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.

Фільмографія

• 1971Cold Turkey — Hiram C. Grayson
• Nanny and the Professor
• 19692000 Years Later — Evermore
• Love, American Style — Elmo
• The Name of the Game — Philip Armistead
• 1967The Perils of Pauline — Caspar Coleman
• Бетмен — Chief Screaming Chicken
• F Troop
• The Cara Williams Show
• 1964The Emperor's Oblong Pancake — Narrator
• 1964Секс і незаміжня дівчина — The Chief
• Burke's Law — Grover Leander Smith, Wilbur Starlington
• 1963One Got Fat — Narrator (voice)
• 1963Цей шалений, шалений, шалений, шалений світ — Mr. Dinckler
• Saints and Sinners — Mr. Hollister
• 1961Pocketful of Miracles — Hudgins
• 1960The Wonderful World of Trains — Professor Hotbox
• Dennis the Menace — Uncle Ned Matthews
• Fractured Fairy Tales — Narrator (voice)
• The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends — Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
• Пригоди Роккі та Булльвінкля та друзів — Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
• 1957The Story of Mankind — Sir Walter Raleigh
• 1957Three Men on a Horse — Mr. Carver
• 1956Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower — Noah
• The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show — Storyteller (voice)
• Matinee Theater
• Max Liebman Presents
• Груднева наречена
• General Electric Theater — Mr. Parkinson
• I Love Lucy — Mr. Ritter
• The Philco Television Playhouse
• 1947Down to Earth — Messenger 7013
• 1947Her Husband's Affairs — J.B. Cruikshank
• 1947The Ghost Goes Wild — Eric
• 1946Cinderella Jones — Keating
• 1946Earl Carroll Sketchbook — Dr. Milo Edwards
• 1946Faithful in My Fashion — Hiram Dilworthy
• 1945Lady on a Train — Mr. Haskell
• 1945Steppin' in Society — Judge Avery Webster
• 1944Brazil — Everett St. John Everett
• 1944Her Primitive Man — Orrin
• 1944San Diego I Love You — Philip McCooley
• 1944Summer Storm — Count "Piggy" Volsky
• 1944The Town Went Wild — Everett Conway
• 1944Миш’як і старі мережива — Mr. Witherspoon
• 1943Forever and a Day — Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
• 1943Thank Your Lucky Stars — Farnsworth
• 1943The Gang's All Here — Peyton Potter
• 1942I Married an Angel — Peter
• 1942Springtime in the Rockies — McTavish
• 1942The Magnificent Dope — Horace Hunter
• 1941Bachelor Daddy — Joseph Smith
• 1941Here Comes Mr. Jordan — Messenger 7013
• 1941Sunny — Henry Bates
• 1941The Body Disappears — Professor Shotesbury
• 1941Weekend for Three — Fred Stonebraker
• 1941You're the One — Death Valley Joe Frink
• 1941Ziegfeld Girl — Noble Sage
• 1939Paris Honeymoon — Ernest Figg
• 1939That's Right – You're Wrong — Tom Village
• 1939The Gang's All Here — Treadwell
• 1938Bluebeard's 8th Wife — Marquis De Loiselle
• 1938College Swing — Hubert Dash
• 1938Holiday — Nick Potter
• 1938Little Tough Guys in Society — Oliver
• 1937Angel — Graham
• 1937Danger – Love at Work — Howard Rogers
• 1937Hitting a New High — Lucius B. Blynn
• 1937Lost Horizon — Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
• 1937Oh, Doctor — Edward J. Billop
• 1937Shall We Dance — Jeffrey Baird
• 1937The Great Garrick — Tubby
• 1937The King and the Chorus Girl — Count Humbert Evel Bruger
• 1937The Perfect Specimen — Mr. Grattan
• 1937Wild Money — P.E. Dodd
• 1936Hearts Divided — John
• 1936Her Master's Voice — Ned Farrar
• 1936Let's Make a Million — Harrison Gentry
• 1936Nobody's Fool — Will Wright
• 1936The Man in the Mirror — Jeremy Dilke
• 1936The Singing Kid — Davenport Rogers
• 1935$10 Raise — Hubert T. Wilkins
• 1935All the King's Horses — Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
• 1935Biography of a Bachelor Girl — Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
• 1935Going Highbrow — Augie Winterspoon
• 1935His Night Out — Homer B. Bitts
• 1935In Caliente — Harold Brandon
• 1935Little Big Shot — Mortimer Thompson
• 1935The Devil Is a Woman — Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
• 1935The Night Is Young — Baron Szereny
• 1935The Private Secretary — Rev. Robert Spalding
• 1935Top Hat — Horace Hardwick
• 1935Your Uncle Dudley — Dudley Dixon
• 1934Easy to Love — Eric
• 1934It's a Boy — Dudley Leake
• 1934Kiss and Make-Up — Marcel Caron
• 1934Ladies Should Listen — Paul Vernet
• 1934Sing and Like It — Adam Frink - Producer
• 1934Smarty — Vernon
• 1934Success at Any Price — Harry Fisher
• 1934The Gay Divorcee — Egbert Fitzgerald
• 1934The Merry Widow — Ambassador Popoff
• 1934The Poor Rich — Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
• 1934Uncertain Lady — Elliot Crane
• 1933A Bedtime Story — Victor Dubois
• 1933Alice in Wonderland — Mad Hatter
• 1933Design for Living — Max Plunkett
• 1933Soldiers of the King — Sebastian Marvello
• 1933The Way to Love — Professor Gaston Bibi
• 1932But the Flesh Is Weak — Sir George Kelvin
• 1932Roar of the Dragon — Busby
• 1932Неприємності в раю — Francois
• 1931Kiss Me Again — Rene
• 1931Lonely Wives — Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
• 1931Six Cylinder Love — Monty Winston
• 1931Smart Woman — Billy Ross
• 1931The Age for Love — Horace Keats
• 1931The Front Page — Bensinger
• 1931The Great Junction Hotel — The Groom
• 1930Holiday — Nick Potter
• 1930Once a Gentleman — Oliver
• 1930Reaching for the Moon — Roger, the Valet
• 1930Take the Heir — Smithers
• 1930Wide Open — Simon Haldane
• 1929Ask Dad — Dad
• 1929Sonny Boy — Crandall Thorpe
• 1929The Aviator — Robert Street
• 1929The Hottentot — Sam Harrington
• 1929The Sap — The Sap, Bill Small
• 1928Behind the Counter — Eddie Baxter
• 1928Call Again — Eddie
• 1928Dad's Choice — Eddie
• 1928Horse Shy — Eddie Hamilton
• 1928Scrambled Weddings — Eddie Howe
• 1928The Terror — Ferdinand Fane
• 1928Vacation Waves — Eddie Davis
• 1927Find the King — Edward Fairchild
• 1927No Publicity — Eddie Howard
• 1927Taxi! Taxi! — Peter Whitby
• 1926La Bohème — Benoit - Janitor
• 1926Poker Faces — Jimmy Whitmore
• 1926The Nut-Cracker — Horatio Slipaway
• 1926The Whole Town's Talking — Chester Binney
• 1925Beggar on Horseback — Neil McRae
• 1924Flapper Wives — Vincent Platt
• 1924Helen's Babies — Uncle Harry
• 1924The Man Who Fights Alone — Bob Alten
• 1924To the Ladies — Leonard Beebe
• 1924Try and Get It — Glenn Collins
• 1923Ruggles of Red Gap — Ruggles
• 1922A Front Page Story — Rodney Marvin
• 1922The Ladder Jinx — Arthur Barnes
• 1922Too Much Business — John Henry Jackson
• The Right Bed — Bobby Kent

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (9)

• 1997The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender — Self (archive footage)
• Шоу Мерва Ґріффіна — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• The Lux Show — Self
• The Steve Allen Show — Self - Guest
• The George Gobel Show — Self
• The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• 1935Things You Never See on the Screen — Self