Horton's first talking feature was The Front Page (1931), directed by Lewis Milestone, based on the hit play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, in which he played fidgety reporter Roy Bensinger. It was after the advent of sound, however, that he fully hit his stride on the big screen. We've got to keep them all occupied. Horton kept busy for more than 60 years, and not just in acting -- along with his brother George he bought up property in the San Fernando Valley from the 1920s onward, eventually assembling Beleigh Acres, a 23-acre development where he lived with his mother (who passed away at age 102). Edward Everett Horton was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1886 -- when it was a separate city from New York City -- the son of Edward Everett Horton and Isabella Diack Horton. Amid his many roles over the ensuing decade, Horton worked in a half-dozen of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals at RKO. His grandfather was Edward Everett Hale, the author of the story The Man Without a Country. She hasn't stopped talking in 20 years.Well we can't let them get started. He attended Boys High School and later studied at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and at Oberlin College in Ohio, and Columbia University in Manhattan. He was busy on television throughout the 1950s and '60s, not only in onscreen work but also voice-overs for commercials, and he even hosted the Westminster Kennel Club dog show at Madison Square Garden. He attended Boys High School and later studied at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and at Oberlin College in Ohio, and Columbia University in Manhattan. Amid his many roles over the ensuing decade, Horton worked in a half-dozen of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals at RKO. It was after the advent of sound, however, that he fully hit his stride on the big screen. Sep 2, 2018 - Explore Classic Movie Hub's board "Edward Everett Horton", followed by 10801 people on Pinterest.
In those days, he also sang -- in a baritone -- and joined the Staten Island-based Dempsey Light Opera Company for productions of Michael Balfe's The Bohemian Girl and Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado.
He never did graduate from Columbia, but he embarked on a performing career that was to keep him busy for more than six decades. Horton never married, and shared a home later in life with his sister, Hannabelle Grant.
He leased the Majestic Theater in Los Angeles and found success with works such as The Nervous Wreck, in which he worked with Franklin Pangborn, a character actor who would also -- like Horton -- specialize in nervous, fidgety roles (though Pangborn, unlike Horton, never rose beyond character actor and supporting player status in features). His other notable roles onscreen during the 1930s included a portrayal of The Mad Hatter in the 1933 Alice in Wonderlan.Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox!Copyright © Fandango. He was identified almost entirely with comedic work after that, and by the end of the '20s had starring roles in a string of comedic shorts. Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor with a long career including motion pictures, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton entered movies in 1918, and became well known to screen audiences with his performance in the 1923 version of Ruggles of Red Gap. His path to graduation was thwarted when he joined the university's drama club -- despite his 6'2" build, his first role had him cast as a woman. He leased the Majestic Theater in Los Angeles and found success with works such as The Nervous Wreck, in which he worked with Franklin Pangborn, a character actor who would also -- like Horton -- specialize in nervous, fidgety roles (though Pangborn, unlike Horton, never rose beyond character actor and supporting player status in features).
Few actors were more beloved of audiences across multiple generations -- and from more different fields of entertainment -- than Edward Everett Horton.
Hy was bekend vir sy rolle in die rolprente Top Hat (1935), Holiday (1938), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), en It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963). We'll entertain them.What's the matter with him?
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