Edward Everett Horton
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1886-03-17
- Fallecimiento:
- 1970-09-29
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biografía
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.
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Filmografía
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Un mes de abstinencia
Nanny and the Professor
Love, American Style
2000 Years Later
The Name of the Game
The Perils of Pauline
Batman
F Troop
La pícara soltera
The Cara Williams Show
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
One Got Fat
El mundo está loco, loco, loco, loco
El agente Burke
The Merv Griffin Show
Saints and Sinners
Un gángster para un milagro
The Mike Douglas Show
The Wonderful World of Trains
Cuentos de Hadas Fracturados
Las aventuras de Rocky y Bullwinkle
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
Daniel el travieso
Historia de la humanidad
The Lux Show
Three Men on a Horse
The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
The Steve Allen Show
Matinee Theater
December Bride
The George Gobel Show
Max Liebman Presents
General Electric Theater
Te quiero, Lucy
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Ed Sullivan Show
Her Husband's Affairs
La diosa de la danza
The Ghost Goes Wild
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Faithful in My Fashion
Cinderella Jones
La dama del tren
Steppin' in Society
The Town Went Wild
Brazil
San Diego I Love You
Arsénico por compasión
Extraña confesión
Her Primitive Man
Toda la banda está aquí
Adorables estrellas
Forever and a Day
Springtime in the Rockies
Me casé con un ángel
Así vivo yo
Weekend for Three
The Body Disappears
El difunto protesta
Bachelor Daddy
Sunny
Las chicas de Ziegfeld
You're the One
That's Right – You're Wrong
The Gang's All Here
Paris Honeymoon
Little Tough Guys in Society
Vivir para gozar
College Swing
La octava mujer de Barba Azul
La diosa de la selva
The Great Garrick
Ángel
El perfecto ejemplar
Amor en la oficina
Wild Money
Ritmo loco
Oh, Doctor
The King and the Chorus Girl
Horizontes perdidos
Como tú quisieras ser
Let's Make a Million
Hearts Divided
Nobody's Fool
The Singing Kid
Her Master's Voice
Your Uncle Dudley
Things You Never See on the Screen
His Night Out
Little Big Shot
Sombrero de copa
The Private Secretary
Going Highbrow
Por unos ojos negros
$10 Raise
El diablo es una mujer
All the King's Horses
The Night Is Young
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
La viuda alegre
La alegre divorciada
Atención, señoras
El templo de las hermosas
It's a Boy
Smarty
Sing and Like it
Uncertain Lady
Success at Any Price
The Poor Rich
Easy to Love
Una mujer para dos
Alicia en el país de las Maravillas
The Way to Love
A Bedtime Story
Soldiers of the King
Un ladrón en la alcoba
Roar of the Dragon
El conquistador irresistible
The Great Junction Hotel
The Age for Love
Astucia de mujer
Six Cylinder Love
Un gran reportaje
Lonely Wives
Kiss Me Again
Arriesgándolo Todo (Para alcanzar la luna)
Once a Gentleman
Holiday
Wide Open
Take the Heir
The Aviator
The Sap
The Hottentot
Sonny Boy
Ask Dad
Vacation Waves
The Terror
Horse Shy
Behind the Counter
Dad's Choice
Call Again
Scrambled Weddings
Find the King
No Publicity
Taxi! Taxi!
The Whole Town's Talking
Poker Faces
The Nut-Cracker
Vida bohemia
The Business of Love
Beggar on Horseback
Helen's Babies
To the Ladies
The Man Who Fights Alone
Try and Get It
Flapper Wives
Ruggles of Red Gap
A Front Page Story
The Ladder Jinx
Too Much Business
The Right Bed