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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 17, 1886
Died
September 29, 1970
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- E.E. Horton
- Edward Horton
- Edward Everett Horton Jr.
Edward Everett Horton
0.5 Popularity
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
4.9
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
6.2
Hiram C. Grayson
Cold Turkey
1971
6.0
Nanny and the Professor
1970
6.1
Elmo
Love, American Style
1969
6.0
Evermore
2000 Years Later
1969
6.8
Philip Armistead
The Name of the Game
1968
3.5
Caspar Coleman
The Perils of Pauline
1967
7.3
Chief Screaming Chicken
Batman
1966
6.2
F Troop
1965
6.4
The Chief
Sex and the Single Girl
1964
Credits
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage)
1997
4.9
Cold Turkey
as Hiram C. Grayson
1971
6.2
Nanny and the Professor
1970
6.0
Love, American Style
as Elmo
1969
6.1
2000 Years Later
as Evermore
1969
6.0
The Name of the Game
as Philip Armistead
1968
6.8
The Perils of Pauline
as Caspar Coleman
1967
3.5
Batman
as Chief Screaming Chicken
1966
7.3
F Troop
1965
6.2
Sex and the Single Girl
as The Chief
1964
6.4
The Cara Williams Show
1964
5.0
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
as Narrator
1964
0.0
One Got Fat
as Narrator (voice)
1963
6.2
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Mr. Dinckler
1963
7.0
Burke's Law
as Grover Leander Smith
1963
6.0
Burke's Law
as Wilbur Starlington
1963
6.0
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Saints and Sinners
as Mr. Hollister
1962
6.0
Pocketful of Miracles
as Hudgins
1961
7.3
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
🎬
The Wonderful World of Trains
as Professor Hotbox
1960
0.0
The Bullwinkle Show
as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
1959
7.1
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
1959
8.0
Fractured Fairy Tales
as Narrator (voice)
1959
7.0
Dennis the Menace
as Uncle Ned Matthews
1959
6.5
The Story of Mankind
as Sir Walter Raleigh
1957
4.3
🎬
The Lux Show
as Self
1957
6.0
Three Men on a Horse
as Mr. Carver
1957
0.0
🎬
The Unenchanted Princess
as Narrator
1957
0.0
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
as Storyteller (voice)
1956
10.0
🎬
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Noah
1956
0.0
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Guest
1956
5.6
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
December Bride
1954
5.5
🎬
The George Gobel Show
as Self
1954
7.3
🎬
Max Liebman Presents
1954
0.0
General Electric Theater
as Mr. Parkinson
1953
6.4
I Love Lucy
as Mr. Ritter
1951
7.9
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Her Husband's Affairs
as J.B. Cruikshank
1947
4.7
Down to Earth
as Messenger 7013
1947
5.9
The Ghost Goes Wild
as Eric
1947
5.0
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
as Dr. Milo Edwards
1946
6.0
Faithful in My Fashion
as Hiram Dilworthy
1946
6.3
Cinderella Jones
as Keating
1946
2.8
Lady on a Train
as Mr. Haskell
1945
6.6
Steppin' in Society
as Judge Avery Webster
1945
0.0
The Town Went Wild
as Everett Conway
1944
5.0
Brazil
as Everett St. John Everett
1944
4.9
San Diego I Love You
as Philip McCooley
1944
6.2
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Mr. Witherspoon
1944
7.6
Summer Storm
as Count "Piggy" Volsky
1944
5.3
Her Primitive Man
as Orrin
1944
6.0
The Gang's All Here
as Peyton Potter
1943
5.9
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Farnsworth
1943
6.0
Forever and a Day
as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
1943
7.4
Springtime in the Rockies
as McTavish
1942
6.7
I Married an Angel
as Peter
1942
5.0
The Magnificent Dope
as Horace Hunter
1942
7.2
Weekend for Three
as Fred Stonebraker
1941
5.7
The Body Disappears
as Professor Shotesbury
1941
5.2
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
as Messenger 7013
1941
6.9
Bachelor Daddy
as Joseph Smith
1941
0.0
Sunny
as Henry Bates
1941
5.5
Ziegfeld Girl
as Noble Sage
1941
6.5
You're the One
as Death Valley Joe Frink
1941
1.0
That's Right – You're Wrong
as Tom Village
1939
5.7
The Gang's All Here
as Treadwell
1939
5.0
Paris Honeymoon
as Ernest Figg
1939
3.0
Little Tough Guys in Society
as Oliver
1938
6.0
Holiday
as Nick Potter
1938
7.3
College Swing
as Hubert Dash
1938
6.8
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
as Marquis De Loiselle
1938
7.0
Hitting a New High
as Lucius B. Blynn
1937
5.2
The Great Garrick
as Tubby
1937
5.9
Angel
as Graham
1937
6.7
The Perfect Specimen
as Mr. Grattan
1937
5.7
Danger – Love at Work
as Howard Rogers
1937
7.3
Wild Money
as P.E. Dodd
1937
0.0
Shall We Dance
as Jeffrey Baird
1937
7.2
Oh, Doctor
as Edward J. Billop
1937
0.0
The King and the Chorus Girl
as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
1937
5.5
Lost Horizon
as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
1937
7.0
The Man in the Mirror
as Jeremy Dilke
1936
7.0
Let's Make a Million
as Harrison Gentry
1936
0.0
Hearts Divided
as John
1936
5.0
Nobody's Fool
as Will Wright
1936
0.0
The Singing Kid
as Davenport Rogers
1936
4.0
Her Master's Voice
as Ned Farrar
1936
6.0
Your Uncle Dudley
as Dudley Dixon
1935
1.0
Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
1935
5.0
His Night Out
as Homer B. Bitts
1935
0.0
Little Big Shot
as Mortimer Thompson
1935
6.0
Top Hat
as Horace Hardwick
1935
7.2
The Private Secretary
as Rev. Robert Spalding
1935
5.5
Going Highbrow
as Augie Winterspoon
1935
6.0
In Caliente
as Harold Brandon
1935
6.3
$10 Raise
as Hubert T. Wilkins
1935
8.0
The Devil Is a Woman
as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
1935
6.2
All the King's Horses
as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
1935
6.0
The Night Is Young
as Baron Szereny
1935
5.7
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
1935
6.3
The Merry Widow
as Ambassador Popoff
1934
6.7
The Gay Divorcee
as Egbert Fitzgerald
1934
6.9
Ladies Should Listen
as Paul Vernet
1934
5.8
Kiss and Make-Up
as Marcel Caron
1934
5.0
🎬
It's a Boy
as Dudley Leake
1934
0.0
Smarty
as Vernon
1934
4.3
Sing and Like It
as Adam Frink - Producer
1934
4.0
Uncertain Lady
as Elliot Crane
1934
0.0
Success at Any Price
as Harry Fisher
1934
3.8
The Poor Rich
as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
1934
0.0
Easy to Love
as Eric
1934
4.6
Design for Living
as Max Plunkett
1933
7.1
Alice in Wonderland
as Mad Hatter
1933
6.1
The Way to Love
as Professor Gaston Bibi
1933
0.0
A Bedtime Story
as Victor Dubois
1933
4.5
Soldiers of the King
as Sebastian Marvello
1933
0.0
Trouble in Paradise
as François Filiba
1932
7.4
Roar of the Dragon
as Busby
1932
6.0
But the Flesh Is Weak
as Sir George Kelvin
1932
5.3
The Great Junction Hotel
as The Groom
1931
0.0
The Age for Love
as Horace Keats
1931
0.0
Smart Woman
as Billy Ross
1931
5.3
Six Cylinder Love
as Monty Winston
1931
0.0
The Front Page
as Bensinger
1931
6.5
Lonely Wives
as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
1931
4.6
Kiss Me Again
as Rene
1931
6.0
Reaching for the Moon
as Roger, the Valet
1930
5.4
🎬
Once a Gentleman
as Oliver
1930
0.0
Holiday
as Nick Potter
1930
6.2
Wide Open
as Simon Haldane
1930
5.3
🎬
Take the Heir
as Smithers
1930
0.0
The Aviator
as Robert Street
1929
1.0
The Sap
as The Sap, Bill Small
1929
0.0
The Hottentot
as Sam Harrington
1929
0.0
Sonny Boy
as Crandall Thorpe
1929
0.0
Ask Dad
as Dad
1929
5.7
Vacation Waves
as Eddie Davis
1928
7.0
The Terror
as Ferdinand Fane
1928
6.0
Horse Shy
as Eddie Hamilton
1928
7.0
Behind the Counter
as Eddie Baxter
1928
7.0
Dad's Choice
as Eddie
1928
7.0
Call Again
as Eddie
1928
7.0
Scrambled Weddings
as Eddie Howe
1928
7.0
Find the King
as Edward Fairchild
1927
7.0
No Publicity
as Eddie Howard
1927
7.0
Taxi! Taxi!
as Peter Whitby
1927
0.0
The Whole Town's Talking
as Chester Binney
1926
0.0
Poker Faces
as Jimmy Whitmore
1926
6.0
🎬
The Nutcracker
as Horatio Slipaway
1926
0.0
La Bohème
as Benoit - Janitor
1926
6.3
Beggar on Horseback
as Neil McRae
1925
6.0
Helen's Babies
as Uncle Harry
1924
5.6
To the Ladies
as Leonard Beebe
1924
0.0
The Man Who Fights Alone
as Bob Alten
1924
0.0
Try and Get It
as Glenn Collins
1924
0.0
Flapper Wives
as Vincent Platt
1924
0.0
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Ruggles
1923
0.0
The Ladder Jinx
as Arthur Barnes
1922
0.0
🎬
Too Much Business
as John Henry Jackson
1922
0.0
🎬
The Right Bed
as Bobby Kent
N/A
0.0