Frank Butler
Writing
Biography
No biography available for Frank Butler.
Born: December 27, 1890
Place of Birth: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Known For
Variety Girl
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Seeing the World
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, London, and finally Paris, where problems arise on top of the Eiffel Tower.
Don Key (Son of Burro)
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
Beyond the Rocks
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
The Sheik
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
Made for Love
A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she's traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don't share her boyfriend's attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known.
The Fighting Buckaroo
There's gold in them thar hills and Larry Crawford must fight the unscrupulous Bradley and his men to keep it safe.
30 Below Zero
Don Hathaway Jr. goes to Alaska to escape Follies girl and meets with an accident. The girl helps him and takes him to her home where jealous rival accuses him of being a bootlegger, when he is the culprit himself. Hero proves innocence and defeats rival for affection of girl.
A Tailor-Made Man
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
The Great Outdoors
The Spats go on a camping trip that begins with the destruction of their cabin and ends with them being pursued by bandits, a railroad bull, and the police. The Great Outdoors is the fourth episode of The Spat Family series.
Filmography
as Frank Butler
as English pedestrian
as Professor Amos Hopkins
as Finn's Rival
as Percy M. Wellington
as Freddie Waddams
as Victor
as Mr. Tewksberry Spat
as Mr. Tewksberry Spat
as Mr. Tewksberry Spat
as Hal
as Mr. Tewksberry Spat
as Lord Henry Seville
as Allerdyce
as Inspector George Malvin
as Horace Beresford (as F.R. Butler)
as Theodore Jellicot
as Lord Wensleydon
as Sir Aubrey Mayo
as Eustace
as Captain Vidal