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.
Movie | The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) | 1997-11-01 |
Movie | Cold Turkey | Hiram C. Grayson | 1971-02-19 |
Series | Nanny and the Professor | Unknown | 1970-01-21 |
Movie | 2000 Years Later | Evermore | 1969-03-11 |
Movie | The Perils of Pauline | Caspar Coleman | 1967-08-02 |
Series | Batman | Unknown | 1966-01-12 |
Series | F Troop | Unknown | 1965-09-14 |
Series | The Cara Williams Show | Unknown | 1964-09-23 |
Movie | Sex and the Single Girl | The Chief | 1964-12-25 |
Movie | One Got Fat | Narrator (voice) | 1963-12-01 |
Series | Burke's Law | Unknown | 1963-09-20 |
Movie | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Mr. Dinckler | 1963-11-07 |
Movie | Pocketful of Miracles | Hudgins | 1961-12-18 |
Series | Dennis the Menace | Unknown | 1959-10-04 |
Series | The Bullwinkle Show | Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) | 1959-11-19 |
Movie | The Story of Mankind | Sir Walter Raleigh | 1957-11-08 |
Series | The Steve Allen Show | Unknown | 1956-06-24 |
Series | Matinee Theater | Unknown | 1955-10-31 |
Series | Max Liebman Presents | Unknown | 1954-09-12 |
Series | December Bride | Unknown | 1954-10-04 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Series | I Love Lucy | Unknown | 1951-10-15 |
Series | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Unknown | 1950-09-10 |
Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Unknown | 1948-06-20 |
Series | The Philco Television Playhouse | Unknown | 1948-10-03 |
Movie | Her Husband's Affairs | J.B. Cruikshank | 1947-11-12 |
Movie | The Ghost Goes Wild | Eric | 1947-08-08 |
Movie | Down to Earth | Messenger 7013 | 1947-08-21 |
Movie | Cinderella Jones | Keating | 1946-03-09 |
Movie | Earl Carroll Sketchbook | Dr. Milo Edwards | 1946-08-22 |
Movie | Faithful in My Fashion | Hiram Dilworthy | 1946-08-21 |
Movie | Steppin' in Society | Judge Avery Webster | 1945-07-09 |
Movie | Lady on a Train | Mr. Haskell | 1945-08-03 |
Movie | Her Primitive Man | Orrin | 1944-05-29 |
Movie | The Town Went Wild | Everett Conway | 1944-12-15 |
Movie | Summer Storm | Count "Piggy" Volsky | 1944-07-14 |
Movie | Arsenic and Old Lace | Mr. Witherspoon | 1944-09-01 |
Movie | Brazil | Everett St. John Everett | 1944-11-30 |
Movie | San Diego I Love You | Philip McCooley | 1944-09-29 |
Movie | Forever and a Day | Anthony Trimble-Pomfret | 1943-01-21 |
Movie | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Farnsworth | 1943-09-25 |
Movie | The Gang's All Here | Peyton Potter | 1943-12-24 |
Movie | I Married an Angel | Peter | 1942-07-09 |
Movie | The Magnificent Dope | Horace Hunter | 1942-07-01 |
Movie | Springtime in the Rockies | McTavish | 1942-11-06 |
Movie | Ziegfeld Girl | Noble Sage | 1941-04-25 |
Movie | You're the One | 1941-02-19 | |
Movie | Sunny | Henry Bates | 1941-05-30 |
Movie | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | Messenger 7013 | 1941-08-07 |
Movie | Bachelor Daddy | Joseph Smith | 1941-06-04 |
Movie | Weekend for Three | Fred Stonebraker | 1941-12-12 |
Movie | The Body Disappears | Professor Shotesbury | 1941-11-22 |
Movie | Paris Honeymoon | Ernest Figg | 1939-01-27 |
Movie | That's Right – You're Wrong | Tom Village | 1939-11-24 |
Movie | The Gang's All Here | Treadwell | 1939-03-04 |
Movie | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife | Marquis De Loiselle | 1938-03-25 |
Movie | College Swing | Hubert Dash | 1938-04-29 |
Movie | Little Tough Guys in Society | Oliver | 1938-11-01 |
Movie | Holiday | Nick Potter | 1938-05-26 |
Movie | Shall We Dance | Jeffrey Baird | 1937-05-07 |
Movie | Oh, Doctor | Edward J. Billop | 1937-03-31 |
Movie | The King and the Chorus Girl | Count Humbert Evel Bruger | 1937-03-27 |
Movie | Lost Horizon | Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett | 1937-03-03 |
Movie | Wild Money | P.E. Dodd | 1937-07-09 |
Movie | Danger – Love at Work | Howard Rogers | 1937-09-30 |
Movie | Hitting a New High | Lucius B. Blynn | 1937-12-24 |
Movie | The Great Garrick | Tubby | 1937-10-30 |
Movie | Angel | Graham | 1937-10-29 |
Movie | The Perfect Specimen | Mr. Grattan | 1937-10-23 |
Movie | The Singing Kid | Davenport Rogers | 1936-04-10 |
Movie | Her Master's Voice | Ned Farrar | 1936-01-17 |
Movie | Nobody's Fool | Will Wright | 1936-06-01 |
Movie | Hearts Divided | John | 1936-06-20 |
Movie | The Man in the Mirror | Jeremy Dilke | 1936-10-15 |
Movie | Let's Make a Million | Harrison Gentry | 1936-09-01 |
Movie | The Devil Is a Woman | Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito' | 1935-05-03 |
Movie | All the King's Horses | Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat | 1935-02-22 |
Movie | Biography of a Bachelor Girl | Leander 'Bunny' Nolan | 1935-01-04 |
Movie | In Caliente | Harold Brandon | 1935-05-25 |
Movie | The Night Is Young | Baron Szereny | 1935-01-11 |
Movie | Going Highbrow | Augie Winterspoon | 1935-07-06 |
Movie | Your Uncle Dudley | Dudley Dixon | 1935-12-13 |
Movie | Little Big Shot | Mortimer Thompson | 1935-09-07 |
Movie | Things You Never See on the Screen | Self | 1935-12-01 |
Movie | Top Hat | Horace Hardwick | 1935-08-29 |
Movie | The Private Secretary | Rev. Robert Spalding | 1935-08-26 |
Movie | Success at Any Price | Harry Fisher | 1934-03-16 |
Movie | The Poor Rich | Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood | 1934-02-25 |
Movie | Easy to Love | Eric | 1934-01-13 |
Movie | Sing and Like it | Adam Frink - Producer | 1934-04-20 |
Movie | Kiss and Make-Up | Marcel Caron | 1934-07-13 |
Movie | The Merry Widow | Ambassador Popoff | 1934-11-02 |
Movie | Smarty | Vernon | 1934-05-19 |
Movie | The Gay Divorcee | Egbert Fitzgerald | 1934-10-12 |
Movie | Ladies Should Listen | Paul Vernet | 1934-08-10 |
Movie | A Bedtime Story | Victor Dubois | 1933-04-22 |
Movie | Soldiers of the King | Sebastian Marvello | 1933-03-13 |
Movie | It's a Boy | Dudley Leake | 1933-06-06 |
Movie | Alice in Wonderland | Mad Hatter | 1933-12-18 |
Movie | The Way to Love | Professor Gaston Bibi | 1933-10-20 |
Movie | Design for Living | Max Plunkett | 1933-12-29 |
Movie | But the Flesh Is Weak | Sir George Kelvin | 1932-04-09 |
Movie | Roar of the Dragon | Busby | 1932-07-08 |
Movie | Trouble in Paradise | François Filiba | 1932-10-30 |
Movie | Lonely Wives | Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero | 1931-02-15 |
Movie | Kiss Me Again | Rene | 1931-01-07 |
Movie | The Front Page | Bensinger | 1931-04-04 |
Movie | The Age for Love | Horace Keats | 1931-10-17 |
Movie | Six Cylinder Love | Monty Winston | 1931-05-10 |
Movie | Smart Woman | Billy Ross | 1931-09-12 |
Movie | Wide Open | Simon Haldane | 1930-02-01 |
Movie | Take the Heir | 1930-01-15 | |
Movie | Holiday | Nick Potter | 1930-07-03 |
Movie | Reaching for the Moon | Roger, the Valet | 1930-12-29 |
Movie | Ask Dad | Dad | 1929-02-16 |
Movie | Sonny Boy | Crandall Thorpe | 1929-04-18 |
Movie | The Sap | The Sap, Bill Small | 1929-11-09 |
Movie | Call Again | Eddie | 1928-01-01 |
Movie | Scrambled Weddings | Eddie Howe | 1928-01-01 |
Movie | Dad's Choice | 1928-01-07 | |
Movie | Vacation Waves | Eddie Davis | 1928-09-15 |
Movie | The Terror | Ferdinand Fane | 1928-09-06 |
Movie | Behind the Counter | Eddie Baxter | 1928-03-03 |
Movie | No Publicity | Eddie Howard | 1927-08-01 |
Movie | La Bohème | Benoit - Janitor | 1926-03-13 |
Movie | Beggar on Horseback | Neil McRae | 1925-06-05 |
Movie | The Man Who Fights Alone | Bob Alten | 1924-09-15 |
Movie | Helen's Babies | Uncle Harry | 1924-10-11 |
Movie | To the Ladies | Leonard Beebe | 1924-10-06 |