Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton ( born March 18, 1886 in Brooklyn, New York, † September 29, 1970 in Encino, California ) was an American actor.

Life

Horton initially attended college in Baltimore, and later the Columbia University. In 1906 he performed as a singer and dancer in the U.S. Vaudeville, 1912, he had an engagement on Broadway. In 1919 he moved to Hollywood to work in film. Three years later, he had a first major role in the silent film comedy Too Much Business, after three years, he got his starring role. The transition to talkies in the late 1920s introduced him as a long-time theater actor before no problems, so he could be seen in some of the first sound films of Warner Brothers.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Horton played in a number of feature films, where he frequently by Ernst Lubitsch (eighth among others in Bluebeard's wife and trouble in paradise ) and Frank Capra (in of Shangri - La, Arsenic and Old Lace and The lower Ten thousand ) was occupied. In addition to his film roles, he continued to play in theater and was also 1945-1947 moderator of the radio show Kraft Music Hall. From the early 1950s he worked increasingly for television, in addition to guest roles in television series such as I Love Lucy, Dennis the Menace and Batman, he worked as a narrator for the animated television series Rocky and His Friends.

Horton died of cancer at the age of 84 years. Horton was gay, he had including a long-term relationship with actor Gavin Gordon.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Star on the Walk of Fame, 6427 Hollywood Boulevard