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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.
Filmography
all 152
Movies 128
TV Shows 24
self 10
Narrator 4
Voice 1
Producer 1
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
Cold Turkey (1971)
Nanny and the Professor (1970)
2000 Years Later (1969)
The Name of the Game (1968)
The Perils of Pauline (1967)
Batman (1966)
F Troop (1965)
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
The Cara Williams Show (1964)
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake (1964)
One Got Fat (1963)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Burke's Law (1963)
The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
Saints and Sinners (1962)
Hoppity Hooper (1962)
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
The Wonderful World of Trains (1960)
The Bullwinkle Show (1959)
Fractured Fairy Tales (1959)
Dennis the Menace (1959)
The Story of Mankind (1957)
The Lux Show (1957)
The Steve Allen Show (1956)
Matinee Theater (1955)
December Bride (1954)
The George Gobel Show (1954)
Max Liebman Presents (1954)
General Electric Theater (1953)
I Love Lucy (1951)
The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
Down to Earth (1947)
The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)
Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946)
Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
Cinderella Jones (1946)
Lady on a Train (1945)
Steppin' in Society (1945)
The Town Went Wild (1944)
Brazil (1944)
San Diego I Love You (1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Summer Storm (1944)
Her Primitive Man (1944)
The Gang's All Here (1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
I Married an Angel (1942)
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
Weekend for Three (1941)
The Body Disappears (1941)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Bachelor Daddy (1941)
Sunny (1941)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
You're the One (1941)
That's Right - You're Wrong (1939)
The Gang's All Here (1939)
Paris Honeymoon (1939)
Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)
Holiday (1938)
College Swing (1938)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Hitting a New High (1937)
The Great Garrick (1937)
Angel (1937)
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
Danger – Love at Work (1937)
Wild Money (1937)
Shall We Dance (1937)
Oh, Doctor (1937)
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
Lost Horizon (1937)
The Man in the Mirror (1936)
Let's Make a Million (1936)
Hearts Divided (1936)
Nobody's Fool (1936)
The Singing Kid (1936)
Her Master's Voice (1936)
Your Uncle Dudley (1935)
Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)
His Night Out (1935)
Little Big Shot (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
The Private Secretary (1935)
Going Highbrow (1935)
In Caliente (1935)
$10 Raise (1935)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
All the King's Horses (1935)
The Night Is Young (1935)
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
The Merry Widow (1934)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
Smarty (1934)
Sing and Like it (1934)
Success at Any Price (1934)
The Poor Rich (1934)
Easy to Love (1934)
Design for Living (1933)
Alice in Wonderland (1933)
The Way to Love (1933)
It's a Boy (1933)
A Bedtime Story (1933)
Soldiers of the King (1933)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Roar of the Dragon (1932)
But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)
The Great Junction Hotel (1931)
The Age for Love (1931)
Smart Woman (1931)
Six Cylinder Love (1931)
The Front Page (1931)
Lonely Wives (1931)
Kiss Me Again (1931)
Reaching for the Moon (1930)
Once a Gentleman (1930)
Holiday (1930)
Wide Open (1930)
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 11 (1930)
Take the Heir (1930)
The Aviator (1929)
The Sap (1929)
The Hottentot (1929)
Sonny Boy (1929)
Ask Dad (1929)
Vacation Waves (1928)
The Terror (1928)
Horse Shy (1928)
Behind the Counter (1928)
Dad's Choice (1928)
Call Again (1928)
Scrambled Weddings (1928)
Find the King (1927)
No Publicity (1927)
The Whole Town's Talking (1926)
Poker Faces (1926)
La Bohème (1926)
Beggar on Horseback (1925)
Helen's Babies (1924)
To the Ladies (1924)
The Man Who Fights Alone (1924)
Flapper Wives (1924)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1886-03-18
Deathday1970-09-29 (84 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsE.E. Horton, Edward Horton, Edward Everett Horton Jr.
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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