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.
François Filiba
Film 1932
Mr. Witherspoon
Film 1944
Horace Hardwick
Film 1935
Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Film 1937
Smithers
Film 1930
Mr. Haskell
Film 1945
Narrator
Film 1964
Jeffrey Baird
Film 1937
Oliver
Film 1930
Marquis De Loiselle
Film 1938
Roger, the Valet
Film 1930
Mad Hatter
Film 1933
The Chief
Film 1964
Egbert Fitzgerald
Film 1934
Bensinger
Film 1931
Sir Walter Raleigh
Film 1957
Graham
Film 1937
Leonard Beebe
Film 1924
Nick Potter
Film 1938
Messenger 7013
Film 1941
Chester Binney
Film 1926
Messenger 7013
Film 1947
Peyton Potter
Film 1943
Eric
Film 1947
Count "Piggy" Volsky
Film 1944
Marcel Caron
Film 1934
Max Plunkett
Film 1933
Lucius B. Blynn
Film 1937
Nick Potter
Film 1930
Mortimer Thompson
Film 1935
Victor Dubois
Film 1933
Evermore
Film 1969
Hubert Dash
Film 1938
Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Film 1931
Henry Bates
Film 1941
Ruggles
Film 1923
Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Film 1937
Davenport Rogers
Film 1936
Dad
Film 1929
Augie Winterspoon
Film 1935
Billy Ross
Film 1931
Dudley Leake
Film 1934
Eric
Film 1934
Caspar Coleman
Film 1967
John
Film 1936
Uncle Harry
Film 1924
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Film 1934
Simon Haldane
Film 1930
Baron Szereny
Film 1935
Everett Conway
Film 1944
Vernon
Film 1934
Everett St. John Everett
Film 1944
Harold Brandon
Film 1935
Hubert T. Wilkins
Film 1935
Harry Fisher
Film 1934
Fred Stonebraker
Film 1941
Narrator (voice)
Film 1963
Ernest Figg
Film 1939
Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
Film 1935
Rene
Film 1931
Busby
Film 1932
Horace Keats
Film 1931
Homer B. Bitts
Film 1935
Vincent Platt
Film 1924
Treadwell
Film 1939
Benoit - Janitor
Film 1926
Neil McRae
Film 1925
Hiram Dilworthy
Film 1946
The Sap, Bill Small
Film 1929
Orrin
Film 1944
Ned Farrar
Film 1936
Peter
Film 1942
Jeremy Dilke
Film 1936
Eddie
Film 1928
Oliver
Film 1938
Judge Avery Webster
Film 1945
Dr. Milo Edwards
Film 1946
Robert Street
Film 1929
J.B. Cruikshank
Film 1947
Farnsworth
Film 1943
P.E. Dodd
Film 1937
Will Wright
Film 1936
Edward J. Billop
Film 1937
Sam Harrington
Film 1929
Rev. Robert Spalding
Film 1935
Bob Alten
Film 1924
Professor Shotesbury
Film 1941
Bobby Kent
Film
Professor Gaston Bibi
Film 1933
Eddie Baxter
Film 1928
Glenn Collins
Film
Ferdinand Fane
Film 1928
Sebastian Marvello
Film 1933
Dudley Dixon
Film 1935
Self
Film 1935
Joseph Smith
Film 1941
Film 1941
Self (archive footage)
Film 1997
Jimmy Whitmore
Film 1926
Eddie Hamilton
Film 1928
Eddie Davis
Film 1928
Edward Fairchild
Film 1927
Eddie Howard
Film 1927
Harrison Gentry
Film 1936
Crandall Thorpe
Film 1929
Professor Hotbox
Film 1960
Eddie Howe
Film 1928
Eddie
Film 1928
Noah
Film 1956
Grover Leander Smith
Tv 1963
Tv 1954
Self
Tv 1950
Tv 1965
Chief Screaming Chicken
Tv 1966
Self
Tv 1962
Mr. Ritter
Tv 1951
Self
Tv 1948
Mr. Parkinson
Tv 1953
Tv 1970
Uncle Ned Matthews
Tv 1959
Tv 1955
Tv 1948
Tv 1964
Self - Guest
Tv 1956
Tv 1954
Narrator (voice)
Tv 1959
Self
Tv 1954
Wilbur Starlington
Tv 1963
Self
Tv 1957
Philip Armistead
Tv 1968
Self
Tv 1961
Storyteller (voice)
Tv 1956