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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.
Acted in 145
1970s
- 1971
- 1970
1960s
- 1969
2000 Years Later
Evermore
- 1968
- 1967
The Perils of Pauline
Caspar Coleman
- 1966
- 1965
- 1964
The Cara Williams Show
TV
- 1963
- 1962
Saints and Sinners
Mr. Hollister · 1 episode
- 1961
1950s
- 1959
- 1957
The Story of Mankind
Sir Walter Raleigh
Three Men on a Horse
Mr. Carver
- 1956
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
Storyteller (voice) · 13 episodes
- 1955
- 1954
- 1953
General Electric Theater
Mr. Parkinson · 1 episode
- 1951
1940s
- 1948
- 1947
Her Husband's Affairs
J.B. Cruikshank
Down to Earth
Messenger 7013
The Ghost Goes Wild
Eric
- 1946
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Dr. Milo Edwards
Cinderella Jones
Keating
- 1945
Lady on a Train
Mr. Haskell
Steppin' in Society
Judge Avery Webster
- 1944
The Town Went Wild
Everett Conway
Brazil
Everett St. John Everett
San Diego I Love You
Philip McCooley
Her Primitive Man
Orrin
- 1943
The Gang's All Here
Peyton Potter
Forever and a Day
Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
- 1942
Springtime in the Rockies
McTavish
I Married an Angel
Peter
The Magnificent Dope
Horace Hunter
- 1941
Weekend for Three
Fred Stonebraker
The Body Disappears
Professor Shotesbury
Sunny
Henry Bates
You're the One
Death Valley Joe Frink
1930s
- 1939
That's Right – You're Wrong
Tom Village
The Gang's All Here
Treadwell
Paris Honeymoon
Ernest Figg
- 1938
Little Tough Guys in Society
Oliver
College Swing
Hubert Dash
- 1937
Hitting a New High
Lucius B. Blynn
The Great Garrick
Tubby
The Perfect Specimen
Mr. Grattan
Danger – Love at Work
Howard Rogers
Wild Money
P.E. Dodd
Shall We Dance
Jeffrey Baird
Oh, Doctor
Edward J. Billop
The King and the Chorus Girl
Count Humbert Evel Bruger
- 1936
The Man in the Mirror
Jeremy Dilke
Let's Make a Million
Harrison Gentry
Hearts Divided
John
Nobody's Fool
Will Wright
The Singing Kid
Davenport Rogers
Her Master's Voice
Ned Farrar
- 1935
Your Uncle Dudley
Dudley Dixon
His Night Out
Homer B. Bitts
Little Big Shot
Mortimer Thompson
The Private Secretary
Rev. Robert Spalding
Going Highbrow
Augie Winterspoon
In Caliente
Harold Brandon
$10 Raise
Hubert T. Wilkins
The Devil Is a Woman
Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
All the King's Horses
Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
The Night Is Young
Baron Szereny
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
- 1934
The Merry Widow
Ambassador Popoff
The Gay Divorcee
Egbert Fitzgerald
Ladies Should Listen
Paul Vernet
Kiss and Make-Up
Marcel Caron
Smarty
Vernon
Sing and Like It
Adam Frink - Producer
Uncertain Lady
Elliot Crane
Success at Any Price
Harry Fisher
The Poor Rich
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Easy to Love
Eric
- 1933
Design for Living
Max Plunkett
The Way to Love
Professor Gaston Bibi
A Bedtime Story
Victor Dubois
Soldiers of the King
Sebastian Marvello
- 1932
Roar of the Dragon
Busby
But the Flesh Is Weak
Sir George Kelvin
- 1931
The Great Junction Hotel
The Groom
The Age for Love
Horace Keats
Smart Woman
Billy Ross
Six Cylinder Love
Monty Winston
Lonely Wives
Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Kiss Me Again
Rene
- 1930
Once a Gentleman
Oliver
Wide Open
Simon Haldane
1920s
- 1929
The Aviator
Robert Street
The Sap
The Sap, Bill Small
The Hottentot
Sam Harrington
Sonny Boy
Crandall Thorpe
Ask Dad
Dad
- 1928
Vacation Waves
Eddie Davis
The Terror
Ferdinand Fane
Horse Shy
Eddie Hamilton
Behind the Counter
Eddie Baxter
Dad's Choice
Eddie
Scrambled Weddings
Eddie Howe
Call Again
Eddie
- 1927
Find the King
Edward Fairchild
No Publicity
Eddie Howard
Taxi! Taxi!
Peter Whitby
- 1926
The Whole Town's Talking
Chester Binney
Poker Faces
Jimmy Whitmore
The Nut-Cracker
Horatio Slipaway
La Bohème
Benoit - Janitor
- 1925
Beggar on Horseback
Neil McRae
- 1924
Helen's Babies
Uncle Harry
To the Ladies
Leonard Beebe
The Man Who Fights Alone
Bob Alten
Try and Get It
Glenn Collins
Flapper Wives
Vincent Platt
- 1923
Ruggles of Red Gap
Ruggles
- 1922
A Front Page Story
Rodney Marvin
The Ladder Jinx
Arthur Barnes
Too Much Business
John Henry Jackson
Appearances10
1990s
- 1997
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
1960s
- 1964
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
Narrator
- 1963
One Got Fat
Narrator (voice)
- 1962
- 1961
1950s
- 1959
Fractured Fairy Tales
Narrator (voice) · 1 episode
- 1956
- 1950
1940s
- 1948
1930s
- 1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
Self