Edward Everett Horton

Known For: Acting
Born: March 17, 1886
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: September 29, 1970

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, in…

Filmography

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

1997 · Self (archive footage)

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

1976 · Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)

Cold Turkey

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

Sex and the Single Girl

1964 · The Chief

The Cara Williams Show

1964

The Emperor's Oblong Pancake

1964 · Narrator

One Got Fat

1963 · Narrator (voice)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963 · Mr. Dinckler

Burke's Law

1963 · Grover Leander Smith, Wilbur Starlington

The Merv Griffin Show

1962 · Self

Saints and Sinners

1962 · Mr. Hollister

Pocketful of Miracles

1961 · Hudgins

The Mike Douglas Show

1961 · Self

The Wonderful World of Trains

The Wonderful World of Trains

1960 · Professor Hotbox

Fractured Fairy Tales

1959 · Narrator (voice)

The Bullwinkle Show

1959 · Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

1959 · Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)

Dennis the Menace

1959 · Uncle Ned Matthews

The Story of Mankind

1957 · Sir Walter Raleigh

The Lux Show

1957 · Self

Three Men on a Horse

1957 · Mr. Carver

The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show

1956 · Storyteller (voice)

Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower

Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower

1956 · Noah

The Steve Allen Show

1956 · Self - Guest

Matinee Theater

1955

December Bride

1954

The George Gobel Show

The George Gobel Show

1954 · Self

Max Liebman Presents

Max Liebman Presents

1954

General Electric Theater

1953 · Mr. Parkinson

I Love Lucy

1951 · Mr. Ritter

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950 · Self

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

Her Husband's Affairs

1947 · J.B. Cruikshank

Down to Earth

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

Lady on a Train

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

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944 · Mr. Witherspoon

Summer Storm

1944 · Count "Piggy" Volsky

Her Primitive Man

1944 · Orrin

The Gang's All Here

1943 · Peyton Potter

Thank Your Lucky Stars

1943 · Farnsworth

Forever and a Day

1943 · Anthony Trimble-Pomfret

Springtime in the Rockies

1942 · McTavish

I Married an Angel

1942 · Peter

The Magnificent Dope

1942 · Horace Hunter

Weekend for Three

1941 · Fred Stonebraker

The Body Disappears

1941 · Professor Shotesbury

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

1941 · Messenger 7013

Bachelor Daddy

1941 · Joseph Smith

Sunny

1941 · Henry Bates

Ziegfeld Girl

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

Holiday

1938 · Nick Potter

College Swing

1938 · Hubert Dash

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

1938 · Marquis De Loiselle

Hitting a New High

1937 · Lucius B. Blynn

The Great Garrick

1937 · Tubby

Angel

1937 · Graham

The Perfect Specimen

1937 · Mr. Grattan

Danger – Love at Work

1937 · Howard Rogers

Wild Money

1937 · P.E. Dodd

Shall We Dance

1937 · Jeffrey Baird

Oh, Doctor

1937 · Edward J. Billop

The King and the Chorus Girl

1937 · Count Humbert Evel Bruger

Lost Horizon

1937 · Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett

The Man in the Mirror

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

Things You Never See on the Screen

1935 · Self

His Night Out

1935 · Homer B. Bitts

Little Big Shot

1935 · Mortimer Thompson

Top Hat

1935 · Horace Hardwick

The Private Secretary

1935 · Rev. Robert Spalding

Going Highbrow

1935 · Augie Winterspoon

In Caliente

1935 · Harold Brandon

$10 Raise

1935 · Hubert T. Wilkins

The Devil Is a Woman

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

The Merry Widow

1934 · Ambassador Popoff

The Gay Divorcee

1934 · Egbert Fitzgerald

Ladies Should Listen

1934 · Paul Vernet

Kiss and Make-Up

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

Design for Living

1933 · Max Plunkett

Alice in Wonderland

1933 · Mad Hatter

The Way to Love

1933 · Professor Gaston Bibi

A Bedtime Story

1933 · Victor Dubois

Soldiers of the King

1933 · Sebastian Marvello

Trouble in Paradise

1932 · Francois

Roar of the Dragon

1932 · Busby

But the Flesh Is Weak

1932 · Sir George Kelvin

The Great Junction Hotel

1931 · The Groom

The Age for Love

1931 · Horace Keats

Smart Woman

1931 · Billy Ross

Six Cylinder Love

1931 · Monty Winston

The Front Page

1931 · Bensinger

Lonely Wives

1931 · Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero

Kiss Me Again

1931 · Rene

Reaching for the Moon

1930 · Roger, the Valet

Once a Gentleman

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

Scrambled Weddings

1928 · Eddie Howe

Call Again

1928 · Eddie

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 Nutcracker

1926 · Horatio Slipaway

La Bohème

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

The Right Bed

— · Bobby Kent

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