Richard Butler

Richard Butler

Born: October 30, 1924
Died: April 23, 2003
in Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Richard Butler was a Bradford born British actor who appeared mostly on television in a career that stretched back to the live broadcasts of the early 1950s. He is perhaps best known for playing the vicar officiating at Charles and Henrietta's abortive wedding in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral. He died on April 23, 2003 in Surrey, England.

Movies for Richard Butler...

Some Mother's Son
Title: Some Mother's Son
Character: MP (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Title: Four Weddings and a Funeral
Character: Vicar - Wedding Four
Released: March 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Sam Wilson
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Ernest
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Shoot to Kill
Title: Shoot to Kill
Character: Chief Constable Colin Sampson
Released: June 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
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Further and Particular
Title: Further and Particular
Character: Paul
Released: September 9, 1988
Type: Movie
An old man remembers the troubled relationship he had with his mother, the erotic games, and the phantasms in which she managed to attract him. The main line gives but a small idea of the film, of its erotic style, its choreographic dimension, its strange fragmentation. The film drifts along an ever-renewed invention, intertwining lavish dances, mask games, musical comedy, parodies, permanent repression of the body offering itself as an object of desire to the viewer who is literally seduced.’
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The Storyteller: The Three Ravens
Title: The Storyteller: The Three Ravens
Character: Second king
Released: June 19, 1988
Type: Movie
A witch weds a widowed king. Finding that his children pose a threat to her, she transforms the three boys into ravens. The girl escapes but is told she must remain silent for three years, or the boys will be trapped in raven form forever.
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Birth of a Nation
Title: Birth of a Nation
Character: Mr Griff
Released: June 19, 1983
Type: Movie
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
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Scrubbers
Title: Scrubbers
Character: Governor
Released: September 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
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Who Dares Wins
Title: Who Dares Wins
Character: Dignitary
Released: August 26, 1982
Type: Movie
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
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That Crazy Woman
Title: That Crazy Woman
Character: Harry Moore
Released: February 21, 1980
Type: Movie
In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian.
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Title: Terry and June
Character: Chelsea Supporter
Released: October 24, 1979
Type: TV
Terry and June Medford are both middle aged and beginning to find the trials of life are more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives. The couple have just moved to Purley, south-east London... Aunt Lucy and the mynah bird had disappeared, as had the occasionally visiting daughters. Terry and June now mixed with a friendly next door neighbour, Beattie; Terry's chatty work colleague, Malcolm; and their gruff boss Sir Dennis Hodge. Otherwise, things were much as before, with Terry's pigheaded childishness causing no end of problems, usually thwarting June's attempts at leading a cosy life.
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The Vanishing Army
Title: The Vanishing Army
Character: Ellis
Released: November 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Career army man Bill Paterson faces discharge in this examination of the harsh treatment of British NCOs.
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The Man with the Power
Title: The Man with the Power
Character: Mr. Harris
Released: November 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual voyage that leads to Adler, a 'sensitive', and finally to the devil himself.
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One Day at a Time
Title: One Day at a Time
Character: Ronald
Released: November 22, 1977
Type: Movie
An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
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Scum
Title: Scum
Character: Governor
Released: November 8, 1977
Type: Movie
A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders.
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The Naked Civil Servant
Title: The Naked Civil Servant
Character: Senior Doctor
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
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The Nearly Man
Title: The Nearly Man
Character: Geoff
Released: October 10, 1974
Type: Movie
A middle class man finds life as a Labour MP challenging.
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Title: Bedtime Stories
Character: Major Burton
Released: March 3, 1974
Type: TV
Modern-day interpretation of fairy tales, with a contemporary, darker twist.
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Chariot of Fire
Title: Chariot of Fire
Character: Prison Governor
Released: May 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
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Title: Special Branch
Character: Commander Nicols
Released: September 17, 1969
Type: TV
Special Branch is a British television. A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.
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The House That Jigger Built
Title: The House That Jigger Built
Character: Harry Garbutt
Released: September 17, 1968
Type: Movie
Jigger has made money from dodgy building deals. Some of his family are grateful for what he has done for them, but some deplore his dishonesty.
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Title: The Scales of Justice
Character: William Milsom
Released: January 11, 1962
Type: TV
Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Merton Park recipe of familiar British actors in tightly plotted screenplays (based on real cases) with better than usual B movies production standards. All thirteen have now (Oct 2012) been released on DVD by Network.