Edward Everett Horton
Acting
🎂 1886-03-17
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.
Cast credits(160)
Self
1962
Elmo
1969
Self
1961
Self
1948
1955
Grover Leander Smith
1963
Wilbur Starlington
1963
Self
1950
Philip Armistead
1968
Self - Guest
1956
1948
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
1959
1954
Chief Screaming Chicken
1966
Uncle Ned Matthews
1959
Self
1957
Self
1954
1970
1964
Mr. Hollister
1962
1965
Mr. Ritter
1951
Narrator (voice)
1959
1954
Storyteller (voice)
1956
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
1959
Mr. Dinckler
1963
Mr. Parkinson
1953
Mr. Witherspoon
1944
The Chief
1964
Horace Hardwick
1935
Hudgins
1961
Egbert Fitzgerald
1934
Bensinger
1931
Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
1937
Max Plunkett
1933
Messenger 7013
1941
Mad Hatter
1933
Roger, the Valet
1930
Marquis De Loiselle
1938
François Filiba
1932
Nick Potter
1938
Noble Sage
1941
Graham
1937
Hiram C. Grayson
1971
Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
1931
Jeffrey Baird
1937
Sir Walter Raleigh
1957
Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
1943
Mr. Haskell
1945
Farnsworth
1943
Ambassador Popoff
1934
Count "Piggy" Volsky
1944
Peyton Potter
1943
Messenger 7013
1947
Adam Frink - Producer
1934
Lucius B. Blynn
1937
Paul Vernet
1934
Henry Bates
1941
Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
1935
Mr. Grattan
1937
Professor Shotesbury
1941
Vernon
1934
Augie Winterspoon
1935
Horace Hunter
1942
Hubert Dash
1938
Ferdinand Fane
1928
Howard Rogers
1937
McTavish
1942
Dudley Leake
1934
Hiram Dilworthy
1946
Billy Ross
1931
Rene
1931
Marcel Caron
1934
Baron Szereny
1935
Davenport Rogers
1936
Horace Keats
1931
Caspar Coleman
1967
Eric
1934
Busby
1932
Everett St. John Everett
1944
Keating
1946
Evermore
1969
Peter
1942
Mortimer Thompson
1935
Self (archive footage)
1997
Sir George Kelvin
1932
Harrison Gentry
1936
Professor Gaston Bibi
1933
J.B. Cruikshank
1947
Fred Stonebraker
1941
Benoit - Janitor
1926
Oliver
1938
Sebastian Marvello
1933
Eddie Howe
1928
Tom Village
1939
Ernest Figg
1939
Everett Conway
1944
Jeremy Dilke
1936
Nick Potter
1930
Harold Brandon
1935
Tubby
1937
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
1934
Peter Whitby
1927
Edward Fairchild
1927
Death Valley Joe Frink
1941
Dudley Dixon
1935
Count Humbert Evel Bruger
1937
Orrin
1944
Hubert T. Wilkins
1935
Sam Harrington
1929
Ned Farrar
1936
Neil McRae
1925
Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
1935
Chester Binney
1926
P.E. Dodd
1937
Bob Alten
1924
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
1935
Treadwell
1939
Self
1935
Eric
1947
Narrator (voice)
1963
Edward J. Billop
1937
Victor Dubois
1933
Eddie
1928
Homer B. Bitts
1935
Harry Fisher
1934
Monty Winston
1931
Philip McCooley
1944
Crandall Thorpe
1929
Judge Avery Webster
1945
The Groom
1931
Rev. Robert Spalding
1935
The Sap, Bill Small
1929
Simon Haldane
1930
Ruggles
1923
Eddie
1928
Uncle Harry
1924
Eddie Howard
1927
Noah
1956
Dad
1929
John
1936
Joseph Smith
1941
Will Wright
1936
Dr. Milo Edwards
1946
Leonard Beebe
1924
Horatio Slipaway
1926
Eddie Baxter
1928
Professor Hotbox
1960
Vincent Platt
1924
John Henry Jackson
1922
Oliver
1930
Eddie Davis
1928
Jimmy Whitmore
1926
Narrator
1964
Eddie Hamilton
1928
Robert Street
1929
Bobby Kent
Smithers
1930
Glenn Collins