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.

Nacimiento: 1886-03-17, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Fallecimiento: 1970-09-29
Valoración en CMNetwork Actors: 3,4 de 5

En CMNetwork Actors

Arsenic and Old Lace como Mr. Witherspoon

Conocido por

Arsénico por compasión (1944) — Mr. Witherspoon
Sombrero de copa (1935) — Horace Hardwick
Horizontes perdidos (1937) — Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Un ladrón en la alcoba (1932) — Francois
Vivir para gozar (1938) — Nick Potter
Una mujer para dos (1933) — Max Plunkett
Batman (1966) — Chief Screaming Chicken
La alegre divorciada (1934) — Egbert Fitzgerald

Filmografía

The Right Bed — Bobby Kent
Un mes de abstinencia (1971) — Hiram C. Grayson
Nanny and the Professor (1970)
Love, American Style (1969) — Elmo
2000 Years Later (1969) — Evermore
The Name of the Game (1968) — Philip Armistead
The Perils of Pauline (1967) — Caspar Coleman
Batman (1966) — Chief Screaming Chicken
F Troop (1965)
La pícara soltera (1964) — The Chief
The Cara Williams Show (1964)
El mundo está loco, loco, loco, loco (1963) — Mr. Dinckler
El agente Burke (1963) — Grover Leander Smith / Wilbur Starlington
Saints and Sinners (1962) — Mr. Hollister
Un gángster para un milagro (1961) — Hudgins
The Wonderful World of Trains (1960) — Professor Hotbox
Las aventuras de Rocky y Bullwinkle (1959) — Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voz)
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (1959) — Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voz)
Daniel el travieso (1959) — Uncle Ned Matthews
Historia de la humanidad (1957) — Sir Walter Raleigh
Three Men on a Horse (1957) — Mr. Carver
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show (1956) — Storyteller (voz)
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower (1956) — Noah
Matinee Theater (1955)
December Bride (1954)
Max Liebman Presents (1954)
General Electric Theater (1953) — Mr. Parkinson
Te quiero, Lucy (1951) — Mr. Ritter
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
Her Husband's Affairs (1947) — J.B. Cruikshank
La diosa de la danza (1947) — Messenger 7013
The Ghost Goes Wild (1947) — Eric
Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946) — Dr. Milo Edwards
Faithful in My Fashion (1946) — Hiram Dilworthy
Cinderella Jones (1946) — Keating
La dama del tren (1945) — Mr. Haskell
Steppin' in Society (1945) — Judge Avery Webster
The Town Went Wild (1944) — Everett Conway
Brazil (1944) — Everett St. John Everett
San Diego I Love You (1944) — Philip McCooley
Arsénico por compasión (1944) — Mr. Witherspoon
Extraña confesión (1944) — Count "Piggy" Volsky
Her Primitive Man (1944) — Orrin
Toda la banda está aquí (1943) — Peyton Potter
Adorables estrellas (1943) — Farnsworth
Forever and a Day (1943) — Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
Springtime in the Rockies (1942) — McTavish
Me casé con un ángel (1942) — Peter
Así vivo yo (1942) — Horace Hunter
Weekend for Three (1941) — Fred Stonebraker
The Body Disappears (1941) — Professor Shotesbury
El difunto protesta (1941) — Messenger 7013
Bachelor Daddy (1941) — Joseph Smith
Sunny (1941) — Henry Bates
Las chicas de Ziegfeld (1941) — Noble Sage
You're the One (1941) — Death Valley Joe Frink
That's Right – You're Wrong (1939) — Tom Village
The Gang's All Here (1939) — Treadwell
Paris Honeymoon (1939) — Ernest Figg
Little Tough Guys in Society (1938) — Oliver
Vivir para gozar (1938) — Nick Potter
College Swing (1938) — Hubert Dash
La octava mujer de Barba Azul (1938) — Marquis De Loiselle
La diosa de la selva (1937) — Lucius B. Blynn
The Great Garrick (1937) — Tubby
Ángel (1937) — Graham
El perfecto ejemplar (1937) — Mr. Grattan
Amor en la oficina (1937) — Howard Rogers
Wild Money (1937) — P.E. Dodd
Ritmo loco (1937) — Jeffrey Baird
Oh, Doctor (1937) — Edward J. Billop
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937) — Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Horizontes perdidos (1937) — Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Como tú quisieras ser (1936) — Jeremy Dilke
Let's Make a Million (1936) — Harrison Gentry
Hearts Divided (1936) — John
Nobody's Fool (1936) — Will Wright
The Singing Kid (1936) — Davenport Rogers
Her Master's Voice (1936) — Ned Farrar
Your Uncle Dudley (1935) — Dudley Dixon
His Night Out (1935) — Homer B. Bitts
Little Big Shot (1935) — Mortimer Thompson
Sombrero de copa (1935) — Horace Hardwick
The Private Secretary (1935) — Rev. Robert Spalding
Going Highbrow (1935) — Augie Winterspoon
Por unos ojos negros (1935) — Harold Brandon
$10 Raise (1935) — Hubert T. Wilkins
El diablo es una mujer (1935) — Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
All the King's Horses (1935) — Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
The Night Is Young (1935) — Baron Szereny
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935) — Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
La viuda alegre (1934) — Ambassador Popoff
La alegre divorciada (1934) — Egbert Fitzgerald
Atención, señoras (1934) — Paul Vernet
El templo de las hermosas (1934) — Marcel Caron
It's a Boy (1934) — Dudley Leake
Smarty (1934) — Vernon
Sing and Like it (1934) — Adam Frink - Producer
Uncertain Lady (1934) — Elliot Crane
Success at Any Price (1934) — Harry Fisher
The Poor Rich (1934) — Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Easy to Love (1934) — Eric
Una mujer para dos (1933) — Max Plunkett
Alicia en el país de las Maravillas (1933) — Mad Hatter
The Way to Love (1933) — Professor Gaston Bibi
A Bedtime Story (1933) — Victor Dubois
Soldiers of the King (1933) — Sebastian Marvello
Un ladrón en la alcoba (1932) — Francois
Roar of the Dragon (1932) — Busby
El conquistador irresistible (1932) — Sir George Kelvin
The Great Junction Hotel (1931) — The Groom
The Age for Love (1931) — Horace Keats
Astucia de mujer (1931) — Billy Ross
Six Cylinder Love (1931) — Monty Winston
Un gran reportaje (1931) — Bensinger
Lonely Wives (1931) — Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Kiss Me Again (1931) — Rene
Arriesgándolo Todo (Para alcanzar la luna) (1930) — Roger, the Valet
Once a Gentleman (1930) — Oliver
Holiday (1930) — Nick Potter
Wide Open (1930) — Simon Haldane
Take the Heir (1930) — Smithers
The Aviator (1929) — Robert Street
The Sap (1929) — The Sap, Bill Small
The Hottentot (1929) — Sam Harrington
Sonny Boy (1929) — Crandall Thorpe
Ask Dad (1929) — Dad
Vacation Waves (1928) — Eddie Davis
The Terror (1928) — Ferdinand Fane
Horse Shy (1928) — Eddie Hamilton
Behind the Counter (1928) — Eddie Baxter
Dad's Choice (1928) — Eddie
Call Again (1928) — Eddie
Scrambled Weddings (1928) — Eddie Howe
Find the King (1927) — Edward Fairchild
No Publicity (1927) — Eddie Howard
Taxi! Taxi! (1927) — Peter Whitby
The Whole Town's Talking (1926) — Chester Binney
Poker Faces (1926) — Jimmy Whitmore
The Nut-Cracker (1926) — Horatio Slipaway
Vida bohemia (1926) — Benoit - Janitor
Beggar on Horseback (1925) — Neil McRae
Helen's Babies (1924) — Uncle Harry
To the Ladies (1924) — Leonard Beebe
The Man Who Fights Alone (1924) — Bob Alten
Try and Get It (1924) — Glenn Collins
Flapper Wives (1924) — Vincent Platt
Ruggles of Red Gap (1923) — Ruggles
A Front Page Story (1922) — Rodney Marvin
The Ladder Jinx (1922) — Arthur Barnes
Too Much Business (1922) — John Henry Jackson