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Acting

Edward Everett Horton

Career: Active from 1922 to 1971, busiest in 1935 with 12 main titles.

Leading roles: 86
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Holiday
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 50 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Edward Everett Horton Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.3, average 5.4
Violence
1.6, average 4.1
Psychological
3.5, average 5.5
Scare
0.7, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Romantic Comedy 10
Classic Hollywood 8
Historical Setting 8
Class Conflict 6
Screwball Comedy 6
Nostalgic Charm 5
Pre-Code Hollywood 5
Witty Dialogue 5
Nostalgic 5
Classic Romantic Comedy 4
Slapstick Comedy 4
Quirky Characters 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

155

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

as Bobby Kent

1970s

2 titles · average score 65

Cold Turkey

60

as Hiram C. Grayson

Nanny and the Professor

69

TV show

1960s

15 titles · average score 59

2000 Years Later

as Evermore

Love, American Style

43

TV show · as Elmo

The Name of the Game

73

TV show · as Philip Armistead

The Perils of Pauline

44

as Caspar Coleman

Batman

73

TV show · as Chief Screaming Chicken

F Troop

45

TV show

Sex and the Single Girl

56

as The Chief

One Got Fat

62

as Narrator (voice)

Burke's Law

68

TV show · as Grover Leander Smith / Wilbur Starlington

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

68

as Mr. Dinckler

Saints and Sinners

TV show · as Mr. Hollister

Pocketful of Miracles

61

as Hudgins

1950s

13 titles · average score 60

The Bullwinkle Show

49

TV show · as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)

Dennis the Menace

45

TV show · as Uncle Ned Matthews

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

TV show · as Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)

Fractured Fairy Tales

77

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

The Story of Mankind

34

as Sir Walter Raleigh

Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower

as Noah

The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show

TV show · as Storyteller (voice)

Matinee Theater

TV show

December Bride

70

TV show

Max Liebman Presents

TV show

General Electric Theater

68

TV show · as Mr. Parkinson

I Love Lucy

81

TV show · as Mr. Ritter

1940s

28 titles · average score 61

Her Husband's Affairs

49

as J.B. Cruikshank

Down to Earth

48

as Messenger 7013

Faithful in My Fashion

64

as Hiram Dilworthy

Brazil

55

as Everett St. John Everett

San Diego I Love You

68

as Philip McCooley

The Town Went Wild

63

as Everett Conway

Her Primitive Man

as Orrin

The Gang's All Here

82

as Peyton Potter

I Married an Angel

46

as Peter

Bachelor Daddy

as Joseph Smith

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

70

as Messenger 7013

The Body Disappears

74

as Professor Shotesbury

1930s

66 titles · average score 64

The Gang's All Here

as Treadwell

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

57

as Marquis De Loiselle

Holiday

89

as Nick Potter

Lost Horizon

83

as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett

Shall We Dance

83

as Jeffrey Baird

The King and the Chorus Girl

62

as Count Humbert Evel Bruger

Top Hat

87

as Horace Hardwick

The Devil Is a Woman

63

as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

64

as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan

The Merry Widow

80

as Ambassador Popoff

Reaching for the Moon

47

as Roger, the Valet

Holiday

62

as Nick Potter

1920s

30 titles · average score 68

The Aviator

as Robert Street

Ask Dad

as Dad

Scrambled Weddings

as Eddie Howe

The Terror

as Ferdinand Fane

Horse Shy

as Eddie Hamilton

Dad's Choice

as Eddie

The Whole Town's Talking

as Chester Binney

The Nut-Cracker

as Horatio Slipaway

Poker Faces

as Jimmy Whitmore

Beggar on Horseback

as Neil McRae

Helen's Babies

as Uncle Harry

Ruggles of Red Gap

as Ruggles