Edward Everett Horton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 17, 1886
- Died
- Sep 29, 1970 (aged 84)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Credits
- 163
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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
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944Movie
Mr. Witherspoon
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963Movie
Mr. Dinckler
Batman
1966TV
Chief Screaming Chicken
Top Hat
1935Movie
Horace Hardwick
Trouble in Paradise
1932Movie
Francois
Holiday
1938Movie
Nick Potter
Filmography
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997Movie
Self (archive footage)
Cold Turkey
1971Movie
Hiram C. Grayson
Nanny and the Professor
1970TV
Love, American Style
1969TV
Elmo
2000 Years Later
1969Movie
Evermore
The Name of the Game
1968TV
Philip Armistead
The Perils of Pauline
1967Movie
Caspar Coleman
Batman
1966TV
Chief Screaming Chicken
F Troop
1965TV
Sex and the Single Girl
1964Movie
The Chief
The Cara Williams Show
1964TV
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
1964Movie
Narrator
One Got Fat
1963Movie
Narrator (voice)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963Movie
Mr. Dinckler
Burke's Law
1963TV
Grover Leander Smith, Wilbur Starlington
The Merv Griffin Show
1962TV
Self
Saints and Sinners
1962TV
Mr. Hollister
Pocketful of Miracles
1961Movie
Hudgins
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
The Wonderful World of Trains
1960Movie
Professor Hotbox
Fractured Fairy Tales
1959TV
Narrator (voice)
The Bullwinkle Show
1959TV
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
1959TV
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
Dennis the Menace
1959TV
Uncle Ned Matthews
The Story of Mankind
1957Movie
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Lux Show
1957TV
Self
Three Men on a Horse
1957Movie
Mr. Carver
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
1956TV
Storyteller (voice)
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956Movie
Noah
The Steve Allen Show
1956TV
Self - Guest
Matinee Theater
1955TV
December Bride
1954TV
The George Gobel Show
1954TV
Self
Max Liebman Presents
1954TV
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Mr. Parkinson
I Love Lucy
1951TV
Mr. Ritter
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950TV
Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948TV
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948TV
Self
Her Husband's Affairs
1947Movie
J.B. Cruikshank
Down to Earth
1947Movie
Messenger 7013
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947Movie
Eric
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
1946Movie
Dr. Milo Edwards
Faithful in My Fashion
1946Movie
Hiram Dilworthy
Cinderella Jones
1946Movie
Keating
Lady on a Train
1945Movie
Mr. Haskell
Steppin' in Society
1945Movie
Judge Avery Webster
The Town Went Wild
1944Movie
Everett Conway
Brazil
1944Movie
Everett St. John Everett
San Diego I Love You
1944Movie
Philip McCooley
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944Movie
Mr. Witherspoon
Summer Storm
1944Movie
Count "Piggy" Volsky
Her Primitive Man
1944Movie
Orrin
The Gang's All Here
1943Movie
Peyton Potter
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943Movie
Farnsworth
Forever and a Day
1943Movie
Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
Springtime in the Rockies
1942Movie
McTavish
I Married an Angel
1942Movie
Peter
The Magnificent Dope
1942Movie
Horace Hunter
Weekend for Three
1941Movie
Fred Stonebraker
The Body Disappears
1941Movie
Professor Shotesbury
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941Movie
Messenger 7013
Bachelor Daddy
1941Movie
Joseph Smith
Sunny
1941Movie
Henry Bates
Ziegfeld Girl
1941Movie
Noble Sage
You're the One
1941Movie
Death Valley Joe Frink
That's Right – You're Wrong
1939Movie
Tom Village
The Gang's All Here
1939Movie
Treadwell
Paris Honeymoon
1939Movie
Ernest Figg
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938Movie
Oliver
Holiday
1938Movie
Nick Potter
College Swing
1938Movie
Hubert Dash
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938Movie
Marquis De Loiselle
Hitting a New High
1937Movie
Lucius B. Blynn
The Great Garrick
1937Movie
Tubby
Angel
1937Movie
Graham
The Perfect Specimen
1937Movie
Mr. Grattan
Danger – Love at Work
1937Movie
Howard Rogers
Wild Money
1937Movie
P.E. Dodd
Shall We Dance
1937Movie
Jeffrey Baird
Oh, Doctor
1937Movie
Edward J. Billop
The King and the Chorus Girl
1937Movie
Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Lost Horizon
1937Movie
Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
The Man in the Mirror
1936Movie
Jeremy Dilke
Let's Make a Million
1936Movie
Harrison Gentry
Hearts Divided
1936Movie
John
Nobody's Fool
1936Movie
Will Wright
The Singing Kid
1936Movie
Davenport Rogers
Her Master's Voice
1936Movie
Ned Farrar
Your Uncle Dudley
1935Movie
Dudley Dixon
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935Movie
Self
His Night Out
1935Movie
Homer B. Bitts
Little Big Shot
1935Movie
Mortimer Thompson
Top Hat
1935Movie
Horace Hardwick
The Private Secretary
1935Movie
Rev. Robert Spalding
Going Highbrow
1935Movie
Augie Winterspoon
In Caliente
1935Movie
Harold Brandon
$10 Raise
1935Movie
Hubert T. Wilkins
The Devil Is a Woman
1935Movie
Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
All the King's Horses
1935Movie
Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
The Night Is Young
1935Movie
Baron Szereny
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935Movie
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
The Merry Widow
1934Movie
Ambassador Popoff
The Gay Divorcee
1934Movie
Egbert Fitzgerald
Ladies Should Listen
1934Movie
Paul Vernet
Kiss and Make-Up
1934Movie
Marcel Caron
It's a Boy
1934Movie
Dudley Leake
Smarty
1934Movie
Vernon
Sing and Like It
1934Movie
Adam Frink - Producer
Uncertain Lady
1934Movie
Elliot Crane
Success at Any Price
1934Movie
Harry Fisher
The Poor Rich
1934Movie
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Easy to Love
1934Movie
Eric
Design for Living
1933Movie
Max Plunkett
Alice in Wonderland
1933Movie
Mad Hatter
The Way to Love
1933Movie
Professor Gaston Bibi
A Bedtime Story
1933Movie
Victor Dubois
Soldiers of the King
1933Movie
Sebastian Marvello
Trouble in Paradise
1932Movie
Francois
Roar of the Dragon
1932Movie
Busby
But the Flesh Is Weak
1932Movie
Sir George Kelvin
The Great Junction Hotel
1931Movie
The Groom
The Age for Love
1931Movie
Horace Keats
Smart Woman
1931Movie
Billy Ross
Six Cylinder Love
1931Movie
Monty Winston
The Front Page
1931Movie
Bensinger
Lonely Wives
1931Movie
Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Kiss Me Again
1931Movie
Rene
Reaching for the Moon
1930Movie
Roger, the Valet
Once a Gentleman
1930Movie
Oliver
Holiday
1930Movie
Nick Potter
Wide Open
1930Movie
Simon Haldane
Take the Heir
1930Movie
Smithers
The Aviator
1929Movie
Robert Street
The Sap
1929Movie
The Sap, Bill Small
The Hottentot
1929Movie
Sam Harrington
Sonny Boy
1929Movie
Crandall Thorpe
Ask Dad
1929Movie
Dad
Vacation Waves
1928Movie
Eddie Davis
The Terror
1928Movie
Ferdinand Fane
Horse Shy
1928Movie
Eddie Hamilton
Behind the Counter
1928Movie
Eddie Baxter
Dad's Choice
1928Movie
Eddie
Scrambled Weddings
1928Movie
Eddie Howe
Call Again
1928Movie
Eddie
Find the King
1927Movie
Edward Fairchild
No Publicity
1927Movie
Eddie Howard
Taxi! Taxi!
1927Movie
Peter Whitby
The Whole Town's Talking
1926Movie
Chester Binney
Poker Faces
1926Movie
Jimmy Whitmore
The Nut-Cracker
1926Movie
Horatio Slipaway
La Bohème
1926Movie
Benoit - Janitor
Beggar on Horseback
1925Movie
Neil McRae
Helen's Babies
1924Movie
Uncle Harry
To the Ladies
1924Movie
Leonard Beebe
The Man Who Fights Alone
1924Movie
Bob Alten
Try and Get It
1924Movie
Glenn Collins
Flapper Wives
1924Movie
Vincent Platt
Ruggles of Red Gap
1923Movie
Ruggles
A Front Page Story
1922Movie
Rodney Marvin
The Ladder Jinx
1922Movie
Arthur Barnes
Too Much Business
1922Movie
John Henry Jackson
The Right Bed
Movie
Bobby Kent