Edward Everett Horton
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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.
Known for
Credits
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
as The Chief
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
as Mr. Dinckler
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
as Mr. Witherspoon
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
as Hudgins
Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1938)
as Marquis De Loiselle
Uncertain Lady (1934)
as Elliot Crane
Bachelor Daddy (1941)
as Joseph Smith
Lost Horizon (1937)
as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
In Caliente (1935)
as Harold Brandon
Down to Earth (1947)
as Messenger 7013
Design for Living (1933)
as Max Plunkett
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
as Egbert Fitzgerald
Holiday (1938)
as Nick Potter
Alice in Wonderland (1933)
as Mad Hatter
Top Hat (1935)
as Horace Hardwick
The Gang's All Here (1943)
as Peyton Potter
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
as Francois
The Merry Widow (1934)
as Ambassador Popoff
Nobody's Fool (1936)
as Will Wright
Danger – Love at Work (1937)
as Howard Rogers
Horse Shy (1928)
as Eddie Hamilton
Shall We Dance (1937)
as Jeffrey Baird
Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
as J.B. Cruikshank
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
as Messenger 7013
The Gang's All Here (1939)
as Treadwell
Six Cylinder Love (1931)
as Monty Winston
Her Primitive Man (1944)
as Orrin
Her Master's Voice (1936)
as Ned Farrar
Your Uncle Dudley (1935)
as Dudley Dixon
Lady on a Train (1945)
as Mr. Haskell
Forever and a Day (1943)
as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
as Noble Sage
A Front Page Story (1922)
as Rodney Marvin
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
as Farnsworth
Little Big Shot (1935)
as Mortimer Thompson
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
as Mr. Grattan
The Wonderful World of Trains (1960)
as Professor Hotbox
Brazil (1944)
as Everett St. John Everett
The Front Page (1931)
as Bensinger
Try and Get It (1924)
as Glenn Collins
The Great Garrick (1937)
as Tubby
Angel (1937)
as Graham
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
Oh, Doctor (1937)
as Edward J. Billop
2000 Years Later (1969)
as Evermore
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
The Body Disappears (1941)
as Professor Shotesbury
College Swing (1938)
as Hubert Dash
Summer Storm (1944)
as Count "Piggy" Volsky
The Terror (1928)
as Ferdinand Fane
Helen's Babies (1924)
as Uncle Harry
The Poor Rich (1934)
as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
The Night Is Young (1935)
as Baron Szereny
Success at Any Price (1934)
as Harry Fisher
Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
as Marcel Caron
The Perils of Pauline (1967)
as Caspar Coleman
A Bedtime Story (1933)
as Victor Dubois
His Night Out (1935)
as Homer B. Bitts
Holiday (1930)
as Nick Potter
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
as Horace Hunter
The Aviator (1929)
as Robert Street
Cold Turkey (1971)
as Hiram C. Grayson
That's Right – You're Wrong (1939)
as Tom Village
Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)
as Self
Flapper Wives (1924)
as Vincent Platt
The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)
as Eric
But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)
as Sir George Kelvin
Scrambled Weddings (1928)
as Eddie Howe
The Singing Kid (1936)
as Davenport Rogers
Soldiers of the King (1933)
as Sebastian Marvello
Sunny (1941)
as Henry Bates
Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
as McTavish
All the King's Horses (1935)
as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
You're the One (1941)
as Death Valley Joe Frink
San Diego I Love You (1944)
as Philip McCooley
I Married an Angel (1942)
as Peter
$10 Raise (1935)
as Hubert T. Wilkins
One Got Fat (1963)
as Narrator (voice)
Roar of the Dragon (1932)
as Busby
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower (1956)
as Noah
Hearts Divided (1936)
as John
Cinderella Jones (1946)
as Keating
Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
as Hiram Dilworthy
Sing and Like It (1934)
as Adam Frink - Producer
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
Smart Woman (1931)
as Billy Ross
The Man Who Fights Alone (1924)
as Bob Alten
Hitting a New High (1937)
as Lucius B. Blynn
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
as Paul Vernet
Reaching for the Moon (1930)
as Roger, the Valet
Poker Faces (1926)
as Jimmy Whitmore
Paris Honeymoon (1939)
as Ernest Figg
La Bohème (1926)
as Benoit - Janitor
Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
as Ruggles
The Way to Love (1933)
as Professor Gaston Bibi
Wild Money (1937)
as P.E. Dodd
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake (1964)
as Narrator
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Three Men on a Horse (1957)
as Mr. Carver
Easy to Love (1934)
as Eric
Smarty (1934)
as Vernon
The Whole Town's Talking (1926)
as Chester Binney
Going Highbrow (1935)
as Augie Winterspoon
The Story of Mankind (1957)
as Sir Walter Raleigh
Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)
as Oliver
Lonely Wives (1931)
as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Let's Make a Million (1936)
as Harrison Gentry
The Private Secretary (1935)
as Rev. Robert Spalding
Wide Open (1930)
as Simon Haldane
Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946)
as Dr. Milo Edwards
Weekend for Three (1941)
as Fred Stonebraker
Take the Heir (1930)
as Smithers
Kiss Me Again (1931)
as Rene
The Town Went Wild (1944)
as Everett Conway
The Sap (1929)
as The Sap, Bill Small
The Age for Love (1931)
as Horace Keats
Beggar on Horseback (1925)
as Neil McRae
No Publicity (1927)
as Eddie Howard
Ask Dad (1929)
as Dad
The Hottentot (1929)
as Sam Harrington
The Ladder Jinx (1922)
as Arthur Barnes
The Man in the Mirror (1936)
as Jeremy Dilke
Taxi! Taxi! (1927)
as Peter Whitby
Sonny Boy (1929)
as Crandall Thorpe
To the Ladies (1924)
as Leonard Beebe
Steppin' in Society (1945)
as Judge Avery Webster
It's a Boy (1934)
as Dudley Leake
Too Much Business (1922)
as John Henry Jackson
The Nutcracker (1926)
as Horatio Slipaway
Dad's Choice (1928)
as Eddie
Find the King (1927)
as Edward Fairchild
The Great Junction Hotel (1931)
as The Groom
The Right Bed (—)
as Bobby Kent
Behind the Counter (1928)
as Eddie Baxter
Once a Gentleman (1930)
as Oliver
Vacation Waves (1928)
as Eddie Davis
Call Again (1928)
as Eddie