Edward Everett Horton

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, 1886-03-17

Died: 1970-09-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1922	Too Much Business	John Henry Jackson	0
2	1923	Ruggles of Red Gap	Ruggles	0
3	1924	Flapper Wives	Vincent Platt	0
4	1924	The Man Who Fights Alone	Bob Alten	0
5	1924	To the Ladies	Leonard Beebe	0
6	1924	Helen's Babies	Uncle Harry	56
7	1925	Beggar on Horseback	Neil McRae	60
8	1926	La Bohème	Benoit - Janitor	66
9	1926	The Nutcracker	Horatio Slipaway	0
10	1926	Poker Faces	Jimmy Whitmore	60
11	1926	The Whole Town's Talking	Chester Binney	0
12	1927	Taxi! Taxi!	Peter Whitby	0
13	1927	No Publicity	Eddie Howard	70
14	1927	Find the King	Edward Fairchild	70
15	1928	Scrambled Weddings	Eddie Howe	70
16	1928	Call Again	Eddie	70
17	1928	Dad's Choice	Eddie	70
18	1928	Behind the Counter	Eddie Baxter	70
19	1928	Horse Shy	Eddie Hamilton	70
20	1928	The Terror	Ferdinand Fane	60
21	1928	Vacation Waves	Eddie Davis	70
22	1929	Ask Dad	Dad	57
23	1929	Sonny Boy	Crandall Thorpe	0
24	1929	The Hottentot	Sam Harrington	0
25	1929	The Sap	The Sap, Bill Small	0
26	1929	The Aviator	Robert Street	0
27	1930	Take the Heir	Smithers	0
28	1930	Wide Open	Simon Haldane	53
29	1930	Holiday	Nick Potter	62
30	1930	Once a Gentleman	Oliver	0
31	1930	Reaching for the Moon	Roger, the Valet	54
32	1931	Kiss Me Again	Rene	60
33	1931	Lonely Wives	Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero	46
34	1931	The Front Page	Bensinger	65
35	1931	Six Cylinder Love	Monty Winston	0
36	1931	Smart Woman	Billy Ross	59
37	1931	The Age for Love	Horace Keats	0
38	1931	The Great Junction Hotel	The Groom	0
39	1932	But the Flesh Is Weak	Sir George Kelvin	53
40	1932	Roar of the Dragon	Busby	60
41	1932	Trouble in Paradise	François Filiba	74
42	1933	Soldiers of the King	Sebastian Marvello	0
43	1933	A Bedtime Story	Victor Dubois	80
44	1933	The Way to Love	Professor Gaston Bibi	0
45	1933	Alice in Wonderland	Mad Hatter	60
46	1933	Design for Living	Max Plunkett	71
47	1934	Easy to Love	Eric	51
48	1934	The Poor Rich	Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood	0
49	1934	Success at Any Price	Harry Fisher	39
50	1934	Sing and Like It	Adam Frink - Producer	40
51	1934	Smarty	Vernon	44
52	1934	It's a Boy	Dudley Leake	0
53	1934	Kiss and Make-Up	Marcel Caron	53
54	1934	Ladies Should Listen	Paul Vernet	58
55	1934	The Gay Divorcee	Egbert Fitzgerald	69
56	1934	The Merry Widow	Ambassador Popoff	68
57	1935	Biography of a Bachelor Girl	Leander 'Bunny' Nolan	63
58	1935	The Night Is Young	Baron Szereny	57
59	1935	All the King's Horses	Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat	60
60	1935	The Devil Is a Woman	Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'	63
61	1935	$10 Raise	Hubert T. Wilkins	80
62	1935	In Caliente	Harold Brandon	63
63	1935	Going Highbrow	Augie Winterspoon	60
64	1935	The Private Secretary	Rev. Robert Spalding	55
65	1935	Top Hat	Horace Hardwick	73
66	1935	Little Big Shot	Mortimer Thompson	60
67	1935	His Night Out	Homer B. Bitts	0
68	1935	Things You Never See on the Screen	Self	50
69	1935	Your Uncle Dudley	Dudley Dixon	10
70	1936	Her Master's Voice	Ned Farrar	60
71	1936	The Singing Kid	Davenport Rogers	40
72	1936	Nobody's Fool	Will Wright	0
73	1936	Hearts Divided	John	50
74	1936	Let's Make a Million	Harrison Gentry	0
75	1936	The Man in the Mirror	Jeremy Dilke	70
76	1937	Lost Horizon	Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett	70
77	1937	The King and the Chorus Girl	Count Humbert Evel Bruger	55
78	1937	Oh, Doctor	Edward J. Billop	0
79	1937	Shall We Dance	Jeffrey Baird	72
80	1937	Wild Money	P.E. Dodd	0
81	1937	Danger – Love at Work	Howard Rogers	73
82	1937	The Perfect Specimen	Mr. Grattan	57
83	1937	Angel	Graham	68
84	1937	The Great Garrick	Tubby	59
85	1937	Hitting a New High	Lucius B. Blynn	52
86	1938	Bluebeard's Eighth Wife	Marquis De Loiselle	70
87	1938	College Swing	Hubert Dash	68
88	1938	Holiday	Nick Potter	73
89	1938	Little Tough Guys in Society	Oliver	60
90	1939	Paris Honeymoon	Ernest Figg	30
91	1939	The Gang's All Here	Treadwell	50
92	1939	That's Right – You're Wrong	Tom Village	57
93	1941	You're the One	Death Valley Joe Frink	10
94	1941	Ziegfeld Girl	Noble Sage	65
95	1941	Sunny	Henry Bates	55
96	1941	Bachelor Daddy	Joseph Smith	0
97	1941	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	Messenger 7013	70
98	1941	The Body Disappears	Professor Shotesbury	52
99	1941	Weekend for Three	Fred Stonebraker	57
100	1942	The Magnificent Dope	Horace Hunter	72
101	1942	I Married an Angel	Peter	50
102	1942	Springtime in the Rockies	McTavish	67
103	1943	Forever and a Day	Anthony Trimble-Pomfret	74
104	1943	Thank Your Lucky Stars	Farnsworth	61
105	1943	The Gang's All Here	Peyton Potter	58
106	1944	Her Primitive Man	Orrin	60
107	1944	Summer Storm	Count "Piggy" Volsky	53
108	1944	Arsenic and Old Lace	Mr. Witherspoon	76
109	1944	San Diego I Love You	Philip McCooley	63
110	1944	Brazil	Everett St. John Everett	53
111	1944	The Town Went Wild	Everett Conway	50
112	1945	Steppin' in Society	Judge Avery Webster	0
113	1945	Lady on a Train	Mr. Haskell	66
114	1946	Cinderella Jones	Keating	33
115	1946	Faithful in My Fashion	Hiram Dilworthy	63
116	1946	Earl Carroll Sketchbook	Dr. Milo Edwards	60
117	1947	The Ghost Goes Wild	Eric	50
118	1947	Down to Earth	Messenger 7013	58
119	1947	Her Husband's Affairs	J.B. Cruikshank	54
120		The Right Bed	Bobby Kent	0
121		Try and Get It	Glenn Collins	0
122	1956	Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower	Noah	0
123	1957	The Story of Mankind	Sir Walter Raleigh	45
124	1960	The Wonderful World of Trains	Professor Hotbox	0
125	1961	Pocketful of Miracles	Hudgins	73
126	1963	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Mr. Dinckler	70
127	1963	One Got Fat	Narrator (voice)	62
128	1964	The Emperor's Oblong Pancake	Narrator	0
129	1964	Sex and the Single Girl	The Chief	66
130	1967	The Perils of Pauline	Caspar Coleman	35
131	1969	2000 Years Later	Evermore	60
132	1971	Cold Turkey	Hiram C. Grayson	62
133	1997	The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender	Self (archive footage)	52

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
3	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
4	1951	I Love Lucy	Mr. Ritter	79
5	1953	General Electric Theater	Mr. Parkinson	63
6	1954	Max Liebman Presents		0
7	1954	The George Gobel Show	Self	73
8	1954	December Bride		55
9	1955	Matinee Theater		50
10	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Guest	56
11	1956	The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show	Storyteller (voice)	100
12	1957	The Lux Show	Self	60
13	1959	Dennis the Menace	Uncle Ned Matthews	65
14	1959	Fractured Fairy Tales	Narrator (voice)	70
15	1959	The Bullwinkle Show	Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)	70
16	1959	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends	Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)	0
17	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
18	1962	Saints and Sinners	Mr. Hollister	60
19	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
20	1963	Burke's Law	Grover Leander Smith	60
21	1963	Burke's Law	Wilbur Starlington	60
22	1964	The Cara Williams Show		50
23	1965	F Troop		62
24	1966	Batman	Chief Screaming Chicken	73
25	1968	The Name of the Game	Philip Armistead	68
26	1969	Love, American Style	Elmo	61
27	1970	Nanny and the Professor		60

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