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