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Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton

Actor · 1886 – 1970 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Movies24

  • Movie6.6

    Sex and the Single Girl

    1964 · 83 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie7.6

    Arsenic and Old Lace

    1944 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie7.3

    Holiday

    1938 · 304 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Ziegfeld Girl

    1941 · 39 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Pocketful of Miracles

    1961 · 189 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Lost Horizon

    1937 · 252 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Here Comes Mr. Jordan

    1941 · 125 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Top Hat

    1935 · 344 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Bluebeard's 8th Wife

    1938 · 110 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Cold Turkey

    1971 · 31 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Merry Widow

    1934 · 69 votes

  • Movie4.4

    The Story of Mankind

    1957 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Gay Divorcee

    1934 · 150 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Design for Living

    1933 · 216 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Trouble in Paradise

    1932 · 322 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Alice in Wonderland

    1933 · 66 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Angel

    1937 · 79 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Thank Your Lucky Stars

    1943 · 39 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Forever and a Day

    1943 · 12 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.7

    Summer Storm

    1944 · 12 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Gang's All Here

    1943 · 42 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Uncertain Lady

    1934 · 1 votes

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  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Bullwinkle Show

    1959 · 61 votes

  • TV6.2

    Love, American Style

    1969 · 21 votes

  • TV5.3

    Matinee Theater

    1955 · 7 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV7.3

    Batman

    1966 · 617 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV7.9

    I Love Lucy

    1951 · 264 votes

  • TV6.3

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV6.6
  • TV6.9

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    1950 · 13 votes

  • TV6.2

    The Steve Allen Show

    1956 · 6 votes

  • TV6.3

    December Bride

    1954 · 4 votes

  • TV6.6

    Dennis the Menace

    1959 · 33 votes

  • TV7.8

    The George Gobel Show

    1954 · 4 votes

  • TV6.3

    F Troop

    1965 · 31 votes

  • TV6.7

    Nanny and the Professor

    1970 · 11 votes

  • TV7.0

    Saints and Sinners

    1962 · 2 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Cara Williams Show

    1964 · 2 votes

  • TV6.0

    The Lux Show

    1957 · 1 votes

  • TV6.8