Edward Everett Horton

Movie Actor

Birthday March 18, 1886

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Brooklyn, NY

DEATH DATE Sep 29, 1970 (84)

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About

Actor who narrated Fractured Fairy Tales on Rocky and Bullwinkle. He also made a cameo in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world and played Lord Pelham Gifford in an episode of It Takes a Thief.

Before Fame

He was expelled from college after tricking an audience into believing he had jumped off the top of the Service Building.

Trivia

He appeared in a number of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films, including Top Hat and Shall We Dance.

Family Life

It is believed that his grandfather is Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country.

Associated With

He had a prominent role in the 1994 Cary Grant film Arsenic and Old Lace.