
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.

The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show

$10 Raise

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

I Love Lucy

毒薬と老嬢

極楽特急

Forever and a Day

Danger – Love at Work

ポケット一杯の幸福

素晴らしき休日

バットマン

踊らん哉

トップ・ハット

The Magnificent Dope

The Bullwinkle Show

生活の設計

青髭八人目の妻

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

失はれた地平線

The Man in the Mirror

Dad's Choice

Behind the Counter

No Publicity

Find the King

Horse Shy

Vacation Waves

Scrambled Weddings

Call Again

Fractured Fairy Tales

おかしなおかしなおかしな世界

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The Merry Widow

The Colgate Comedy Hour

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The Name of the Game

Springtime in the Rockies

天使

Lady on a Train

College Swing

Ziegfeld Girl

Dennis the Menace

求婚専科

犯罪都市

General Electric Theater

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

In Caliente

La Bohème

Faithful in My Fashion

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Devil Is a Woman

Cold Turkey

San Diego I Love You

One Got Fat

F Troop

The Merv Griffin Show

Thank Your Lucky Stars

恋愛専科

不思議の国のアリス

悪魔の日曜日

Little Big Shot

2000 Years Later

Going Highbrow

All the King's Horses

Kiss Me Again

Roar of the Dragon

Beggar on Horseback

Her Primitive Man

Her Master's Voice

Little Tough Guys in Society

Earl Carroll Sketchbook

The Terror

Poker Faces

Burke's Law

December Bride

Saints and Sinners

Nanny and the Professor

The Gang's All Here

The Great Garrick

Down to Earth

Ladies Should Listen

The Perfect Specimen

Ask Dad

The Night Is Young

Weekend for Three

That's Right – You're Wrong

The Body Disappears

Helen's Babies

The Steve Allen Show

Sunny

The King and the Chorus Girl

The Private Secretary

Reaching for the Moon

The Mike Douglas Show

But the Flesh Is Weak

Summer Storm

Smart Woman

Hitting a New High

The Ghost Goes Wild

Kiss and Make-Up

Hearts Divided

Wide Open

The Town Went Wild

Brazil

The Gang's All Here

I Married an Angel

Things You Never See on the Screen

Matinee Theater

The Cara Williams Show

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

Her Husband's Affairs

Easy to Love

Lonely Wives

A Bedtime Story

The Story of Mankind

Smarty

The Singing Kid

Sing and Like It

Success at Any Price

The Perils of Pauline

Paris Honeymoon

You're the One

Cinderella Jones

The Aviator

Your Uncle Dudley

The Emperor's Oblong Pancake

To the Ladies

The Whole Town's Talking

Ruggles of Red Gap

The Poor Rich

The Great Junction Hotel

Six Cylinder Love

The Age for Love

His Night Out

Flapper Wives

The Sap

Steppin' in Society

Wild Money

Nobody's Fool

Oh, Doctor

The Hottentot

The Man Who Fights Alone

The Way to Love

Try and Get It

Soldiers of the King

Bachelor Daddy

Let's Make a Million

Sonny Boy

Taxi! Taxi!

Too Much Business

The Ladder Jinx

Three Men on a Horse

Uncertain Lady

A Front Page Story