Edward Everett Horton

Personal Info

Birthday

March 17, 1886

Day of Death

1970-09-29

(84 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

E.E. Horton

Edward Horton

Edward Everett Horton Jr.

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.

Known For

Batman

The Bullwinkle Show

I Love Lucy

The Name of the Game

Love, American Style

Burke's Law

Dennis the Menace

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

Filmography

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