
Edward Everett Horton
Biography
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.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1886-03-17
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Trouble in Paradise
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Arsenic and Old Lace
19447.6 / 10
Pocketful of Miracles
19617.3 / 10
Top Hat
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Lost Horizon
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Take the Heir
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Lady on a Train
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
19637.0 / 10
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
19640.0 / 10
Shall We Dance
19377.2 / 10
Once a Gentleman
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
19387.0 / 10
Reaching for the Moon
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Alice in Wonderland
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Sex and the Single Girl
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The Gay Divorcee
19346.9 / 10
Cold Turkey
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The Front Page
19316.5 / 10
The Devil Is a Woman
19356.3 / 10
The Story of Mankind
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Forever and a Day
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Springtime in the Rockies
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The Merry Widow
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Angel
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To the Ladies
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Holiday
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
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The Whole Town's Talking
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Down to Earth
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The Gang's All Here
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The Ghost Goes Wild
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Summer Storm
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Ladies Should Listen
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San Diego I Love You
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Kiss and Make-Up
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Design for Living
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Hitting a New High
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Holiday
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Little Big Shot
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A Bedtime Story
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2000 Years Later
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The Perfect Specimen
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College Swing
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Lonely Wives
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Danger – Love at Work
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Sunny
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The Great Garrick
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Ruggles of Red Gap
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The King and the Chorus Girl
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The Singing Kid
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Ask Dad
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Going Highbrow
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
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Smart Woman
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It's a Boy
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Easy to Love
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The Perils of Pauline
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But the Flesh Is Weak
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Hearts Divided
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Helen's Babies
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The Poor Rich
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Sing and Like It
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Wide Open
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The Night Is Young
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The Town Went Wild
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The Great Junction Hotel
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Smarty
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Brazil
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In Caliente
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$10 Raise
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Success at Any Price
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Weekend for Three
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One Got Fat
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Paris Honeymoon
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All the King's Horses
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Kiss Me Again
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Six Cylinder Love
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Roar of the Dragon
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The Age for Love
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His Night Out
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Flapper Wives
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The Magnificent Dope
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The Gang's All Here
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Ziegfeld Girl
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La Bohème
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Beggar on Horseback
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Faithful in My Fashion
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The Sap
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Her Primitive Man
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Her Master's Voice
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Cinderella Jones
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I Married an Angel
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The Man in the Mirror
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That's Right – You're Wrong
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Dad's Choice
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Little Tough Guys in Society
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Steppin' in Society
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Earl Carroll Sketchbook
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The Aviator
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Her Husband's Affairs
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
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Wild Money
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Nobody's Fool
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Oh, Doctor
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The Hottentot
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The Private Secretary
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The Man Who Fights Alone
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The Body Disappears
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The Right Bed
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The Way to Love
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Behind the Counter
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Try and Get It
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The Terror
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Soldiers of the King
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Your Uncle Dudley
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Things You Never See on the Screen
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Bachelor Daddy
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You're the One
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
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Poker Faces
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Horse Shy
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Vacation Waves
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Find the King
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No Publicity
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Let's Make a Million
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Sonny Boy
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The Wonderful World of Trains
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Scrambled Weddings
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Call Again
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Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
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Taxi! Taxi!
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The Nutcracker
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Too Much Business
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