Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1886-03-17
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As: E.E. Horton, Edward Horton, Edward Everett Horton Jr.

Movies List of Edward Everett Horton

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Trouble in Paradise

1932 Movie
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Arsenic and Old Lace

1944 Movie
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Pocketful of Miracles

1961 Movie
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Top Hat

1935 Movie
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Lost Horizon

1937 Movie
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Take the Heir

1930 Movie
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Lady on a Train

1945 Movie
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Shall We Dance

1937 Movie
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Once a Gentleman

1930 Movie
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Reaching for the Moon

1930 Movie
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Alice in Wonderland

1933 Movie
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The Gay Divorcee

1934 Movie
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Cold Turkey

1971 Movie
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The Front Page

1931 Movie
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The Devil Is a Woman

1935 Movie
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The Story of Mankind

1957 Movie
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Forever and a Day

1943 Movie
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The Merry Widow

1934 Movie
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Angel

1937 Movie
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To the Ladies

1924 Movie
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Holiday

1938 Movie
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan

1941 Movie
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Down to Earth

1947 Movie
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The Gang's All Here

1943 Movie
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The Ghost Goes Wild

1947 Movie
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Summer Storm

1944 Movie
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Ladies Should Listen

1934 Movie
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San Diego I Love You

1944 Movie
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Kiss and Make-Up

1934 Movie
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Design for Living

1933 Movie
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Hitting a New High

1937 Movie
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Holiday

1930 Movie
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Little Big Shot

1935 Movie
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A Bedtime Story

1933 Movie
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2000 Years Later

1969 Movie
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The Perfect Specimen

1937 Movie
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College Swing

1938 Movie
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Lonely Wives

1931 Movie
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Sunny

1941 Movie
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The Great Garrick

1937 Movie
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Ruggles of Red Gap

1923 Movie
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The Singing Kid

1936 Movie
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Ask Dad

1929 Movie
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Going Highbrow

1935 Movie
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Smart Woman

1931 Movie
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It's a Boy

1933 Movie
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Easy to Love

1934 Movie
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The Perils of Pauline

1967 Movie
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But the Flesh Is Weak

1932 Movie
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Hearts Divided

1936 Movie
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Helen's Babies

1924 Movie
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The Poor Rich

1934 Movie
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Sing and Like it

1934 Movie
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Wide Open

1930 Movie
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The Night Is Young

1935 Movie
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The Town Went Wild

1944 Movie
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Smarty

1934 Movie
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Brazil

1944 Movie
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In Caliente

1935 Movie
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$10 Raise

1935 Movie
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Success at Any Price

1934 Movie
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Weekend for Three

1941 Movie
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One Got Fat

1963 Movie
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Paris Honeymoon

1939 Movie
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All the King's Horses

1935 Movie
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Kiss Me Again

1931 Movie
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Six Cylinder Love

1931 Movie
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Roar of the Dragon

1932 Movie
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The Age for Love

1931 Movie
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His Night Out

1935 Movie
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Flapper Wives

1924 Movie
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The Magnificent Dope

1942 Movie
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The Gang's All Here

1939 Movie
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Ziegfeld Girl

1941 Movie
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La Bohème

1926 Movie
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Beggar on Horseback

1925 Movie
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The Sap

1929 Movie
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Her Primitive Man

1944 Movie
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Her Master's Voice

1936 Movie
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Cinderella Jones

1946 Movie
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I Married an Angel

1942 Movie
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The Man in the Mirror

1936 Movie
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Dad's Choice

1928 Movie
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Steppin' in Society

1945 Movie
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The Aviator

1929 Movie
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Her Husband's Affairs

1947 Movie
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Wild Money

1937 Movie
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Nobody's Fool

1936 Movie
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Oh, Doctor

1937 Movie
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The Hottentot

1929 Movie
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The Private Secretary

1935 Movie
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The Body Disappears

1941 Movie
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The Right Bed

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The Way to Love

1933 Movie
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Behind the Counter

1928 Movie
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Try and Get It

Movie
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The Terror

1928 Movie
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Soldiers of the King

1933 Movie
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Your Uncle Dudley

1935 Movie
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Bachelor Daddy

1941 Movie
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You're the One

1941 Movie
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Poker Faces

1926 Movie
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No Publicity

1927 Movie
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Find the King

1927 Movie
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Horse Shy

1928 Movie
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Vacation Waves

1928 Movie
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Let's Make a Million

1936 Movie
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Sonny Boy

1929 Movie
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Scrambled Weddings

1928 Movie
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Call Again

1928 Movie