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Born · March 17, 1886
Died · September 29, 1970 (84 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: 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.
Self (archive footage)
5.2
1997
Hiram C. Grayson
6.2
1971
J.B. Cruikshank
5.4
1947
Dr. Milo Edwards
6.0
1946
Hiram Dilworthy
6.3
1946
Keating
3.3
1946
Judge Avery Webster
0.0
1945
Orrin
6.0
1944
Farnsworth
6.1
1943
Peter
5.0
1942
Horace Hunter
7.2
1942
Professor Shotesbury
5.2
1941
Joseph Smith
0.0
1941
Noble Sage
6.5
1941
1.0
1941
Tom Village
5.7
1939
Treadwell
5.0
1939
Oliver
6.0
1938
P.E. Dodd
0.0
1937
Edward J. Billop
0.0
1937
Jeremy Dilke
7.0
1936
Will Wright
0.0
1936
Ned Farrar
6.0
1936
Dudley Dixon
1.0
1935
Self
5.0
1935
Rev. Robert Spalding
5.5
1935
Professor Gaston Bibi
0.0
1933
Sebastian Marvello
0.0
1933
Robert Street
0.0
1929
The Sap, Bill Small
0.0
1929
Sam Harrington
0.0
1929
Ferdinand Fane
6.0
1928
Eddie Baxter
7.0
1928
Eddie
7.0
1928
Jimmy Whitmore
6.0
1926
Benoit - Janitor
6.6
1926
Neil McRae
6.0
1925
Bob Alten
0.0
1924
Vincent Platt
0.0
1924
Bobby Kent
0.0
Glenn Collins
0.0
(1 episode)
6.0
1970
Elmo · (1 episode)
6.0
1969
Evermore
6.0
1969
Philip Armistead · (1 episode)
6.8
1968
Caspar Coleman
4.3
1967
Chief Screaming Chicken · (2 episodes)
7.3
1966
(3 episodes)
6.1
1965
The Chief
6.5
1964
(1 episode)
5.0
1964
Narrator
0.0
1964
Narrator (voice)
6.2
1963
Mr. Dinckler
7.0
1963
Grover Leander Smith · (1 episode)
6.0
1963
Wilbur Starlington · (1 episode)
6.0
1963
Self · (4 episodes)
5.6
1962
Mr. Hollister · (1 episode)
6.0
1962
Hudgins
7.3
1961
Self · (2 episodes)
5.1
1961
Professor Hotbox
0.0
1960
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
7.0
1959
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) · (815 episodes)
6.9
1959
Uncle Ned Matthews · (3 episodes)
6.5
1959
Sir Walter Raleigh
4.6
1957
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1957
Storyteller (voice) · (13 episodes)
10.0
1956
Noah
0.0
1956
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
5.0
1956
(3 episodes)
4.6
1955
(1 episode)
5.5
1954
Self · (2 episodes)
7.0
1954
(1 episode)
0.0
1954
Mr. Parkinson · (1 episode)
6.0
1953
Mr. Ritter · (1 episode)
7.9
1951
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
1950
(1 episode)
6.0
1948
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
1948
Messenger 7013
6.0
1947
Eric
5.0
1947
Mr. Haskell
6.5
1945
Everett Conway
5.0
1944
Everett St. John Everett
5.2
1944
Philip McCooley
6.3
1944
Mr. Witherspoon
7.6
1944
Count "Piggy" Volsky
5.1
1944
Peyton Potter
5.8
1943
Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
7.4
1943
McTavish
6.7
1942
Fred Stonebraker
5.7
1941
Messenger 7013
6.9
1941
Henry Bates
4.9
1941
Ernest Figg
3.0
1939
Nick Potter
7.3
1938
Hubert Dash
6.8
1938
Marquis De Loiselle
7.0
1938
Lucius B. Blynn
5.1
1937
Tubby
5.9
1937
Graham
6.8
1937
Mr. Grattan
5.7
1937
Howard Rogers
7.3
1937
Jeffrey Baird
7.2
1937
Count Humbert Evel Bruger
5.5
1937
Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
7.0
1937
Harrison Gentry
0.0
1936
John
5.0
1936
Davenport Rogers
4.0
1936
Homer B. Bitts
0.0
1935
Mortimer Thompson
6.0
1935
Horace Hardwick
7.3
1935
Augie Winterspoon
6.0
1935
Harold Brandon
6.3
1935
Hubert T. Wilkins
8.0
1935
Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
6.3
1935
Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
6.0
1935
Baron Szereny
5.0
1935
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
6.3
1935
Ambassador Popoff
6.7
1934
Egbert Fitzgerald
6.9
1934
Paul Vernet
5.8
1934
Marcel Caron
5.2
1934
Dudley Leake
0.0
1934
Vernon
4.0
1934
Adam Frink - Producer
4.3
1934
Harry Fisher
3.9
1934
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
0.0
1934
Eric
5.1
1934
Max Plunkett
7.2
1933
Mad Hatter
6.1
1933
Victor Dubois
8.0
1933
François Filiba
7.4
1932
Busby
6.2
1932
Sir George Kelvin
6.0
1932
The Groom
0.0
1931
Horace Keats
0.0
1931
Billy Ross
5.9
1931
Monty Winston
0.0
1931
Bensinger
6.6
1931
Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
4.7
1931
Rene
6.0
1931
Roger, the Valet
5.8
1930
Oliver
0.0
1930
Nick Potter
6.2
1930
Simon Haldane
5.3
1930
Smithers
0.0
1930
Crandall Thorpe
0.0
1929
Dad
5.7
1929
Eddie Davis
7.0
1928
Eddie Hamilton
7.0
1928
Eddie
7.0
1928
Eddie Howe
7.0
1928
Edward Fairchild
7.0
1927
Eddie Howard
7.0
1927
0.0
1927
Chester Binney
0.0
1926
Horatio Slipaway
0.0
1926
Uncle Harry
5.6
1924
Leonard Beebe
0.0
1924
Ruggles
0.0
1923