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.
137 movies · 26 shows
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997·5.1
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976·0.0
Cold Turkey
1971·6.3
2000 Years Later
1969·7.5
The Perils of Pauline
1967·4.4
Sex and the Single Girl
1964·6.6
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
1964·0.0
One Got Fat
1963·6.4
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963·7.0
Pocketful of Miracles
1961·7.3
The Wonderful World of Trains
1960·0.0
The Story of Mankind
1957·4.4
Three Men on a Horse
1957·0.0
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956·0.0
Her Husband's Affairs
1947·5.6
Down to Earth
1947·6.0
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947·6.0
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
1946·8.0
Faithful in My Fashion
1946·7.0
Cinderella Jones
1946·3.8
Lady on a Train
1945·6.7
Steppin' in Society
1945·6.0
The Town Went Wild
1944·7.0
Brazil
1944·5.2
San Diego I Love You
1944·6.8
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944·7.6
Summer Storm
1944·5.7
Her Primitive Man
1944·7.5
The Gang's All Here
1943·5.9
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943·6.2
Forever and a Day
1943·7.5
Springtime in the Rockies
1942·6.9
I Married an Angel
1942·6.0
The Magnificent Dope
1942·7.3
Weekend for Three
1941·6.8
The Body Disappears
1941·6.1
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941·7.0
Bachelor Daddy
1941·8.0
Sunny
1941·5.9
Ziegfeld Girl
1941·6.7
You're the One
1941·4.7
That's Right – You're Wrong
1939·6.3
The Gang's All Here
1939·7.5
Paris Honeymoon
1939·5.5
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938·7.3
Holiday
1938·7.3
College Swing
1938·6.8
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1938·7.1
Hitting a New High
1937·5.5
The Great Garrick
1937·6.3
Angel
1937·6.7
The Perfect Specimen
1937·6.4
Danger – Love at Work
1937·7.0
Wild Money
1937·8.0
Shall We Dance
1937·7.3
Oh, Doctor
1937·7.0
The King and the Chorus Girl
1937·6.2
Lost Horizon
1937·6.9
The Man in the Mirror
1936·7.0
Let's Make a Million
1936·7.5
Hearts Divided
1936·5.5
Nobody's Fool
1936·7.0
The Singing Kid
1936·7.0
Her Master's Voice
1936·6.5
Your Uncle Dudley
1935·5.5
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935·5.3
His Night Out
1935·7.0
Little Big Shot
1935·7.3
Top Hat
1935·7.3
The Private Secretary
1935·7.0
Going Highbrow
1935·6.5
In Caliente
1935·6.7
$10 Raise
1935·9.0
The Devil Is a Woman
1935·6.3
All the King's Horses
1935·6.8
The Night Is Young
1935·6.0
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935·6.8
The Merry Widow
1934·6.7
The Gay Divorcee
1934·6.9
Ladies Should Listen
1934·6.2
Kiss and Make-Up
1934·5.3
It's a Boy
1934·10.0
Smarty
1934·4.6
Sing and Like It
1934·5.0
Uncertain Lady
1934·9.0
Success at Any Price
1934·4.1
The Poor Rich
1934·8.0
Easy to Love
1934·5.1
Design for Living
1933·7.1
Alice in Wonderland
1933·6.1
The Way to Love
1933·8.0
A Bedtime Story
1933·5.7
Soldiers of the King
1933·8.0
Trouble in Paradise
1932·7.4
Roar of the Dragon
1932·6.5
But the Flesh Is Weak
1932·6.3
The Great Junction Hotel
1931·8.0
The Age for Love
1931·9.0
Smart Woman
1931·5.4
Six Cylinder Love
1931·9.0
The Front Page
1931·6.5
Lonely Wives
1931·5.3
Kiss Me Again
1931·8.0
Reaching for the Moon
1930·5.7
Once a Gentleman
1930·9.0
Holiday
1930·6.2
Wide Open
1930·5.6
Take the Heir
1930·10.0
The Aviator
1929·4.5
The Sap
1929·10.0
The Hottentot
1929·7.0
Sonny Boy
1929·7.0
Ask Dad
1929·6.3
Vacation Waves
1928·7.0
The Terror
1928·7.5
Horse Shy
1928·7.0
Behind the Counter
1928·8.5
Dad's Choice
1928·7.3
Scrambled Weddings
1928·7.0
Call Again
1928·8.0
Find the King
1927·8.0
No Publicity
1927·7.0
Taxi! Taxi!
1927·9.0
The Whole Town's Talking
1926·7.0
Poker Faces
1926·7.0
The Nutcracker
1926·7.0
La Bohème
1926·6.4
Beggar on Horseback
1925·6.5
Helen's Babies
1924·5.9
To the Ladies
1924·8.0
The Man Who Fights Alone
1924·8.0
Try and Get It
1924·7.0
Flapper Wives
1924·8.0
Ruggles of Red Gap
1923·7.0
A Front Page Story
1922·7.0
The Ladder Jinx
1922·8.0
Too Much Business
1922·7.0