Edward Everett Horton
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.
Trouble in Paradise
(François Filiba)
Arsenic and Old Lace
(Mr. Witherspoon)
Pocketful of Miracles
(Hudgins)
Top Hat
(Horace Hardwick)
Lost Horizon
(Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett)
Take the Heir
(Smithers)
Lady on a Train
(Mr. Haskell)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(Mr. Dinckler)
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
(Narrator)
Shall We Dance
(Jeffrey Baird)
Once a Gentleman
(Oliver)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
(Marquis De Loiselle)
Reaching for the Moon
(Roger, the Valet)
Alice in Wonderland
(Mad Hatter)
Sex and the Single Girl
(The Chief)
The Gay Divorcee
(Egbert Fitzgerald)
Cold Turkey
(Hiram C. Grayson)
The Front Page
(Bensinger)
The Devil Is a Woman
(Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito')
The Story of Mankind
(Sir Walter Raleigh)
Forever and a Day
(Anthony Trimble-Pomfret)
Springtime in the Rockies
(McTavish)
The Merry Widow
(Ambassador Popoff)
Angel
(Graham)
To the Ladies
(Leonard Beebe)
Holiday
(Nick Potter)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
(Messenger 7013)
The Whole Town's Talking
(Chester Binney)
Down to Earth
(Messenger 7013)
The Gang's All Here
(Peyton Potter)
The Ghost Goes Wild
(Eric)
Summer Storm
(Count "Piggy" Volsky)
Ladies Should Listen
(Paul Vernet)
San Diego I Love You
(Philip McCooley)
Kiss and Make-Up
(Marcel Caron)
Design for Living
(Max Plunkett)
Hitting a New High
(Lucius B. Blynn)
Holiday
(Nick Potter)
Little Big Shot
(Mortimer Thompson)
A Bedtime Story
(Victor Dubois)
2000 Years Later
(Evermore)
The Perfect Specimen
(Mr. Grattan)
College Swing
(Hubert Dash)
Lonely Wives
(Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero)
Danger – Love at Work
(Howard Rogers)
Sunny
(Henry Bates)
The Great Garrick
(Tubby)
Ruggles of Red Gap
(Ruggles)
The King and the Chorus Girl
(Count Humbert Evel Bruger)
The Singing Kid
(Davenport Rogers)
Ask Dad
(Dad)
Going Highbrow
(Augie Winterspoon)
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
(Leander 'Bunny' Nolan)
Smart Woman
(Billy Ross)
It's a Boy
(Dudley Leake)
Easy to Love
(Eric)
The Perils of Pauline
(Caspar Coleman)
But the Flesh Is Weak
(Sir George Kelvin)
Hearts Divided
(John)
Helen's Babies
(Uncle Harry)
The Poor Rich
(Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood)
Sing and Like it
(Adam Frink - Producer)
Wide Open
(Simon Haldane)
The Night Is Young
(Baron Szereny)
The Town Went Wild
(Everett Conway)
The Great Junction Hotel
(The Groom)
Smarty
(Vernon)
Brazil
(Everett St. John Everett)
In Caliente
(Harold Brandon)
$10 Raise
(Hubert T. Wilkins)
Success at Any Price
(Harry Fisher)
Weekend for Three
(Fred Stonebraker)
One Got Fat
(Narrator (voice))
Paris Honeymoon
(Ernest Figg)
All the King's Horses
(Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat)
Kiss Me Again
(Rene)
Six Cylinder Love
(Monty Winston)
Roar of the Dragon
(Busby)
The Age for Love
(Horace Keats)
His Night Out
(Homer B. Bitts)
Flapper Wives
(Vincent Platt)
The Magnificent Dope
(Horace Hunter)
The Gang's All Here
(Treadwell)
Ziegfeld Girl
(Noble Sage)
La Bohème
(Benoit - Janitor)
Beggar on Horseback
(Neil McRae)
Faithful in My Fashion
(Hiram Dilworthy)
The Sap
(The Sap, Bill Small)
Her Primitive Man
(Orrin)
Her Master's Voice
(Ned Farrar)
Cinderella Jones
(Keating)
I Married an Angel
(Peter)
The Man in the Mirror
(Jeremy Dilke)
That's Right – You're Wrong
(Tom Village)
Dad's Choice
(Eddie)
Little Tough Guys in Society
(Oliver)
Steppin' in Society
(Judge Avery Webster)
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
(Dr. Milo Edwards)
The Aviator
(Robert Street)
Her Husband's Affairs
(J.B. Cruikshank)
Thank Your Lucky Stars
(Farnsworth)
Wild Money
(P.E. Dodd)
Nobody's Fool
(Will Wright)
Oh, Doctor
(Edward J. Billop)
The Hottentot
(Sam Harrington)
The Private Secretary
(Rev. Robert Spalding)
The Man Who Fights Alone
(Bob Alten)
The Body Disappears
(Professor Shotesbury)
The Right Bed
(Bobby Kent)
The Way to Love
(Professor Gaston Bibi)
Behind the Counter
(Eddie Baxter)
Try and Get It
(Glenn Collins)
The Terror
(Ferdinand Fane)
Soldiers of the King
(Sebastian Marvello)
Your Uncle Dudley
(Dudley Dixon)
Things You Never See on the Screen
(Self)
Bachelor Daddy
(Joseph Smith)
You're the One
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
(Self (archive footage))
Poker Faces
(Jimmy Whitmore)
No Publicity
(Eddie Howard)
Find the King
(Edward Fairchild)
Horse Shy
(Eddie Hamilton)
Vacation Waves
(Eddie Davis)
Let's Make a Million
(Harrison Gentry)
Sonny Boy
(Crandall Thorpe)
The Wonderful World of Trains
(Professor Hotbox)
Scrambled Weddings
(Eddie Howe)
Call Again
(Eddie)
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
(Noah)
Burke's Law
(Grover Leander Smith)
December Bride
The Colgate Comedy Hour
(Self)
F Troop
Batman
(Chief Screaming Chicken)
The Merv Griffin Show
(Self)
I Love Lucy
(Mr. Ritter)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(Self - Guest Host)
General Electric Theater
(Mr. Parkinson)
Saints and Sinners
(Mr. Hollister)
Dennis the Menace
(Uncle Ned Matthews)
Nanny and the Professor
Matinee Theater
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Cara Williams Show
The Steve Allen Show
(Self - Guest)
Max Liebman Presents
Fractured Fairy Tales
(Narrator (voice))
The George Gobel Show
(Self)
Burke's Law
(Wilbur Starlington)
The Lux Show
(Self)
The Name of the Game
(Philip Armistead)
The Bullwinkle Show
(Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice))
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self)
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
(Storyteller (voice))