Edward Everett Horton
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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.
Fotos
Películas (138)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Cold Turkey
1971 · Hiram C. Grayson
2000 Years Later
1969 · Evermore
The Perils of Pauline
1967 · Caspar Coleman
Sex and the Single Girl
1964 · The Chief
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
1964 · Narrator
One Got Fat
1963 · Narrator (voice)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Mr. Dinckler
Pocketful of Miracles
1961 · Hudgins
The Wonderful World of Trains
1960 · Professor Hotbox
The Story of Mankind
1957 · Sir Walter Raleigh
Three Men on a Horse
1957 · Mr. Carver
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956 · Noah
Her Husband's Affairs
1947 · J.B. Cruikshank
Down to Earth
1947 · Messenger 7013
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947 · Eric
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
1946 · Dr. Milo Edwards
Faithful in My Fashion
1946 · Hiram Dilworthy
Cinderella Jones
1946 · Keating
Lady on a Train
1945 · Mr. Haskell
Steppin' in Society
1945 · Judge Avery Webster
The Town Went Wild
1944 · Everett Conway
Brazil
1944 · Everett St. John Everett
San Diego I Love You
1944 · Philip McCooley
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · Mr. Witherspoon
Summer Storm
1944 · Count "Piggy" Volsky
Her Primitive Man
1944 · Orrin
The Gang's All Here
1943 · Peyton Potter
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943 · Farnsworth
Forever and a Day
1943 · Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
Springtime in the Rockies
1942 · McTavish
I Married an Angel
1942 · Peter
The Magnificent Dope
1942 · Horace Hunter
Weekend for Three
1941 · Fred Stonebraker
The Body Disappears
1941 · Professor Shotesbury
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941 · Messenger 7013
Bachelor Daddy
1941 · Joseph Smith
Sunny
1941 · Henry Bates
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · Noble Sage
You're the One
1941 · Death Valley Joe Frink
That's Right – You're Wrong
1939 · Tom Village
The Gang's All Here
1939 · Treadwell
Paris Honeymoon
1939 · Ernest Figg
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938 · Oliver
Holiday
1938 · Nick Potter
College Swing
1938 · Hubert Dash
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938 · Marquis De Loiselle
Hitting a New High
1937 · Lucius B. Blynn
The Great Garrick
1937 · Tubby
Angel
1937 · Graham
The Perfect Specimen
1937 · Mr. Grattan
Danger – Love at Work
1937 · Howard Rogers
Wild Money
1937 · P.E. Dodd
Shall We Dance
1937 · Jeffrey Baird
Oh, Doctor
1937 · Edward J. Billop
The King and the Chorus Girl
1937 · Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Lost Horizon
1937 · Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
The Man in the Mirror
1936 · Jeremy Dilke
Let's Make a Million
1936 · Harrison Gentry
Hearts Divided
1936 · John
Nobody's Fool
1936 · Will Wright
The Singing Kid
1936 · Davenport Rogers
Her Master's Voice
1936 · Ned Farrar
Your Uncle Dudley
1935 · Dudley Dixon
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935 · Self
His Night Out
1935 · Homer B. Bitts
Little Big Shot
1935 · Mortimer Thompson
Top Hat
1935 · Horace Hardwick
The Private Secretary
1935 · Rev. Robert Spalding
Going Highbrow
1935 · Augie Winterspoon
In Caliente
1935 · Harold Brandon
$10 Raise
1935 · Hubert T. Wilkins
The Devil Is a Woman
1935 · Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
All the King's Horses
1935 · Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
The Night Is Young
1935 · Baron Szereny
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935 · Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
The Merry Widow
1934 · Ambassador Popoff
The Gay Divorcee
1934 · Egbert Fitzgerald
Ladies Should Listen
1934 · Paul Vernet
Kiss and Make-Up
1934 · Marcel Caron
It's a Boy
1934 · Dudley Leake
Smarty
1934 · Vernon
Sing and Like It
1934 · Adam Frink - Producer
Uncertain Lady
1934 · Elliot Crane
Success at Any Price
1934 · Harry Fisher
The Poor Rich
1934 · Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Easy to Love
1934 · Eric
Design for Living
1933 · Max Plunkett
Alice in Wonderland
1933 · Mad Hatter
The Way to Love
1933 · Professor Gaston Bibi
A Bedtime Story
1933 · Victor Dubois
Soldiers of the King
1933 · Sebastian Marvello
Trouble in Paradise
1932 · Francois
Roar of the Dragon
1932 · Busby
But the Flesh Is Weak
1932 · Sir George Kelvin
The Great Junction Hotel
1931 · The Groom
The Age for Love
1931 · Horace Keats
Smart Woman
1931 · Billy Ross
Six Cylinder Love
1931 · Monty Winston
The Front Page
1931 · Bensinger
Lonely Wives
1931 · Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Kiss Me Again
1931 · Rene
Reaching for the Moon
1930 · Roger, the Valet
Once a Gentleman
1930 · Oliver
Holiday
1930 · Nick Potter
Wide Open
1930 · Simon Haldane
Take the Heir
1930 · Smithers
The Aviator
1929 · Robert Street
The Sap
1929 · The Sap, Bill Small
The Hottentot
1929 · Sam Harrington
Sonny Boy
1929 · Crandall Thorpe
Ask Dad
1929 · Dad
Vacation Waves
1928 · Eddie Davis
The Terror
1928 · Ferdinand Fane
Horse Shy
1928 · Eddie Hamilton
Behind the Counter
1928 · Eddie Baxter
Dad's Choice
1928 · Eddie
Scrambled Weddings
1928 · Eddie Howe
Call Again
1928 · Eddie
Find the King
1927 · Edward Fairchild
No Publicity
1927 · Eddie Howard
Taxi! Taxi!
1927 · Peter Whitby
The Whole Town's Talking
1926 · Chester Binney
Poker Faces
1926 · Jimmy Whitmore
The Nut-Cracker
1926 · Horatio Slipaway
La Bohème
1926 · Benoit - Janitor
The Business of Love
1925 · Edward Burgess
Beggar on Horseback
1925 · Neil McRae
Helen's Babies
1924 · Uncle Harry
To the Ladies
1924 · Leonard Beebe
The Man Who Fights Alone
1924 · Bob Alten
Try and Get It
1924 · Glenn Collins
Flapper Wives
1924 · Vincent Platt
Ruggles of Red Gap
1923 · Ruggles
A Front Page Story
1922 · Rodney Marvin
The Ladder Jinx
1922 · Arthur Barnes
Too Much Business
1922 · John Henry Jackson
The Right Bed
· Bobby Kent
Series (26)
Nanny and the Professor
1970
Love, American Style
1969 · Elmo
The Name of the Game
1968 · Philip Armistead
Batman
1966 · Chief Screaming Chicken
F Troop
1965
The Cara Williams Show
1964
Burke's Law
1963 · Grover Leander Smith, Wilbur Starlington
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
Saints and Sinners
1962 · Mr. Hollister
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Fractured Fairy Tales
1959 · Narrator (voice)
The Bullwinkle Show
1959 · Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
1959 · Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
Dennis the Menace
1959 · Uncle Ned Matthews
The Lux Show
1957 · Self
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
1956 · Storyteller (voice)
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Self - Guest
Matinee Theater
1955
December Bride
1954
The George Gobel Show
1954 · Self
Max Liebman Presents
1954
General Electric Theater
1953 · Mr. Parkinson
I Love Lucy
1951 · Mr. Ritter
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self