Edward Everett Horton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 17, 1886
- Died
- September 29, 1970
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
- The Right Bed
The Right Bed TBA
as Bobby Kent
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender 1997
as Self (archive footage)
Cold Turkey 1971
as Hiram C. Grayson
2000 Years Later 1969
as Evermore
The Perils of Pauline 1967
as Caspar Coleman
Sex and the Single Girl 1964
as The Chief
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake 1964
as Narrator
One Got Fat 1963
as Narrator (voice)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963
as Mr. Dinckler
Pocketful of Miracles 1961
as Hudgins
- The Wonderful World of Trains
The Wonderful World of Trains 1960
as Professor Hotbox
The Story of Mankind 1957
as Sir Walter Raleigh
Three Men on a Horse 1957
as Mr. Carver
- Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower 1956
as Noah
Her Husband's Affairs 1947
as J.B. Cruikshank
Down to Earth 1947
as Messenger 7013
The Ghost Goes Wild 1947
as Eric
Earl Carroll Sketchbook 1946
as Dr. Milo Edwards
Faithful in My Fashion 1946
as Hiram Dilworthy
Cinderella Jones 1946
as Keating
Lady on a Train 1945
as Mr. Haskell
Steppin' in Society 1945
as Judge Avery Webster
The Town Went Wild 1944
as Everett Conway
Brazil 1944
as Everett St. John Everett
San Diego I Love You 1944
as Philip McCooley
Arsenic and Old Lace 1944
as Mr. Witherspoon
Summer Storm 1944
as Count "Piggy" Volsky
Her Primitive Man 1944
as Orrin
The Gang's All Here 1943
as Peyton Potter
Thank Your Lucky Stars 1943
as Farnsworth
Forever and a Day 1943
as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
Springtime in the Rockies 1942
as McTavish
I Married an Angel 1942
as Peter
The Magnificent Dope 1942
as Horace Hunter
Weekend for Three 1941
as Fred Stonebraker
The Body Disappears 1941
as Professor Shotesbury
Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941
as Messenger 7013
Bachelor Daddy 1941
as Joseph Smith
Sunny 1941
as Henry Bates
Ziegfeld Girl 1941
as Noble Sage
You're the One 1941
as Death Valley Joe Frink
That's Right – You're Wrong 1939
as Tom Village
The Gang's All Here 1939
as Treadwell
Paris Honeymoon 1939
as Ernest Figg
Little Tough Guys in Society 1938
as Oliver
Holiday 1938
as Nick Potter
College Swing 1938
as Hubert Dash
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife 1938
as Marquis De Loiselle
Hitting a New High 1937
as Lucius B. Blynn
The Great Garrick 1937
as Tubby
Angel 1937
as Graham
The Perfect Specimen 1937
as Mr. Grattan
Danger – Love at Work 1937
as Howard Rogers
Wild Money 1937
as P.E. Dodd
Shall We Dance 1937
as Jeffrey Baird
Oh, Doctor 1937
as Edward J. Billop
The King and the Chorus Girl 1937
as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Lost Horizon 1937
as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
The Man in the Mirror 1936
as Jeremy Dilke
Let's Make a Million 1936
as Harrison Gentry
Hearts Divided 1936
as John
Nobody's Fool 1936
as Will Wright
The Singing Kid 1936
as Davenport Rogers
Her Master's Voice 1936
as Ned Farrar
Your Uncle Dudley 1935
as Dudley Dixon
Things You Never See on the Screen 1935
as Self
His Night Out 1935
as Homer B. Bitts
Little Big Shot 1935
as Mortimer Thompson
Top Hat 1935
as Horace Hardwick
The Private Secretary 1935
as Rev. Robert Spalding
Going Highbrow 1935
as Augie Winterspoon
In Caliente 1935
as Harold Brandon
$10 Raise 1935
as Hubert T. Wilkins
The Devil Is a Woman 1935
as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
All the King's Horses 1935
as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
The Night Is Young 1935
as Baron Szereny
Biography of a Bachelor Girl 1935
as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
The Merry Widow 1934
as Ambassador Popoff
The Gay Divorcee 1934
as Egbert Fitzgerald
Ladies Should Listen 1934
as Paul Vernet
Kiss and Make-Up 1934
as Marcel Caron
- It's a Boy
It's a Boy 1934
as Dudley Leake
Smarty 1934
as Vernon
Sing and Like It 1934
as Adam Frink - Producer
Uncertain Lady 1934
as Elliot Crane
Success at Any Price 1934
as Harry Fisher
The Poor Rich 1934
as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Easy to Love 1934
as Eric
Design for Living 1933
as Max Plunkett
Alice in Wonderland 1933
as Mad Hatter
The Way to Love 1933
as Professor Gaston Bibi
A Bedtime Story 1933
as Victor Dubois
Soldiers of the King 1933
as Sebastian Marvello
Trouble in Paradise 1932
as Francois
Roar of the Dragon 1932
as Busby
But the Flesh Is Weak 1932
as Sir George Kelvin
The Great Junction Hotel 1931
as The Groom
The Age for Love 1931
as Horace Keats
Smart Woman 1931
as Billy Ross
Six Cylinder Love 1931
as Monty Winston
The Front Page 1931
as Bensinger
Lonely Wives 1931
as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Kiss Me Again 1931
as Rene
Reaching for the Moon 1930
as Roger, the Valet
Once a Gentleman 1930
as Oliver
Holiday 1930
as Nick Potter
Wide Open 1930
as Simon Haldane
- Take the Heir
Take the Heir 1930
as Smithers
The Aviator 1929
as Robert Street
The Sap 1929
as The Sap, Bill Small
The Hottentot 1929
as Sam Harrington
Sonny Boy 1929
as Crandall Thorpe
Ask Dad 1929
as Dad
Vacation Waves 1928
as Eddie Davis
The Terror 1928
as Ferdinand Fane
Horse Shy 1928
as Eddie Hamilton
Behind the Counter 1928
as Eddie Baxter
Dad's Choice 1928
as Eddie
Call Again 1928
as Eddie
Scrambled Weddings 1928
as Eddie Howe
Find the King 1927
as Edward Fairchild
No Publicity 1927
as Eddie Howard
Taxi! Taxi! 1927
as Peter Whitby
The Whole Town's Talking 1926
as Chester Binney
Poker Faces 1926
as Jimmy Whitmore
The Nut-Cracker 1926
as Horatio Slipaway
La Bohème 1926
as Benoit - Janitor
- The Business of Love
The Business of Love 1925
as Edward Burgess
Beggar on Horseback 1925
as Neil McRae
Helen's Babies 1924
as Uncle Harry
To the Ladies 1924
as Leonard Beebe
The Man Who Fights Alone 1924
as Bob Alten
Try and Get It 1924
as Glenn Collins
Flapper Wives 1924
as Vincent Platt
Ruggles of Red Gap 1923
as Ruggles
A Front Page Story 1922
as Rodney Marvin
The Ladder Jinx 1922
as Arthur Barnes
Too Much Business 1922
as John Henry Jackson
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