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 play ... ing 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.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Gay Divorcee | Nominated |
The Bullwinkle Show
as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
Episodes: 815
First Aired: Nov 19, 1959
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
as Storyteller (voice)
Episodes: 13
First Aired: Dec 16, 1956
Dennis the Menace
as Uncle Ned Matthews
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Oct 04, 1959
Batman
as Chief Screaming Chicken
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 12, 1966
Burke's Law
as Grover Leander Smith
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1963
I Love Lucy
as Mr. Ritter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 15, 1951
General Electric Theater
as Mr. Parkinson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 01, 1953
Saints and Sinners
as Mr. Hollister
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 17, 1962
Fractured Fairy Tales
as Narrator (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 19, 1959
Burke's Law
as Wilbur Starlington
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1963
The Name of the Game
as Philip Armistead
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1968
Love, American Style
as Elmo
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1969
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
F Troop
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Sep 14, 1965
Matinee Theater
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Oct 31, 1955
The George Gobel Show
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 02, 1954
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Dec 11, 1961
December Bride
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1954
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 20, 1948
Nanny and the Professor
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 21, 1970
The Philco Television Playhouse
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 03, 1948
The Cara Williams Show
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1964
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 24, 1956
Max Liebman Presents
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 12, 1954
The Lux Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 26, 1957
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