David Butler
Born: 1894-12-16 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 1979-06-14
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Butler (December 17, 1894 – June 14, 1979) was an American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director. Butler was born in San Francisco, California. His mother was an actress and his father was a theater stage manager. His first acting roles were playing extras in stage plays. He later appeared in two D. W. Griffith films, The Girl Who Stayed Home and The Greatest Thing in Life. He also appeared in the 1927 Academy-Award winning film 7th Heaven. The same year, Butler made his directorial debut with High School Hero, a comedy for Fox. During Butler's nine-year tenure at Fox, he directed over thirty films, including four Shirley Temple vehicles. Butler's last film for Fox, Kentucky, won Walter Brennan an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Butler worked with Bing Crosby in Road to Morocco and If I Had My Way. He directed many films starring Doris Day, among them It's a Great Feeling, Tea for Two, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Lullaby of Broadway, April in Paris, and Calamity Jane. During the late '50s and 1960s, Butler directed primarily television episodes, mainly for Leave It to Beaver and Wagon Train. For his contributions to the film industry, Butler was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 with a motion pictures star located at 6561 Hollywood Boulevard.
Filmography
2010
- Edgar Floats ... (Set Costumer)
1967
- C'mon, Let's Live a Little ... (Director)
1965
- Camp Runamuck ... (Director)
1964
- Daniel Boone ... (Director)
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre ... (Director)
- The Patty Duke Show ... (Director)
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Right Approach ... (Director)
1960
- Overland Trail ... (Director)
1959
- The Twilight Zone ... (Director)
- The Deputy ... (Director)
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip ... (Director)
1957
- Leave It to Beaver ... (Director)
- M Squad ... (Director)
1956
- Glory ... (Director)
- The Girl He Left Behind ... (Director)
- Prima Donna as Self - Introduction
1955
- Screen Director's Playhouse ... (Director)
- Jump Into Hell ... (Director)
1954
- King Richard and the Crusaders ... (Director)
- The Command ... (Director)
1953
- Calamity Jane ... (Director)
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon ... (Director)
1952
- April in Paris ... (Director)
- Where's Charley? ... (Director)
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ... (Director)
- Painting the Clouds with Sunshine ... (Director)
- Lullaby of Broadway ... (Director)
1950
- Tea for Two ... (Director)
- The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady ... (Director)
1949
- It's a Great Feeling as David Butler (uncredited)
- John Loves Mary ... (Director)
- The Story of Seabiscuit ... (Director)
- Look for the Silver Lining ... (Director)
1948
- Two Guys from Texas ... (Director)
1947
- My Wild Irish Rose ... (Director)
1946
- Two Guys from Milwaukee ... (Director)
- The Time, The Place and The Girl ... (Director)
1945
- San Antonio ... (Director)
1944
- The Princess and the Pirate ... (Director)
- Shine on Harvest Moon ... (Director)
1943
- Thank Your Lucky Stars as Self (uncredited)
- They Got Me Covered ... (Director)
1942
- Road to Morocco ... (Director)
1941
- Caught in the Draft ... (Director)
- Playmates ... (Director)
1940
- If I Had My Way ... (Director)
- You'll Find Out ... (Director)
1939
- East Side of Heaven ... (Director)
- That's Right – You're Wrong ... (Director)
1938
- Kentucky ... (Director)
- Straight, Place and Show ... (Director)
- Kentucky Moonshine ... (Director)
1937
- Ali Baba Goes to Town ... (Director)
- You're a Sweetheart ... (Director)
1936
- Captain January ... (Director)
- Pigskin Parade ... (Director)
- White Fang ... (Director)
1935
- The Littlest Rebel ... (Director)
- The Little Colonel ... (Director)
- Doubting Thomas ... (Director)
1934
- Bright Eyes ... (Director)
- Have a Heart ... (Director)
- Bottoms Up ... (Director)
- Handy Andy ... (Director)
1933
- My Weakness ... (Director)
- Hold Me Tight ... (Director)
1932
- Down To Earth ... (Director)
- Handle with Care ... (Director)
- Business and Pleasure ... (Director)
1931
- A Connecticut Yankee ... (Director)
- Delicious ... (Director)
1930
- Just Imagine ... (Director)
- High Society Blues ... (Story)
1929
- Salute as Navy Coach
- Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 ... (Writer)
- Sunny Side Up ... (Producer)
- Masked Emotions ... (Director)
- Chasing Through Europe ... (Director)
1928
- Prep and Pep ... (Director)
- News Parade ... (Director)
- Win That Girl ... (Director)
1927
- 7th Heaven as Gobin
- The Rush Hour as William Finch
- Should Second Husbands Come First? as The Widow's Older Son
- High School Hero ... (Director)
- Nobody's Widow as Ned Stevens
1926
- The Blue Eagle as Nick 'Dizzy' Galvani
- The Quarterback as 'Lumpy' Goggins
- The Sap as Vance
- Womanpower as Mallory
- Oh, Baby!
1925
- The Plastic Age as James Henley
- Code of the West as Bid Hatfield
- His Majesty, Bunker Bean as Bud Matthews
- Havoc as Smithy
- The Narrow Street as Ray Wyeth
- Wages for Wives as Chester Logan
- Tracked in the Snow Country as Terry Moulton
- The Man on the Box as Bob's Brother-in-Law
- The People vs. Nancy Preston as Bill Preston
- The Phantom Express as Jack Warren
1924
- The Arizona Express as Steve Butler
1923
- The Fog as Si Plumb
- Mary of the Movies as David Butler (uncredited)
- The Temple of Venus as Nat Harper
- Desire as Jerry Ryan
- Poor Men's Wives as Jim Maherne
- The Hero as Bill Walters
- Cause for Divorce as Tom Parker
- Hoodman Blind as Jack Yeulette
1922
- Conquering the Woman as Larry Saunders
- According to Hoyle as "Boxcar" Simmons
- The Village Blacksmith as Bill Hammond
- The Wise Kid as Freddie Smith
1921
- The Sky Pilot as Bill Hendricks
1920
- Don't Ever Marry as Bill Fielding
- The Triflers
- The County Fair as Joel Bartlett
- Fickle Women as Calvin Price
1919
- The Girl Who Stayed at Home as Johann August Kant
- Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie as David
- Better Times as Peter Van Alstyne
- The Other Half as Cpl. Jimmy
- A Petal on the Current as Ed Kinealy
- Nugget Nell as Big Hearted Jim
- The Pointing Finger
- The Unpainted Woman as Charley Holt
1918
- The Greatest Thing in Life as Mr. Le Bebe
1916
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as Babylonian Soldier (uncredited)
1915
- The Birth of a Nation as Northern Soldier / Confederate Soldier (uncredited)