Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton

Known for

Acting

Born

March 17, 1886

Birthplace

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Died

September 29, 1970 (aged 84)

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 starred in two-reel silent comedies for Education...

Best known work

Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
Batman
Batman
1966
Top Hat
Top Hat
1935
Trouble in Paradise
Trouble in Paradise
1932
Holiday
Holiday
1938
I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy
1951
Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon
1937
Design for Living
Design for Living
1933
Pocketful of Miracles
Pocketful of Miracles
1961

Filmography

  1. TBA

    The Right Bed

    as Bobby Kent

  2. 1997

    The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

    as Self (archive footage)

  3. 1971

    Cold Turkey

    as Hiram C. Grayson

  4. 1970

    Nanny and the ProfessorTV
  5. 1969

    Love, American StyleTV

    as Elmo (1 episode)

  6. 1969

    2000 Years Later

    as Evermore

  7. 1968

    The Name of the GameTV

    as Philip Armistead (1 episode)

  8. 1967

    The Perils of Pauline

    as Caspar Coleman

  9. 1966

    BatmanTV

    as Chief Screaming Chicken (2 episodes)

  10. 1965

  11. 1964

  12. 1964

  13. 1964

  14. 1963

    One Got Fat

    as Narrator (voice)

  15. 1963

  16. 1963

    Burke's LawTV

    as Grover Leander Smith (1 episode), as Wilbur Starlington (1 episode)

  17. 1962

    The Merv Griffin ShowTV

    as Self (4 episodes)

  18. 1962

    Saints and SinnersTV

    as Mr. Hollister (1 episode)

  19. 1961

  20. 1961

    The Mike Douglas ShowTV

    as Self (2 episodes)

  21. 1960

  22. 1959

    Fractured Fairy TalesTV

    as Narrator (voice) (1 episode)

  23. 1959

    The Bullwinkle ShowTV

    as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) (815 episodes)

  24. 1959

    The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and FriendsTV

    as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice) (163 episodes)

  25. 1959

    Dennis the MenaceTV

    as Uncle Ned Matthews (3 episodes)

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