Edward Everett Horton

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

140

Movies

138

Born: March 17, 1886 – September 29, 1970
From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Works

138 films

Sex and the Single Girl

19646.6

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

19637.0

Arsenic and Old Lace

19447.6

Top Hat

19357.3

Pocketful of Miracles

19617.3

Lost Horizon

19376.9

Alice in Wonderland

19336.1

Trouble in Paradise

19327.4

The Gay Divorcee

19346.9

Down to Earth

19476.0

Cold Turkey

19716.3

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

19417.0

The Gang's All Here

19435.9

In Caliente

19356.7

Holiday

19387.3

Shall We Dance

19377.3

Bachelor Daddy

19418.0

Ziegfeld Girl

19416.7

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

19387.1

Uncertain Lady

19349.0

Her Husband's Affairs

19475.6

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

1976

The Story of Mankind

19574.4

The Merry Widow

19346.7

Lady on a Train

19456.7

Horse Shy

19287.0

The Gang's All Here

19397.5

The Front Page

19316.5

Design for Living

19337.1

Her Master's Voice

19366.5

Angel

19376.7

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

19975.1

Holiday

19306.2

The Perils of Pauline

19674.4

Her Primitive Man

19447.5

Summer Storm

19445.7

His Night Out

19357.0

College Swing

19386.8

Nobody's Fool

19367.0

The Perfect Specimen

19376.4

The Devil Is a Woman

19356.3

Thank Your Lucky Stars

19436.2

Things You Never See on the Screen

19355.3

I Married an Angel

19426.0

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

19356.8

Oh, Doctor

19377.0

Forever and a Day

19437.5

Hearts Divided

19365.5

Wild Money

19378.0

Brazil

19445.2

Springtime in the Rockies

19426.9

Kiss and Make-Up

19345.3

Helen's Babies

19245.9

Little Big Shot

19357.3

The Body Disappears

19416.1

The Aviator

19294.5

Cinderella Jones

19463.8

Flapper Wives

19248.0

Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower

1956

That's Right – You're Wrong

19396.3

Try and Get It

19247.0

The Ladder Jinx

19228.0

The Singing Kid

19367.0

Scrambled Weddings

19287.0

La Bohème

19266.4

Take the Heir

193010.0

One Got Fat

19636.4

Wide Open

19305.6

Weekend for Three

19416.8

Danger – Love at Work

19377.0

The Town Went Wild

19447.0

The Great Junction Hotel

19318.0

Your Uncle Dudley

19355.5

Soldiers of the King

19338.0

Reaching for the Moon

19305.7

The Night Is Young

19356.0

Lonely Wives

19315.3

The Magnificent Dope

19427.3

San Diego I Love You

19446.8

Six Cylinder Love

19319.0

Little Tough Guys in Society

19387.3

The Whole Town's Talking

19267.0

The Man Who Fights Alone

19248.0

Let's Make a Million

19367.5

But the Flesh Is Weak

19326.3

Sunny

19415.9

Ladies Should Listen

19346.2

Behind the Counter

19288.5

Smart Woman

19315.4

Find the King

19278.0

Easy to Love

19345.1

The Poor Rich

19348.0

Sing and Like It

19345.0

Poker Faces

19267.0

A Bedtime Story

19335.7

Going Highbrow

19356.5

The Wonderful World of Trains

1960

The Great Garrick

19376.3

Three Men on a Horse

1957

$10 Raise

19359.0

All the King's Horses

19356.8

The Ghost Goes Wild

19476.0

Faithful in My Fashion

19467.0

Roar of the Dragon

19326.5

The Man in the Mirror

19367.0

Dad's Choice

19287.3

The Hottentot

19297.0

You're the One

19414.7

The Sap

192910.0

The King and the Chorus Girl

19376.2

No Publicity

19277.0

A Front Page Story

19227.0

Smarty

19344.6

The Terror

19287.5

The Nutcracker

19267.0

Hitting a New High

19375.5

The Way to Love

19338.0

Success at Any Price

19344.1

Too Much Business

19227.0

The Age for Love

19319.0

It's a Boy

193410.0

Taxi! Taxi!

19279.0

Kiss Me Again

19318.0

Sonny Boy

19297.0

Paris Honeymoon

19395.5

To the Ladies

19248.0

Steppin' in Society

19456.0

Call Again

19288.0

Earl Carroll Sketchbook

19468.0

2000 Years Later

19697.5

The Private Secretary

19357.0

Ask Dad

19296.3

Vacation Waves

19287.0

The Emperor's Oblong Pancake

1964

Ruggles of Red Gap

19237.0

Once a Gentleman

19309.0

The Right Bed

20267.0

Beggar on Horseback

19256.5