Frank Butler | |
|---|---|
| Born | Frank Russell Butler December 28, 1889 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Died | June 10, 1967 (aged 76) Oceanside, California, US. |
| Occupation(s) | Actor and screenwriter |
| Years active | 1920–1959 |
| Spouses | Margaret Annie Dansey Addis
(m. 1912, divorced)Helen Lue Huntoon
(m. 1921; div. 1926)Ethel Virginia Chapman
(m. 1927) |
Frank Russell Butler (December 28, 1889 – June 10, 1967) was an American film and theatre actor and later an award-winning screenwriter, born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England to parents Frederick Butler and Sarah Ann Hedges. His son, Hugo Butler, also became a Hollywood screenwriter.
His theatre career included two appearances (1920s–1930s) in Broadway-theatre productions in New York City.[citation needed]
Butler's film career started with silent films in the early 1920s. He appeared in almost fifty films and wrote more than sixty screenplays. This included the 1937 film Champagne Waltz.[citation needed]
He co-won, with Frank Cavett, the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Going My Way (1944).[1] Butler had earlier been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) twice in the same year, for Road to Morocco and Wake Island, both released in 1942.
