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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 Bu...
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Complete Filmography

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
as Self (archive footage)
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one ti...

Cold Turkey
1971
as Hiram C. Grayson
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everyt...

2000 Years Later
1969
as Evermore
A satirical film on fads in the US. A TV host on a late night show tries to convince his viewers that they should return to Rome and Roman ways.

The Perils of Pauline
1967
as Caspar Coleman
Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.

Sex and the Single Girl
1964
as The Chief
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurl...

The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
1964
as Narrator
An animated version of the story about an emperor who tried to change all the round objects in his kingdom into oblong ones

One Got Fat
1963
as Narrator (voice)
This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
as Mr. Dinckler
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is t...

Pocketful of Miracles
1961
as Hudgins
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying ...
The Wonderful World of Trains
1960
as Professor Hotbox
A promotional film made by the Lionel Train company to display the various toy trains available and featuring the Suzari Puppets.

The Story of Mankind
1957
as Sir Walter Raleigh
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956
as Noah
Gordon Jenkins' record album "Manhattan Tower" was a best seller for 12 years and this spectacular is based on it, with book, music and lyrics by Jenk...

Her Husband's Affairs
1947
as J.B. Cruikshank
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. T...

Down to Earth
1947
as Messenger 7013
Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth to land a part in the show and change it.

The Ghost Goes Wild
1947
as Eric
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a gen...

Earl Carroll Sketchbook
1946
as Dr. Milo Edwards
An aspiring singer and her lover, a songwriter who has desperately resorted to writing radio jingles, have many conflicts on their road to success...

Faithful in My Fashion
1946
as Hiram Dilworthy
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge pr...

Cinderella Jones
1946
as Keating
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.

Lady on a Train
1945
as Mr. Haskell
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one t...

Steppin' in Society
1945
as Judge Avery Webster
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he i...

The Town Went Wild
1944
as Everett Conway
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is ab...

Brazil
1944
as Everett St. John Everett
Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in m...

San Diego I Love You
1944
as Philip McCooley
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.

Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
as Mr. Witherspoon
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married;...

Summer Storm
1944
as Count "Piggy" Volsky
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an...

Her Primitive Man
1944
as Orrin
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

The Gang's All Here
1943
as Peyton Potter
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
as Farnsworth
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Forever and a Day
1943
as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, ...

Springtime in the Rockies
1942
as McTavish
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner...

I Married an Angel
1942
as Peter
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.

The Magnificent Dope
1942
as Horace Hunter
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" t...

Weekend for Three
1941
as Fred Stonebraker
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives a...

The Body Disappears
1941
as Professor Shotesbury
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by...

Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941
as Messenger 7013
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body...

Bachelor Daddy
1941
as Joseph Smith
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.

Sunny
1941
as Henry Bates
Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sun...

Ziegfeld Girl
1941
as Noble Sage
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on ...

You're the One
1941
as Death Valley Joe Frink
100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.

That's Right – You're Wrong
1939
as Tom Village
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program ...

The Gang's All Here
1939
as Treadwell
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a fo...

Paris Honeymoon
1939
as Ernest Figg
A Texas millionaire travels to Europe to meet his girlfriend, a European countess. He stops in a rustic mountain village and meets a beautiful peasant...

Little Tough Guys in Society
1938
as Oliver
A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.

Holiday
1938
as Nick Potter
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionair...

College Swing
1938
as Hubert Dash
Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938
as Marquis De Loiselle
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a ...

Hitting a New High
1937
as Lucius B. Blynn
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.

The Great Garrick
1937
as Tubby
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.

Angel
1937
as Graham
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.

The Perfect Specimen
1937
as Mr. Grattan
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wish...

Danger – Love at Work
1937
as Howard Rogers
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

Wild Money
1937
as P.E. Dodd
A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping cons...

Shall We Dance
1937
as Jeffrey Baird
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time th...

Oh, Doctor
1937
as Edward J. Billop
A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.

The King and the Chorus Girl
1937
as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.

Lost Horizon
1937
as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, id...

The Man in the Mirror
1936
as Jeremy Dilke
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he ...

Let's Make a Million
1936
as Harrison Gentry
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.

Hearts Divided
1936
as John
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.

Nobody's Fool
1936
as Will Wright
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.

The Singing Kid
1936
as Davenport Rogers
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl ...

Her Master's Voice
1936
as Ned Farrar
Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out at the home of his wife Queena's imperious Aunt Mi...

Your Uncle Dudley
1935
as Dudley Dixon
A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.

Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
as Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

His Night Out
1935
as Homer B. Bitts
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by th...

Little Big Shot
1935
as Mortimer Thompson
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Top Hat
1935
as Horace Hardwick
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room,...
The Private Secretary
1935
as Rev. Robert Spalding
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.

Going Highbrow
1935
as Augie Winterspoon
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.

In Caliente
1935
as Harold Brandon
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.

$10 Raise
1935
as Hubert T. Wilkins
A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...

The Devil Is a Woman
1935
as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the part...

All the King's Horses
1935
as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
A Hollywood actor visits a mythical country where he looks like the king and confuses the queen.

The Night Is Young
1935
as Baron Szereny
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with balle...

Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935
as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeki...

The Merry Widow
1934
as Ambassador Popoff
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

The Gay Divorcee
1934
as Egbert Fitzgerald
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom s...

Ladies Should Listen
1934
as Paul Vernet
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over th...

Kiss and Make-Up
1934
as Marcel Caron
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, ...
It's a Boy
1934
as Dudley Leake
"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a ...

Smarty
1934
as Vernon
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips ...

Sing and Like It
1934
as Adam Frink - Producer
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue

Success at Any Price
1934
as Harry Fisher
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.

The Poor Rich
1934
as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family mano...

Easy to Love
1934
as Eric
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. S...

Design for Living
1933
as Max Plunkett
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.

Alice in Wonderland
1933
as Mad Hatter
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

The Way to Love
1933
as Professor Gaston Bibi
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Mad...

A Bedtime Story
1933
as Victor Dubois
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.

Soldiers of the King
1933
as Sebastian Marvello
When Cicely Courtneidge's mother (also played by Miss Courtneidge, albeit in heavy makeup), retires, Cicely succeeds as Queen of the Marvellos, a fami...

Trouble in Paradise
1932
as François Filiba
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide t...

Roar of the Dragon
1932
as Busby
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the g...

But the Flesh Is Weak
1932
as Sir George Kelvin
A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.

The Great Junction Hotel
1931
as The Groom
A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the br...

The Age for Love
1931
as Horace Keats
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.

Smart Woman
1931
as Billy Ross
A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically preten...

Six Cylinder Love
1931
as Monty Winston
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.

The Front Page
1931
as Bensinger
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for...

Lonely Wives
1931
as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonat...

Kiss Me Again
1931
as Rene
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that...

Reaching for the Moon
1930
as Roger, the Valet
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced wi...
Once a Gentleman
1930
as Oliver
A butler goes on vacation, where he is wrongly taken to be a wealthy man.

Holiday
1930
as Nick Potter
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

Wide Open
1930
as Simon Haldane
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
Take the Heir
1930
as Smithers
A butler impersonates his tippler boss and falls for a beautiful young maid. However, a notorious gold-digger, who thinks the butler is the wealthy yo...

The Aviator
1929
as Robert Street
Brooks, a publisher and his publicist decide to boost the sales of a wartime book of flying experiences. They credit the book to popular author Robert...

The Sap
1929
as The Sap, Bill Small
A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.

The Hottentot
1929
as Sam Harrington
The Hottentot is a lost 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller. It is based on ...

Sonny Boy
1929
as Crandall Thorpe
Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her ...

Ask Dad
1929
as Dad
Tommy, home from school, is infatuated with his father's secretary, so he goes to their office to try to tell her.After quoting much poetry, he finds ...

Vacation Waves
1928
as Eddie Davis
Eddie and his wife rent a boat and plan a relaxing weekend fishing. Unfortunately, her mother and bratty kid brother show up and insist on coming alon...

The Terror
1928
as Ferdinand Fane
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".

Horse Shy
1928
as Eddie Hamilton
Despite his fear of horses, Eddie Hamilton takes part in a fox hunt, in order to impress the daughter of his host, Colonel Calhoun.

Behind the Counter
1928
as Eddie Baxter
Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.

Dad's Choice
1928
as Eddie
Eddie wants to marry a girl, but her father is strongly opposed to it. For her sake, she convinces him to at least meet Eddie.

Scrambled Weddings
1928
as Eddie Howe
Edward Everett Horton and Ruth Dwyer are in love and expect to get married as soon as one of them mentions it to the other. In the meantime, Lolita Le...

Call Again
1928
as Eddie
Edward Everett Horton is scheduled to go on a date with Duane Thompson. She, being only 25, is a schoolgirl at Aileen Manning's girl's school. Horton ...

Find the King
1927
as Edward Fairchild
In this two-reel comedy, Edward Everett Horton is the pampered scion of a family, raised by a couple of prissy aunts. He does card tricks. Through var...

No Publicity
1927
as Eddie Howard
Cameraman Eddie is sent to photograph a socialite at a private lecture on morals. The young woman's guardian will have none of it however, and Eddie r...

Taxi! Taxi!
1927
as Peter Whitby
An architect, constantly in trouble with his employers, falls for the boss's niece. When he spontaneously buys a taxicab to take her home on a rainy n...

The Whole Town's Talking
1926
as Chester Binney
Chester Binney, a wounded war veteran, erroneously believes he is carrying a silver plate in his head and must avoid all excitement. He returns to his...

Poker Faces
1926
as Jimmy Whitmore
In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortu...
The Nutcracker
1926
as Horatio Slipaway
A man flees his frustrating home and work life and is injured by a streetcar.

La Bohème
1926
as Benoit - Janitor
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.

Beggar on Horseback
1925
as Neil McRae
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the ...

Helen's Babies
1924
as Uncle Harry
A young man, who has vowed never to marry and doesn't particularly like children, is left in charge of his two very young nieces. At first they drive ...

To the Ladies
1924
as Leonard Beebe
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.

The Man Who Fights Alone
1924
as Bob Alten
John Marble, a construction engineer is stricken by paralysis and begins to envision the growth of love between his wife Marion and his best friend, B...

Flapper Wives
1924
as Vincent Platt
Broad-minded rector Stephen Carey is ousted from his church by his vestrymen and befriends Claudia Bigelow, a young divorcée who defended his position...

Ruggles of Red Gap
1923
as Ruggles
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Too Much Business
1922
as John Henry Jackson
Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes editor Matt Hayward's ( James Corrigan ) partner; and b...
The Right Bed
N/A
as Bobby Kent
A mysterious blonde in a married man's bed! A mystery to be solved by the funniest means possible.
Try and Get It
N/A
as Glenn Collins
Bryant Washburn and Edward Everett Horton are ordered to retrieve an old $25 debt from a stubborn (and violent) client. The fact that he has an attrac...