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Frank Butler (I) (1890–1967)

Writer | Actor | Director

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Actor turned screenwriter.

Born:

in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Died:

(age 76) in Oceanside, Long Island, New York, USA
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1959 The Miracle (screenplay)
 
1955 Strange Lady in Town
 
1954 Lux Video Theatre (TV series)
– Welcome Stranger (1954) (film story)
 
1952 Road to Bali (screenplay / story)
 
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 (writer)
 
1943 China (writer)
 
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 I Want a Divorce (screenplay)
 
1940 Rangers of Fortune
 
1940 Untamed (screenplay)
 
1940 Road to Singapore (screenplay)
 
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 (screenplay / story)
 
1937 Champagne Waltz
 
1936 The Princess Comes Across (screen play)
 
1936 The Bohemian Girl (screenplay - uncredited)
 
1936 The Milky Way (screenplay)
 
1936 Strike Me Pink (adaptation and screenplay)
 
1935 Coronado (screenplay)
 
1935 Bonnie Scotland (screenplay)
 
1935 Vagabond Lady (original screenplay)
 
1934 Babes in Toyland (screen play)
 
1934 Ladies Should Listen
 
1934 Search for Beauty
 
1933 Girl Without a Room (writer)
 
1933 White Woman (play "Hangman's Whip")
 
1933 The Way to Love (additional dialogue)
 
1933 College Humor (writer)
 
1932 Prosperity (story)
 
1932 When a Fellow Needs a Friend
 
1931 This Modern Age
 
1930 New Moon (adaptation)
 
1930 Remote Control
 
1930 Those Three French Girls (adaptation and continuity)
 
1930 Strictly Unconventional (talking version)
 
1930 Montana Moon (screenplay / story)
 
1929 Untamed (writer)
 
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)
 
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1927 Seeing the World (short)
English pedestrian
 
1926 30 Below Zero
Professor Amos Hopkins
 
1926 The Complete Life (short)
 
1926 The Passionate Quest
Lord 'Reggie' Towers
 
1926 Don Key (Son of Burro) (short)
Finn's Rival
 
1926 The Fighting Buckaroo
Percy M. Wellington
 
1926 Made for Love
Freddie Waddams
 
1925 Tol'able Romeo (short)
 
1925 Compromise
Ole
 
1925 Satan in Sables
Victor
 
1925 The Royal Four-Flush (short)
 
1925 Wild Papa (short)
Tewksbury Spat
 
1925 Black Hand Blues (short)
 
1925 Excuse My Glove (short)
 
1925 The Fox Hunt (short)
 
1925 Laugh That Off (short)
 
1924 The Rubber-Neck (short)
 
1924 Black Hands (short)
 
1924 Deaf, Dumb and Daffy (short)
 
1924 Hot Stuff (short)
 
1924 Lost Dog (short)
 
1924 South o' the North Pole (short)
 
1924 A Hardboiled Tenderfoot (short)
 
1924 Our Congressman (short)
Hemingway Abbott IV
 
1924 Radio Mad (short)
 
1924 Suffering Shakespeare (short)
 
1924 Bottle Babies (short)
 
1924 Hit the High Spots (short)
 
1924 The King of the Wild Horses
 
1924 Hunters Bold (short)
 
1924 Political Pull (short)
 
1924 Help One Another (short)
 
1923 The Darkest Hour (short)
 
1923 The Great Outdoors (short)
 
1923 Roughing It (short)
 
1923 Heavy Seas (short)
 
1923 Call of the Wild
Hal
 
1923 Let's Build (short)
 
1923 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Lord Henry Seville
 
1923 The Self-Made Wife
Allerdyce
 
1923 The Tiger's Claw
Inspector George Malvin
 
1922 My American Wife
Horace Beresford (as F.R. Butler)
 
1922 A Tailor-Made Man
Theodore Jellicot
 
1922 Beyond the Rocks
Lord Wensleydon (as F. R. Butler)
 
1921 The Sheik
Sir Aubrey Mayo
 
1921 The Great Moment
Eustace (as F.R. Butler)
 
1920 Behold My Wife
Captain Vidal (as F.R. Butler)
 
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1928 Flying Elephants (short) (director: retakes)
 
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1947 Variety Girl
Himself
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(????) Playwright: "Hangman's Whip" (filmed as White Woman)

Alternate Names:

F. R. Butler | F.R. Butler

Height:

6' 0½" (1.84 m)
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Trivia:

Actor turned screenwriter. See more »

Star Sign:

Capricorn