What is Edward Everett Horton doing now? Nationality, Age

Known for movies

Short Info

Died	September 29, 1970, Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States
Mark	The 'Triple Take'.... an extended double take
Fact	Played the role of Professor Nick Potter in Holiday (1930) and again in the 1938 remake directed by George Cukor.
Payments	Earned $150 /week from Too Much Business (1922)

Edward Everett Horton was born on September 18, 1886, in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Isabella S. (née Diack) and Edward Everett Horton Sr., an insurance broker. He had two older sisters, Frances and Grace. His early education was at Erasmus Hall High School and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He began his career as a stage actor in New York City.

Horton’s first film role was in the 1919 film, The Miracle Man. He went on to appear in over 100 films. He is perhaps best known for his role as the narrator in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz.

Horton’s other notable film roles include: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and Sabrina (1954).

Horton was married three times. His first wife was actress and singer, Alice Joyce. They were married from 1910-1919 and had no children. His second wife was actress, Edna May Oliver. They were married from 1923-1942 and had no children. His third wife was actress, Isabel Jewell. They were married from 1943-1959 and had no children.

Horton died on September 29, 1970, in Encino, California, at the age of 84.

His net worth at the time of his death was $2 million.

General Info

Full Name	Edward Everett Horton
Died	September 29, 1970, Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States
Profession	Singer, Voice Actor
Education	Baltimore City College, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Columbia University, Oberlin College
Nationality	American

Family

Parents	Isabella S. Diack, Edward Everett Horton Sr.
Siblings	George Horton, Winter Davis Horton, Hannahbelle Horton
Partner	Gavin Gordon

Accomplishments

Movies	Top Hat, The Gay Divorcee, Arsenic and Old Lace, Lost Horizon, Shall We Dance, Trouble in Paradise, Design for Living, Pocketful of Miracles, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Merry Widow, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, The Front Page, Lonely Wives, Ziegfeld Girl, The Devil Is a ...
TV Shows	The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Holiday Hotel

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0002143

Marks

#	Marks / Signs
1	The 'Triple Take'.... an extended double take
2	Quavering voice

Salary

Title	Salary
Too Much Business (1922)	$150 /week

Quotes

#	Quote
1	I have my own little kingdom. I do the scavenger parts no one else wants and I get well paid for it.
2	[on Douglas Sirk] He was delightful and ambitious and so well-informed.
3	[on Rita Hayworth] She was so sweet and hard-working. She asked me to watch her work out her dance routines and go over her lines with her. I'd tell her little things and she'd whisper, "Don't tell the director, please." She was so modest and affectionate.
4	[at the suggestion of retirement, c. 1966, aged 80] Dear Lord! I would go right out of my mind.

Facts

#	Fact
1	He owned an estate in Encino on Amestoy Avenue that he named "Belly Acres".
2	Beginning in 1959 through 1964, he narrated the "Fractured Fairy Tales" segment, as well as playing multiple characters in various supporting features of the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
3	His father, Edward Everett Horton, Sr., had English and German ancestry, and his mother, Isabella S. (Diack), was born in Matanzas, Cuba, to Scottish parents. He was the eldest of four children - George, Winter Davis, and Hannahbelle were his other siblings. The family remained close throughout their lives. Edward's mother lived with him until she died at the age of 101. His brothers and sister also spent their later years residing at his Encino estate.
4	Studied business at both Polytechnic Institute and at Columbia. At Columbia, however, he began acting in collegiate plays and that changed the direction of his life.
5	Joined a Gilbert and Sullivan stock company in 1907 on Staten Island and performed in several shows, including "The Mikado". He went on to join several theatre companies in the 1910s, including the Orpheum Players in Philadelphia, The Baker Stock Company in Oregon, and the Crescent Theatre in Brooklyn.
6	Like Zasu Pitts, Horton excelled in comedy and specialized in the fretful, woebegone "Nervous Nellie" types. The duo were the only actors who could utter the simple words "Oh, dear!" and make it sound like it was the end of the world.
7	In the 1920s he acted in and managed the Majestic Theater in Los Angeles with his brother and business manager, George.
8	Appeared in a number of revivals of the comedy play "Springtime for Henry" beginning in the 1930s and extending into the 1960s. He played the part of the effete Henry Dewlip more than 3,000 times.
9	According to an in-depth article by Eve Golden in "Classic Images" magazine, Edward's longtime companion was actor Gavin Gordon, who was 15 years his junior. Not much was ever documented on the couple. They appeared in one movie together - Pocketful of Miracles (1961).
10	Diagnosed with cancer, he was hospitalized at Glens Falls, New York for several weeks before returning home to his San Fernando, California home, where he died at the age of 83.
11	Tommy Bond was a regular on Horton's radio show in the 1930's.
12	Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 281-283. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
13	Played the role of Professor Nick Potter in Holiday (1930) and again in the 1938 remake directed by George Cukor.
14	Contrary to some reports, he was not the grandson of namesake Edward Everett Hale, author of "The Man Without a Country.".
15	Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA., in the Whispering Pines section at the top of the hill.

Pictures

Movies

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Weekend for Three	1941		Stonebraker
Here Comes Mr. Jordan	1941		Messenger 7013
Bachelor Daddy	1941		Joseph Smith
Sunny	1941		Henry Bates
Ziegfeld Girl	1941		Noble Sage
You're the One	1941		Death Valley Joe Frink
That's Right - You're Wrong	1939		Tom Village - a Screenwriter
The Amazing Mr. Forrest	1939		Treadwell
Paris Honeymoon	1939		Ernest Figg
Little Tough Guys in Society	1938		Oliver
Holiday	1938		Professor Nick Potter
College Swing	1938		Hubert Dash
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife	1938		The Marquis De Loiselle
Hitting a New High	1937		Lucius B. Blynn
The Great Garrick	1937		Tubby
The Perfect Specimen	1937		Mr. Grattan
Angel	1937		Graham
Danger - Love at Work	1937		Howard Rogers
Wild Money	1937		P.E. Dodd
Shall We Dance	1937		Jeffrey Baird
Oh, Doctor	1937		Edward J. Billop
The King and the Chorus Girl	1937		Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Lost Horizon	1937		Lovett
Let's Make a Million	1936		Harrison Gentry
The Man in the Mirror	1936		Jeremy Dilke
Hearts Divided	1936		John
Nobody's Fool	1936		Will Wright
The Singing Kid	1936		Davenport Rogers
Her Master's Voice	1936		Ned Farrar
Your Uncle Dudley	1935		Dudley Dixon
His Night Out	1935		Homer B. Bitts
Little Big Shot	1935		Mortimer
The Private Secretary	1935		Rev. Robert Spalding
Top Hat	1935		Horace Hardwick
Going Highbrow	1935		Augie
In Caliente	1935		Harold Brandon
$10 Raise	1935		Hubert T. Wilkins
The Devil Is a Woman	1935		Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
All the King's Horses	1935		Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
The Night Is Young	1935		Baron Szereny
Biography of a Bachelor Girl	1935		Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
The Gay Divorcee	1934		Egbert 'Pinky' Fitzgerald
The Merry Widow	1934		Ambassador
Ladies Should Listen	1934		Paul Vernet
Kiss and Make-Up	1934		Marcel Caron
Smarty	1934		Vernon
Sing and Like It	1934		Adam Frink - Producer
Uncertain Lady	1934		Elliot Crane
Success at Any Price	1934		Fisher
The Poor Rich	1934		Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Easy to Love	1934		Eric
Alice in Wonderland	1933		Mad Hatter
Design for Living	1933		Max Plunkett
The Way to Love	1933		Prof. Gaston Bibi
It's a Boy	1933		Dudley Leake
A Bedtime Story	1933		Victor Dubois
The Woman in Command	1933		Sebastian Marvello
Trouble in Paradise	1932		François Filiba
Roar of the Dragon	1932		Busby
-But the Flesh Is Weak	1932		Sir George Kelvin
The Great Junction Hotel	1931	Short	The Groom
The Age for Love	1931		Horace Keats
Smart Woman	1931		Billy Ross
Six Cylinder Love	1931		Monty Winston
The Front Page	1931		Bensinger
Lonely Wives	1931		Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Kiss Me Again	1931		Rene
Reaching for the Moon	1930		Roger - the Valet
Once a Gentleman	1930		Oliver
Holiday	1930		Nick Potter
Wide Open	1930		Simon Haldane
Take the Heir	1930		Smithers
The Aviator	1929		Robert Street
Good Medicine	1929	Short
The Sap	1929		The Sap
Prince Gabby	1929	Short
The Hottentot	1929		Sam Harrington
Trusting Wives	1929	Short
The Right Bed	1929	Short
Sonny Boy	1929/I		Crandall Thorpe
Ask Dad	1929	Short	Dad
The Eligible Mr. Bangs	1929	Short	Mr. Bangs
Call Again	1928	Short
Vacation Waves	1928	Short	Eddie Davis
The Terror	1928		Ferdinand Fane
Scrambled Weddings	1928	Short
Horse Shy	1928	Short	Eddie Hamilton
Miss Information	1928	Short	The Firm's Representative
Behind the Counter	1928	Short
Dad's Choice	1928	Short	Eddie
Find the King	1927	Short
No Publicity	1927	Short
Taxi! Taxi!	1927		Peter Whitby
The Whole Town's Talking	1926		Chester Binney
Poker Faces	1926		Jimmy Whitmore
The Nutcracker	1926	Short	Horatio Slipaway
La Bohème	1926		Colline
The Business of Love	1925		Edward Burgess
Marry Me	1925		John Smith #2
Beggar on Horseback	1925		Neil McRae
Helen's Babies	1924		Uncle Harry
The Man Who Fights Alone	1924		Bob Alten
Try and Get It	1924		Glenn Collins (as Edward Horton)
Flapper Wives	1924		Vincent Platt (as Edward Horton)
To the Ladies	1923		Leonard Beebe (as Edward Horton)
The Vow of Vengeance	1923
Ruggles of Red Gap	1923		Ruggles (as Edward Horton)
A Front Page Story	1922		Rodney Marvin (as Edward Horton)
The Ladder Jinx	1922		Arthur Barnes (as Edward Horton)
Too Much Business	1922		John Henry Jackson (as Edward Horton)
Cold Turkey	1971		Hiram C. Grayson
The Governor & J.J.	1970	TV Series	Doc Simon
Nanny and the Professor	1970	TV Series	Professor Clarendon
Love, American Style	1970	TV Series	Elmo (segment "Love and Las Vegas")
The Name of the Game	1970	TV Series	Philip Armistead
2000 Years Later	1969		Evermore
It Takes a Thief	1969	TV Series	Lord Pelham-Gifford
The Perils of Pauline	1967		Caspar Coleman
Batman	1966	TV Series	Chief Screaming Chicken
Camp Runamuck	1965	TV Series	Henry Saunders
F Troop	1965	TV Series	Roaring Chicken
Burke's Law	1963-1965	TV Series	Wilbur Starlington / Grover Leander Smith
Valentine's Day	1965	TV Series	Charles Marks
The Cara Williams Show	1965	TV Series	Fenwick
Sex and the Single Girl	1964		The Chief
Hoppity Hooper	1964	TV Series	Narrator for 'Fractured Fairy Tales' (voice)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World	1963		Mr. Dinckler
Our Man Higgins	1963	TV Series	Rawley
Dennis the Menace	1962-1963	TV Series	Uncle Ned Matthews
Saints and Sinners	1962	TV Series	Mr. Hollister
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1962	TV Series	Senator Crabtree
The Red Skelton Hour	1957-1962	TV Series	Muggsy / Sir Alfred Hangeron / Alfred
Pocketful of Miracles	1961		Hudgins
Rocky and His Friends	1959-1961	TV Series	Fractured Fairy Tales narrator
The Real McCoys	1960	TV Series	Mr. Medwick
The Best of Mr. Peabody & Sherman	1959	TV Series
Matinee Theatre	1956-1958	TV Series	Mr. Pim
December Bride	1957	TV Series
The Story of Mankind	1957		Sir Walter Raleigh
Playhouse 90	1957	TV Series	Mr. Carver
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower	1956	TV Movie	Noah
General Electric Theater	1956	TV Series	Mr. Parkinson
Shower of Stars	1955	TV Series	Ed Hoffman
Damon Runyon Theater	1955	TV Series	Thaddeus
Max Liebman Presents: The Merry Widow	1955	TV Movie	Baron Zelta
The Best of Broadway	1955	TV Series	Mr. Witherspoon
The Colgate Comedy Hour	1954	TV Series
Broadway Television Theatre	1952-1953	TV Series	Uncle Dudley / Walter Burns
All Star Revue	1953	TV Series	Guest Actor
Medallion Theatre	1953	TV Series
The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse	1953	TV Series
I Love Lucy	1952	TV Series	Mr. Ritter
The Magnavox Theatre	1950	TV Series
Don Ameche's Musical Playhouse	1950	TV Series	Hotel Manager (I950))
The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre	1948-1949	TV Series
The Ford Theatre Hour	1949	TV Series	Sheridan Whiteside
Her Husband's Affairs	1947		J.B. Cruikshank
Down to Earth	1947		Messenger 7013
The Ghost Goes Wild	1947		Eric
Earl Carroll Sketchbook	1946		Dr. Milo Edwards
Faithful in My Fashion	1946		Hiram Dilworthy
Cinderella Jones	1946		Keating
Lady on a Train	1945		Mr. Haskell
Steppin' in Society	1945		Judge Avery Webster
The Town Went Wild	1944		Everett Conway
Brazil	1944		Everett St. John Everett
San Diego I Love You	1944		Philip McCooley
Arsenic and Old Lace	1944		Mr. Witherspoon
Summer Storm	1944		Count 'Piggy' Volsky
Her Primitive Man	1944		Orrin
The Gang's All Here	1943		Peyton Potter
Thank Your Lucky Stars	1943		Farnsworth
Forever and a Day	1943		Sir Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
Springtime in the Rockies	1942		McTavish
I Married an Angel	1942		Peter
The Magnificent Dope	1942		Horace Hunter
The Body Disappears	1941		Professor Shotesbury

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
Pocketful of Miracles	1961	performer: "Jingle Bells" 1857 - uncredited
The Lux Show	1957	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Cinderella Jones	1946	performer: "You Never Know Where You're Goin' Till You Get There"
I Married an Angel	1942	performer: "To Count Palaff There Comes a Time" 1942
That's Right - You're Wrong	1939	"The Volga Boatman", uncredited
Paris Honeymoon	1939	performer: "The Funny Old Hills"
Holiday	1938	performer: "Gwine to Rune All Night De Camptown Races" 1850 Uncredited
Hitting a New High	1937	performer: "Let's Give Love Another Chance" 1937
Angel	1937	"The Barber of Seville" 1816, uncredited
Lost Horizon	1937	performer: "Here We Go Gathering Nuts in May" - uncredited
Going Highbrow	1935	performer: "One in a Million" 1935, "Sextette" - uncredited
In Caliente	1935	performer: "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" 1912, "The Lady in Red" 1935 - uncredited
The Gay Divorcee	1934	performer: "Let's K-nock K-nees" 1931
Alice in Wonderland	1933	performer: "Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat" - uncredited

Director

Title	Year	Status	Character
Dad's Choice	1928	Short

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '70	1970	TV Movie	Himself / Sketch Actor
The David Frost Show	1970	TV Series	Himself
The Ed Nelson Show	1969	TV Series	Himself
Cinema	1969	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Steve Allen Show	1968	TV Series	Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1967	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Mike Douglas Show	1962-1966	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Actor
The Merv Griffin Show	1963-1965	TV Series	Himself
One Got Fat	1963	Short	Himself - Narrator (voice)
Fractured Flickers	1963	TV Series	Himself
Here's Hollywood	1961	TV Series	Himself
The Jack Paar Tonight Show	1959-1960	TV Series	Himself
The George Gobel Show	1954-1960	TV Series	Himself
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show	1958	TV Series	Himself - Actor
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show	1957	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Lux Show	1957	TV Series	Himself
The Helen O'Connell Show	1956	TV Series	Himself
I've Got a Secret	1955	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Name's the Same	1953	TV Series	Guest
General Electric Guest House	1951	TV Series	Himself
Showtime, U.S.A.	1950	TV Series	Himself
Penthouse Party	1950	TV Series	Himself
Texaco Star Theatre	1949	TV Series	Himself - Actor
The Ed Sullivan Show	1949	TV Series	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 10	1937	Documentary short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 2	1936	Documentary short	Himself
Things You Never See on the Screen	1935	Short	Himself
Hollywood on Parade No. B-6	1934	Short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 11	1930	Short	Himself
Hollywood Snapshots #11	1929	Documentary short	Himself
Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 5	1923	Documentary short	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Ziegfeld Girl Intro	2004	Video documentary short	Noble Sage
The Making of 'Lost Horizon'	1999	Video documentary short	Lovett (uncredited)
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults	1997	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender	1997	Documentary	Himself
The Celluloid Closet	1995	Documentary	Horace Hardwick (uncredited)
Red Skelton: Bloopers, Blunders and Ad-Libs	1994	Video	Sir Alfred
Reginald LeBorg - Man nannte mich den Alleskönner	1987	TV Movie documentary	Philip McCooley
To See Such Fun	1977	Documentary	Himself
Bob Hope's World of Comedy	1976	TV Movie	Tribute Montage