Frank Butler

Frank Butler

Born: December 27, 1890
Died: June 10, 1967
in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Movies for Frank Butler...

Variety Girl
Title: Variety Girl
Character: Frank Butler
Released: August 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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Seeing the World
Title: Seeing the World
Character: English pedestrian
Released: February 13, 1927
Type: Movie
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, London, and finally Paris, where problems arise on top of the Eiffel Tower.
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30 Below Zero
Title: 30 Below Zero
Character: Professor Amos Hopkins
Released: October 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Don Hathaway Jr. goes to Alaska to escape Follies girl and meets with an accident. The girl helps him and takes him to her home where jealous rival accuses him of being a bootlegger, when he is the culprit himself. Hero proves innocence and defeats rival for affection of girl.
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Don Key (Son of Burro)
Title: Don Key (Son of Burro)
Character: Finn's Rival
Released: May 23, 1926
Type: Movie
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
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The Fighting Buckaroo
Title: The Fighting Buckaroo
Character: Percy M. Wellington
Released: April 4, 1926
Type: Movie
There's gold in them thar hills and Larry Crawford must fight the unscrupulous Bradley and his men to keep it safe.
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Made for Love
Title: Made for Love
Character: Freddie Waddams
Released: January 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she's traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don't share her boyfriend's attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known.
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Satan in Sables
Title: Satan in Sables
Character: Victor
Released: October 14, 1925
Type: Movie
A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
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Wild Papa
Title: Wild Papa
Released: May 17, 1925
Type: Movie
The story revolves around two brothers-in-law as business partners in a cloak and suit establishment with a ravishing model as go-between. The married member of the firm scoffs at his partner's declaration that the beautiful model vamp is in love with him. He is soon proven otherwise when he sees her enter the room.
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Hot Stuff
Title: Hot Stuff
Character: Mr. Tewksberry Spat
Released: November 1, 1924
Type: Movie
In the 16th episode of Hal Roach's Spat Family series, the Spats order a fire engine from a mail catalogue-- and soon they'll need it!
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The Great Outdoors
Title: The Great Outdoors
Character: Mr. Tewksberry Spat
Released: December 2, 1923
Type: Movie
The Spats go on a camping trip that begins with the destruction of their cabin and ends with them being pursued by bandits, a railroad bull, and the police. The Great Outdoors is the fourth episode of The Spat Family series.
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Heavy Seas
Title: Heavy Seas
Character: Mr. Tewksberry Spat
Released: October 7, 1923
Type: Movie
Second release in 'The Spat Family' series of 2-reel comedies. In this episode the three of them win a yacht in a tombola and quarrel over the captaincy while Mrs TS goes swimming and risks getting lost.
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The Call of the Wild
Title: The Call of the Wild
Character: Hal
Released: September 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A dog is stolen from his home in England and shipped to Canada to become a sled dog. Based on the novel by Jack London.
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Let's Build
Title: Let's Build
Character: Mr. Tewksberry Spat
Released: September 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Angelica and J. Tewkesbury Spat along with Mrs. Spat's brother Ambrose decide to build a house. It is finished in only 48 hours, but their carpentry skills may not be up to snuff. The first episode of The Spat Family series.
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Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Title: Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Character: Lord Henry Seville
Released: August 5, 1923
Type: Movie
John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when he is in Paris, Mona de Briac comes into his life. Mona comes from an noble family who is facing ruin.
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A Self Made Wife
Title: A Self Made Wife
Character: Allerdyce
Released: July 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, drab woman with no social skills whatsoever. Tim gets so embarrassed by her that he hires a "social secretary" for her to teach her how to function in the social strata in which they find themselves.
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The Tiger's Claw
Title: The Tiger's Claw
Character: Inspector George Malvin
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwood, nurses him back to health and out of gratitude he marries her, ignoring the fact that he has a fiancée, Harriet Halehurst (Eva Novak), back home.
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My American Wife
Title: My American Wife
Character: Horace Beresford (as F.R. Butler)
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 film.
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A Tailor-Made Man
Title: A Tailor-Made Man
Character: Theodore Jellicot
Released: August 5, 1922
Type: Movie
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
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Beyond the Rocks
Title: Beyond the Rocks
Character: Lord Wensleydon
Released: May 7, 1922
Type: Movie
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
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The Sheik
Title: The Sheik
Character: Sir Aubrey Mayo
Released: November 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
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The Great Moment
Title: The Great Moment
Character: Eustace
Released: September 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Russian Gypsy, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin, whom she does not love. During a trip to Nevada with her father, she meets engineer Bayard Delavel, who saves her life when she is bitten by a snake; when her father finds her with Bayard in his cabin, he forces them to marry. Believing that Nadine does not love him, Delavel leaves her and prepares to sue for divorce.