Charles Butterworth
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 25, 1896
Place of Birth: South Bend, Indiana, USA
Known For
Rainbow on the River
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
Magnificent Obsession
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
The Cat and the Fiddle
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
The Moon's Our Home
A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks loose as a comedic war of the sexes leads inevitably to love.
Penthouse
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Beauty and the Boss
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
Love Me Tonight
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
The Mad Genius
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
The Life of the Party
Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.
Ladies of Leisure
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
Filmography
as Professor
as Louie Fairweather
as Dr. Randolph Tilford
as Sultan of Araband
as Col. Thaddeus Winchester
as Eddie Dibble
as Prof. Woof
as Edward Wallace
as J. P. Courtney
as Horace Hopkins
as Harry Whitman
as 'Bittsy' Conway
as J. Lester Chisholm
as Duke of Ephesus
as The Mackerel
as Biney
as Himself
as Larmadou Graves
as Harry
as Barrett
as Felix
as Horace Van Steedan
as Tommy Masterson
as Teddy Stuyvesant
as Willie
as Willy Fitch
as Shemp
as Ethelred Lippincott
as Algy Longworth / Mousey
as Harvey Clemp
as Charles
as Gerald Gregory
as Layton
as Floppy Phil Montague
as Count de Savignac
as Ludwig Pfeffer Jr.
as Herbert T. Herbert
as Karimsky
as Sidney
as Geoffrey
as Fake Louise Fazenda
as George 'Georgie' Evans
as Colonel Joy
as Cocktail Shaking Party Guest (uncredited)