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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 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,...
Known for
Love, American StyleSeries • 1969
BatmanSeries • 1966
Matinee TheaterSeries • 1955
The Bullwinkle ShowSeries • 1959
I Love LucySeries • 1951
The Philco Television PlayhouseSeries • 1948
Burke's LawSeries • 1963
The Name of the GameSeries • 1968
Dennis the MenaceSeries • 1959
December BrideSeries • 1954
F TroopSeries • 1965
Sex and the Single GirlMovie • 1964
Nanny and the ProfessorSeries • 1970
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and FriendsSeries • 1959
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldMovie • 1963
Arsenic and Old LaceMovie • 1944
Bluebeard's Eighth WifeMovie • 1938
Top HatMovie • 1935
The Gay DivorceeMovie • 1934
Ziegfeld GirlMovie • 1941
Pocketful of MiraclesMovie • 1961
Lost HorizonMovie • 1937
The Gang's All HereMovie • 1943
Trouble in ParadiseMovie • 1932