Edward Everett Horton
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1886-03-17
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.
Also Known For
Trouble in Paradise
Oct 30, 1932
Arsenic and Old Lace
Sep 01, 1944
Pocketful of Miracles
Dec 18, 1961
Top Hat
Aug 29, 1935
Lost Horizon
Mar 03, 1937
Take the Heir
Jan 15, 1930
Lady on a Train
Aug 03, 1945
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Nov 07, 1963
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
Jun 01, 1964
Shall We Dance
May 07, 1937
Once a Gentleman
Sep 01, 1930
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Mar 25, 1938
Reaching for the Moon
Dec 29, 1930
Alice in Wonderland
Dec 18, 1933
Sex and the Single Girl
Dec 25, 1964
The Gay Divorcee
Oct 12, 1934
Cold Turkey
Feb 19, 1971
The Front Page
Apr 04, 1931
The Devil Is a Woman
May 03, 1935
The Story of Mankind
Nov 08, 1957
Forever and a Day
Jan 21, 1943
Springtime in the Rockies
Nov 06, 1942
The Merry Widow
Nov 02, 1934
Angel
Oct 29, 1937
To the Ladies
Oct 06, 1924
Holiday
May 26, 1938
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Aug 07, 1941
The Whole Town's Talking
Dec 26, 1926
Down to Earth
Aug 21, 1947
The Gang's All Here
Dec 24, 1943
The Ghost Goes Wild
Aug 08, 1947
Summer Storm
Jul 14, 1944
Ladies Should Listen
Aug 10, 1934
San Diego I Love You
Sep 29, 1944
Kiss and Make-Up
Jul 13, 1934
Design for Living
Dec 29, 1933
Hitting a New High
Dec 24, 1937
Holiday
Jul 03, 1930
Little Big Shot
Sep 07, 1935
A Bedtime Story
Apr 22, 1933
2000 Years Later
Mar 11, 1969
The Perfect Specimen
Oct 23, 1937
College Swing
Apr 29, 1938
Lonely Wives
Feb 15, 1931
Danger – Love at Work
Sep 30, 1937
Sunny
May 30, 1941
The Great Garrick
Oct 30, 1937
Ruggles of Red Gap
Oct 07, 1923
The King and the Chorus Girl
Mar 27, 1937
The Singing Kid
Apr 10, 1936
Ask Dad
Feb 16, 1929
Going Highbrow
Jul 06, 1935
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Jan 04, 1935
Smart Woman
Sep 12, 1931
It's a Boy
Jun 07, 1934
Easy to Love
Jan 13, 1934
The Perils of Pauline
Aug 02, 1967
But the Flesh Is Weak
Apr 09, 1932
Hearts Divided
Jun 20, 1936
Helen's Babies
Oct 11, 1924
The Poor Rich
Feb 25, 1934
Sing and Like It
Apr 20, 1934
Wide Open
Feb 01, 1930
The Night Is Young
Jan 11, 1935
The Town Went Wild
Dec 15, 1944
The Great Junction Hotel
Oct 26, 1931
Smarty
May 19, 1934
Brazil
Nov 30, 1944
In Caliente
May 25, 1935
$10 Raise
May 04, 1935
Success at Any Price
Mar 16, 1934
Weekend for Three
Dec 12, 1941
One Got Fat
Dec 01, 1963
Paris Honeymoon
Jan 27, 1939
All the King's Horses
Feb 22, 1935
Kiss Me Again
Jan 07, 1931
Six Cylinder Love
May 10, 1931
Roar of the Dragon
Jul 08, 1932
The Age for Love
Oct 17, 1931
His Night Out
Oct 01, 1935
Flapper Wives
Feb 23, 1924
The Magnificent Dope
Jul 01, 1942
The Gang's All Here
Mar 04, 1939
Ziegfeld Girl
Apr 25, 1941
La Bohème
Mar 13, 1926
Beggar on Horseback
Jun 05, 1925
Faithful in My Fashion
Aug 21, 1946
The Sap
Nov 09, 1929
Her Primitive Man
May 29, 1944
Her Master's Voice
Jan 17, 1936
Cinderella Jones
Mar 09, 1946
I Married an Angel
Jul 09, 1942
The Man in the Mirror
Oct 15, 1936
That's Right – You're Wrong
Nov 24, 1939
Dad's Choice
Jan 07, 1928
Little Tough Guys in Society
Nov 01, 1938
Steppin' in Society
Jul 09, 1945
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Aug 22, 1946
The Aviator
Dec 14, 1929
Her Husband's Affairs
Nov 12, 1947
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Sep 25, 1943
Wild Money
Jul 09, 1937
Nobody's Fool
Jun 01, 1936
Oh, Doctor
Mar 31, 1937
The Hottentot
Aug 10, 1929
The Private Secretary
Aug 26, 1935
The Man Who Fights Alone
Sep 15, 1924
The Body Disappears
Nov 22, 1941
The Right Bed
The Way to Love
Oct 20, 1933
Behind the Counter
Mar 03, 1928
Try and Get It
The Terror
Sep 06, 1928
Soldiers of the King
Mar 13, 1933
Your Uncle Dudley
Dec 13, 1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
Dec 01, 1935
Bachelor Daddy
Jun 04, 1941
You're the One
Feb 19, 1941
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Nov 01, 1997
Poker Faces
Sep 05, 1926
Horse Shy
May 19, 1928
No Publicity
Aug 01, 1927
Vacation Waves
Sep 15, 1928
Find the King
Nov 05, 1927
Let's Make a Million
Sep 01, 1936
Sonny Boy
Apr 18, 1929
The Wonderful World of Trains
Jan 01, 1960
Call Again
Jan 01, 1928
Scrambled Weddings
Jan 01, 1928
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Oct 27, 1956
Taxi! Taxi!
Apr 24, 1927
The Nutcracker
Mar 28, 1926
Too Much Business
Apr 09, 1922
Burke's Law
Sep 20, 1963
December Bride
Oct 04, 1954
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Sep 10, 1950
F Troop
Sep 14, 1965
Batman
Jan 12, 1966
The Merv Griffin Show
Oct 01, 1962
I Love Lucy
Oct 15, 1951
The Ed Sullivan Show
Jun 20, 1948
General Electric Theater
Feb 01, 1953
Saints and Sinners
Sep 17, 1962
Nanny and the Professor
Jan 21, 1970
Dennis the Menace
Oct 04, 1959
Matinee Theater
Oct 31, 1955
The Philco Television Playhouse
Oct 03, 1948
The Cara Williams Show
Sep 23, 1964
The Steve Allen Show
Jun 24, 1956
Max Liebman Presents
Sep 12, 1954
Fractured Fairy Tales
Nov 19, 1959
The George Gobel Show
Oct 02, 1954
Burke's Law
Sep 20, 1963
The Lux Show
Sep 26, 1957
The Name of the Game
Sep 20, 1968
The Bullwinkle Show
Nov 19, 1959
The Mike Douglas Show
Dec 11, 1961
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
Dec 16, 1956
Love, American Style
Sep 29, 1969
