Edward Everett Horton

Known for ActingBorn 1886-03-17Died 1970-09-29Brooklyn, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show

It's a Boy

Take the Heir

The Sap

$10 Raise

Uncertain Lady

Six Cylinder Love

The Age for Love

Once a Gentleman

Taxi! Taxi!

Behind the Counter

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

Earl Carroll Sketchbook

I Love Lucy

Bachelor Daddy

Wild Money

The Poor Rich

The George Gobel Show

The Way to Love

Soldiers of the King

The Great Junction Hotel

Kiss Me Again

Call Again

Find the King

To the Ladies

Flapper Wives

The Man Who Fights Alone

The Ladder Jinx

2000 Years Later

Arsenic and Old Lace

Forever and a Day

Batman

Her Primitive Man

Pocketful of Miracles

The Gang's All Here

Let's Make a Million

The Terror

The Bullwinkle Show

Trouble in Paradise

The Magnificent Dope

Holiday

Little Tough Guys in Society

The Name of the Game

Shall We Dance

Little Big Shot

Saints and Sinners

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

Top Hat