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Edward Everett Horton

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Interprétation
Naissance
17 mars 1886 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Décès
29 septembre 1970

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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, including The Terror (1928) and Sonny Boy (1929). Horton initially used his given name, Edward Horton, professionally. His father persuaded him to adopt his full name professionally, reasoning that other actors might be named Edward Horton, but only one named Edward Everett Horton. Horton soon cultivated his own special variation of the time-honored double take (an actor's reaction to something, followed by a delayed, more extreme reaction). In Horton's version, he would smile ingratiatingly and nod in agreement with what just happened; then, when realization set in, his facial features collapsed entirely into a sober, troubled mask. Horton starred in many comedy features in the 1930s, usually playing a mousy fellow who put up with domestic or professional problems to a certain point, and then finally asserted himself for a happy ending. He is best known, however, for his work as a character actor in supporting roles. These include The Front Page (1931), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Alice in Wonderland (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934, the first of several Astaire/Rogers films in which Horton appeared), Top Hat (1935), Danger - Love at Work (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), Holiday (1938), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964). His last role was in the comedy film Cold Turkey (1971), in which his character communicated only through facial expressions.

Connu pour

Affiche de Arsenic et vieille dentelle
Arsenic et vieille dentelle
Film · 1944 · ★ 7,6
Affiche de Un monde fou, fou, fou, fou
Un monde fou, fou, fou, fou
Film · 1963 · ★ 7,0
Affiche de Batman
Batman
Série · 1966 · ★ 7,3
Affiche de Le Danseur du dessus
Le Danseur du dessus
Film · 1935 · ★ 7,2
Affiche de Haute Pègre
Haute Pègre
Film · 1932 · ★ 7,4
Affiche de Vacances
Vacances
Film · 1938 · ★ 7,3
Affiche de I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy
Série · 1951 · ★ 7,9
Affiche de Les Horizons perdus
Les Horizons perdus
Film · 1937 · ★ 6,9
Affiche de Sérénade à trois
Sérénade à trois
Film · 1933 · ★ 7,1
Affiche de Milliardaire pour un jour
Milliardaire pour un jour
Film · 1961 · ★ 7,3
Affiche de La Joyeuse Divorcée
La Joyeuse Divorcée
Film · 1934 · ★ 6,9
Affiche de Le Défunt récalcitrant
Le Défunt récalcitrant
Film · 1941 · ★ 7,0

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