Edward Everett Horton
135 movies · 19 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 17, 1886
- Died
- Sep 29, 1970 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- E.E. Horton · Edward Horton · Edward Everett Horton Jr.
Biography
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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).
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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.
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Edward Everett Horton: movies and TV shows
Acting (154)
- Upcoming The Right Bed
as Bobby Kent
- 1971 Cold Turkey
as Hiram C. Grayson
- 1970
- 1969
- 1969 2000 Years Later
as Evermore
- 1968
- 1967 The Perils of Pauline
as Caspar Coleman
- 1966
- 1965
- 1964 Sex and the Single Girl
as The Chief
- 1964
- 1964 The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
as Narrator
- 1963 One Got Fat
as Narrator (voice)
- 1963 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Mr. Dinckler
- 1963
- 1962
- 1961 Pocketful of Miracles
as Hudgins
- 1960 The Wonderful World of Trains
as Professor Hotbox
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends · TV
as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) · 163 episodes
- 1959
- 1957 The Story of Mankind
as Sir Walter Raleigh
- 1957 Three Men on a Horse
as Mr. Carver
- 1956
- 1956
- 1955
- 1954
- 1954
- 1953
- 1951
- 1948
- 1947 Her Husband's Affairs
as J.B. Cruikshank
- 1947 Down to Earth
as Messenger 7013
- 1947 The Ghost Goes Wild
as Eric
- 1946 Earl Carroll Sketchbook
as Dr. Milo Edwards
- 1946 Faithful in My Fashion
as Hiram Dilworthy
- 1946 Cinderella Jones
as Keating
- 1945 Lady on a Train
as Mr. Haskell
- 1945 Steppin' in Society
as Judge Avery Webster
- 1944 The Town Went Wild
as Everett Conway
- 1944 Brazil
as Everett St. John Everett
- 1944 San Diego I Love You
as Philip McCooley
- 1944 Arsenic and Old Lace
as Mr. Witherspoon
- 1944 Summer Storm
as Count "Piggy" Volsky
- 1944 Her Primitive Man
as Orrin
- 1943 The Gang's All Here
as Peyton Potter
- 1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Farnsworth
- 1943 Forever and a Day
as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
- 1942 Springtime in the Rockies
as McTavish
- 1942 I Married an Angel
as Peter
- 1942 The Magnificent Dope
as Horace Hunter
- 1941 Weekend for Three
as Fred Stonebraker
- 1941 The Body Disappears
as Professor Shotesbury
- 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan
as Messenger 7013
- 1941 Bachelor Daddy
as Joseph Smith
- 1941 Sunny
as Henry Bates
- 1941 Ziegfeld Girl
as Noble Sage
- 1941 You're the One
as Death Valley Joe Frink
- 1939 That's Right – You're Wrong
as Tom Village
- 1939 The Gang's All Here
as Treadwell
- 1939 Paris Honeymoon
as Ernest Figg
- 1938 Little Tough Guys in Society
as Oliver
- 1938 Holiday
as Nick Potter
- 1938 College Swing
as Hubert Dash
- 1938 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
as Marquis De Loiselle
- 1937 Hitting a New High
as Lucius B. Blynn
- 1937 The Great Garrick
as Tubby
- 1937 Angel
as Graham
- 1937 The Perfect Specimen
as Mr. Grattan
- 1937 Danger – Love at Work
as Howard Rogers
- 1937 Wild Money
as P.E. Dodd
- 1937 Shall We Dance
as Jeffrey Baird
- 1937 Oh, Doctor
as Edward J. Billop
- 1937 The King and the Chorus Girl
as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
- 1937 Lost Horizon
as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
- 1936 The Man in the Mirror
as Jeremy Dilke
- 1936 Let's Make a Million
as Harrison Gentry
- 1936 Hearts Divided
as John
- 1936 Nobody's Fool
as Will Wright
- 1936 The Singing Kid
as Davenport Rogers
- 1936 Her Master's Voice
as Ned Farrar
- 1935 Your Uncle Dudley
as Dudley Dixon
- 1935 His Night Out
as Homer B. Bitts
- 1935 Little Big Shot
as Mortimer Thompson
- 1935 Top Hat
as Horace Hardwick
- 1935 The Private Secretary
as Rev. Robert Spalding
- 1935 Going Highbrow
as Augie Winterspoon
- 1935 In Caliente
as Harold Brandon
- 1935 $10 Raise
as Hubert T. Wilkins
- 1935 The Devil Is a Woman
as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
- 1935 All the King's Horses
as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
- 1935 The Night Is Young
as Baron Szereny
- 1935 Biography of a Bachelor Girl
as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
- 1934 The Merry Widow
as Ambassador Popoff
- 1934 The Gay Divorcee
as Egbert Fitzgerald
- 1934 Ladies Should Listen
as Paul Vernet
- 1934 Kiss and Make-Up
as Marcel Caron
- 1934 It's a Boy
as Dudley Leake
- 1934 Smarty
as Vernon
- 1934 Sing and Like It
as Adam Frink - Producer
- 1934 Uncertain Lady
as Elliot Crane
- 1934 Success at Any Price
as Harry Fisher
- 1934 The Poor Rich
as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
- 1934 Easy to Love
as Eric
- 1933 Design for Living
as Max Plunkett
- 1933 Alice in Wonderland
as Mad Hatter
- 1933 The Way to Love
as Professor Gaston Bibi
- 1933 A Bedtime Story
as Victor Dubois
- 1933 Soldiers of the King
as Sebastian Marvello
- 1932 Trouble in Paradise
as Francois
- 1932 Roar of the Dragon
as Busby
- 1932 But the Flesh Is Weak
as Sir George Kelvin
- 1931 The Great Junction Hotel
as The Groom
- 1931 The Age for Love
as Horace Keats
- 1931 Smart Woman
as Billy Ross
- 1931 Six Cylinder Love
as Monty Winston
- 1931 The Front Page
as Bensinger
- 1931 Lonely Wives
as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
- 1931 Kiss Me Again
as Rene
- 1930 Reaching for the Moon
as Roger, the Valet
- 1930 Once a Gentleman
as Oliver
- 1930 Holiday
as Nick Potter
- 1930 Wide Open
as Simon Haldane
- 1930 Take the Heir
as Smithers
- 1929 The Aviator
as Robert Street
- 1929 The Sap
as The Sap, Bill Small
- 1929 The Hottentot
as Sam Harrington
- 1929 Sonny Boy
as Crandall Thorpe
- 1929 Ask Dad
as Dad
- 1928 Vacation Waves
as Eddie Davis
- 1928 The Terror
as Ferdinand Fane
- 1928 Horse Shy
as Eddie Hamilton
- 1928 Behind the Counter
as Eddie Baxter
- 1928 Dad's Choice
as Eddie
- 1928 Call Again
as Eddie
- 1928 Scrambled Weddings
as Eddie Howe
- 1927 Find the King
as Edward Fairchild
- 1927 No Publicity
as Eddie Howard
- 1927 Taxi! Taxi!
as Peter Whitby
- 1926 The Whole Town's Talking
as Chester Binney
- 1926 Poker Faces
as Jimmy Whitmore
- 1926 The Nut-Cracker
as Horatio Slipaway
- 1926 La Bohème
as Benoit - Janitor
- 1925 Beggar on Horseback
as Neil McRae
- 1924 Helen's Babies
as Uncle Harry
- 1924 To the Ladies
as Leonard Beebe
- 1924 The Man Who Fights Alone
as Bob Alten
- 1924 Try and Get It
as Glenn Collins
- 1924 Flapper Wives
as Vincent Platt
- 1923 Ruggles of Red Gap
as Ruggles
- 1922 A Front Page Story
as Rodney Marvin
- 1922 The Ladder Jinx
as Arthur Barnes
- 1922 Too Much Business
as John Henry Jackson
Talk shows and appearances (9)
- 1997
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
4 episodes
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
2 episodes
- 1957 The Lux Show
1 episode
- 1956 The Steve Allen Show
1 episode
- 1954 The George Gobel Show
2 episodes
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour
1 episode
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1 episode
- 1935