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)
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
- The Command ... (Director)
- King Richard and the Crusaders ... (Director)
1953
- Calamity Jane ... (Director)
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon ... (Director)
1952
- April in Paris ... (Director)
- Where's Charley? ... (Director)
1951
- Lullaby of Broadway ... (Director)
- Painting The Clouds With Sunshine ... (Director)
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ... (Director)
1950
- Tea for Two ... (Director)
- The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady ... (Director)
1949
- The Story of Seabiscuit ... (Director)
- Look for the Silver Lining ... (Director)
- It's a Great Feeling as David Butler (uncredited)
- John Loves Mary ... (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
- They Got Me Covered ... (Director)
- Thank Your Lucky Stars as Self (uncredited)
1942
- Road to Morocco ... (Director)
1941
- Playmates ... (Director)
- Caught in the Draft ... (Director)
1940
- You'll Find Out ... (Director)
- If I Had My Way ... (Director)
1939
- East Side of Heaven ... (Director)
- That's Right – You're Wrong ... (Director)
1938
- Kentucky Moonshine ... (Director)
- Kentucky ... (Director)
- Straight, Place and Show ... (Director)
1937
- Ali Baba Goes to Town ... (Director)
- You're a Sweetheart ... (Director)
1936
- Captain January ... (Director)
- Pigskin Parade ... (Director)
- White Fang ... (Director)
1935
- Doubting Thomas ... (Director)
- The Littlest Rebel ... (Director)
- The Little Colonel ... (Director)
1934
- Bright Eyes ... (Director)
- Handy Andy ... (Director)
- Bottoms Up ... (Director)
- Have a Heart ... (Director)
1933
- My Weakness ... (Director)
- Hold Me Tight ... (Director)
1932
- Handle with Care ... (Director)
- Down To Earth ... (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
- Masked Emotions ... (Director)
- Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 ... (Writer)
- Sunny Side Up ... (Producer)
1928
- Prep and Pep ... (Director)
- Win That Girl ... (Director)
1927
- 7th Heaven as Gobin
- Nobody's Widow as Ned Stevens
- High School Hero ... (Director)
- Should Second Husbands Come First? as The Widow's Older Son
- The Rush Hour as William Finch
1926
- Womanpower as Mallory
- The Quarterback as 'Lumpy' Goggins
- The Sap as Vance
- The Blue Eagle as Nick 'Dizzy' Galvani
- Oh, Baby!
1925
- Havoc as Smithy
- The Plastic Age as James Henley
- His Majesty, Bunker Bean as Bud Matthews
- Tracked in the Snow Country as Terry Moulton
- Code of the West as Bid Hatfield
- The Narrow Street as Ray Wyeth
- The People vs. Nancy Preston as Bill Preston
- Wages for Wives as Chester Logan
1924
- The Arizona Express as Steve Butler
1923
- The Hero as Bill Walters
- Desire as Jerry Ryan
- The Temple of Venus as Nat Harper
- Mary of the Movies as David Butler (uncredited)
- Hoodman Blind as Jack Yeulette
- Poor Men's Wives as Jim Maherne
- The Fog as Si Plumb
- Cause for Divorce as Tom Parker
1922
- The Wise Kid as Freddie Smith
- According to Hoyle as "Boxcar" Simmons
- The Village Blacksmith as Bill Hammond
1921
- The Sky Pilot as Bill Hendricks
1920
- Fickle Women as Calvin Price
- The County Fair as Joel Bartlett
- The Triflers
1919
- A Petal on the Current as Ed Kinealy
- Better Times as Peter Van Alstyne
- The Girl Who Stayed at Home as Johann August Kant
- The Other Half as Cpl. Jimmy
- Nugget Nell as Big Hearted Jim
- The Pointing Finger
- Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie as David
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)