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
- The Girl He Left Behind ... (Director)
- Prima Donna as Self - Introduction
- Glory ... (Director)
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
- The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady ... (Director)
- Tea for Two ... (Director)
1949
- The Story of Seabiscuit ... (Director)
- It's a Great Feeling as David Butler (uncredited)
- Look for the Silver Lining ... (Director)
- 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
- 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
- You'll Find Out ... (Director)
- If I Had My Way ... (Director)
1939
- That's Right – You're Wrong ... (Director)
- East Side of Heaven ... (Director)
1938
- Straight, Place and Show ... (Director)
- Kentucky Moonshine ... (Director)
- Kentucky ... (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 Little Colonel ... (Director)
- The Littlest Rebel ... (Director)
- Doubting Thomas ... (Director)
1934
- Bright Eyes ... (Director)
- Bottoms Up ... (Director)
- Handy Andy ... (Director)
- Have a Heart ... (Director)
1933
- Hold Me Tight ... (Director)
- My Weakness ... (Director)
1932
- Down To Earth ... (Director)
- Business and Pleasure ... (Director)
- Handle with Care ... (Director)
1931
- A Connecticut Yankee ... (Director)
- Delicious ... (Director)
1930
- Just Imagine ... (Director)
- High Society Blues ... (Director)
1929
- Masked Emotions ... (Director)
- Salute as Navy Coach
- Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 ... (Director)
- Chasing Through Europe ... (Director)
- Sunny Side Up ... (Producer)
1928
- News Parade ... (Director)
- Win That Girl ... (Director)
- Prep and Pep ... (Director)
1927
- 7th Heaven as Gobin
- Should Second Husbands Come First? as The Widow's Older Son
- Nobody's Widow as Ned Stevens
- High School Hero ... (Director)
- The Rush Hour as William Finch
1926
- The Blue Eagle as Nick 'Dizzy' Galvani
- The Quarterback as 'Lumpy' Goggins
- The Sap as Vance
- Womanpower as Mallory
- Oh, Baby!
1925
- Code of the West as Bid Hatfield
- The Man on the Box as Bob's Brother-in-Law
- The Plastic Age as James Henley
- The People vs. Nancy Preston as Bill Preston
- Tracked in the Snow Country as Terry Moulton
- His Majesty, Bunker Bean as Bud Matthews
- The Narrow Street as Ray Wyeth
- The Phantom Express as Jack Warren
- Havoc as Smithy
- Wages for Wives as Chester Logan
1924
- The Arizona Express as Steve Butler
1923
- Desire as Jerry Ryan
- The Hero as Bill Walters
- Hoodman Blind as Jack Yeulette
- Mary of the Movies as David Butler (uncredited)
- Poor Men's Wives as Jim Maherne
- The Temple of Venus as Nat Harper
- The Fog as Si Plumb
- Cause for Divorce as Tom Parker
1922
- According to Hoyle as "Boxcar" Simmons
- Conquering the Woman as Larry Saunders
- The Wise Kid as Freddie Smith
- The Village Blacksmith as Bill Hammond
1921
- The Sky Pilot as Bill Hendricks
1920
- Don't Ever Marry as Bill Fielding
- The County Fair as Joel Bartlett
- The Triflers
- Fickle Women as Calvin Price
1919
- Nugget Nell as Big Hearted Jim
- The Girl Who Stayed at Home as Johann August Kant
- A Petal on the Current as Ed Kinealy
- The Other Half as Cpl. Jimmy
- The Unpainted Woman as Charley Holt
- The Pointing Finger
- Better Times as Peter Van Alstyne
- 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)