Edward Everett Horton
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
165
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 Bullwinkle Show
The Merv Griffin Show
Love, American Style
The Steve Allen Show
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Colgate Comedy Hour
I Love Lucy
Burke's Law
Burke's Law
Matinee Theater
The Ed Sullivan Show
Sonny Boy
The Name of the Game
December Bride
Dennis the Menace
Wild Money
Shall We Dance
Cinderella Jones
Lady on a Train
Smarty
Nanny and the Professor
Horse Shy
Brazil
I Married an Angel
F Troop
The George Gobel Show
Down to Earth
The Gang's All Here
College Swing
You're the One
The Gang's All Here
Sunny
In Caliente
Vacation Waves
Your Uncle Dudley
Bachelor Daddy
Six Cylinder Love
His Night Out
Her Primitive Man
Arsenic and Old Lace
Sex and the Single Girl
It's a Boy
The Gay Divorcee
Wide Open
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Her Husband's Affairs
Oh, Doctor
Take the Heir
Flapper Wives
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
Her Master's Voice
The Lux Show
Saints and Sinners
Helen's Babies
Angel
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Summer Storm
Holiday
Pocketful of Miracles
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Nobody's Fool
Lost Horizon
Top Hat
The Cara Williams Show
Paris Honeymoon
Alice in Wonderland
Scrambled Weddings
Ziegfeld Girl
Design for Living
Trouble in Paradise
The Aviator
General Electric Theater
Max Liebman Presents
Soldiers of the King
Cold Turkey
The Story of Mankind
Danger – Love at Work
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
The Front Page
Thank Your Lucky Stars
The Devil Is a Woman
Sing and Like It
Springtime in the Rockies
The Perfect Specimen
Ladies Should Listen
Easy to Love
The Town Went Wild
The Night Is Young
Hitting a New High
The Merry Widow
Forever and a Day
Fractured Fairy Tales
$10 Raise
Reaching for the Moon
Little Big Shot
Find the King
Smart Woman
The Private Secretary
The Magnificent Dope
The King and the Chorus Girl
Kiss Me Again
Once a Gentleman
Try and Get It
The Right Bed
Holiday
Roar of the Dragon
Kiss and Make-Up
The Perils of Pauline
But the Flesh Is Weak
That's Right – You're Wrong
Success at Any Price
The Singing Kid
Weekend for Three
Things You Never See on the Screen
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Faithful in My Fashion
The Body Disappears
2000 Years Later
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
Ruggles of Red Gap
The Poor Rich
Little Tough Guys in Society
Hearts Divided
The Hottentot
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Dad's Choice
Behind the Counter
The Terror
San Diego I Love You
The Age for Love
Steppin' in Society
Beggar on Horseback
The Great Garrick
The Way to Love
A Bedtime Story
Let's Make a Million
Lonely Wives
Poker Faces
Taxi! Taxi!
The Ghost Goes Wild
The Wonderful World of Trains
La Bohème
Uncertain Lady
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
One Got Fat
The Nutcracker
The Man Who Fights Alone
No Publicity
To the Ladies
The Whole Town's Talking
The Man in the Mirror
Ask Dad
Going Highbrow
The Sap
The Ladder Jinx
Call Again
The Great Junction Hotel
Three Men on a Horse
All the King's Horses
Too Much Business
A Front Page Story
The Unenchanted Princess
