Edward Everett Horton

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1886-03-17 (84 years old)

Deathday

1970-09-29

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Edward Everett Horton

Biography

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...

Acting

1932

Trouble in Paradise

as François Filiba

1944

Arsenic and Old Lace

as Mr. Witherspoon

1961

1935

Top Hat

as Horace Hardwick

1937

Lost Horizon

as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett

1930

Take the Heir

as Smithers

1945

Lady on a Train

as Mr. Haskell

1937

Shall We Dance

as Jeffrey Baird

1930

1938

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

as Marquis De Loiselle

1930

Reaching for the Moon

as Roger, the Valet

1933

Alice in Wonderland

as Mad Hatter

1964

1934

The Gay Divorcee

as Egbert Fitzgerald

1971

Cold Turkey

as Hiram C. Grayson

1931

The Front Page

as Bensinger

1935

The Devil Is a Woman

as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'

1957

The Story of Mankind

as Sir Walter Raleigh

1943

Forever and a Day

as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret

1934

The Merry Widow

as Ambassador Popoff

1937

Angel

as Graham

1924

To the Ladies

as Leonard Beebe

1938

Holiday

as Nick Potter

1941

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

as Messenger 7013

1926

The Whole Town's Talking

as Chester Binney

1947

Down to Earth

as Messenger 7013

1943

The Gang's All Here

as Peyton Potter

1944

Summer Storm

as Count "Piggy" Volsky

1934

Ladies Should Listen

as Paul Vernet

1944

San Diego I Love You

as Philip McCooley

1934

Kiss and Make-Up

as Marcel Caron

1933

Design for Living

as Max Plunkett

1937

Hitting a New High

as Lucius B. Blynn

1930

Holiday

as Nick Potter

1935

Little Big Shot

as Mortimer Thompson

1933

A Bedtime Story

as Victor Dubois

1969

2000 Years Later

as Evermore

1937

The Perfect Specimen

as Mr. Grattan

1938

College Swing

as Hubert Dash

1931

Lonely Wives

as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero

1937

Danger – Love at Work

as Howard Rogers

1941

Sunny

as Henry Bates

1937

1923

1937

The King and the Chorus Girl

as Count Humbert Evel Bruger

1936

The Singing Kid

as Davenport Rogers

1929

Ask Dad

as Dad

1935

Going Highbrow

as Augie Winterspoon

1935

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan

1931

Smart Woman

as Billy Ross

1934

It's a Boy

as Dudley Leake

1934

1967

The Perils of Pauline

as Caspar Coleman

1932

But the Flesh Is Weak

as Sir George Kelvin

1936

1924

Helen's Babies

as Uncle Harry

1934

The Poor Rich

as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood

1934

Sing and Like It

as Adam Frink - Producer

1930

Wide Open

as Simon Haldane

1935

The Night Is Young

as Baron Szereny

1944

The Town Went Wild

as Everett Conway

1931

1934

Smarty

as Vernon

1944

Brazil

as Everett St. John Everett

1935

In Caliente

as Harold Brandon

1935

$10 Raise

as Hubert T. Wilkins

1934

Success at Any Price

as Harry Fisher

1941

Weekend for Three

as Fred Stonebraker

1963

One Got Fat

as Narrator (voice)

1939

Paris Honeymoon

as Ernest Figg

1935

All the King's Horses

as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat

1931

1931

Six Cylinder Love

as Monty Winston

1932

1931

The Age for Love

as Horace Keats

1935

His Night Out

as Homer B. Bitts

1924

Flapper Wives

as Vincent Platt

1942

The Magnificent Dope

as Horace Hunter

1939

1941

Ziegfeld Girl

as Noble Sage

1926

La Bohème

as Benoit - Janitor

1925

Beggar on Horseback

as Neil McRae

1946

Faithful in My Fashion

as Hiram Dilworthy

1929

The Sap

as The Sap, Bill Small

1944

1936

Her Master's Voice

as Ned Farrar

1946

1942

1936

The Man in the Mirror

as Jeremy Dilke

1928

Dad's Choice

as Eddie

1945

Steppin' in Society

as Judge Avery Webster

1946

Earl Carroll Sketchbook

as Dr. Milo Edwards

1929

The Aviator

as Robert Street

1947

Her Husband's Affairs

as J.B. Cruikshank

1943

1937

Wild Money

as P.E. Dodd

1936

Nobody's Fool

as Will Wright

1937

Oh, Doctor

as Edward J. Billop

1929

The Hottentot

as Sam Harrington

1935

The Private Secretary

as Rev. Robert Spalding

1924

1941

The Body Disappears

as Professor Shotesbury

-

The Right Bed

as Bobby Kent

1933

The Way to Love

as Professor Gaston Bibi

1928

Behind the Counter

as Eddie Baxter

-

Try and Get It

as Glenn Collins

1928

The Terror

as Ferdinand Fane

1933

Soldiers of the King

as Sebastian Marvello

1935

Your Uncle Dudley

as Dudley Dixon

1941

Bachelor Daddy

as Joseph Smith

1941

You're the One

as Death Valley Joe Frink

1997

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

as Self (archive footage)

1926

Poker Faces

as Jimmy Whitmore

1928

Horse Shy

as Eddie Hamilton

1927

No Publicity

as Eddie Howard

1928

Vacation Waves

as Eddie Davis

1927

Find the King

as Edward Fairchild

1936

Let's Make a Million

as Harrison Gentry

1929

Sonny Boy

as Crandall Thorpe

1960

1928

Call Again

as Eddie

1928

Scrambled Weddings

as Eddie Howe

1927

Taxi! Taxi!

as Peter Whitby

1926

The Nutcracker

as Horatio Slipaway

1922

Too Much Business

as John Henry Jackson

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