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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 Education…
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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.
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Edward Everett Horton's Filmography
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage)
Cold Turkey
as Hiram C. Grayson
2000 Years Later
as Evermore
The Perils of Pauline
as Caspar Coleman
Sex and the Single Girl
as The Chief
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
as Narrator
One Got Fat
as Narrator (voice)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Mr. Dinckler
Pocketful of Miracles
as Hudgins
No Poster
The Wonderful World of Trains
as Professor Hotbox
The Story of Mankind
as Sir Walter Raleigh
Three Men on a Horse
as Mr. Carver
No Poster
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Noah
Her Husband's Affairs
as J.B. Cruikshank
Down to Earth
as Messenger 7013
The Ghost Goes Wild
as Eric
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
as Dr. Milo Edwards
Faithful in My Fashion
as Hiram Dilworthy
Cinderella Jones
as Keating
Lady on a Train
as Mr. Haskell
Steppin' in Society
as Judge Avery Webster
The Town Went Wild
as Everett Conway
Brazil
as Everett St. John Everett
San Diego I Love You
as Philip McCooley
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Mr. Witherspoon
Summer Storm
as Count "Piggy" Volsky
Her Primitive Man
as Orrin
The Gang's All Here
as Peyton Potter
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Farnsworth
Forever and a Day
as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
Springtime in the Rockies
as McTavish
I Married an Angel
as Peter
The Magnificent Dope
as Horace Hunter
Weekend for Three
as Fred Stonebraker
The Body Disappears
as Professor Shotesbury
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
as Messenger 7013
Bachelor Daddy
as Joseph Smith
Sunny
as Henry Bates
Ziegfeld Girl
as Noble Sage
You're the One
as Death Valley Joe Frink
That's Right – You're Wrong
as Tom Village
The Gang's All Here
as Treadwell
Paris Honeymoon
as Ernest Figg
Little Tough Guys in Society
as Oliver
Holiday
as Nick Potter
College Swing
as Hubert Dash
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
as Marquis De Loiselle
Hitting a New High
as Lucius B. Blynn
The Great Garrick
as Tubby
Angel
as Graham
The Perfect Specimen
as Mr. Grattan
Danger – Love at Work
as Howard Rogers
Wild Money
as P.E. Dodd
Shall We Dance
as Jeffrey Baird
Oh, Doctor
as Edward J. Billop
The King and the Chorus Girl
as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Lost Horizon
as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
The Man in the Mirror
as Jeremy Dilke
Let's Make a Million
as Harrison Gentry
Hearts Divided
as John
Nobody's Fool
as Will Wright
The Singing Kid
as Davenport Rogers
Her Master's Voice
as Ned Farrar
Your Uncle Dudley
as Dudley Dixon
Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
His Night Out
as Homer B. Bitts
Little Big Shot
as Mortimer Thompson
Top Hat
as Horace Hardwick
The Private Secretary
as Rev. Robert Spalding
Going Highbrow
as Augie Winterspoon
In Caliente
as Harold Brandon
$10 Raise
as Hubert T. Wilkins
The Devil Is a Woman
as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
All the King's Horses
as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
The Night Is Young
as Baron Szereny
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
The Merry Widow
as Ambassador Popoff
The Gay Divorcee
as Egbert Fitzgerald
Ladies Should Listen
as Paul Vernet
Kiss and Make-Up
as Marcel Caron
No Poster
It's a Boy
as Dudley Leake
Smarty
as Vernon
Sing and Like It
as Adam Frink - Producer
Uncertain Lady
as Elliot Crane
Success at Any Price
as Harry Fisher
The Poor Rich
as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Easy to Love
as Eric
Design for Living
as Max Plunkett
Alice in Wonderland
as Mad Hatter
The Way to Love
as Professor Gaston Bibi
A Bedtime Story
as Victor Dubois
Soldiers of the King
as Sebastian Marvello
Trouble in Paradise
as Francois
Roar of the Dragon
as Busby
But the Flesh Is Weak
as Sir George Kelvin
The Great Junction Hotel
as The Groom
The Age for Love
as Horace Keats
Smart Woman
as Billy Ross
Six Cylinder Love
as Monty Winston
The Front Page
as Bensinger
Lonely Wives
as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Kiss Me Again
as Rene
Reaching for the Moon
as Roger, the Valet
Once a Gentleman
as Oliver
Holiday
as Nick Potter
Wide Open
as Simon Haldane
No Poster
Take the Heir
as Smithers
The Aviator
as Robert Street
The Sap
as The Sap, Bill Small
The Hottentot
as Sam Harrington
Sonny Boy
as Crandall Thorpe
Ask Dad
as Dad
Vacation Waves
as Eddie Davis
The Terror
as Ferdinand Fane
Horse Shy
as Eddie Hamilton
Behind the Counter
as Eddie Baxter
Dad's Choice
as Eddie
Call Again
as Eddie
Scrambled Weddings
as Eddie Howe
Find the King
as Edward Fairchild
No Publicity
as Eddie Howard
Taxi! Taxi!
as Peter Whitby
The Whole Town's Talking
as Chester Binney
Poker Faces
as Jimmy Whitmore
The Nut-Cracker
as Horatio Slipaway
La Bohème
as Benoit - Janitor
No Poster
The Business of Love
as Edward Burgess
Beggar on Horseback
as Neil McRae
Helen's Babies
as Uncle Harry
To the Ladies
as Leonard Beebe
The Man Who Fights Alone
as Bob Alten
Try and Get It
as Glenn Collins
Flapper Wives
as Vincent Platt
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Ruggles
A Front Page Story
as Rodney Marvin
The Ladder Jinx
as Arthur Barnes
Too Much Business
as John Henry Jackson
No Poster
The Right Bed
as Bobby Kent