Cast & creator
Edward Everett Horton
Best known for The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Show, Love, American Style
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.
Also known as: E.E. Horton, Edward Horton, Edward Everett Horton Jr.
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1922–1997 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (164)
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The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Love, American Style
Elmo
1969
Batman
Chief Screaming Chicken
1966
Matinee Theater
1955
The Bullwinkle Show
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
1959
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
I Love Lucy
Mr. Ritter
1951
The Name of the Game
Philip Armistead
1968
Burke's Law
Grover Leander Smith
1963Burke's Law
Wilbur Starlington
1963
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Guest
1956
Dennis the Menace
Uncle Ned Matthews
1959
December Bride
1954
F Troop
1965The George Gobel Show
Self
1954
Nanny and the Professor
1970
Sex and the Single Girl
The Chief
1964
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
1959
The Cara Williams Show
1964The Lux Show
Self
1957
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Mr. Dinckler
1963
Saints and Sinners
Mr. Hollister
1962
General Electric Theater
Mr. Parkinson
1953
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mr. Witherspoon
1944
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
Storyteller (voice)
1956
Pocketful of Miracles
Hudgins
1961
Ziegfeld Girl
Noble Sage
1941
Top Hat
Horace Hardwick
1935Max Liebman Presents
1954
The Merry Widow
Ambassador Popoff
1934
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Marquis De Loiselle
1938
Alice in Wonderland
Mad Hatter
1933
Holiday
Nick Potter
1938
Forever and a Day
Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
1943
Lady on a Train
Mr. Haskell
1945
Lost Horizon
Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
1937
The Gay Divorcee
Egbert Fitzgerald
1934
Trouble in Paradise
Francois
1932
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Messenger 7013
1941
Cold Turkey
Hiram C. Grayson
1971
The Story of Mankind
Sir Walter Raleigh
1957
Bachelor Daddy
Joseph Smith
1941
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Farnsworth
1943
The Gang's All Here
Peyton Potter
1943
Angel
Graham
1937
Fractured Fairy Tales
Narrator (voice)
1959
Shall We Dance
Jeffrey Baird
1937
Down to Earth
Messenger 7013
1947
Reaching for the Moon
Roger, the Valet
1930
The Perils of Pauline
Caspar Coleman
1967
The Night Is Young
Baron Szereny
1935
Design for Living
Max Plunkett
1933
Summer Storm
Count "Piggy" Volsky
1944
Her Husband's Affairs
J.B. Cruikshank
1947
The Devil Is a Woman
Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
1935
The Way to Love
Professor Gaston Bibi
1933
Hitting a New High
Lucius B. Blynn
1937
Her Master's Voice
Ned Farrar
1936
Danger – Love at Work
Howard Rogers
1937
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
1935
In Caliente
Harold Brandon
1935
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
1997
The Ghost Goes Wild
Eric
1947
The Gang's All Here
Treadwell
1939
I Married an Angel
Peter
1942
That's Right – You're Wrong
Tom Village
1939
Springtime in the Rockies
McTavish
1942
Sing and Like It
Adam Frink - Producer
1934
Horse Shy
Eddie Hamilton
1928
Oh, Doctor
Edward J. Billop
1937
Flapper Wives
Vincent Platt
1924
Ruggles of Red Gap
Ruggles
1923
A Front Page Story
Rodney Marvin
1922
Uncertain Lady
Elliot Crane
1934
Roar of the Dragon
Busby
1932
The King and the Chorus Girl
Count Humbert Evel Bruger
1937
Try and Get It
Glenn Collins
1924
San Diego I Love You
Philip McCooley
1944
Kiss and Make-Up
Marcel Caron
1934
Faithful in My Fashion
Hiram Dilworthy
1946
Nobody's Fool
Will Wright
1936
You're the One
Death Valley Joe Frink
1941
Little Tough Guys in Society
Oliver
1938
The Town Went Wild
Everett Conway
1944
Things You Never See on the Screen
Self
1935
Success at Any Price
Harry Fisher
1934
College Swing
Hubert Dash
1938
Scrambled Weddings
Eddie Howe
1928
The Man Who Fights Alone
Bob Alten
1924
Her Primitive Man
Orrin
1944
But the Flesh Is Weak
Sir George Kelvin
1932
Weekend for Three
Fred Stonebraker
1941
All the King's Horses
Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
1935
Three Men on a Horse
Mr. Carver
1957
Let's Make a Million
Harrison Gentry
1936
The Aviator
Robert Street
1929
Paris Honeymoon
Ernest Figg
1939
The Front Page
Bensinger
1931
The Age for Love
Horace Keats
1931
The Nut-Cracker
Horatio Slipaway
1926Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Noah
1956
Hearts Divided
John
1936
The Singing Kid
Davenport Rogers
1936
The Great Junction Hotel
The Groom
1931
Cinderella Jones
Keating
1946
The Great Garrick
Tubby
1937
Soldiers of the King
Sebastian Marvello
1933
A Bedtime Story
Victor Dubois
1933
The Man in the Mirror
Jeremy Dilke
1936
The Poor Rich
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
1934
2000 Years Later
Evermore
1969It's a Boy
Dudley Leake
1934
Sunny
Henry Bates
1941
The Whole Town's Talking
Chester Binney
1926
Six Cylinder Love
Monty Winston
1931
Your Uncle Dudley
Dudley Dixon
1935
Brazil
Everett St. John Everett
1944
The Body Disappears
Professor Shotesbury
1941
Helen's Babies
Uncle Harry
1924
Little Big Shot
Mortimer Thompson
1935
La Bohème
Benoit - Janitor
1926
The Terror
Ferdinand Fane
1928
Holiday
Nick Potter
1930
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Dr. Milo Edwards
1946The Wonderful World of Trains
Professor Hotbox
1960
Going Highbrow
Augie Winterspoon
1935
The Magnificent Dope
Horace Hunter
1942
Ladies Should Listen
Paul Vernet
1934
His Night Out
Homer B. Bitts
1935Take the Heir
Smithers
1930
Smarty
Vernon
1934
The Perfect Specimen
Mr. Grattan
1937
$10 Raise
Hubert T. Wilkins
1935
Beggar on Horseback
Neil McRae
1925
Wild Money
P.E. Dodd
1937
Smart Woman
Billy Ross
1931
Lonely Wives
Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
1931
Taxi! Taxi!
Peter Whitby
1927
Easy to Love
Eric
1934
To the Ladies
Leonard Beebe
1924
Too Much Business
John Henry Jackson
1922
Ask Dad
Dad
1929
Wide Open
Simon Haldane
1930
Find the King
Edward Fairchild
1927The Right Bed
Bobby Kent
Kiss Me Again
Rene
1931
The Hottentot
Sam Harrington
1929
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
Narrator
1964
Vacation Waves
Eddie Davis
1928
The Private Secretary
Rev. Robert Spalding
1935
Call Again
Eddie
1928
The Ladder Jinx
Arthur Barnes
1922
Steppin' in Society
Judge Avery Webster
1945
The Sap
The Sap, Bill Small
1929
Behind the Counter
Eddie Baxter
1928
Dad's Choice
Eddie
1928
Once a Gentleman
Oliver
1930
Sonny Boy
Crandall Thorpe
1929
No Publicity
Eddie Howard
1927
Poker Faces
Jimmy Whitmore
1926
One Got Fat
Narrator (voice)
1963