Edward Everett Horton
Acting
🎂 1886-03-17
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.
Cast credits(161)
Chief Screaming Chicken
1966
Self
1961
1955
1948
Mr. Ritter
1951
Grover Leander Smith
1963
Wilbur Starlington
1963
Philip Armistead
1968
Elmo
1969
Uncle Ned Matthews
1959
Self
1950
Self
1948
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
1959
Self
1962
Self - Guest
1956
1954
1965
Mr. Dinckler
1963
1970
Self
1957
The Chief
1964
Self
1954
Hudgins
1961
Mr. Hollister
1962
Messenger 7013
1947
Mr. Witherspoon
1944
Max Plunkett
1933
Noah
1956
Nick Potter
1938
Noble Sage
1941
Oliver
1938
McTavish
1942
Horace Hardwick
1935
Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
1937
1964
Marquis De Loiselle
1938
Hubert Dash
1938
Mr. Parkinson
1953
Judge Avery Webster
1945
Harrison Gentry
1936
Bensinger
1931
Jeffrey Baird
1937
Dr. Milo Edwards
1946
Arthur Barnes
1922
Professor Shotesbury
1941
Mortimer Thompson
1935
Mr. Haskell
1945
Messenger 7013
1941
Farnsworth
1943
François Filiba
1932
Orrin
1944
Professor Gaston Bibi
1933
Mad Hatter
1933
Rene
1931
Sir Walter Raleigh
1957
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
1934
Peter Whitby
1927
Mr. Grattan
1937
Self (archive footage)
1997
Marcel Caron
1934
Davenport Rogers
1936
Self
1935
Egbert Fitzgerald
1934
Adam Frink - Producer
1934
Lucius B. Blynn
1937
Caspar Coleman
1967
Graham
1937
Hiram Dilworthy
1946
Howard Rogers
1937
Homer B. Bitts
1935
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
1935
Hiram C. Grayson
1971
Paul Vernet
1934
Ferdinand Fane
1928
Keating
1946
Evermore
1969
Storyteller (voice)
1956
Edward J. Billop
1937
Ambassador Popoff
1934
Nick Potter
1930
1954
Eric
1947
Peter
1942
Roger, the Valet
1930
Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
1943
J.B. Cruikshank
1947
Tom Village
1939
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
1959
Busby
1932
Narrator (voice)
1959
Peyton Potter
1943
Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
1935
Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
1931
Ernest Figg
1939
Treadwell
1939
Count "Piggy" Volsky
1944
Vernon
1934
Everett St. John Everett
1944
Victor Dubois
1933
Harry Fisher
1934
Sir George Kelvin
1932
Augie Winterspoon
1935
Fred Stonebraker
1941
Simon Haldane
1930
Sam Harrington
1929
Joseph Smith
1941
The Groom
1931
Smithers
1930
Horace Hunter
1942
Bob Alten
1924
Eric
1934
Jeremy Dilke
1936
Hubert T. Wilkins
1935
Tubby
1937
Professor Hotbox
1960
Billy Ross
1931
Benoit - Janitor
1926
Henry Bates
1941
Baron Szereny
1935
Robert Street
1929
Death Valley Joe Frink
1941
Neil McRae
1925
Dudley Dixon
1935
The Sap, Bill Small
1929
Horace Keats
1931
Horatio Slipaway
1926
Monty Winston
1931
Philip McCooley
1944
Will Wright
1936
Uncle Harry
1924
Dudley Leake
1934
Oliver
1930
Ruggles
1923
Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
1935
Harold Brandon
1935
Bobby Kent
Chester Binney
1926
John
1936
Sebastian Marvello
1933
Everett Conway
1944
Ned Farrar
1936
Glenn Collins
Vincent Platt
1924
P.E. Dodd
1937
Leonard Beebe
1924
Edward Fairchild
1927
Eddie Hamilton
1928
Count Humbert Evel Bruger
1937
Rev. Robert Spalding
1935
Crandall Thorpe
1929
Eddie Davis
1928
Eddie
1928
Jimmy Whitmore
1926
John Henry Jackson
1922
Narrator (voice)
1963
Eddie Howe
1928
Eddie Baxter
1928
Dad
1929
Eddie Howard
1927
Eddie
1928
Narrator
1964