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Overview
Date of Birth:
Trivia:
Actor turned screenwriter.
Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another
3 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Going My Way – Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald – d: Leo McCarey
(From Alternative Film Guide. 28 November 2009, 7:52 PM, PST)
Photo Flash: Happy Days At The Guthrie
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 16 February 2009, 11:15 AM, PST)
(From Alternative Film Guide. 28 November 2009, 7:52 PM, PST)
Photo Flash: Happy Days At The Guthrie
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 16 February 2009, 11:15 AM, PST)
Alternate Names:
F. R. Butler | F.R. Butler
Filmography
Writer:
- The Miracle (1959) (screenplay)
- Strange Lady in Town (1955) (writer)
- "Lux Video Theatre" (1 episode, 1954)
... aka Summer Video Theatre (USA: summer title)
- Welcome Stranger (1954) TV episode (film story) - Road to Bali (1952) (writer)
- Whispering Smith (1948) (writer)
- Golden Earrings (1947) (writer)
- The Perils of Pauline (1947) (screenplay)
- Welcome Stranger (1947) (story)
- California (1947) (writer)
- The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) (1936 screenplay The Milky Way)
- Incendiary Blonde (1945) (screenplay)
- A Medal for Benny (1945) (writer)
- Going My Way (1944) (screenplay)
- Hostages (1943) (writer)
- China (1943) (writer)
- Road to Morocco (1942) (original screenplay)
- Wake Island (1942) (screenplay)
- Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942) (screenplay)
- My Favorite Blonde (1942) (screenplay)
- Aloma of the South Seas (1941) (screenplay)
- Road to Zanzibar (1941) (screenplay)
- I Want a Divorce (1940) (screenplay)
... aka The Tragedy of Divorce (UK: new title) - Rangers of Fortune (1940) (writer)
- Untamed (1940) (screenplay)
- Road to Singapore (1940) (screenplay)
- The Star Maker (1939) (writer)
- Island of Lost Men (1939) (play "Hangman's Whip")
- Never Say Die (1939) (writer)
- Paris Honeymoon (1939) (writer)
- Give Me a Sailor (1938) (writer)
- Tropic Holiday (1938) (story and screenplay)
- Waikiki Wedding (1937) (screenplay) (story)
- Champagne Waltz (1937) (writer)
- The Princess Comes Across (1936) (screenplay)
- The Bohemian Girl (1936) (screenplay) (uncredited)
- The Milky Way (1936) (writer)
- Strike Me Pink (1936) (adaptation and screenplay)
- Coronado (1935) (screenplay)
- Bonnie Scotland (1935) (writer)
... aka Heroes of the Regiment (USA: reissue title) - Vagabond Lady (1935) (original screenplay)
... aka The Girl Is Mine - Babes in Toyland (1934) (dialogue)
... aka Laurel and Hardy in Toyland
... aka March of the Wooden Soldiers (USA: reissue title)
... aka Revenge Is Sweet
... aka Wooden Soldiers - Ladies Should Listen (1934) (writer)
- Search for Beauty (1934) (writer)
- Girl Without a Room (1933) (writer)
- White Woman (1933) (story)
- The Way to Love (1933) (additional dialogue)
- College Humor (1933) (writer)
- Prosperity (1932) (story)
- When a Fellow Needs a Friend (1932) (writer)
... aka When a Feller Needs a Friend (USA: review title) - This Modern Age (1931) (writer)
- New Moon (1930) (adaptation)
- Remote Control (1930) (writer)
- Those Three French Girls (1930) (adaptation and continuity)
- Strictly Unconventional (1930) (talking version)
- Montana Moon (1930) (screenplay) (story)
- Untamed (1929) (writer)
- China Bound (1929) (story)
- Just Married (1928) (adaptation) (screenplay)
- The Big Killing (1928) (writer)
- Sailors Beware (1927) (uncredited)
- No Man's Law (1927) (writer)
... aka Man's Law (UK)
... aka No Man's Land - The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927) (writer)
- The Nickel-Hopper (1926) (writer)
- Naughty Mary Brown (1921) (scenario) (as F.R. Butler)
Actor:
- Seeing the World (1927) .... English pedestrian
- 30 Below Zero (1926) .... Professor Amos Hopkins
- The Complete Life (1926)
- The Passionate Quest (1926) .... Lord 'Reggie' Towers
- Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926) .... Finn's Rival
- The Fighting Buckaroo (1926) .... Percy M. Wellington
- Made for Love (1926) .... Freddie Waddams
- Tol'able Romeo (1925)
- Compromise (1925) .... Ole
- Satan in Sables (1925) .... Victor
- The Royal Four-Flush (1925)
- Wild Papa (1925) .... Tewksbury Spat
- Black Hand Blues (1925)
- Excuse My Glove (1925)
- The Fox Hunt (1925)
- Laugh That Off (1925)
- The Rubber-Neck (1924)
- Black Hands (1924)
- Deaf, Dumb and Daffy (1924)
- Hot Stuff (1924)
- Lost Dog (1924)
- South o' the North Pole (1924)
- A Hardboiled Tenderfoot (1924)
- Our Congressman (1924) .... Hemingway Abbott IV
... aka Alfalfa Doolittle, Our Congressman (USA) - Radio Mad (1924)
- Suffering Shakespeare (1924)
- Bottle Babies (1924)
- Hit the High Spots (1924)
- The King of the Wild Horses (1924)
- Hunters Bold (1924)
- Political Pull (1924)
- Help One Another (1924)
- The Darkest Hour (1923)
- The Great Outdoors (1923)
- Roughing It (1923)
- Heavy Seas (1923)
- Call of the Wild (1923) .... Hal
- Let's Build (1923)
- Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1923) .... Lord Henry Seville
- The Self-Made Wife (1923) .... Allerdyce
- The Tiger's Claw (1923) .... Inspector George Malvin
- My American Wife (1922) (as F.R. Butler) .... Horace Beresford
- A Tailor-Made Man (1922) .... Theodore Jellicot
... aka A Tailor Made Man - Beyond the Rocks (1922) (as F. R. Butler) .... Lord Wensleydon
- The Sheik (1921) .... Sir Aubrey Mayo
- The Great Moment (1921) (as F.R. Butler) .... Eustace
- Behold My Wife (1920) (as F.R. Butler) .... Captain Vidal
Director:
- Flying Elephants (1928) (director: retakes)
Self:
- Variety Girl (1947) .... Himself
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Stage actor.
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