Edward Everett Horton
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1886-03-17
- Décès:
- 1970-09-29
- Lieu de naissance:
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biographie
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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Filmographie
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Cold Turkey
Nanny and the Professor
Love, American Style
2000 Years Later
The Name of the Game
The Perils of Pauline
Batman
F Troop
Une Vierge sur canapé
The Cara Williams Show
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
One Got Fat
Un monde fou, fou, fou, fou
L'Homme à la Rolls
The Merv Griffin Show
Saints and Sinners
Milliardaire pour un jour
The Mike Douglas Show
The Wonderful World of Trains
Fractured Fairy Tales
The Bullwinkle Show
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
Denis la petite peste
L'Histoire de l'humanité
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
I Love Lucy
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Ed Sullivan Show
Her Husband's Affairs
L'Étoile des étoiles
The Ghost Goes Wild
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Faithful in My Fashion
Cinderella Jones
Deanna mène l'enquête
Steppin' in Society
The Town Went Wild
Brazil
San Diego I Love You
Arsenic et vieille dentelle
L'aveu
Her Primitive Man
Banana Split
Remerciez votre bonne étoile
Forever and a Day
Springtime in the Rockies
I Married an Angel
Le Nigaud magnifique
Weekend for Three
The Body Disappears
Le Défunt récalcitrant
Bachelor Daddy
Sunny
La Danseuse des Folies Ziegfeld
You're the One
That's Right – You're Wrong
The Gang's All Here
Paris Honeymoon
Little Tough Guys in Society
Vacances
College Swing
La Huitième Femme de Barbe-Bleue
La Femme en cage
Une galante aventure
Ange
Un homme a disparu
Danger – Love at Work
Wild Money
L'Entreprenant Monsieur Petrov
Oh, Doctor
The King and the Chorus Girl
Les Horizons perdus
The Man in the Mirror
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
Le Danseur du dessus
The Private Secretary
Going Highbrow
In Caliente
$10 Raise
La Femme et le Pantin
All the King's Horses
The Night Is Young
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
La Veuve joyeuse
La Joyeuse Divorcée
Les femmes devraient écouter
Kiss and Make-Up
It's a Boy
Smarty
Sing and Like It
Uncertain Lady
Success at Any Price
The Poor Rich
Easy to Love
Sérénade à trois
Alice au pays des merveilles
The Way to Love
A Bedtime Story
Soldiers of the King
Haute Pègre
Roar of the Dragon
But the Flesh Is Weak
The Great Junction Hotel
The Age for Love
Smart Woman
Six Cylinder Love
The Front Page
Lonely Wives
Kiss Me Again
Reaching for the Moon
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
Scrambled Weddings
Call Again
Find the King
No Publicity
Taxi! Taxi!
The Whole Town's Talking
Poker Faces
The Nut-Cracker
La Bohème
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