The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Edward Everett Horton
1886-03-17
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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.
Filmography
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Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976 · Movie
as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
Cold Turkey
1971 · Movie
as Hiram C. Grayson
Nanny and the Professor
1970 · TV Show
2000 Years Later
1969 · Movie
as Evermore
Love, American Style
1969 · TV Show
as Elmo
The Name of the Game
1968 · TV Show
as Philip Armistead
The Perils of Pauline
1967 · Movie
as Caspar Coleman
Batman
1966 · TV Show
as Chief Screaming Chicken
F Troop
1965 · TV Show
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
1964 · Movie
as Narrator
Sex and the Single Girl
1964 · Movie
as The Chief
The Cara Williams Show
1964 · TV Show
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Movie
as Mr. Dinckler
One Got Fat
1963 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Burke's Law
1963 · TV Show
as Grover Leander Smith, Wilbur Starlington
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · TV Show
as Self
Saints and Sinners
1962 · TV Show
as Mr. Hollister
Pocketful of Miracles
1961 · Movie
as Hudgins
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · TV Show
as Self
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The Wonderful World of Trains
1960 · Movie
as Professor Hotbox
Dennis the Menace
1959 · TV Show
as Uncle Ned Matthews
Fractured Fairy Tales
1959 · TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
The Bullwinkle Show
1959 · TV Show
as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
1959 · TV Show
as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
The Story of Mankind
1957 · Movie
as Sir Walter Raleigh
Three Men on a Horse
1957 · Movie
as Mr. Carver
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The Lux Show
1957 · TV Show
as Self
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Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956 · Movie
as Noah
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
1956 · TV Show
as Storyteller (voice)
Matinee Theater
1955 · TV Show
December Bride
1954 · TV Show
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Max Liebman Presents
1954 · TV Show
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The George Gobel Show
1954 · TV Show
as Self
General Electric Theater
1953 · TV Show
as Mr. Parkinson
I Love Lucy
1951 · TV Show
as Mr. Ritter
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · TV Show
as Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · TV Show
as Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · TV Show
Down to Earth
1947 · Movie
as Messenger 7013
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947 · Movie
as Eric
Her Husband's Affairs
1947 · Movie
as J.B. Cruikshank
Faithful in My Fashion
1946 · Movie
as Hiram Dilworthy
Cinderella Jones
1946 · Movie
as Keating
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
1946 · Movie
as Dr. Milo Edwards
Lady on a Train
1945 · Movie
as Mr. Haskell
Steppin' in Society
1945 · Movie
as Judge Avery Webster
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · Movie
as Mr. Witherspoon
Summer Storm
1944 · Movie
as Count "Piggy" Volsky
San Diego I Love You
1944 · Movie
as Philip McCooley
The Town Went Wild
1944 · Movie
as Everett Conway
Brazil
1944 · Movie
as Everett St. John Everett
Her Primitive Man
1944 · Movie
as Orrin
Forever and a Day
1943 · Movie
as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
The Gang's All Here
1943 · Movie
as Peyton Potter
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943 · Movie
as Farnsworth
Springtime in the Rockies
1942 · Movie
as McTavish
The Magnificent Dope
1942 · Movie
as Horace Hunter
I Married an Angel
1942 · Movie
as Peter
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941 · Movie
as Messenger 7013
Sunny
1941 · Movie
as Henry Bates
Weekend for Three
1941 · Movie
as Fred Stonebraker
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · Movie
as Noble Sage
The Body Disappears
1941 · Movie
as Professor Shotesbury
Bachelor Daddy
1941 · Movie
as Joseph Smith
You're the One
1941 · Movie
as Death Valley Joe Frink
Paris Honeymoon
1939 · Movie
as Ernest Figg
The Gang's All Here
1939 · Movie
as Treadwell
That's Right – You're Wrong
1939 · Movie
as Tom Village
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1938 · Movie
as Marquis De Loiselle
Holiday
1938 · Movie
as Nick Potter
College Swing
1938 · Movie
as Hubert Dash
Little Tough Guys in Society
1938 · Movie
as Oliver
Lost Horizon
1937 · Movie
as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Shall We Dance
1937 · Movie
as Jeffrey Baird
Angel
1937 · Movie
as Graham
Hitting a New High
1937 · Movie
as Lucius B. Blynn
The Perfect Specimen
1937 · Movie
as Mr. Grattan
Danger – Love at Work
1937 · Movie
as Howard Rogers
The Great Garrick
1937 · Movie
as Tubby
The King and the Chorus Girl
1937 · Movie
as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Wild Money
1937 · Movie
as P.E. Dodd
Oh, Doctor
1937 · Movie
as Edward J. Billop
The Singing Kid
1936 · Movie
as Davenport Rogers
Hearts Divided
1936 · Movie
as John
Her Master's Voice
1936 · Movie
as Ned Farrar
The Man in the Mirror
1936 · Movie
as Jeremy Dilke
Nobody's Fool
1936 · Movie
as Will Wright
Let's Make a Million
1936 · Movie
as Harrison Gentry
Top Hat
1935 · Movie
as Horace Hardwick
The Devil Is a Woman
1935 · Movie
as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
Little Big Shot
1935 · Movie
as Mortimer Thompson
Going Highbrow
1935 · Movie
as Augie Winterspoon
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935 · Movie
as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
The Night Is Young
1935 · Movie
as Baron Szereny
In Caliente
1935 · Movie
as Harold Brandon
$10 Raise
1935 · Movie
as Hubert T. Wilkins
All the King's Horses
1935 · Movie
as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
His Night Out
1935 · Movie
as Homer B. Bitts
The Private Secretary
1935 · Movie
as Rev. Robert Spalding
Your Uncle Dudley
1935 · Movie
as Dudley Dixon
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935 · Movie
as Self
The Gay Divorcee
1934 · Movie
as Egbert Fitzgerald
The Merry Widow
1934 · Movie
as Ambassador Popoff
Ladies Should Listen
1934 · Movie
as Paul Vernet
Kiss and Make-Up
1934 · Movie
as Marcel Caron
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It's a Boy
1934 · Movie
as Dudley Leake
Easy to Love
1934 · Movie
as Eric
The Poor Rich
1934 · Movie
as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Sing and Like It
1934 · Movie
as Adam Frink - Producer
Smarty
1934 · Movie
as Vernon
Success at Any Price
1934 · Movie
as Harry Fisher
Uncertain Lady
1934 · Movie
as Elliot Crane
Alice in Wonderland
1933 · Movie
as Mad Hatter
Design for Living
1933 · Movie
as Max Plunkett
A Bedtime Story
1933 · Movie
as Victor Dubois
The Way to Love
1933 · Movie
as Professor Gaston Bibi
Soldiers of the King
1933 · Movie
as Sebastian Marvello
Trouble in Paradise
1932 · Movie
as Francois
But the Flesh Is Weak
1932 · Movie
as Sir George Kelvin
Roar of the Dragon
1932 · Movie
as Busby
The Front Page
1931 · Movie
as Bensinger
Lonely Wives
1931 · Movie
as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Smart Woman
1931 · Movie
as Billy Ross
The Great Junction Hotel
1931 · Movie
as The Groom
Kiss Me Again
1931 · Movie
as Rene
Six Cylinder Love
1931 · Movie
as Monty Winston
The Age for Love
1931 · Movie
as Horace Keats
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Take the Heir
1930 · Movie
as Smithers
Once a Gentleman
1930 · Movie
as Oliver
Reaching for the Moon
1930 · Movie
as Roger, the Valet
Holiday
1930 · Movie
as Nick Potter
Wide Open
1930 · Movie
as Simon Haldane
Ask Dad
1929 · Movie
as Dad
The Sap
1929 · Movie
as The Sap, Bill Small
The Aviator
1929 · Movie
as Robert Street
The Hottentot
1929 · Movie
as Sam Harrington
Sonny Boy
1929 · Movie
as Crandall Thorpe
Dad's Choice
1928 · Movie
as Eddie
Behind the Counter
1928 · Movie
as Eddie Baxter
The Terror
1928 · Movie
as Ferdinand Fane
Horse Shy
1928 · Movie
as Eddie Hamilton
Vacation Waves
1928 · Movie
as Eddie Davis
Scrambled Weddings
1928 · Movie
as Eddie Howe
Call Again
1928 · Movie
as Eddie
No Publicity
1927 · Movie
as Eddie Howard
Find the King
1927 · Movie
as Edward Fairchild
Taxi! Taxi!
1927 · Movie
as Peter Whitby
The Whole Town's Talking
1926 · Movie
as Chester Binney
La Bohème
1926 · Movie
as Benoit - Janitor
Poker Faces
1926 · Movie
as Jimmy Whitmore
The Nut-Cracker
1926 · Movie
as Horatio Slipaway
Beggar on Horseback
1925 · Movie
as Neil McRae
To the Ladies
1924 · Movie
as Leonard Beebe
Helen's Babies
1924 · Movie
as Uncle Harry
Flapper Wives
1924 · Movie
as Vincent Platt
The Man Who Fights Alone
1924 · Movie
as Bob Alten
Try and Get It
1924 · Movie
as Glenn Collins
Ruggles of Red Gap
1923 · Movie
as Ruggles
Too Much Business
1922 · Movie
as John Henry Jackson
The Ladder Jinx
1922 · Movie
as Arthur Barnes
A Front Page Story
1922 · Movie
as Rodney Marvin
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The Right Bed
· Movie
as Bobby Kent
