Edward Everett Horton

Actor Mar 17 (died age 84) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 1922–1997 (75 year career)

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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 Bu…

Known For

Film

Arsenic and Old Lace

Mr. Witherspoon

Film

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

Mr. Dinckler

Film

Trouble in Paradise

François Filiba

Film

Top Hat

Horace Hardwick

Film

Holiday

Nick Potter

Film

Lost Horizon

Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett

Film

Pocketful of Miracles

Hudgins

Film

Design for Living

Max Plunkett

Filmography

Acting (164)

Movies (138)

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

1997

as Self (archive footage)

Cold Turkey

as Hiram C. Grayson

2000 Years Later

as Evermore

The Perils of Pauline

1967

as Caspar Coleman

3.5

The Emperor's Oblong Pancake

1964

as Narrator

Sex and the Single Girl

1964

as The Chief

6.4

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

as Mr. Dinckler

One Got Fat

as Narrator (voice)

Pocketful of Miracles

1961

as Hudgins

7.3

The Wonderful World of Trains

1960

as Professor Hotbox

Three Men on a Horse

1957

as Mr. Carver

The Story of Mankind

1957

as Sir Walter Raleigh

4.3

The Unenchanted Princess

1957

as Narrator

Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower

1956

as Noah

The Ghost Goes Wild

as Eric

Down to Earth

as Messenger 7013

Her Husband's Affairs

1947

as J.B. Cruikshank

4.7

Faithful in My Fashion

as Hiram Dilworthy

Cinderella Jones

as Keating

Earl Carroll Sketchbook

1946

as Dr. Milo Edwards

6.0

Steppin' in Society

1945

as Judge Avery Webster

Lady on a Train

as Mr. Haskell

Arsenic and Old Lace

as Mr. Witherspoon

Summer Storm

as Count "Piggy" Volsky

Her Primitive Man

as Orrin

Brazil

as Everett St. John Everett

The Town Went Wild

as Everett Conway

San Diego I Love You

as Philip McCooley

Forever and a Day

as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret

7.4

The Gang's All Here

1943

as Peyton Potter

5.9

Thank Your Lucky Stars

as Farnsworth

The Magnificent Dope

as Horace Hunter

I Married an Angel

as Peter

Springtime in the Rockies

1942

as McTavish

6.7

The Body Disappears

1941

as Professor Shotesbury

Ziegfeld Girl

as Noble Sage

Sunny

as Henry Bates

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

1941

as Messenger 7013

7.0

Bachelor Daddy

1941

as Joseph Smith

You're the One

1941

as Death Valley Joe Frink

Weekend for Three

as Fred Stonebraker

Paris Honeymoon

as Ernest Figg

That's Right – You're Wrong

as Tom Village

The Gang's All Here

as Treadwell

Holiday

as Nick Potter

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

as Marquis De Loiselle

7.1

College Swing

1938

as Hubert Dash

6.6

Little Tough Guys in Society

1938

as Oliver

6.0

Danger – Love at Work

1937

as Howard Rogers

7.3

Lost Horizon

1937

as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett

Shall We Dance

as Jeffrey Baird

Angel

as Graham

Oh, Doctor

as Edward J. Billop

Hitting a New High

1937

as Lucius B. Blynn

5.2

Wild Money

1937

as P.E. Dodd

The Great Garrick

1937

as Tubby

5.9

The King and the Chorus Girl

1937

as Count Humbert Evel Bruger

The Perfect Specimen

as Mr. Grattan

Nobody's Fool

as Will Wright

Her Master's Voice

as Ned Farrar

The Singing Kid

as Davenport Rogers

Hearts Divided

as John

Let's Make a Million

as Harrison Gentry

The Man in the Mirror

as Jeremy Dilke

Little Big Shot

as Mortimer Thompson

All the King's Horses

1935

as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat

Top Hat

as Horace Hardwick

In Caliente

as Harold Brandon

Your Uncle Dudley

as Dudley Dixon

The Devil Is a Woman

as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'

6.2

His Night Out

1935

as Homer B. Bitts

The Private Secretary

1935

as Rev. Robert Spalding

Going Highbrow

as Augie Winterspoon

The Night Is Young

as Baron Szereny

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

1935

as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan

6.3

Things You Never See on the Screen

as Self

$10 Raise

as Hubert T. Wilkins

Ladies Should Listen

as Paul Vernet

Success at Any Price

as Harry Fisher

The Gay Divorcee

as Egbert Fitzgerald

Smarty

as Vernon

The Poor Rich

as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood

Sing and Like It

1934

as Adam Frink - Producer

The Merry Widow

as Ambassador Popoff

It's a Boy

as Dudley Leake

Kiss and Make-Up

1934

as Marcel Caron

5.0

Uncertain Lady

1934

as Elliot Crane

Easy to Love

as Eric

A Bedtime Story

as Victor Dubois

Alice in Wonderland

as Mad Hatter

Design for Living

as Max Plunkett

Soldiers of the King

as Sebastian Marvello

The Way to Love

1933

as Professor Gaston Bibi

Trouble in Paradise

as François Filiba

Roar of the Dragon

as Busby

But the Flesh Is Weak

1932

as Sir George Kelvin

5.3

The Great Junction Hotel

1931

as The Groom

The Front Page

as Bensinger

Smart Woman

as Billy Ross

Six Cylinder Love

as Monty Winston

Lonely Wives

1931

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

4.6

The Age for Love

1931

as Horace Keats

Kiss Me Again

1931

as Rene

6.0

Once a Gentleman

1930

as Oliver

Take the Heir

1930

as Smithers

Wide Open

as Simon Haldane

Holiday

as Nick Potter

Reaching for the Moon

1930

as Roger, the Valet

5.4

Sonny Boy

1929

as Crandall Thorpe

The Aviator

1929

as Robert Street

1.0

The Sap

1929

as The Sap, Bill Small

Ask Dad

1929

as Dad

5.7

The Hottentot

1929

as Sam Harrington

Dad's Choice

as Eddie

Horse Shy

as Eddie Hamilton

Vacation Waves

as Eddie Davis

Scrambled Weddings

as Eddie Howe

The Terror

as Ferdinand Fane

Call Again

as Eddie

Behind the Counter

as Eddie Baxter

Taxi! Taxi!

as Peter Whitby

No Publicity

as Eddie Howard

Find the King

as Edward Fairchild

The Nutcracker

as Horatio Slipaway

La Bohème

as Benoit - Janitor

Poker Faces

as Jimmy Whitmore

The Whole Town's Talking

1926

as Chester Binney

Beggar on Horseback

1925

as Neil McRae

6.0

Flapper Wives

1924

as Vincent Platt

Helen's Babies

1924

as Uncle Harry

5.6

The Man Who Fights Alone

1924

as Bob Alten

Try and Get It

1924

as Glenn Collins

To the Ladies

1924

as Leonard Beebe

Ruggles of Red Gap

1923

as Ruggles

Too Much Business

1922

as John Henry Jackson

A Front Page Story

1922

as Rodney Marvin

The Ladder Jinx

1922

as Arthur Barnes

The Right Bed

as Bobby Kent

Television (26)

Nanny and the Professor

Love, American Style

as Elmo

The Name of the Game

as Philip Armistead

Batman

as Chief Screaming Chicken

7.3

F Troop

1965

6.2

The Cara Williams Show

1964

5.0

Burke's Law

1963

as Grover Leander Smith

6.0

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

Saints and Sinners

as Mr. Hollister

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self

5.4

The Bullwinkle Show

1959

as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)

7.1

Dennis the Menace

1959

as Uncle Ned Matthews

6.5

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

1959

as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)

8.0

Fractured Fairy Tales

as Narrator (voice)

The Lux Show

as Self

The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Guest

The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show

1956

as Storyteller (voice)

Matinee Theater

December Bride

The George Gobel Show

1954

as Self

7.3

Max Liebman Presents

1954

General Electric Theater

as Mr. Parkinson

I Love Lucy

as Mr. Ritter

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950

as Self

6.8

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self