Edward Everett Horton
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: March 17, 1886
Day of Death: September 29, 1970 (85 years old)
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Actor Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Lost Horizon
Actor Jeffrey Baird
Shall We Dance
Actor Graham
Angel
Actor Lucius B. Blynn
Hitting a New High
Actor Mr. Grattan
The Perfect Specimen
Actor Howard Rogers
Danger – Love at Work
Actor Tubby
The Great Garrick
Actor Count Humbert Evel Bruger
The King and the Chorus Girl
Actor P.E. Dodd
Wild Money
Actor Edward J. Billop
Oh, Doctor
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Actor Horace Hardwick
Top Hat
Actor Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
The Devil Is a Woman
Actor Mortimer Thompson
Little Big Shot
Actor Augie Winterspoon
Going Highbrow
Actor Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Actor Baron Szereny
The Night Is Young
Actor Harold Brandon
In Caliente
Actor Hubert T. Wilkins
$10 Raise
Actor Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
All the King's Horses
Actor Homer B. Bitts
His Night Out
Actor Rev. Robert Spalding
The Private Secretary
Actor Dudley Dixon
Your Uncle Dudley
Actor Self
Things You Never See on the Screen
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Actor Egbert Fitzgerald
The Gay Divorcee
Actor Ambassador Popoff
The Merry Widow
Actor Paul Vernet
Ladies Should Listen
Actor Marcel Caron
Kiss and Make-Up
Actor Eric
Easy to Love
Actor Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
The Poor Rich
Actor Adam Frink - Producer
Sing and Like it
Actor Vernon
Smarty
Actor Harry Fisher
Success at Any Price
