Edward Everett Horton
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
163
Gender
Male
Birthday
1886-03-17
Day of death
1970-09-29 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Edward Everett Horton
Biography
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
The Mike Douglas Show
Batman
The Merv Griffin Show
I Love Lucy
Love, American Style
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Bullwinkle Show
Matinee Theater
Burke's Law
Burke's Law
The Name of the Game
The Steve Allen Show
Dennis the Menace
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Colgate Comedy Hour
F Troop
December Bride
Going Highbrow
Lost Horizon
The Terror
Wild Money
Vacation Waves
Summer Storm
No Publicity
Wide Open
Call Again
Hearts Divided
Nanny and the Professor
Paris Honeymoon
Lonely Wives
La Bohème
College Swing
The George Gobel Show
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Sonny Boy
$10 Raise
Smarty
Brazil
The Nutcracker
Cinderella Jones
Design for Living
Angel
Sunny
Oh, Doctor
Arsenic and Old Lace
Saints and Sinners
Taxi! Taxi!
Shall We Dance
Ladies Should Listen
In Caliente
Behind the Counter
The Sap
Pocketful of Miracles
The Lux Show
The Front Page
Horse Shy
A Bedtime Story
Cold Turkey
Sex and the Single Girl
Flapper Wives
The Merry Widow
Little Tough Guys in Society
Scrambled Weddings
Trouble in Paradise
Hitting a New High
Max Liebman Presents
The Devil Is a Woman
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
The Perils of Pauline
The Cara Williams Show
It's a Boy
Forever and a Day
The Man in the Mirror
I Married an Angel
The Right Bed
Danger – Love at Work
Faithful in My Fashion
Things You Never See on the Screen
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
Ziegfeld Girl
All the King's Horses
Alice in Wonderland
Your Uncle Dudley
Sing and Like It
Top Hat
Bachelor Daddy
Weekend for Three
Lady on a Train
The Great Garrick
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
2000 Years Later
Down to Earth
Fractured Fairy Tales
Ruggles of Red Gap
Poker Faces
Holiday
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
The Way to Love
But the Flesh Is Weak
Little Big Shot
San Diego I Love You
The Perfect Specimen
Six Cylinder Love
The Singing Kid
Roar of the Dragon
Her Primitive Man
Kiss and Make-Up
Once a Gentleman
The Body Disappears
The Gay Divorcee
Let's Make a Million
The Age for Love
His Night Out
Kiss Me Again
The Private Secretary
The Town Went Wild
The Magnificent Dope
The Gang's All Here
Nobody's Fool
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
General Electric Theater
The Man Who Fights Alone
The Gang's All Here
Springtime in the Rockies
The Night Is Young
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Take the Heir
Success at Any Price
The Ghost Goes Wild
Dad's Choice
Three Men on a Horse
The King and the Chorus Girl
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Steppin' in Society
That's Right – You're Wrong
You're the One
To the Ladies
Her Master's Voice
Reaching for the Moon
The Story of Mankind
Helen's Babies
Her Husband's Affairs
Too Much Business
Smart Woman
The Great Junction Hotel
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Try and Get It
The Aviator
Holiday
Soldiers of the King
Beggar on Horseback
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
The Poor Rich
Easy to Love
The Whole Town's Talking
The Hottentot
The Ladder Jinx
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Find the King
One Got Fat
Ask Dad
The Unenchanted Princess
The Wonderful World of Trains
