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

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Movie Involvements: 24

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
Average
7

The Name of the Game

(1968) Philip Armistead
The Lux Show
Average
6

The Lux Show

(1957) Self
Saints and Sinners
Average
6

Saints and Sinners

(1962) Mr. Hollister
Burke's Law
Average
6

Burke's Law

(1963) Wilbur Starlington
Fractured Fairy Tales
Average
7

Fractured Fairy Tales

(1959) Narrator (voice)
Alice in Wonderland
Average
6

Alice in Wonderland

(1933) Mad Hatter
Ziegfeld Girl
Average
7

Ziegfeld Girl

(1941) Noble Sage
Lost Horizon
Average
7

Lost Horizon

(1937) Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett

Acting

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
Wilbur Starlington
Grover Leander Smith
1962 Self
Mr. Hollister
1961 Hudgins
Self
1960 Professor Hotbox
1959 Narrator (voice)
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
Uncle Ned Matthews
1957 Sir Walter Raleigh
Self
1956 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
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 The Sap, Bill Small
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
Year Character Movie/Tv

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