Ron Butler

Ron Butler


in Bahamas
Ronald "Ron/Ronnie" Butler, Jr. is a Bahamian-born American television actor, director and comedian who is best known for portraying Oscar, the clever receptionist, on the television series True Jackson, VP, from 2008 to 2011. He often portrays former President Barack Obama in comedy sketches. He has performed with the Atlantic Theater Company for over 20 years.

Butler is originally from the Bahamas. He is named after his father Ronnie Butler, Sr., a calypso singer, songwriter, and recording artist. As a child, Butler sometimes performed with his father. Butler grew up partly in the United States (Washington, D.C., Virginia, and the suburbs of Syracuse, New York) and partly in the Bahamas. He attended high school in the Bahamas and graduated magna cum laude from Trinity International University near Chicago, Illinois, receiving a B.A. in History and Economics in 1985.

Butler worked as an economic consultant for a law firm based in Washington, D.C., before beginning his acting career. While in Washington, Butler studied acting privately with Vera Katz of Howard University and performed in regional theatre around Washington. Later, he studied with David Mamet, William H. Macy, Felicity Huffman, Scott Zigler and Robert Bella of the Atlantic Theater Company.

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Movies for Ron Butler...

Tiny T. Rex And The Impossible Hug
Title: Tiny T. Rex And The Impossible Hug
Character: Tiny T. Rex
Released: April 9, 2021
Type: Movie
Tiny. T. Rex is concerned his tiny tyrannosaurus arms won’t be enough to comfort a good friend who is feeling down. After some deep thinking paired with rigorous physical training, he realizes big hugs come from big hearts.
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The Hungover Games
Title: The Hungover Games
Character: President Snowbama
Released: February 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Each year, drunk people are selected to participate in torturous games the morning after a big night out. There's no sunglasses, no water, and no headache medicine. "The Hungover Games," a film that manages to merge the premises of both "The Hunger Games" and "The Hangover" and throw in references to "Ted," "Django Unchained," "The Lord of the Rings," "Carrie," "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and whatever else crossed the writers' fevered brains during the probably very drunken "development process."
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Title: I Didn't Do It
Character: Mr. Kupchek
Released: January 17, 2014
Type: TV
Ultra-competitive fraternal twins Lindy and Logan Watson, together with their four best friends, navigate their freshman year of high school. Each episode begins with a comedic "what just happened?" situation as Lindy and Logan each spin their own vivid account of a certain occurrence or predicament. The series utilizes flashback scenes to tell the siblings' unique stories.
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Title: Dog with a Blog
Character: Director
Released: October 12, 2012
Type: TV
Avery Jennings and Tyler James are step-siblings who are complete opposites. The family faces an even bigger adjustment when their new dog, Stan, can talk and also has a blog, unbeknownst to the family. Stan uses his blog to discuss the happenings in the Jennings-James household. Avery and Tyler later learn of Stan's talking ability and agree to keep it a secret from their parents.
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Title: Old Dogs & New Tricks
Character: Barack Obama
Released: July 30, 2011
Type: TV
Does (sex) life end for gay men as they face 50? Watch Nathan, Brad, Muscles & Ross stumble through middle-age in an alternate universe called West Hollywood.
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Title: True Jackson, VP
Character: Oscar
Released: November 8, 2008
Type: TV
A 15-year-old fashionista lands the opportunity of a lifetime when the CEO of Mad Style hires her as the vice president of its youth apparel division.
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Smother
Title: Smother
Character: Friendly Man
Released: September 26, 2008
Type: Movie
After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with the young couple.
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Title: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Character: Social Worker
Released: January 13, 2008
Type: TV
The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.
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Title: The ½ Hour News Hour
Character: Barack Obama
Released: February 18, 2007
Type: TV
The 1/2 Hour News Hour was an American television news satire show that aired on the Fox News Channel. The program presented news stories from a conservative perspective, using a satirical format pioneered by Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and The Daily Show. The first pilot aired on February 18, 2007, and the second on March 4, 2007. Fox News Channel later purchased 13 more episodes of the show, which started airing on May 13, 2007. The show was cancelled and the final episode aired on September 23, 2007. Cast and crew of the show included Kurt Long, Jennifer Robertson, Manny Coto, and Ned Rice. Longtime Weekend Update anchor Dennis Miller was a regular contributor to the program with his "The Buck Starts Here" segment.
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Title: Torchwood
Character: Senior Professor
Released: October 22, 2006
Type: TV
The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
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Title: How I Met Your Mother
Character: Proctor
Released: September 19, 2005
Type: TV
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
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Title: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Character: Scientist
Released: August 4, 2005
Type: TV
Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Jordan Shouse
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Title: Summerland
Released: June 1, 2004
Type: TV
Bradin, Nikki and Derrick are 3 kids from an average normal Kansas household. Their whole life is thrown upside-down when their parents are tragically killed in a car accident. Ava Gregory (their aunt) gets custody of her niece and nephews and they move into her Californian home (in Summerland). Ava, a struggling clothes designer, lives with her best friend and business partner, Susannah Rexford, her friend, an ex- pro.surfer, Jay Robertson and her ex-boyfriend, real estate agent, Johnny Durrant. All four of them are highly unequipped to handle children and are not use to including them in their everyday lives.
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Spartan
Title: Spartan
Character: Headquarters Agent
Released: March 12, 2004
Type: Movie
U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.
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Everyday People
Title: Everyday People
Character: Ron Harding
Released: January 18, 2004
Type: Movie
The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Mr. Roberts
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: TV
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Title: Crossing Jordan
Character: Calvin Dobbs, Hopper's Attorney
Released: September 24, 2001
Type: TV
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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Title: Crossing Jordan
Character: Lawyer
Released: September 24, 2001
Type: TV
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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Jeffrey's Hollywood Screen Trick
Title: Jeffrey's Hollywood Screen Trick
Character: Carlos
Released: June 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Inspired by bright and sunny gay romantic comedies, Jeffrey’s Hollywood Screen Trick brings fifty anatomically-exceptional “Billy dolls” to life through stop-motion animation on 35mm film.
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Homicide
Title: Homicide
Character: Rookie
Released: May 28, 1991
Type: Movie
A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.