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Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton

Actor

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.

Born: March 17, 1886 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Died: September 29, 1970 (Age 84)

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Edward Everett Horton  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
5.4
ActorSir George Kelvin1932
Movie
6.2
ActorVictor Dubois1933
Movie
6.4
ActorMad Hatter1933
Movie
7.1
ActorGraham1937
Movie
8
ActorMr. Witherspoon1944
Movie
6
ActorNeil McRae1925
Movie
5.9
ActorLeander 'Bunny' Nolan1935
Movie
7
ActorMarquis De Loiselle1938
Movie
5.8
ActorEverett St. John Everett1944
Movie
5
ActorKeating1946
Movie
6.7
ActorHiram C. Grayson1971
Movie
5.8
ActorHubert Dash1938
Movie
6.1
ActorHoward Rogers1937
Movie
7.3
ActorMax Plunkett1933
Movie
6.3
ActorMessenger 70131947
Movie
6.4
ActorEric1934
Movie
5.7
ActorHiram Dilworthy1946
Movie
6.8
ActorAnthony Trimble-Pomfret1943
Movie
5.8
ActorAugie Winterspoon1935
Movie
5.8
ActorJohn1936
Movie
6.1
ActorUncle Harry1924
Movie
5.8
ActorJ.B. Cruikshank1947
Movie
7.6
ActorMessenger 70131941
Movie
4.7
ActorLucius B. Blynn1937
Movie
6.1
ActorNick Potter1930
Movie
7.8
ActorNick Potter1938
Movie
5.5
ActorPeter1942
Movie
5.7
ActorHarold Brandon1935
Movie
7.4
ActorMr. Dinckler1963
Movie
5.2
ActorRene1931
Movie
5.7
ActorMarcel Caron1934
Movie
7
ActorBenoit - Janitor1926
Movie
6.1
ActorPaul Vernet1934
Movie
6.8
ActorMr. Haskell1945
Movie
6
ActorMortimer Thompson1935
Movie
6
ActorRichard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero1931
Movie
7.5
ActorAlexander P. " Lovey " Lovett1937
Movie
7.8
ActorHorace Hardwick1935
Movie
7.8
ActorFrançois Filiba1932
Movie
7.5
ActorEgbert Fitzgerald1934
Movie
7.6
ActorJeffrey Baird1937
Movie
7.2
ActorHudgins1961
Movie
6.6
ActorThe Chief1964
Movie
6.7
ActorGov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'1935
Movie
7.4
ActorAmbassador Popoff1934
Movie
6.6
ActorNoble Sage1941
Movie
6.5
ActorBensinger1931
Movie
6.6
ActorFarnsworth1943
Movie
6.5
ActorPeyton Potter1943
Movie
4.6
ActorSir Walter Raleigh1957
Movie
6.5
ActorMcTavish1942
Movie
6.6
ActorTubby1937
Movie
6.4
ActorCount "Piggy" Volsky1944
Movie
6.6
ActorHorace Hunter1942
Movie
5.3
ActorRoger, the Valet1930
Movie
6.1
ActorCount Humbert Evel Bruger1937
Movie
6.5
ActorAdam Frink - Producer1934
Movie
5.6
ActorVernon1934
Movie
6.3
ActorMr. Grattan1937
Movie
6.3
ActorBilly Ross1931
Movie
5.4
ActorCaspar Coleman1967
Movie
6.3
ActorHarry Fisher1934
Movie
5.9
ActorTom Village1939
Movie
6.1
ActorBaron Szereny1935
Movie
6.1
ActorBusby1932
Movie
5.1
ActorFred Stonebraker1941
Movie
5.2
ActorHenry Bates1941
Movie
6.4
ActorPhilip McCooley1944
Movie
6.1
ActorDavenport Rogers1936
Movie
5.3
ActorEverett Conway1944
Movie
5.7
ActorSimon Haldane1930
Movie
5.9
ActorJeremy Dilke1936
Movie
5.8
ActorErnest Figg1939
Movie
6.8
ActorRev. Robert Spalding1935
Movie
ActorBob Alten1924
Movie
6.5
ActorHorace Keats1931
Movie
7.1
ActorProfessor Gaston Bibi1933
Movie
7.1
ActorAlbert Stuyvesant Spottiswood1934
Movie
6.5
ActorP.E. Dodd1937
Movie
ActorEdward J. Billop1937
Movie
6.4
ActorNed Farrar1936
Movie
6.9
ActorDr. Milo Edwards1946
Movie
5.7
ActorSebastian Marvello1933
Movie
5.9
ActorOliver1938
Movie
6.8
ActorJudge Avery Webster1945
Movie
7.3
ActorWill Wright1936
Movie
7.3
ActorDudley Dixon1935
Movie
6.1
ActorDudley Leake1933
Movie
5.8
ActorMonty Winston1931
Movie
7.2
ActorFerdinand Fane1928
Movie
5.8
ActorOrrin1944
Movie
7
ActorEvermore1969
Movie
6.2
ActorEric1947
Movie
5.2
ActorCount Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat1935
Movie
6.2
ActorTreadwell1939
Movie
5.4
ActorJoseph Smith1941
Movie
Actor1941
Movie
6.1
ActorSelf (archive footage)1997
Movie
7.4
ActorJimmy Whitmore1926
Movie
8.1
ActorCrandall Thorpe1929
Movie
3.1
ActorLeonard Beebe1924
Movie
5.8
ActorChester Binney1926
Movie
6
ActorRuggles1923
Movie
6.7
ActorHubert T. Wilkins1935
Movie
Actor1924
Movie
8
ActorHomer B. Bitts1935
Movie
Actor1930
Movie
ActorOliver1930
Movie
6.1
ActorHarrison Gentry1936
Movie
6
ActorProfessor Shotesbury1941
TV Show
7.5
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1950-1955
TV Show
Actor1 Episode1954
TV Show
7.2
ActorWilbur Starlington
1 Episode
1963-1966
TV Show
7.7
ActorSelf - Guest Host
1 Episode
1948-1971
TV Show
7.8
Actor1 Episode1954-1959
TV Show
7.2
Actor3 Episodes1965-1967
TV Show
8.6
ActorMr. Ritter
1 Episode
1951-1957
TV Show
6.6
ActorMr. Parkinson
1 Episode
1953-1962
TV Show
7
Actor1 Episode1970-1971
TV Show
6.8
ActorUncle Ned Matthews
3 Episodes
1959-1963
TV Show
7.4
Actor1 Episode1948-1956
TV Show
8.3
ActorSelf - Guest
1 Episode
1956-1960
TV Show
7.2
Actor1 Episode1964-1965
TV Show
6.4
ActorSelf
4 Episodes
1962-1967
TV Show
5.4
ActorMr. Hollister
1 Episode
1962-1963
TV Show
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1957-1958
TV Show
7.4
ActorPhilip Armistead
1 Episode
1968-1971
TV Show
7.6
ActorFractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
815 Episodes
1959-1963
TV Show
7.4
ActorChief Screaming Chicken
2 Episodes
1966-1968
TV Show
7.3
Actor3 Episodes1955-1958
TV Show
6.9
ActorSelf
2 Episodes
1961-1982
TV Show
7.2
ActorGrover Leander Smith
1 Episode
1963-1966
TV Show
7.2
ActorNarrator (voice)
1 Episode
1959-1964
TV Show
7.5
ActorSelf
2 Episodes
1954-1960
Short Film
6
ActorNarrator (voice)1963
Short Film
5.8
ActorDad1929
Short Film
7
ActorEddie1928
Short Film
6
ActorSelf1935
Short Film
7.4
ActorEddie Baxter1928
Short Film
6.5
ActorEddie Davis1928
Short Film
7.3
ActorEddie Hamilton1928
Short Film
7.2
ActorEddie Howard1927
Short Film
7.1
ActorEdward Fairchild1927
Short Film
6.5
ActorEddie Howe1928
Short Film
7.1
ActorEddie1928
Short Film
5.9
ActorThe Groom1931
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