Acting
154
Man
Mar 17, 1886
Sep 29, 1970 (84)
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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 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.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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— | Try and Get It | Glenn Collins |
— | The Right Bed | Bobby Kent |
1997 | The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) |
1971 | Cold Turkey | Hiram C. Grayson |
1970 | Nanny and the Professor | |
1969 | 2000 Years Later | Evermore |
1968 | The Name of the Game | Philip Armistead |
1967 | The Perils of Pauline | Caspar Coleman |
1966 | Batman | Chief Screaming Chicken |
1965 | F Troop | |
1964 | Sex and the Single Girl | The Chief |
1964 | The Cara Williams Show | |
1964 | The Emperor's Oblong Pancake | Narrator |
1963 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Mr. Dinckler |
1963 | One Got Fat | Narrator (voice) |
1963 | Burke's Law | Grover Leander Smith |
1963 | Burke's Law | Wilbur Starlington |
1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self |
1962 | Saints and Sinners | Mr. Hollister |
1961 | Pocketful of Miracles | Hudgins |
1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self |
1960 | The Wonderful World of Trains | Professor Hotbox |
1959 | The Bullwinkle Show | Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) |
1959 | Dennis the Menace | Uncle Ned Matthews |
1959 | Fractured Fairy Tales | Narrator (voice) |
1957 | The Story of Mankind | Sir Walter Raleigh |
1957 | The Lux Show | Self |
1956 | The Steve Allen Show | Self - Guest |
1956 | The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show | Storyteller (voice) |
1955 | Matinee Theater | |
1954 | December Bride | |
1954 | The George Gobel Show | Self |
1954 | Max Liebman Presents | |
1953 | General Electric Theater | Mr. Parkinson |
1951 | I Love Lucy | Mr. Ritter |
1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Self |
1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self - Guest Host |
1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | |
1947 | Down to Earth | Messenger 7013 |
1947 | Her Husband's Affairs | J.B. Cruikshank |
1947 | The Ghost Goes Wild | Eric |
1946 | Cinderella Jones | Keating |
1946 | Faithful in My Fashion | Hiram Dilworthy |
1946 | Earl Carroll Sketchbook | Dr. Milo Edwards |
1945 | Lady on a Train | Mr. Haskell |
1945 | Steppin' in Society | Judge Avery Webster |
1944 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Mr. Witherspoon |
1944 | Summer Storm | Count "Piggy" Volsky |
1944 | Brazil | Everett St. John Everett |
1944 | San Diego I Love You | Philip McCooley |
1944 | The Town Went Wild | Everett Conway |
1944 | Her Primitive Man | Orrin |
1943 | The Gang's All Here | Peyton Potter |
1943 | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Farnsworth |
1943 | Forever and a Day | Anthony Trimble-Pomfret |
1942 | Springtime in the Rockies | McTavish |
1942 | The Magnificent Dope | Horace Hunter |
1942 | I Married an Angel | Peter |
1941 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | Messenger 7013 |
1941 | Ziegfeld Girl | Noble Sage |
1941 | The Body Disappears | Professor Shotesbury |
1941 | Sunny | Henry Bates |
1941 | Weekend for Three | Fred Stonebraker |
1941 | You're the One | |
1941 | Bachelor Daddy | Joseph Smith |
1939 | That's Right – You're Wrong | Tom Village |
1939 | Paris Honeymoon | Ernest Figg |
1939 | The Gang's All Here | Treadwell |
1938 | Holiday | Nick Potter |
1938 | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife | Marquis De Loiselle |
1938 | College Swing | Hubert Dash |
1938 | Little Tough Guys in Society | Oliver |
1937 | Lost Horizon | Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett |
1937 | Shall We Dance | Jeffrey Baird |
1937 | Angel | Graham |
1937 | The Great Garrick | Tubby |
1937 | Hitting a New High | Lucius B. Blynn |
1937 | The Perfect Specimen | Mr. Grattan |
1937 | The King and the Chorus Girl | Count Humbert Evel Bruger |
1937 | Danger – Love at Work | Howard Rogers |
1937 | Wild Money | P.E. Dodd |
1937 | Oh, Doctor | Edward J. Billop |
1936 | Hearts Divided | John |
1936 | The Singing Kid | Davenport Rogers |
1936 | Her Master's Voice | Ned Farrar |
1936 | The Man in the Mirror | Jeremy Dilke |
1936 | Nobody's Fool | Will Wright |
1936 | Let's Make a Million | Harrison Gentry |
1935 | Top Hat | Horace Hardwick |
1935 | The Devil Is a Woman | Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito' |
1935 | In Caliente | Harold Brandon |
1935 | Biography of a Bachelor Girl | Leander 'Bunny' Nolan |
1935 | Things You Never See on the Screen | Self |
1935 | Little Big Shot | Mortimer Thompson |
1935 | The Night Is Young | Baron Szereny |
1935 | The Private Secretary | Rev. Robert Spalding |
1935 | Going Highbrow | Augie Winterspoon |
1935 | $10 Raise | Hubert T. Wilkins |
1935 | Your Uncle Dudley | Dudley Dixon |
1935 | All the King's Horses | Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat |
1935 | His Night Out | Homer B. Bitts |
1934 | The Gay Divorcee | Egbert Fitzgerald |
1934 | The Merry Widow | Ambassador Popoff |
1934 | Kiss and Make-Up | Marcel Caron |
1934 | Ladies Should Listen | Paul Vernet |
1934 | Success at Any Price | Harry Fisher |
1934 | Easy to Love | Eric |
1934 | Smarty | Vernon |
1934 | Sing and Like it | Adam Frink - Producer |
1934 | The Poor Rich | Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood |
1933 | Design for Living | Max Plunkett |
1933 | Alice in Wonderland | Mad Hatter |
1933 | A Bedtime Story | Victor Dubois |
1933 | It's a Boy | Dudley Leake |
1933 | The Way to Love | Professor Gaston Bibi |
1933 | Soldiers of the King | Sebastian Marvello |
1932 | Trouble in Paradise | François Filiba |
1932 | Roar of the Dragon | Busby |
1932 | But the Flesh Is Weak | Sir George Kelvin |
1931 | The Front Page | Bensinger |
1931 | Lonely Wives | Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero |
1931 | Smart Woman | Billy Ross |
1931 | Kiss Me Again | Rene |
1931 | The Great Junction Hotel | The Groom |
1931 | Six Cylinder Love | Monty Winston |
1931 | The Age for Love | Horace Keats |
1930 | Holiday | Nick Potter |
1930 | Reaching for the Moon | Roger, the Valet |
1930 | Wide Open | Simon Haldane |
1930 | Take the Heir | Smithers |
1930 | Once a Gentleman | Oliver |
1929 | Ask Dad | Dad |
1929 | The Sap | The Sap, Bill Small |
1929 | The Aviator | Robert Street |
1929 | The Hottentot | Sam Harrington |
1929 | Sonny Boy | Crandall Thorpe |
1928 | Dad's Choice | Eddie |
1928 | Behind the Counter | Eddie Baxter |
1928 | The Terror | Ferdinand Fane |
1928 | Horse Shy | Eddie Hamilton |
1928 | Vacation Waves | Eddie Davis |
1928 | Scrambled Weddings | Eddie Howe |
1928 | Call Again | Eddie |
1927 | Find the King | Edward Fairchild |
1927 | No Publicity | Eddie Howard |
1926 | La Bohème | Benoit - Janitor |
1926 | Poker Faces | Jimmy Whitmore |
1926 | The Whole Town's Talking | Chester Binney |
1925 | Beggar on Horseback | Neil McRae |
1924 | Helen's Babies | Uncle Harry |
1924 | To the Ladies | Leonard Beebe |
1924 | Flapper Wives | Vincent Platt |
1924 | The Man Who Fights Alone | Bob Alten |
1923 | Ruggles of Red Gap | Ruggles |