Children Hugo Butler Role Film actor | Name Frank Butler Years active 1920–1959 Ex-spouse Ethel Virginia Chapman | |
Born December 28, 1890 ( 1890-12-28 ) Died June 10, 1967, Oceanside, New York, United States Awards Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Movies Going My Way, Road to Morocco, Babes in Toyland, Road to Bali, Wake Island Similar People Charley Rogers, Gus Meins, Barry Fitzgerald, Leo McCarey, Nick Grinde | ||
Occupation Actor and screenwriter | ||
Frank Butler (December 28, 1890 — June 10, 1967) was an American film and theatre actor and later an award winning screenwriter, born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.
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Theatre
His theatre career included two appearances (1920s–1930s) in Broadway-theatre productions in New York City, New York.
Film work
Butler's film career started with silent films in the early 1920s. He appeared in almost fifty films and wrote more than sixty screenplays. This included the 1937 film Champagne Waltz.
Awards
He co-won, with Frank Cavett, an Academy Award for Best Writing, [Adapted] Screenplay for the film Going My Way (1944). Butler had earlier been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) twice in the same year for both Road to Morocco and Wake Island, both released in 1942.
Filmography
Writer
1959
The Miracle (screenplay)
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Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) (original story - 1 episode, 1957) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1957)
- Hey, Mac (1957) - (original story) / (teleplay)
1955
Strange Lady in Town (original story and screenplay)
1954
Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) (film story - 1 episode)
- Welcome Stranger (1954) - (film story)
1952
Road to Bali (screenplay by) / (story by)
1950
Fancy Pants (contributing writer - uncredited)
1948
Whispering Smith (screenplay)
1947
Golden Earrings (screenplay)
1947
The Perils of Pauline (screenplay)
1947
Welcome Stranger (story)
1947
California (screenplay)
1946
The Kid from Brooklyn (from a screenplay by)
1945
Incendiary Blonde (screenplay)
1945
A Medal for Benny (screen play)
1944
Going My Way (screenplay)
1943
Hostages (screenplay)
1943
China (screenplay)
1942
Road to Morocco (original screenplay)
1942
Wake Island (screenplay)
1942
Beyond the Blue Horizon (screenplay)
1942
My Favorite Blonde (screenplay)
1941
Aloma of the South Seas (screenplay)
1941
Road to Zanzibar (screenplay)
1940
Rangers of Fortune (original screenplay)
1940
I Want a Divorce (screenplay)
1940
Untamed (screenplay)
1940
Road to Singapore (screen play)
1939
The Star Maker (screenplay)
1939
Island of Lost Men (play "Hangman's Whip")
1939
Never Say Die (screenplay)
1939
Paris Honeymoon (writer)
1938
Give Me a Sailor (screenplay)
1938
Tropic Holiday (story and screenplay)
1937
Waikiki Wedding (screen play) / (story)
1937
Champagne Waltz
1936
The Princess Comes Across (screen play)
1936
The Bohemian Girl (screenplay - uncredited)
1936
The Milky Way (screen play)
1936
Strike Me Pink (adaptation and screen play)
1935
Coronado (screenplay)
1935
Bonnie Scotland (screen play)
1935
Vagabond Lady (original screenplay)
1935
Beginner's Luck (Short)
1934
March of the Wooden Soldiers (screen play)
1934
Ladies Should Listen (screenplay)
1934
Search for Beauty (screen play by)
1933
Girl Without a Room (writer)
1933
White Woman (play "Hangman's Whip")
1933
The Way to Love (additional dialogue)
1933
College Humor (screenplay)
1932
Prosperity (story)
1932
When a Feller Needs a Friend (dialogue continuity by)
1930
New Moon (adaptation)
1930
Remote Control (scenario)
1930
Strictly Unconventional (scenario)
1930
Montana Moon (original story and continuity)
1929
China Bound (story)
1928
Just Married (adaptation) / (screenplay)
1928
The Big Killing (writer)
1927
Sailors, Beware! (Short) (uncredited)
1927
No Man's Law
1927
The Honorable Mr. Buggs (Short)
1926
The Nickel-Hopper (Short)
1921
Naughty Mary Brown (Short) (scenario - as F.R. Butler)
Actor
1951
Crime with Father (TV Series)
- The Woman Who Hated 1952 (1952)
- Episode dated 16 November 1951 (1951)
- Episode dated 12 October 1951 (1951)
1947
Variety Girl as
Frank Butler
1927
Seeing the World (Short) as
English pedestrian
1926
30 Below Zero as
Professor Amos Hopkins
1926
The Complete Life (Short)
1926
The Passionate Quest as
Lord 'Reggie' Towers
1926
Don Key (Son of Burro) (Short) as
Finn's Rival
1926
The Fighting Buckaroo as
Percy M. Wellington
1926
Made for Love as
Georgie Waddams - Joan's Suitor
1925
Tol'able Romeo (Short)
1925
Compromise as
Ole
1925
Satan in Sables as
Victor
1925
The Royal Four-Flush (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1925
Wild Papa (Short) as
Mr. Tewksbury Spat
1925
Black Hand Blues (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1925
Excuse My Glove (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1925
The Fox Hunt (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1925
Laugh That Off (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
The Rubber-Neck (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
Deaf, Dumb and Daffy (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
Hot Stuff (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
Lost Dog (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
South o' the North Pole (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
A Hardboiled Tenderfoot (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
Our Congressman (Short) as
Hemingway Abbott IV
1924
Radio Mad (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
Suffering Shakespeare (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
Bottle Babies (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
Hit the High Spots (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
The King of Wild Horses (uncredited)
1924
Hunters Bold (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
Political Pull (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1924
Help One Another (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1923
The Darkest Hour (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1923
The Great Outdoors (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1923
Roughing It (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1923
Heavy Seas (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1923
Call of the Wild as
Hal
1923
Let's Build (Short) as
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
1923
Bluebeard's 8th Wife as
Lord Henry Seville
1923
The Self-Made Wife as
Allerdyce
1923
The Tiger's Claw as
Inspector George Malvin
1922
My American Wife as
Horace Beresford (as F.R. Butler)
1922
A Tailor-Made Man as
Theodore Jellicot
1922
Beyond the Rocks as
Lord Wensleydon (as F. R. Butler)
1921
The Sheik as
Sir Aubrey Mayo
1921
The Great Moment as
Eustace (as F.R. Butler)
1920
Behold My Wife as
Captain Vidal (as F.R. Butler)
Script Department
1931
This Modern Age (dialogue continuity)
1930
Those Three French Girls (adaptation and continuity)
1929
Untamed (adaptation and continuity)
Director
1928
Flying Elephants (Short) (director: retakes)
References
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