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Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton

Highest Rated: 100% Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Lowest Rated: 40% Down to Earth (1947)

Birthday: Mar 18, 1886

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Charmingly comic character actor who played the ineffectual bumbler in scores of films from the 1920s through the 70s. Among many triumphs Horton is remembered as Fred Astaire's sidekick in "The Gay Divorcee" (1934), "Top Hat" (1935) and "Shall We Dance?" (1937).

Highest rated movies

100% The Gang's All Here
100% Here Comes Mr. Jordan
100% Holiday
100% Top Hat
93% Lost Horizon
93% The Gay Divorcee
90% Trouble in Paradise
89% Shall We Dance

Photos

EARL CARROLL SKETCHBOOK, Edward Everett Horton, 1946 EARL CARROLL SKETCHBOOK, Edward Everett Horton, Barbara Jo Allen, 1946 FAITHFUL IN MY FASHION, Tom Drake, Donna Reed, Edward Everett Horton, 1946 THE FRONT PAGE, Edward Everett Horton, 1931 THE GANG'S ALL HERE, Edward Everett Horton, 1943, TM and copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved THE GANG'S ALL HERE, Edward Everett Horton, 1943, TM and copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved THE GANG'S ALL HERE, Edward Everett Horton, Charlotte Greenwood, 1943, TM and copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved THE GAY DIVORCEE, Erik Rhodes, Edward Everett Horton, 1934 HERE COMES MR. JORDAN, Edward Everett Horton, 1941 REACHING FOR THE MOON, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Claude Allister, Edward Everett Horton, 1930 ROAR OF THE DRAGON, Edward Everett Horton, 1932 THE SAP, Edward Everett Horton, 1929. photo by Fred R. Archer COLD TURKEY, Bob Newhart, Edward Everett Horton, 1971 LOST HORIZON, Edward Everett Horton, 1937 THE BODY DISAPPEARS, Edward Everett Horton, Jane Wyman, 1941 LOST HORIZON, Ronald Colman, Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, H.B. Warner, 1937 THE BODY DISAPPEARS, Charles Halton, Edward Everett Horton, Romaine Callender, 1941 HOLIDAY, Jean Dixon, Edward Everett Horton, Katharine Hepburn, 1938 TOP HAT, Edward Everett Horton, Fred Astaire, 1935 THE BODY DISAPPEARS, Willie Best, Edward Everett Horton, Jeffrey Lynn, 1941
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
60% 65% Cold Turkey Hiram C. Grayson (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet 2000 Years Later Evermore (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 33% The Perils of Pauline Caspar Coleman (Character) - 1967
50% 55% Sex and the Single Girl The Chief (Character) - 1964
50% 72% Pocketful of Miracles Hudgins (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 10% The Story of Mankind Sir Walter Raleigh (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 29% Her Husband's Affairs J.B. Cruikshank (Character) - 1947
40% 50% Down to Earth Messenger 7013 (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ghost Goes Wild Eric (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Faithful in My Fashion Hiram Dilworthy (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cinderella Jones Keating (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Steppin' in Society Judge Avery Webster (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet 20% Summer Storm Count "Piggy" Volsky (Character) - 1944
86% 92% Arsenic and Old Lace Mr. Witherspoon (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Town Went Wild Everett Conway (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Brazil Everett St. John Everett (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet San Diego, I Love You Philip McCooley (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 54% Thank Your Lucky Stars Farnsworth (Character) - 1943
100% 69% The Gang's All Here Peyton Potter (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 55% The Magnificent Dope Horace Hunter (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 64% Springtime in the Rockies McTavish (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 21% I Married an Angel Peter (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Weekend for Three Fred Stonebraker (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 0% Sunny Henry Bates (Character) - 1941
100% 82% Here Comes Mr. Jordan Messenger 7013 (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 78% Ziegfeld Girl Nobel Sage (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet You're the One Death Valley Joe Frink (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 100% The Body Disappears Prof. Reginald X. Shotesbury (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bachelor Daddy Joseph Smith (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet That's Right -- You're Wrong Tom Village (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Big Steal Treadwell (Character) - 1939
45% 63% Bluebeard's Eighth Wife Marquis de Loiselle (Character) - 1938
100% 89% Holiday Professor Nick Potter (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Little Tough Guys in Society Oliver (Character) - 1938
80% 65% Angel Graham (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hitting a New High Lucius B. Blynn (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 82% The Great Garrick Tubby (Character) - 1937
89% 84% Shall We Dance Jeffrey Baird (Character) - 1937
93% 82% Lost Horizon Alexander P. Lovett (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet The King and the Chorus Girl Count Humbert Evel Bruger (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Let's Make a Million Caroline (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Perfect Specimen Mr. Grattan (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wild Money P.E. Dodd (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hearts Divided Senator John Hathaway (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Singing Kid Davenport Rogers (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Her Master's Voice Ned Farrar (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Man in the Mirror Jeremy Dilke (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nobody's Fool Will Wright (Character) - 1936
56% 70% The Devil Is a Woman Gov. Don Paquito `'Paquitito'` (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 17% In Caliente Harold Brandon (Character) - 1935
100% 90% Top Hat Horace Hardwick (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet All the King's Horses Count Josef "Peppi" von Schlapstaat (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Your Uncle Dudley Dudley Dixon (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Little Big Shot Mortimer Thompson (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Biography of a Bachelor Girl Leander `'Bunny'` Nolan (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet $10 Raise Hubert T. Wilkins (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Night Is Young Baron Szereny (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Going Highbrow Augie Winterspoon (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 12% Smarty Vernon (Character) - 1934
93% 82% The Gay Divorcee Egbert (Character) - 1934
82% 78% The Merry Widow Ambassador Popoff (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sing and Like It Adam Frink (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Success at Any Price Harry Fisher (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ladies Should Listen Paul Vernet (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Easy to Love Eric (Character) - 1934
76% 80% Design for Living Max Plunkett (Character) - 1933
60% 58% Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet It's a Boy! Dudley Leake (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Bedtime Story Victor Dubois (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Way to Love Prof. Gaston Bibi (Character) - 1933
90% 90% Trouble in Paradise François Filiba (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet But the Flesh Is Weak Sir George Kelvin (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 33% Roar of the Dragon Busby (Character) - 1932
88% 59% The Front Page Roy V. Bensinger (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet 67% Lonely Wives Richard `'Dickie'` Smith/Felix (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Smart Woman Billy Ross (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kiss Me Again Rene (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet 31% Reaching for the Moon Roger (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wide Open Simon Haldane (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ask Dad Dad (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sap The Sap (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Terror Ferdinand Fane (Character) - 1928
No Score Yet 77% La Bohème Colline (Character) - 1926
88% No Score Yet Beggar on Horseback Neil McRae (Character) - 1925

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Governor & J.J. Dr. Simon (Guest Star) 1970
72% 78% Batman Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet F Troop Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Red Skelton Show Unknown (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star) 		1957 1959
No Score Yet 97% I Love Lucy Mr. Ritter (Guest Star) 1952