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David Butler

David Butler

Director · Born 1894-12-16 · San Francisco, California, USA

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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 Wag…

Directed

  1. The Twilight Zone (1959) — Director
  2. Calamity Jane (1953) — Director
  3. Leave It to Beaver (1957) — Director
  4. Road to Morocco (1942) — Director
  5. Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) — Director
  6. The Little Colonel (1935) — Director
  7. The Littlest Rebel (1935) — Director
  8. It's a Great Feeling (1949) — Director
  9. Daniel Boone (1964) — Director
  10. Tea for Two (1950) — Director
  11. Bright Eyes (1934) — Director
  12. The Princess and the Pirate (1944) — Director
  13. You'll Find Out (1940) — Director
  14. Just Imagine (1930) — Director
  15. 77 Sunset Strip (1958) — Director
  16. Captain January (1936) — Director
  17. San Antonio (1945) — Director
  18. By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) — Director
  19. Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937) — Director
  20. Caught in the Draft (1941) — Director
  21. Lullaby of Broadway (1951) — Director
  22. The Patty Duke Show (1963) — Director
  23. The Command (1954) — Director
  24. Pigskin Parade (1936) — Director
  25. You're a Sweetheart (1937) — Director
  26. The Story of Seabiscuit (1949) — Director
  27. King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) — Director
  28. April in Paris (1952) — Director
  29. Sunny Side Up (1929) — Director
  30. Kentucky (1938) — Director
  31. They Got Me Covered (1943) — Director
  32. Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946) — Director
  33. A Connecticut Yankee (1931) — Director
  34. Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) — Director
  35. East Side of Heaven (1939) — Director
  36. If I Had My Way (1940) — Director
  37. Look for the Silver Lining (1949) — Director
  38. My Wild Irish Rose (1947) — Director
  39. John Loves Mary (1949) — Director
  40. M Squad (1957) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Birth of a Nation (1915) — Northern Soldier / Confederate Soldier (uncredited)
  2. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) — Babylonian Soldier (uncredited)
  3. 7th Heaven (1927) — Gobin
  4. Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) — Self (uncredited)
  5. It's a Great Feeling (1949) — David Butler (uncredited)
  6. The Plastic Age (1925) — James Henley
  7. The Merv Griffin Show (1962) — Self
  8. The Blue Eagle (1926) — Nick 'Dizzy' Galvani
  9. The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919) — Johann August Kant
  10. The Sky Pilot (1921) — Bill Hendricks
  11. The County Fair (1920) — Joel Bartlett
  12. The Arizona Express (1924) — Steve Butler
  13. The Village Blacksmith (1922) — Bill Hammond
  14. Salute (1929) — Navy Coach
  15. The Other Half (1919) — Cpl. Jimmy
  16. Should Second Husbands Come First? (1927) — The Widow's Older Son
  17. Cause for Divorce (1923) — Tom Parker
  18. Hoodman Blind (1923) — Jack Yeulette
  19. The Quarterback (1926) — 'Lumpy' Goggins
  20. The Man on the Box (1925) — Bob's Brother-in-Law
  21. Mary of the Movies (1923) — David Butler (uncredited)
  22. The Rush Hour (1927) — William Finch
  23. Nobody's Widow (1927) — Ned Stevens
  24. Nugget Nell (1919) — Big Hearted Jim
  25. Tracked in the Snow Country (1925) — Terry Moulton
  26. Havoc (1925) — Smithy
  27. Code of the West (1925) — Bid Hatfield
  28. Womanpower (1926) — Mallory
  29. The Triflers (1920)
  30. A Petal on the Current (1919) — Ed Kinealy
  31. Fickle Women (1920) — Calvin Price
  32. The Narrow Street (1925) — Ray Wyeth
  33. The Temple of Venus (1923) — Nat Harper
  34. His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925) — Bud Matthews
  35. Poor Men's Wives (1923) — Jim Maherne
  36. The Pointing Finger (1919)
  37. The Fog (1923) — Si Plumb
  38. Oh, Baby! (1926)
  39. According to Hoyle (1922) — "Boxcar" Simmons
  40. Wages for Wives (1925) — Chester Logan