From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEdward 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 actors reaction to something, followed by a delayed, more extreme reaction). In Hortons 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), Its 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.

Films indisponible à partir de Edward Everett Horton

Trouble in Paradise

François Filiba

Film 1932

Arsenic and Old Lace

Mr. Witherspoon

Film 1944

Top Hat

Horace Hardwick

Film 1935

Lost Horizon

Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett

Film 1937

Take the Heir

Smithers

Film 1930

Lady on a Train

Mr. Haskell

Film 1945

The Emperor's Oblong Pancake

Narrator

Film 1964

Shall We Dance

Jeffrey Baird

Film 1937

Once a Gentleman

Oliver

Film 1930

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Marquis De Loiselle

Film 1938

Reaching for the Moon

Roger, the Valet

Film 1930

Alice in Wonderland

Mad Hatter

Film 1933

Sex and the Single Girl

The Chief

Film 1964

The Gay Divorcee

Egbert Fitzgerald

Film 1934

The Front Page

Bensinger

Film 1931

The Story of Mankind

Sir Walter Raleigh

Film 1957

Angel

Graham

Film 1937

To the Ladies

Leonard Beebe

Film 1924

Holiday

Nick Potter

Film 1938

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Messenger 7013

Film 1941

The Whole Town's Talking

Chester Binney

Film 1926

Down to Earth

Messenger 7013

Film 1947

The Gang's All Here

Peyton Potter

Film 1943

The Ghost Goes Wild

Eric

Film 1947

Summer Storm

Count "Piggy" Volsky

Film 1944

Kiss and Make-Up

Marcel Caron

Film 1934

Design for Living

Max Plunkett

Film 1933

Hitting a New High

Lucius B. Blynn

Film 1937

Holiday

Nick Potter

Film 1930

Little Big Shot

Mortimer Thompson

Film 1935

A Bedtime Story

Victor Dubois

Film 1933

2000 Years Later

Evermore

Film 1969

College Swing

Hubert Dash

Film 1938

Lonely Wives

Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero

Film 1931

Sunny

Henry Bates

Film 1941

Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles

Film 1923

The King and the Chorus Girl

Count Humbert Evel Bruger

Film 1937

The Singing Kid

Davenport Rogers

Film 1936

Ask Dad

Dad

Film 1929

Going Highbrow

Augie Winterspoon

Film 1935

Smart Woman

Billy Ross

Film 1931

It's a Boy

Dudley Leake

Film 1934

Easy to Love

Eric

Film 1934

The Perils of Pauline

Caspar Coleman

Film 1967

Hearts Divided

John

Film 1936

Helen's Babies

Uncle Harry

Film 1924

The Poor Rich

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood

Film 1934

Wide Open

Simon Haldane

Film 1930

The Night Is Young

Baron Szereny

Film 1935

The Town Went Wild

Everett Conway

Film 1944

Smarty

Vernon

Film 1934

Brazil

Everett St. John Everett

Film 1944

In Caliente

Harold Brandon

Film 1935

$10 Raise

Hubert T. Wilkins

Film 1935

Success at Any Price

Harry Fisher

Film 1934

Weekend for Three

Fred Stonebraker

Film 1941

One Got Fat

Narrator (voice)

Film 1963

Paris Honeymoon

Ernest Figg

Film 1939

All the King's Horses

Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat

Film 1935

Kiss Me Again

Rene

Film 1931

Roar of the Dragon

Busby

Film 1932

The Age for Love

Horace Keats

Film 1931

His Night Out

Homer B. Bitts

Film 1935

Flapper Wives

Vincent Platt

Film 1924

The Gang's All Here

Treadwell

Film 1939

La Bohème

Benoit - Janitor

Film 1926

Beggar on Horseback

Neil McRae

Film 1925

Faithful in My Fashion

Hiram Dilworthy

Film 1946

The Sap

The Sap, Bill Small

Film 1929

Her Primitive Man

Orrin

Film 1944

Her Master's Voice

Ned Farrar

Film 1936

I Married an Angel

Peter

Film 1942

The Man in the Mirror

Jeremy Dilke

Film 1936

Dad's Choice

Eddie

Film 1928

Little Tough Guys in Society

Oliver

Film 1938

Steppin' in Society

Judge Avery Webster

Film 1945

Earl Carroll Sketchbook

Dr. Milo Edwards

Film 1946

The Aviator

Robert Street

Film 1929

Her Husband's Affairs

J.B. Cruikshank

Film 1947

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Farnsworth

Film 1943

Wild Money

P.E. Dodd

Film 1937

Nobody's Fool

Will Wright

Film 1936

Oh, Doctor

Edward J. Billop

Film 1937

The Hottentot

Sam Harrington

Film 1929

The Private Secretary

Rev. Robert Spalding

Film 1935

The Man Who Fights Alone

Bob Alten

Film 1924

The Body Disappears

Professor Shotesbury

Film 1941

The Right Bed

Bobby Kent

Film

The Way to Love

Professor Gaston Bibi

Film 1933

Behind the Counter

Eddie Baxter

Film 1928

Try and Get It

Glenn Collins

Film

The Terror

Ferdinand Fane

Film 1928

Soldiers of the King

Sebastian Marvello

Film 1933

Your Uncle Dudley

Dudley Dixon

Film 1935

Things You Never See on the Screen

Self

Film 1935

Bachelor Daddy

Joseph Smith

Film 1941

You're the One

Film 1941

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

Self (archive footage)

Film 1997

Poker Faces

Jimmy Whitmore

Film 1926

Horse Shy

Eddie Hamilton

Film 1928

Vacation Waves

Eddie Davis

Film 1928

Find the King

Edward Fairchild

Film 1927

No Publicity

Eddie Howard

Film 1927

Let's Make a Million

Harrison Gentry

Film 1936

Sonny Boy

Crandall Thorpe

Film 1929

The Wonderful World of Trains

Professor Hotbox

Film 1960

Scrambled Weddings

Eddie Howe

Film 1928

Call Again

Eddie

Film 1928

Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower

Noah

Film 1956

Séries TV indisponible à partir de Edward Everett Horton

Burke's Law

Grover Leander Smith

Tv 1963

December Bride

Tv 1954

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Self

Tv 1950

F Troop

Tv 1965

Batman

Chief Screaming Chicken

Tv 1966

The Merv Griffin Show

Self

Tv 1962

I Love Lucy

Mr. Ritter

Tv 1951

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

Tv 1948

General Electric Theater

Mr. Parkinson

Tv 1953

Nanny and the Professor

Tv 1970

Dennis the Menace

Uncle Ned Matthews

Tv 1959

Matinee Theater

Tv 1955

The Philco Television Playhouse

Tv 1948

The Cara Williams Show

Tv 1964

The Steve Allen Show

Self - Guest

Tv 1956

Max Liebman Presents

Tv 1954

Fractured Fairy Tales

Narrator (voice)

Tv 1959

The George Gobel Show

Self

Tv 1954

Burke's Law

Wilbur Starlington

Tv 1963

The Lux Show

Self

Tv 1957

The Name of the Game

Philip Armistead

Tv 1968

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

Tv 1961

The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show

Storyteller (voice)

Tv 1956