Edward Everett Horton
Age: 84 | From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1886-03-18 22:08:07
Death: 1970-09-29 22:08:07
Aliases: E.E. Horton , Edward Horton
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 25
TV Involvements: 6
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Name of the Game
(1968) Philip Armistead
The Lux Show
(1957) Self
Saints and Sinners
(1962) Mr. Hollister
Burke's Law
(1963) Wilbur Starlington
Fractured Fairy Tales
(1959) Narrator (voice)
Alice in Wonderland
(1933) Mad Hatter
Ziegfeld Girl
(1941) Noble Sage
Lost Horizon
(1937) Alexander P. " Lovey " LovettActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1971 | Hiram C. Grayson | |
| 1970 | N/A | |
| 1969 | Evermore | |
| 1968 | Philip Armistead | |
| 1967 | Caspar Coleman | |
| 1966 | Chief Screaming Chicken | |
| 1965 | N/A | |
| 1964 | The Chief | |
| N/A | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1963 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Mr. Dinckler | ||
| Grover Leander Smith | ||
| Wilbur Starlington | ||
| 1962 | Self | |
| Mr. Hollister | ||
| 1961 | Hudgins | |
| Self | ||
| 1960 | Professor Hotbox | |
| 1959 | Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Uncle Ned Matthews | ||
| 1957 | Sir Walter Raleigh | |
| Self | ||
| 1956 | Storyteller (voice) | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| 1955 | N/A | |
| 1954 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1953 | Mr. Parkinson | |
| 1951 | Mr. Ritter | |
| 1950 | Self | |
| 1948 | N/A | |
| Self - Guest Host | ||
| 1947 | J.B. Cruikshank | |
| Messenger 7013 | ||
| Eric | ||
| 1946 | Dr. Milo Edwards | |
| Hiram Dilworthy | ||
| Keating | ||
| 1945 | Mr. Haskell | |
| Judge Avery Webster | ||
| 1944 | Everett Conway | |
| Everett St. John Everett | ||
| Philip McCooley | ||
| Mr. Witherspoon | ||
| Count "Piggy" Volsky | ||
| Orrin | ||
| 1943 | Peyton Potter | |
| Farnsworth | ||
| Anthony Trimble-Pomfret | ||
| 1942 | McTavish | |
| Peter | ||
| Horace Hunter | ||
| 1941 | Fred Stonebraker | |
| Professor Shotesbury | ||
| Messenger 7013 | ||
| Joseph Smith | ||
| Henry Bates | ||
| Noble Sage | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1939 | Tom Village | |
| Treadwell | ||
| Ernest Figg | ||
| 1938 | Oliver | |
| Nick Potter | ||
| Hubert Dash | ||
| Marquis De Loiselle | ||
| 1937 | Lucius B. Blynn | |
| Tubby | ||
| Graham | ||
| Mr. Grattan | ||
| Howard Rogers | ||
| P.E. Dodd | ||
| Jeffrey Baird | ||
| Edward J. Billop | ||
| Count Humbert Evel Bruger | ||
| Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett | ||
| 1936 | Jeremy Dilke | |
| Harrison Gentry | ||
| John | ||
| Will Wright | ||
| Davenport Rogers | ||
| Ned Farrar | ||
| 1935 | Dudley Dixon | |
| Self | ||
| Homer B. Bitts | ||
| Mortimer Thompson | ||
| Horace Hardwick | ||
| Rev. Robert Spalding | ||
| Augie Winterspoon | ||
| Harold Brandon | ||
| Hubert T. Wilkins | ||
| Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito' | ||
| Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat | ||
| Baron Szereny | ||
| Leander 'Bunny' Nolan | ||
| 1934 | Ambassador Popoff | |
| Egbert Fitzgerald | ||
| Paul Vernet | ||
| Marcel Caron | ||
| Vernon | ||
| Adam Frink - Producer | ||
| Harry Fisher | ||
| Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood | ||
| Eric | ||
| 1933 | Max Plunkett | |
| Mad Hatter | ||
| Professor Gaston Bibi | ||
| Dudley Leake | ||
| Victor Dubois | ||
| Sebastian Marvello | ||
| 1932 | François Filiba | |
| Busby | ||
| Sir George Kelvin | ||
| 1931 | The Groom | |
| Horace Keats | ||
| Billy Ross | ||
| Monty Winston | ||
| Bensinger | ||
| Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero | ||
| Rene | ||
| 1930 | Roger, the Valet | |
| Oliver | ||
| Nick Potter | ||
| Simon Haldane | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1929 | Robert Street | |
| The Sap, Bill Small | ||
| Sam Harrington | ||
| Crandall Thorpe | ||
| Dad | ||
| 1928 | Eddie Davis | |
| Ferdinand Fane | ||
| Eddie Hamilton | ||
| Eddie Baxter | ||
| Eddie | ||
| Eddie Howe | ||
| Eddie | ||
| 1927 | Edward Fairchild | |
| Eddie Howard | ||
| 1926 | Chester Binney | |
| Jimmy Whitmore | ||
| Benoit - Janitor | ||
| 1925 | Neil McRae | |
| 1924 | Uncle Harry | |
| Leonard Beebe | ||
| Bob Alten | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1923 | Ruggles | |
| Bobby Kent | ||
| Glenn Collins | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
