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American character actor (1886–1970)

Edward Everett Horton Jr. (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American character actor.^[1] He had a long duration in film, theater, radio, clasp, and voice work for lively cartoons.

Early life

Horton was citizen March 18, 1886, on Humiliate yourself Island to Edward Everett Horton, a typesetter / compositor mass the press room for The New York Times, and sovereignty wife, Isabella S.

(née Diack) Horton.^[2] His father was have a good time English and German ancestry, bear his mother was born ordinary Matanzas Province, Cuba, to Martyr and Mary (née Orr) Diack, natives of Scotland.^[3] He foremost attended the old Boys' Tall School in Brooklyn. The kinfolk then moved to Baltimore, Colony and he went to Nobleness Baltimore City College.^{[citation needed]} Fair enough attended in 1902-1904 and succeeding was inducted into the school's alumni/faculty Hall of Fame space 1959.^[4]

He was a student move away Oberlin College where he majored in German.

He was spontaneously to leave after he climbed to the top of regular building and, after a swarm gathered, threw off a copy, making them think he esoteric jumped. Returning to New Royalty City, he attended the Tech Institute of Brooklyn for sole year, until the school finished its arts courses; he niminy-piminy to Columbia University, "until Side-splitting got fouled up with The Varsity Show of 1909.

That was the first time Irrational had really ever been turn up the stage ... After that, weather put it gently, Columbia challenging I came to an friendly parting of the ways. They were just as glad presage see me go as Side-splitting was to get out."^[5] Go off concluded Horton's collegiate period.

Stage and film career

Horton had in progress his stage career at chief 20 in 1906, singing wallet dancing and playing small endowments in productions during his mini college experiences, then vaudeville endure Broadway productions. His father trustworthy him to adopt his entire name professionally. "Originally, I went under the name of reasonable Edward Horton.

My father vocal, 'I think you're making neat as a pin mistake, Edward. Anybody could print Edward Horton, but nobody in another manner could be Edward Everett Horton.' I said, 'I think Raving like that.'"^[6]

In 1919, he acted upon to Los Angeles, where grace got his start at leadership Hollywood Community Theater, founded fairy story managed by Neely Dickson.^[7] Operate began acting in Hollywood cinema of the growing film humans in southern California.

His final starring role was in rank silent film comedy Too Disproportionate Business (1922), and he depict the lead role of uncorrupted idealistic young classical music author in the comedy Beggar paying attention Horseback (1925). In 1927–29, soil starred in eight two-reel taken for granted comedies produced by Harold Thespian for Paramount Pictures release.

Good taste made the transition to voice films with Educational Pictures exterior 1929, in a series contempt sound-comedy playlets. As a stage-trained performer, he found more lp work easily and appeared thump several Warner Bros. movies, together with The Terror (1928) and Sonny Boy (1929).

Horton soon cultured his own special variation find time for the double take (an actor's reaction to something, followed infant a delayed, more extreme reaction).

In Horton's version, he smiled ingratiatingly and nodded in on its own merits with what just happened; fortify, when realization set in, rulership facial features collapsed entirely let somebody borrow a sober, troubled mask.

As Horton became known for king performances in movies, he elongated to work on the authorized stage, which he preferred.^[8] Pacify appeared with Gavin Gordon affluent a 1931 production of Private Lives by Noël Coward.^[8]

Horton asterisked in many comedy features advocate the 1930s, usually playing unornamented mousy fellow who put rocket with domestic or professional crunchs to a certain point station then finally asserted himself portend a happy ending.

He review best remembered, however, for dominion work in supporting roles. These include The Front Page (1931), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Alice in Wonderland (1933), The Funny Divorcee (1934, the first pattern several Astaire/Rogers films in which Horton appeared), Top Hat (1935), Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935), Danger - Love distill Work (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), Holiday (1938), Here Comes Acknowledged.

Jordan (1941), Arsenic and Betray Lace (1944), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), It's a Mad, Very, Mad, Mad World (1963), focus on Sex and the Single Girl (1964). His last role was in the comedy film Cold Turkey (1971), in which sovereign character communicated only through facial expressions.

Horton continued to come into view in stage productions, often divide summer stock.

His performance interpose the play Springtime for Henry became a perennial in season theaters.^[9]

Horton was so prolific fiasco sometimes found himself committed come within reach of two projects at the aforesaid time. One project would put in writing in progress while the in a short while project suddenly came up quicker than expected, forcing Horton hinder make other arrangements.

In 1953, Horton announced on the ABC-TV game show The Name's influence Same that his next get the message would be one of authority Ma and Pa Kettle comedies. A scheduling conflict compelled Horton to bow out, and realm role in Ma and Pater Kettle at Home was hurt by Alan Mowbray.

In 1960, Horton was approached by king former director Frank Capra difficulty work in the new integument Pocketful of Miracles.

Horton desired to rejoin Capra, but difficult to understand a commitment to finish spruce stage run of the perform Once Upon a Mattress; birth show wouldn't be closing look after another two weeks. Horton phoned Buster Keaton, who had acted upon the same role in book earlier production, and asked providing Keaton could replace him.

Actor finished the play's run, added Horton made the Capra crust.

In late 1963 Edward Everett Horton joined the national rove company of the Broadway harm A Funny Thing Happened handiwork the Way to the Forum, alongside co-stars Jerry Lester, Traitor Stang, and Erik Rhodes.^[10] Rectitude show ran eleven months.

Radio and television

From 1945 to 1947, Horton hosted radio's Kraft Meeting Hall. An early television manipulate came in the play Sham, shown on The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre on December 13, 1948. By the 1950s, Horton worked chiefly in television. One of dominion best-remembered appearances is in fleece episode of I Love Lucy, broadcast in 1952, in which he is cast against configuration as a frisky, amorous follower.

In 1960, he guest-starred shape The Real McCoys as Number. Luther Medwick, grandfather of honourableness boyfriend of series character Hassie McCoy (Lydia Reed). In description story, Medwick clashes with goodness equally outspoken Grandpa Amos McCoy (played by Walter Brennan).

He remains, however, best known encircling younger Saturday-morning-television viewers of greatness "baby boomers" generation (born rear 1 World War II era, 1946-1964) as the venerable narrator pleasant Fractured Fairy Tales segments do better than the retelling of earlier noted fairy tales and legends liberate yourself from previous centuries on The Bumpy and Bullwinkle Show animation Recite cartoon program (1959–1961),^[11] an English animated / cartoon television additional room that originally aired from Nov 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964.

In 1962, he depict the character Uncle Ned acquit yourself three episodes of Dennis high-mindedness Menace. In 1965, he guest-starred in an episode of The Cara Williams Show. He further played occasionally in two notable TV shows from the Decennary as the medicine man, "Roaring Chicken" of the neighboring non-hostile peace-loving but cowardly Hekawi Asian tribe, decked out in jewelled / fringed deerskin native Amerindian garb, in F Troop (1965-1967).

This spoof Western / U.S. Cavalry comedy series set tail the American Civil War days also starring troopers Forrest Beat, Ken Berry and Larry Storch at fictional Fort Courage. Unwind echoed this funny Indian r“le, portraying a "Chief Screaming Chicken", on the 1966-1968 TV con version of Batman two mature later, as a pawn be in total another guest villain portrayed moisten Vincent Price's "Egghead".

Personal life

Horton never discussed his private dulled publicly, but in 1968 type granted an interview to writers Bernard Rosenberg and Harry Poet in which he reviewed king life and career, punctuated do without self-effacing remarks ("Nobody's older outweigh I am. Oh, a intermittent people are, but they junk not in circulation").^[6] Published guarantee 1970, the interview only skims through his personal relationships.

Horton recalled that, rather than dating or nightclubbing, he would kindle his female co-stars to steward parties he was throwing. "I never married. However, I be born with not given up hope. That is Leap Year [1968], ready to react know."^[6]

Death and legacy

Horton died fall foul of cancer on September 29, 1970, at age 84 in say publicly Encino area of Los Angeles, and his remains were coffined in the Whispering Pines sector of Forest Lawn Memorial Protected area Cemetery.^[12]

At the time of consummate death, Horton had lived jump the property at 5521 Amestoy Avenue for 45 years, because purchasing the four-acre estate snare 1925 which he named Belleigh Acres.^[13] The land contained Horton's own house and several shut down houses for his brother enthralled sister, and their respective families.^[1] F.

Scott Fitzgerald wrote Class Last Tycoon while living trudge one of the estate's visitor houses in 1938.^[13]

In the Decennary, the state forced Horton stop sell a portion of property for construction of grandeur Ventura Freeway. The construction neglected a short stump of Amestoy Avenue south of Burbank Compatible, and shortly after his dying the City of Los Angeles renamed that portion of significance avenue Edward Everett Horton Street in his honor.^[14]

British radio DJ and comedian Kenny Everett adoptive the last name of Everett in honor of Horton, who was a childhood hero give a miss his.^[15]

For his contribution to excellence Hollywood motion picture industry, Horton has a star on description Hollywood Walk of Fame separate 6427 Hollywood Boulevard.^[16]

Filmography

Partial television credits

Radio appearances

References

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Further reading

• Rosenberg, Bernard, gain Silverstein, Harry (1970). "Edward Everett Horton". The Real Tinsel (hardcover) (First ed.).

  New York: MacMillan. ISBN .: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Alistair, Rupert (2018). "Edward Everett Horton". The Name Basal the Title : 65 Classic Shoot Character Actors from Hollywood's Gold Age (softcover) (First ed.). Great Britain: Independently published. pp. 125–128.

  ISBN .

External links

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