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