Edward Everett Horton

Acting · Born 1886-03-17 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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 Educational Pictures, and made the transition to talking pictures with Educational in 1929. As a…

Filmography

• Trouble in Paradise as François Filiba
• Arsenic and Old Lace as Mr. Witherspoon
• Top Hat as Horace Hardwick
• Lost Horizon as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Mr. Dinckler
• Holiday as Nick Potter
• Design for Living as Max Plunkett
• Pocketful of Miracles as Hudgins
• Lady on a Train as Mr. Haskell
• Shall We Dance as Jeffrey Baird

TV

• I Love Lucy as Mr. Ritter
• Burke's Law as Grover Leander Smith
• December Bride
• The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
• F Troop
• Batman as Chief Screaming Chicken
• The Merv Griffin Show as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
• General Electric Theater as Mr. Parkinson
• Saints and Sinners as Mr. Hollister