937
as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
as Mr. Witherspoon
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
as Hudgins
Alice in Wonderland
1933
as Mad Hatter
Holiday
1938
as Nick Potter
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1938
as Marquis De Loiselle
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Brazil
1944
as Everett St. John Everett
The Gay Divorcee
1934
as Egbert Fitzgerald
Cold Turkey
1971
as Hiram C. Grayson
Shall We Dance
1937
as Jeffrey Baird
Trouble in Paradise
1932
as François Filiba
La Bohème
1926
as Benoit - Janitor
Summer Storm
1944
as Count "Piggy" Volsky
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941
as Messenger 7013
Smarty
1934
as Vernon
Going Highbrow
1935
as Augie Winterspoon
Hitting a New High
1937
as Lucius B. Blynn
Down to Earth
1947
as Messenger 7013
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
as Noble Sage
Angel
1937
as Graham
Vacation Waves
1928
as Eddie Davis
The Merry Widow
1934
as Ambassador Popoff
Danger – Love at Work
1937
as Howard Rogers
The Terror
1928
as Ferdinand Fane
The Perils of Pauline
1967
as Caspar Coleman
In Caliente
1935
as Harold Brandon
The Story of Mankind
1957
as Sir Walter Raleigh
$10 Raise
1935
as Hubert T. Wilkins
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
as Farnsworth
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938
as Oliver
The Gang's All Here
1943
as Peyton Potter
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
The Man Who Fights Alone
1924
as Bob Alten
San Diego I Love You
1944
as Philip McCooley
Oh, Doctor
1937
as Edward J. Billop
Forever and a Day
1943
as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
The Front Page
1931
as Bensinger
Little Big Shot
1935
as Mortimer Thompson
Paris Honeymoon
1939
as Ernest Figg
Design for Living
1933
as Max Plunkett
The Perfect Specimen
1937
as Mr. Grattan
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
as Self
I Married an Angel
1942
as Peter
The Devil Is a Woman
1935
as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
Kiss Me Again
1931
as Rene
Holiday
1930
as Nick Potter
Springtime in the Rockies
1942
as McTavish
Her Husband's Affairs
1947
as J.B. Cruikshank
The Body Disappears
1941
as Professor Shotesbury
The Magnificent Dope
1942
as Horace Hunter
The Singing Kid
1936
as Davenport Rogers
Too Much Business
1922
as John Henry Jackson
Your Uncle Dudley
1935
as Dudley Dixon
College Swing
1938
as Hubert Dash
Her Master's Voice
1936
as Ned Farrar
All the King's Horses
1935
as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
Six Cylinder Love
1931
as Monty Winston
Lady on a Train
1945
as Mr. Haskell
Reaching for the Moon
1930
as Roger, the Valet
The Town Went Wild
1944
as Everett Conway
Bachelor Daddy
1941
as Joseph Smith
Hearts Divided
1936
as John
To the Ladies
1924
as Leonard Beebe
The Age for Love
1931
as Horace Keats
Faithful in My Fashion
1946
as Hiram Dilworthy
Nobody's Fool
1936
as Will Wright
Sonny Boy
1929
as Crandall Thorpe
His Night Out
1935
as Homer B. Bitts
Ladies Should Listen
1934
as Paul Vernet
The Poor Rich
1934
as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Her Primitive Man
1944
as Orrin
2000 Years Later
1969
as Evermore
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956
as Noah
Kiss and Make-Up
1934
as Marcel Caron
Ask Dad
1929
as Dad
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947
as Eric
Lonely Wives
1931
as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Flapper Wives
1924
as Vincent Platt
Wild Money
1937
as P.E. Dodd
The Night Is Young
1935
as Baron Szereny
The Way to Love
1933
as Professor Gaston Bibi
Smart Woman
1931
as Billy Ross
The Gang's All Here
1939
as Treadwell
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935
as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
Wide Open
1930
as Simon Haldane
The Great Garrick
1937
as Tubby
That's Right – You're Wrong
1939
as Tom Village
Beggar on Horseback
1925
as Neil McRae
Sunny
1941
as Henry Bates
Call Again
1928
as Eddie
The Private Secretary
1935
as Rev. Robert Spalding
Helen's Babies
1924
as Uncle Harry
No Publicity
1927
as Eddie Howard
Weekend for Three
1941
as Fred Stonebraker
The King and the Chorus Girl
1937
as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Poker Faces
1926
as Jimmy Whitmore
The Hottentot
1929
as Sam Harrington
Taxi! Taxi!
1927
as Peter Whitby
But the Flesh Is Weak
1932
as Sir George Kelvin
Try and Get It
1924
as Glenn Collins
A Bedtime Story
1933
as Victor Dubois
Roar of the Dragon
1932
as Busby
Steppin' in Society
1945
as Judge Avery Webster
The Great Junction Hotel
1931
as The Groom
Cinderella Jones
1946
as Keating
Horse Shy
1928
as Eddie Hamilton
The Aviator
1929
as Robert Street
Sing and Like It
1934
as Adam Frink - Producer
The Whole Town's Talking
1926
as Chester Binney
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
1946
as Dr. Milo Edwards
A Front Page Story
1922
as Rodney Marvin
Let's Make a Million
1936
as Harrison Gentry
Success at Any Price
1934
as Harry Fisher
You're the One
1941
as Death Valley Joe Frink
Three Men on a Horse
1957
as Mr. Carver
The Nutcracker
1926
as Horatio Slipaway
About Edward Everett Horton
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… With 164 credits spanning from 1922 to 1997, Edward Everett Horton has appeared in 138 films and 26 TV shows.
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- Sex and the Single Girl (1964) — as The Chief
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) — as Mr. Dinckler
- Top Hat (1935) — as Horace Hardwick
- Lost Horizon (1937) — as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) — as Mr. Witherspoon
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