Edward Everett Horton
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Also Known As
Edward Everett Horton Jr.
Birth Place
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Born
March 18, 1886
Died
September 29, 1970
Biography
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Charmingly comic character actor who played the ineffectual bumbler in scores of films from the 1920s through the 70s. Among many triumphs Horton is remembered as Fred Astaire's sidekick in "The Gay Divorcee" (1934), "Top Hat" (1935) and "Shall We Dance?" (1937)....
Biography
Charmingly comic character actor who played the ineffectual bumbler in scores of films from the 1920s through the 70s. Among many triumphs Horton is remembered as Fred Astaire's sidekick in "The Gay Divorcee" (1934), "Top Hat" (1935) and "Shall We Dance?" (1937).
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Cold Turkey
(1971)
Hiram C. Grayson
2000 Years Later
(1969)
Evermore
The Perils of Pauline
(1967)
Casper Coleman
Sex and the Single Girl
(1964)
The chief
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(1963)
Dinckler
Pocketful of Miracles
(1961)
Hutching, the butler
The Story of Mankind
(1957)
Sir Walter Raleigh
Down to Earth
(1947)
Messenger 7013
Her Husband's Affairs
(1947)
J. B. Cruikshank
The Ghost Goes Wild
(1947)
Eric
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
(1946)
Milo Edwards
Cinderella Jones
(1946)
Keating
Faithful in My Fashion
(1946)
Hiram Dilworthy
Lady on a Train
(1945)
Haskell
Steppin' in Society
(1945)
Judge Avery Webster
Summer Storm
(1944)
Count Alexander Volsky
The Town Went Wild
(1944)
Everett Conway
Brazil
(1944)
Everett St. John Everett
San Diego, I Love You
(1944)
Philip McCooley
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944)
Mr. Witherspoon
Her Primitive Man
(1944)
Orrin Tracy
Forever and a Day
(1943)
Sir Anthony [Trimble-Pomfret]
The Gang's All Here
(1943)
Peyton Potter
Thank Your Lucky Stars
(1943)
Farnsworth
Springtime in the Rockies
(1942)
McTavish
I Married an Angel
(1942)
Peter
The Magnificent Dope
(1942)
Horace Hunter
Ziegfeld Girl
(1941)
Noble Sage
Bachelor Daddy
(1941)
Joseph Smith
The Body Disappears
(1941)
Professor Shotesbury
Week-End for Three
(1941)
[Fred] Stonebraker
Sunny
(1941)
Henry Bates
You're the One
(1941)
Death Valley Joe Frink
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
(1941)
Messenger 7013
That's Right--You're Wrong
(1939)
Tom Village
Paris Honeymoon
(1939)
Ernest Figg
College Swing
(1938)
Hubert Dash
Holiday
(1938)
Nick Potter
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
(1938)
The Marquis De Loiselle
Little Tough Guys in Society
(1938)
Oliver
Hitting a New High
(1937)
Lucius B. Blynn
Oh, Doctor
(1937)
Edward J. Billop
Wild Money
(1937)
P. E. Dodd
The Great Garrick
(1937)
Tubby
Lost Horizon
(1937)
[Alexander P.] Lovett
The King and the Chorus Girl
(1937)
Count Humbert
Shall We Dance
(1937)
Jeffrey Baird
Angel
(1937)
Graham, valet
Danger - Love at Work
(1937)
Howard Rogers
The Perfect Specimen
(1937)
Mr. Gratten
Hearts Divided
(1936)
John
Let's Make a Million
(1936)
Harrison Gentry
Her Master's Voice
(1936)
Ned Farrar
Nobody's Fool
(1936)
Will Wright
The Singing Kid
(1936)
Davenport Rogers
The Night Is Young
(1935)
Szereny
Your Uncle Dudley
(1935)
Dudley Dixon
$10 Raise
(1935)
Hubert T. Wilkins
His Night Out
(1935)
Homer [B. Bitts]
All the King's Horses
(1935)
[Count Josef von Schlapstaat, known as] Peppi
Going Highbrow
(1935)
Augie [Witherspoon]
Top Hat
(1935)
Horace Hardwick
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
(1935)
[Leander] Nolan
The Devil Is a Woman
(1935)
Don Paquito
In Caliente
(1935)
Harold Brandon
Little Big Shot
(1935)
Mortimer [Thompson]
Success at Any Price
(1934)
[Harry] Fisher
Woman in Command
(1934)
Sebastian Marvello
The Poor Rich
(1934)
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Uncertain Lady
(1934)
Elliott Crane
Sing and Like It
(1934)
Adam Frink
Smarty
(1934)
Vernon [Thorpe]
The Merry Widow
(1934)
Ambassador [Popoff]
Ladies Should Listen
(1934)
Paul Vernet
It's a Boy
(1934)
Dudley Leake
The Gay Divorcee
(1934)
Egbert ["Pinky" Fitzgerald]
Kiss and Make-Up
(1934)
Marcel Caron
Easy to Love
(1934)
Eric [Schulte]
A Bedtime Story
(1933)
Victor [Rene's valet]
The Way to Love
(1933)
[Professor Gaston] Bibi
Design for Living
(1933)
Max Plunkett
Alice in Wonderland
(1933)
Mad Hatter
Trouble in Paradise
(1932)
François [Fileba]
Roar of the Dragon
(1932)
Busby
But the Flesh Is Weak
(1932)
Sir George [Kelvin]
Kiss Me Again
(1931)
René
Lonely Wives
(1931)
Richard Smith/Felix, the Great Zero
Reaching for the Moon
(1931)
Roger
Six Cylinder Love
(1931)
Monty Winston
The Front Page
(1931)
Roy V. Bensinger
The Age for Love
(1931)
Horace Keats
Smart Woman
(1931)
Bill Ross
Wide Open
(1930)
Simon Haldane
Once a Gentleman
(1930)
Oliver
Take the Heir
(1930)
Smithers
Holiday
(1930)
Nick Potter
The Sap
(1929)
The Sap [Bill Small]
The Aviator
(1929)
Robert Street
The Hottentot
(1929)
Sam Harrington
Sonny Boy
(1929)
Crandall Thorpe, Attorney
The Terror
(1928)
Ferdinand Fane
Taxi Taxi
(1927)
Peter Whitby
La Bohème
(1926)
Colline
The Whole Town's Talking
(1926)
Chester Binney
Poker Faces
(1926)
Jimmy Whitmore
The Nut-Cracker
(1926)
Horatio Slipaway
Marry Me
(1925)
John Smith, #2
Beggar on Horseback
(1925)
Neil McRae
The Business of Love
(1925)
Edward Burgess
The Man Who Fights Alone
(1924)
Bob Alten
Try and Get It
(1924)
Glenn Collins
Flapper Wives
(1924)
Vincent Platt
Helen's Babies
(1924)
Uncle Harry
To the Ladies
(1923)
Leonard Beebe, a clerk
Ruggles of Red Gap
(1923)
Ruggles
Too Much Business
(1922)
John Henry Jackson
The Ladder Jinx
(1922)
Arthur Barnes, a bank teller
A Front Page Story
(1922)
Rodney Marvin
Cast (Special)
Manhattan Tower
(1956)
Noah
Time Out For Ginger
(1955)
Editor Hoffman
Cast (Short)
One Got Fat
(1963)
Narrator
Things You Never See on the Screen
(1935)
Himself
Life Events
Photo Collections
4 Photos
Design for Living - Lobby Cards
Here are some Lobby Cards from Design for Living (1932), directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, and Gary Cooper. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.
17 Photos
Arsenic and Old Lace - Scene Stills
Here are some scene stills from Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, and Raymond Massey.
1 Photo
Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Movie Poster
Here is an original release movie poster from Columbia Pictures' Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), starring Robert Montgomery. This is an Insert poster, measuring 14 x 36 inches.
Videos
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Family
Edward Everett Horton
Father
Proofreader for <i>The New York Times</i>.
Isabella Horton
Mother
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