Ellis Parker Butler

Birth : 1869-12-05, Muscatine, Iowa, USA

Death : 1937-09-13

Movies

Pigs Is Pigs
Original Story
Flannery, a railway agent does everything by the book. He gets into a scrape with a customer, McMorehouse, who wants to pay 44 cents freight for two guinea pigs which he considers pets. Flannery, however, considers them pigs (freight 48 cents), a decision he begins to regret when the animals begin to reproduce.
The Great American Pie Company
Original Story
In this comedic short, two pie vendors discuss merging their businesses, but one of them may have an ulterior motive.
The Jack-Knife Man
Novel
A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.