Acting
Edward Everett Horton
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.
Filmography
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Film · 1997
Cold Turkey
Film · 1971
Nanny and the Professor
Series · 1970
2000 Years Later
Film · 1969
Love, American Style
Series · 1969
The Name of the Game
Series · 1968
The Perils of Pauline
Film · 1967
Batman
Series · 1966
F Troop
Series · 1965
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
Film · 1964
Sex and the Single Girl
Film · 1964
The Cara Williams Show
Series · 1964
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Film · 1963
One Got Fat
Film · 1963
Burke's Law
Series · 1963
Burke's Law
Series · 1963
The Merv Griffin Show
Series · 1962
Saints and Sinners
Series · 1962
Pocketful of Miracles
Film · 1961
The Mike Douglas Show
Series · 1961
The Wonderful World of Trains
Film · 1960
Dennis the Menace
Series · 1959
Fractured Fairy Tales
Series · 1959
The Bullwinkle Show
Series · 1959
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
Series · 1959
The Story of Mankind
Film · 1957
Three Men on a Horse
Film · 1957
The Lux Show
Series · 1957
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Film · 1956
The Steve Allen Show
Series · 1956
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
Series · 1956
Matinee Theater
Series · 1955
December Bride
Series · 1954
Max Liebman Presents
Series · 1954
The George Gobel Show
Series · 1954
General Electric Theater
Series · 1953
I Love Lucy
Series · 1951
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Series · 1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Series · 1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
Series · 1948
Down to Earth
Film · 1947
The Ghost Goes Wild
Film · 1947
Her Husband's Affairs
Film · 1947
Faithful in My Fashion
Film · 1946
Cinderella Jones
Film · 1946
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Film · 1946
Lady on a Train
Film · 1945
Steppin' in Society
Film · 1945
Arsenic and Old Lace
Film · 1944
Summer Storm
Film · 1944
San Diego I Love You
Film · 1944
The Town Went Wild
Film · 1944
Brazil
Film · 1944
Her Primitive Man
Film · 1944
Forever and a Day
Film · 1943
The Gang's All Here
Film · 1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Film · 1943
Springtime in the Rockies
Film · 1942
The Magnificent Dope
Film · 1942
I Married an Angel
Film · 1942
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Film · 1941
Sunny
Film · 1941
Weekend for Three
Film · 1941
Ziegfeld Girl
Film · 1941
The Body Disappears
Film · 1941
Bachelor Daddy
Film · 1941
You're the One
Film · 1941
Paris Honeymoon
Film · 1939
The Gang's All Here
Film · 1939
That's Right – You're Wrong
Film · 1939
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Film · 1938
Holiday
Film · 1938
College Swing
Film · 1938
Little Tough Guys in Society
Film · 1938
Lost Horizon
Film · 1937
Shall We Dance
Film · 1937
Angel
Film · 1937
Hitting a New High
Film · 1937
The Perfect Specimen
Film · 1937
Danger – Love at Work
Film · 1937
The Great Garrick
Film · 1937
The King and the Chorus Girl
Film · 1937
Wild Money
Film · 1937
Oh, Doctor
Film · 1937
The Singing Kid
Film · 1936
Hearts Divided
Film · 1936
Her Master's Voice
Film · 1936
The Man in the Mirror
Film · 1936
Nobody's Fool
Film · 1936
Let's Make a Million
Film · 1936
Top Hat
Film · 1935
The Devil Is a Woman
Film · 1935
Little Big Shot
Film · 1935
Going Highbrow
Film · 1935
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Film · 1935
The Night Is Young
Film · 1935
In Caliente
Film · 1935
$10 Raise
Film · 1935
All the King's Horses
Film · 1935
His Night Out
Film · 1935
The Private Secretary
Film · 1935
Your Uncle Dudley
Film · 1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
Film · 1935
The Gay Divorcee
Film · 1934
The Merry Widow
Film · 1934
Ladies Should Listen
Film · 1934
Kiss and Make-Up
Film · 1934
It's a Boy
Film · 1934
Easy to Love
Film · 1934
The Poor Rich
Film · 1934
Sing and Like It
Film · 1934
Smarty
Film · 1934
Success at Any Price
Film · 1934
Uncertain Lady
Film · 1934
Alice in Wonderland
Film · 1933
Design for Living
Film · 1933
A Bedtime Story
Film · 1933
The Way to Love
Film · 1933
Soldiers of the King
Film · 1933
Trouble in Paradise
Film · 1932
But the Flesh Is Weak
Film · 1932
Roar of the Dragon
Film · 1932
The Front Page
Film · 1931
Lonely Wives
Film · 1931
Smart Woman
Film · 1931
The Great Junction Hotel
Film · 1931
Kiss Me Again
Film · 1931
Six Cylinder Love
Film · 1931
The Age for Love
Film · 1931
Take the Heir
Film · 1930
Once a Gentleman
Film · 1930
Reaching for the Moon
Film · 1930
Holiday
Film · 1930
Wide Open
Film · 1930
Ask Dad
Film · 1929
The Sap
Film · 1929
The Aviator
Film · 1929
The Hottentot
Film · 1929
Sonny Boy
Film · 1929
Dad's Choice
Film · 1928
Behind the Counter
Film · 1928
The Terror
Film · 1928
Horse Shy
Film · 1928
Vacation Waves
Film · 1928
Scrambled Weddings
Film · 1928
Call Again
Film · 1928
No Publicity
Film · 1927
Find the King
Film · 1927
Taxi! Taxi!
Film · 1927
The Whole Town's Talking
Film · 1926
La Bohème
Film · 1926
Poker Faces
Film · 1926
The Nut-Cracker
Film · 1926
Beggar on Horseback
Film · 1925
To the Ladies
Film · 1924
Helen's Babies
Film · 1924
Flapper Wives
Film · 1924
The Man Who Fights Alone
Film · 1924
Try and Get It
Film · 1924
Ruggles of Red Gap
Film · 1923
Too Much Business
Film · 1922
The Ladder Jinx
Film · 1922
A Front Page Story
Film · 1922
The Right Bed
Film