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Edward Everett Horton (Original Post) kentauros Feb 2013 OP
care for a bit of tea In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #1
Fractured Fairy Tales... SeattleVet Feb 2013 #2
My brother and I loved those! :D Rhiannon12866 Feb 2013 #3
Cool! kentauros Feb 2013 #4
But of course! kentauros Feb 2013 #5
Hans Conreid was great! csziggy Feb 2013 #15
I'll have to watch this later tonight :) kentauros Feb 2013 #16
Capt. Hook in Disney's Peter Pan. Graybeard Feb 2013 #18
I loved those old shows. texanwitch Feb 2013 #10
If you go to the Internet Archive kentauros Feb 2013 #11
Thanks for the info. texanwitch Feb 2013 #12
Kids like most cartoons, kentauros Feb 2013 #14
I never knew he did other stuff OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #13
I first knew his work from Fractured Fairy Tales. Still Blue in PDX Feb 2013 #6
Even now, there are voice-actors that only do that. kentauros Feb 2013 #7
Sterling Holloway was another one like that. Gidney N Cloyd Feb 2013 #8
Played wonderful characters. Graybeard Feb 2013 #9
I was never sure where he was from with that accent. kentauros Feb 2013 #17

Rhiannon12866

(205,456 posts)
3. My brother and I loved those! :D
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 04:26 AM
Feb 2013

And my Dad used to see Edward Everett Horton when he was a kid. His uncle had a camp on a lake near here (NE NY) and Mr. Horton was a neighbor. My Dad said he recognized his voice immediately...

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
4. Cool!
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 09:59 AM
Feb 2013

It's always fun when you (or family) know people like that

I liked both his voice work, like for Fractured Fairytales, but also his character acting, like the clip I posted above. It seems he always played a rather flustered character. I was reminded of that when watching Here Comes Mr. Jordan last night.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
5. But of course!
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:05 AM
Feb 2013


He certainly had a distinctive voice, like another of his fellow Jay Ward voice actors, Hans Conried:

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
15. Hans Conreid was great!
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:58 PM
Feb 2013

One my favorite roles for him was in "The Twonky" based on a story by Louis Padget aka Henry Kuttner& C.L. Moore. Great fun!

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
16. I'll have to watch this later tonight :)
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 12:10 AM
Feb 2013

Thanks for posting it, too. The title sounds familiar, so maybe I've seen it or some of it.

I'm going to assume you've seen The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, then

"Is it atomic?!"

texanwitch

(18,705 posts)
10. I loved those old shows.
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:23 PM
Feb 2013

We were watching something funny and learning something at the same time.

Remember Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman and the Wayback Machine.

Saturday catoons were great back in the 60's.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
11. If you go to the Internet Archive
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:28 PM
Feb 2013

right in the middle of the page is The Wayback Machine. Plug in a dead link and usually they'll have it in their archive!


texanwitch

(18,705 posts)
12. Thanks for the info.
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:34 PM
Feb 2013

Remember getting up early on Saturday, fixing a bowl of ceral and watching cartoons.

Also shows like Fury, and Roy Rodgers.

There were some come great old shows.

I like these cartoons because they didn't talk down to children.

I wonder if kids today would like these cartoons.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
14. Kids like most cartoons,
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:43 PM
Feb 2013

no matter what era they're from. I watched old (and very early) Popeye cartoons as a kid and loved them as much as the "modern" ones of the time (60s and 70s.) And yes, I watched all of the Jay Ward productions that were aired

As far as singing cowboys go, have you ever heard of Riders in the Sky? They do the singing cowboy stuff as well as some funny radio theater sketches


OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
13. I never knew he did other stuff
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:42 PM
Feb 2013

though I guess that's just because I never had cause to ponder on it.

But I'll love that guy forever for Fractured Fairy Tales. Some of my favorite childhood memories.

Still Blue in PDX

(1,999 posts)
6. I first knew his work from Fractured Fairy Tales.
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:16 AM
Feb 2013

It always threw me for a loop me to hear his voice come out of a real person when movies like The Gay Divorcee turned up on the teevee. I didn't quite get the whole concept of actors doing voiceover work or playing different characters.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
7. Even now, there are voice-actors that only do that.
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:52 AM
Feb 2013

They don't work in movies or TV. However, with so many animated movies and shows these days, too, you see far more "normal" actors doing voice work. I think it was more separated in the earlier part of the last century.

People with distinctive voices are often asked to do voice-over work, such as Horton. I'd love to know what his reaction was when first asked

Graybeard

(6,996 posts)
9. Played wonderful characters.
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 02:30 PM
Feb 2013

Edward Everett Horton was memorable in some of my favorite Classic Films. The fossil collector in Lost Horizon and the director of 'Happy Dale Rest Home' in Arsenic and Old Lace

In his later TV work besides Rocky & Bullwinkle he was a regular on F Troop as American Indian 'Roaring Chicken'.

And something that surprised me; he wasn't British. He was born and raised in Brooklyn!
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kentauros

(29,414 posts)
17. I was never sure where he was from with that accent.
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 12:14 AM
Feb 2013

That he was from Brooklyn, I'd never have guessed!

I don't remember him in F Troop, but do in Arsenic and Old Lace. I'm going to have to find the full movie of "The Gay Divorcee". It looks like a forgotten classic comedy

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