Edward Everett Horton
(March 18, 1886 - September 29, 1970) U.S.A.
Actor and manager
Edward Everett Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York, and presumably named after orator and presidential candidate Edward Everett. Horton appeared in almost all Hollywood comedies of the thirties. He was always the perfect contrapart to the great gentlemen and protagonists of the films.
Like many others he came to the movies from the theatre stages where he debuted in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in Vaudeville and in Broadway productions. In 1919 he moved to Los Angeles, California, and started getting roles in Hollywood films.
His first starring role was in the 1922 comedy film Too Much Business. After a few years he began being cast as a character actor in supporting roles. Some of his noteworthy films include The Gay Divorcee, The Front Page, Top Hat, Holiday, Lost Horizon, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, and Arsenic and Old Lace. In total his cinematography consists of more than 120 entries.
In the 1950s Horton started doing television work. Many who were young in the 1960s remember him as the narrator for the "Fractured Fairy Tales" segment of the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon show.
Edward Everett Horton died of cancer, aged 84, in Encino, California.
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