Edward Everett Horton
1886-03-17 ( 139 years old ) in 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.

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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender 1997-11-01
Cold Turkey 1971-02-19
2000 Years Later 1969-03-11
The Perils of Pauline 1967-08-02
Sex and the Single Girl 1964-12-25
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake 1964-06-01
One Got Fat 1963-12-01
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963-11-07
Pocketful of Miracles 1961-12-18
The Wonderful World of Trains 1960-01-01
The Story of Mankind 1957-11-08
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower 1956-10-27
Her Husband's Affairs 1947-11-12
Down to Earth 1947-08-21
The Ghost Goes Wild 1947-08-08
Earl Carroll Sketchbook 1946-08-22
Faithful in My Fashion 1946-08-21
Cinderella Jones 1946-03-09
Lady on a Train 1945-08-03
Steppin' in Society 1945-07-09
The Town Went Wild 1944-12-15
Brazil 1944-11-30
San Diego I Love You 1944-09-29
Arsenic and Old Lace 1944-09-01
Summer Storm 1944-07-14
Her Primitive Man 1944-05-29
The Gang's All Here 1943-12-24
Thank Your Lucky Stars 1943-09-25
Forever and a Day 1943-01-21
Springtime in the Rockies 1942-11-06
I Married an Angel 1942-07-09
The Magnificent Dope 1942-07-01
Weekend for Three 1941-12-12
The Body Disappears 1941-11-22
Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941-08-07
Bachelor Daddy 1941-06-04
Sunny 1941-05-30
Ziegfeld Girl 1941-04-25
You're the One 1941-02-19
That's Right – You're Wrong 1939-11-24
The Gang's All Here 1939-03-04
Paris Honeymoon 1939-01-27
Little Tough Guys in Society 1938-11-01
Holiday 1938-05-26
College Swing 1938-04-29
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife 1938-03-25
Hitting a New High 1937-12-24
The Great Garrick 1937-10-30
Angel 1937-10-29
The Perfect Specimen 1937-10-23
Danger – Love at Work 1937-09-30
Wild Money 1937-07-09
Shall We Dance 1937-05-07
Oh, Doctor 1937-03-31
The King and the Chorus Girl 1937-03-27
Lost Horizon 1937-03-03
The Man in the Mirror 1936-10-15
Let's Make a Million 1936-09-01
Hearts Divided 1936-06-20
Nobody's Fool 1936-06-01
The Singing Kid 1936-04-10
Her Master's Voice 1936-01-17
Your Uncle Dudley 1935-12-13
Things You Never See on the Screen 1935-12-01
His Night Out 1935-10-01
Little Big Shot 1935-09-07
Top Hat 1935-08-29
The Private Secretary 1935-08-26
Going Highbrow 1935-07-06
In Caliente 1935-05-25
$10 Raise 1935-05-04
The Devil Is a Woman 1935-05-03
All the King's Horses 1935-02-22
The Night Is Young 1935-01-11
Biography of a Bachelor Girl 1935-01-04
The Merry Widow 1934-11-02
The Gay Divorcee 1934-10-12
Ladies Should Listen 1934-08-10
Kiss and Make-Up 1934-07-13
It's a Boy 1934-06-07
Smarty 1934-05-19
Sing and Like It 1934-04-20
Success at Any Price 1934-03-16
The Poor Rich 1934-02-25
Easy to Love 1934-01-13
Design for Living 1933-12-29
Alice in Wonderland 1933-12-18
The Way to Love 1933-10-20
A Bedtime Story 1933-04-22
Soldiers of the King 1933-03-13
Trouble in Paradise 1932-10-30
Roar of the Dragon 1932-07-08
But the Flesh Is Weak 1932-04-09
The Great Junction Hotel 1931-10-26
The Age for Love 1931-10-17
Smart Woman 1931-09-12
Six Cylinder Love 1931-05-10
The Front Page 1931-04-04
Lonely Wives 1931-02-15
Kiss Me Again 1931-01-07
Reaching for the Moon 1930-12-29
Once a Gentleman 1930-09-01
Holiday 1930-07-03
Wide Open 1930-02-01
Take the Heir 1930-01-15
The Aviator 1929-12-14
The Sap 1929-11-09
The Hottentot 1929-08-10
Sonny Boy 1929-04-18
Ask Dad 1929-02-16
Vacation Waves 1928-09-15
The Terror 1928-09-06
Horse Shy 1928-05-19
Behind the Counter 1928-03-03
Dad's Choice 1928-01-07
Scrambled Weddings 1928-01-01
Call Again 1928-01-01
Find the King 1927-11-05
No Publicity 1927-08-01
Taxi! Taxi! 1927-04-24
The Whole Town's Talking 1926-12-26
Poker Faces 1926-09-05
The Nutcracker 1926-03-28
La Bohème 1926-03-13
Beggar on Horseback 1925-06-05
Helen's Babies 1924-10-11
To the Ladies 1924-10-06
The Man Who Fights Alone 1924-09-15
Flapper Wives 1924-02-23
Ruggles of Red Gap 1923-10-07
Too Much Business 1922-04-09
The Right Bed
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