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Edward Everett Horton
Actor
Died September 29, 1970 (84 years)
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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).
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.
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
Filmography
| 1976 | CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years · as Mr. Ritter |
| 1971 | Cold Turkey · as Hiram C. Grayson |
| 1970 | Nanny and the Professor (TV Series) |
| 1969 | Love, American Style (TV Series) · as Elmo (segment "love And Las Vegas") |
| 1969 | The Governor & J.J. (TV Series) · as Doc Simon |
| 1969 | 2000 Years Later · as Evermore |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Philip Armistead |
| 1968 | It Takes a Thief (TV Series) · as Lord Pelham-Gifford |
| 1967 | The Perils of Pauline · as Caspar Coleman |
| 1966 | Batman (TV Series) · as Chief Screaming Chicken |
| 1965 | Camp Runamuck (TV Series) · as Henry Saunders |
| 1965 | F Troop (TV Series) |
| 1964 | Sex and the Single Girl · as The Chief |
| 1964 | Valentine's Day (TV Series) · as Charles Marks |
| 1964 | Hoppity Hooper (TV Series) · as Narrator For 'fractured Fairy Tales' |
| 1964 | The Emperor's Oblong Pancake · as Narrator |
| 1963 | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World · as Mr. Dinckler |
| 1963 | Burke's Law (TV Series) · as Grover Leander Smith |
| 1962 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (TV Series) · as Senator Crabtree |
| 1962 | Saints and Sinners (TV Series) · as Mr. Hollister |
| 1961 | Pocketful of Miracles · as Hudgins |
| 1959 | The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) · as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) |
| 1959 | Fractured Fairy Tales (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1959 | Dennis the Menace (TV Series) · as Uncle Ned Matthews |
| 1957 | The Story of Mankind · as Sir Walter Raleigh |
| 1957 | The Real McCoys (TV Series) · as Mr. Medwick |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Mr. Carver |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater (TV Series) |
| 1954 | December Bride (TV Series) |
| 1954 | Shower of Stars (TV Series) · as Ed Hoffman |
| 1954 | The Best of Broadway (TV Series) · as Mr. Witherspoon |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Mr. Parkinson |
| 1952 | Omnibus (TV Series) · as Narrator (segment "the Remarkable Case Of Mr. Bruhl") |
| 1951 | I Love Lucy (TV Series) · as Mr. Ritter |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show (TV Series) · as Muggsy |
| 1948 | Ford Theatre (TV Series) · as Sheridan Whiteside |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series) |
| 1948 | The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1947 | Her Husband's Affairs · as J.b. Cruikshank |
| 1947 | Down to Earth · as Messenger 7013 |
| 1947 | The Ghost Goes Wild · as Eric |
| 1946 | Faithful in My Fashion · as Hiram Dilworthy |
| 1946 | Cinderella Jones · as Keating |
| 1945 | Lady on a Train · as Mr. Haskell |
| 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 |
| 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 | The Magnificent Dope · as Horace Hunter |
| 1942 | I Married an Angel · as Peter |
| 1941 | Weekend for Three · as Fred Stonebraker |
| 1941 | The Body Disappears · as Professor Shotesbury |
| 1941 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan · as Messenger 7013 |
| 1941 | Sunny · as Henry Bates |
| 1941 | Ziegfeld Girl · as Noble Sage |
| 1939 | That's Right - You're Wrong · as Tom Village |
| 1939 | The Amazing Mr. Forrest · as Treadwell |
| 1938 | 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 Perfect Specimen · as Mr. Grattan |
| 1937 | The Great Garrick · as Tubby |
| 1937 | Angel · as Graham |
| 1937 | Danger - Love at Work · as Howard Rogers |
| 1937 | Shall We Dance · as Jeffrey Baird |
| 1937 | The King and the Chorus Girl · as Count Humbert Evel Bruger |
| 1937 | Lost Horizon · as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett |
| 1936 | Let's Make a Million · as Harrison Gentry |
| 1936 | The Man in the Mirror · as Jeremy Dilke |
| 1936 | Hearts Divided · as John |
| 1936 | The Singing Kid · as Davenport Rogers |
| 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 | 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 | Smarty · as Vernon |
| 1934 | Sing and Like It · as Adam Frink - Producer |
| 1934 | Success at Any Price · as Harry Fisher |
| 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 | It's a Boy · as Dudley Leake |
| 1933 | A Bedtime Story · as Victor Dubois |
| 1933 | The Woman in Command · as Sebastian Marvello |
| 1932 | Trouble in Paradise · as François Filiba |
| 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 | Smart Woman · as Billy Ross |
| 1931 | 6 Cylinder Love · as Monty Winston |
| 1931 | The Front Page · as Bensinger |
| 1931 | Kiss Me Again · as Rene |
| 1931 | Lonely Wives · as Richard 'dickie' Smith / Felix, The Great Zero |
| 1930 | Reaching for the Moon · as Roger, The Valet |
| 1930 | Holiday · as Nick Potter |
| 1930 | Wide Open · as Simon Haldane |
| 1929 | Sonny Boy · as Crandall Thorpe |
| 1928 | The Terror · as Ferdinand Fane |
| 1926 | Poker Faces · as Jimmy Whitmore |
| 1926 | La Bohème · as Benoit - Janitor |
| 1925 | Beggar on Horseback · as Neil Mcrae |
| 1925 | Marry Me · as John Smith #2 |
| 1924 | Helen's Babies · as Uncle Harry |
| 1923 | To the Ladies · as Leonard Beebe |