Quick Facts
Biography
Frank Butler (December 28, 1890 — June 10, 1967) was an American, born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England film and theatre actor and later an award winning screenwriter.
Career
Theatre
His theatre career included two appearances (1920s–1930s) in Broadway-theatre productions in New York City, New York.
Film work
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.
Awards
He co-won, with Frank Cavett, an Academy Award for Best Writing, [Adapted] Screenplay for the film Going My Way (1944). Butler had earlier been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) twice in the same year for both Road to Morocco and Wake Island, both released in 1942.
Partial filmography
- Behold My Wife! (1920) (acted)
- The Great Moment (1921) (acted)
- The Sheik (1921) (acted)
- Beyond the Rocks (1922) (acted)
- A Tailor-Made Man (1922) (acted)
- The Tiger's Claw (1923) (acted)
- The Call of the Wild (1923) (acted)
- The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927)
- Flying Elephants (1928) (directed)
- The Big Killing (1928)
- Just Married (1928)
- China Bound (1929)
- Untamed (1929)
- Strictly Unconventional (1930)
- Those Three French Girls (1930)
- Remote Control (1930)
- New Moon (1930)
- This Modern Age (1931)
- When a Feller Needs a Friend (1932)
- College Humor (1933)
- Search for Beauty (1934)
- Babes in Toyland (1934)
- Vagabond Lady (1935)
- Coronado (1935)
- Strike Me Pink (1936)
- The Milky Way (1936)
- The Bohemian Girl (1936)
- The Princess Comes Across (1936)
- Champagne Waltz (1937)
- Waikiki Wedding (1937)
- Paris Honeymoon (1939)
- Never Say Die (1939)
- The Star Maker (1939)
- Road to Singapore (1940)
- I Want a Divorce (1940)
- Rangers of Fortune (1940)
- Road to Zanzibar (1941)
- Aloma of the South Seas (1941)
- My Favorite Blonde (1942)
- Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
- Wake Island (1942)
- Road to Morocco (1942)
- Hostages (1943)
- Going My Way (1944)
- A Medal for Benny (1945)
- Incendiary Blonde (1945)
- California (1947)
- Welcome Stranger (1947)
- The Perils of Pauline (1947)
- Golden Earrings (1947)
- Whispering Smith (1948)
- Road to Bali (1952)
- Strange Lady in Town (1955)