Charles Butterworth

Charles Butterworth

Born: July 25, 1896
Died: June 13, 1946
in South Bend, Indiana, USA

Movies for Charles Butterworth...

Dixie Jamboree
Title: Dixie Jamboree
Character: Professor
Released: August 15, 1944
Type: Movie
A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them.
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Follow the Boys
Title: Follow the Boys
Character: Louie Fairweather
Released: May 5, 1944
Type: Movie
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
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Bermuda Mystery
Title: Bermuda Mystery
Character: Dr. Randolph Tilford
Released: May 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
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The Sultan's Daughter
Title: The Sultan's Daughter
Character: Sultan of Araband
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.
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Always a Bridesmaid
Title: Always a Bridesmaid
Character: Col. Thaddeus Winchester
Released: September 24, 1943
Type: Movie
The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The plot this time concerns a Lonely Hearts club which is used as a front by con artist Colonel Winchester (Charles Butterworth). Trying to promote a phony formula for synthetic rubber, Winchester gets mixed up with diligent young DA Tony Warren (Patric Knowles) and lady detective Linda Marlowe (Grace McDonald).
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This Is the Army
Title: This Is the Army
Character: Eddie Dibble
Released: August 14, 1943
Type: Movie
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
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Give Out, Sisters
Title: Give Out, Sisters
Character: Prof. Woof
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a financially foundering dance school for their newest production. One of the dancers, a rich young socialite, desperately wants to be in it too, but her prurient maiden aunts refuse to allow her to disgrace their family by becoming a common chorine. She and the club owner (who must have the aunt's permission because the girl is underage) try to convince them, but it's not easy.
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Night in New Orleans
Title: Night in New Orleans
Character: Edward Wallace
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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What's Cookin'?
Title: What's Cookin'?
Character: J. P. Courtney
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
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Sis Hopkins
Title: Sis Hopkins
Character: Horace Hopkins
Released: April 12, 1941
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
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Road Show
Title: Road Show
Character: Harry Whitman
Released: February 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
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Blonde Inspiration
Title: Blonde Inspiration
Character: 'Bittsy' Conway
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
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Second Chorus
Title: Second Chorus
Character: J. Lester Chisholm
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
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The Boys from Syracuse
Title: The Boys from Syracuse
Character: Duke of Ephesus
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
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Let Freedom Ring
Title: Let Freedom Ring
Character: The Mackerel
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
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Thanks for the Memory
Title: Thanks for the Memory
Character: Biney
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
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Hollywood Handicap
Title: Hollywood Handicap
Character: Himself
Released: May 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
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Every Day's a Holiday
Title: Every Day's a Holiday
Character: Larmadou Graves
Released: December 18, 1937
Type: Movie
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smooth the path for the reform mayoral candidate.
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Swing High, Swing Low
Title: Swing High, Swing Low
Character: Harry
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship with Maggie and his career.
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Rainbow on the River
Title: Rainbow on the River
Character: Barrett
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
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We Went to College
Title: We Went to College
Character: Glenn Harvey
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.
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Half Angel
Title: Half Angel
Character: Doc Felix
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
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The Moon's Our Home
Title: The Moon's Our Home
Character: Horace Van Steedan
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks loose as a comedic war of the sexes leads inevitably to love.
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Magnificent Obsession
Title: Magnificent Obsession
Character: Tommy Masterson
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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Orchids to You
Title: Orchids to You
Character: Teddy Stuyvesant
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
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Baby Face Harrington
Title: Baby Face Harrington
Character: Willie Harrington
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.
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The Night Is Young
Title: The Night Is Young
Character: Willy Fitch
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
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Forsaking All Others
Title: Forsaking All Others
Character: Shemp
Released: December 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
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Student Tour
Title: Student Tour
Character: Ethelred Lippincott
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Character: Algy Longworth / Mousey
Released: August 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
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Hollywood Party
Title: Hollywood Party
Character: Harvey Clemp
Released: May 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
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The Cat and the Fiddle
Title: The Cat and the Fiddle
Character: Charles
Released: February 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
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My Weakness
Title: My Weakness
Character: Gerald Gregory
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
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Penthouse
Title: Penthouse
Character: Layton
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
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The Nuisance
Title: The Nuisance
Character: Floppy Phil Montague
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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Love Me Tonight
Title: Love Me Tonight
Character: Count de Savignac
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
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Beauty and the Boss
Title: Beauty and the Boss
Character: Ludwig Pfeffer Jr.
Released: April 9, 1932
Type: Movie
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
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Manhattan Parade
Title: Manhattan Parade
Character: Herbert T. Herbert
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
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The Mad Genius
Title: The Mad Genius
Character: Karimsky
Released: September 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
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Side Show
Title: Side Show
Character: Sidney
Released: September 19, 1931
Type: Movie
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
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The Bargain
Title: The Bargain
Character: Geoffrey
Released: July 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Fake Louise Fazenda
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Illicit
Title: Illicit
Character: George 'Georgie' Evans
Released: February 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
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The Life of the Party
Title: The Life of the Party
Character: Colonel Joy
Released: October 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.
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Ladies of Leisure
Title: Ladies of Leisure
Character: Cocktail Shaking Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.