Richard Butler

Richard Butler

Birth : 1924-10-30, Bradford, Yorkshire, England

Death : 2003-04-23

History

Richard Butler was a Bradford born British actor who appeared mostly on television in a career that stretched back to the live broadcasts of the early 1950s. He is perhaps best known for playing the vicar officiating at Charles and Henrietta's abortive wedding in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral. He died on April 23, 2003 in Surrey, England.

Profile

Richard Butler

Movies

Some Mother's Son
MP (uncredited)
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Vicar - Wedding Four
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Shoot To Kill
Chief Constable Colin Sampson
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
Further and Particular
Paul
An old man remembers the troubled relationship he had with his mother, the erotic games, and the fantasies in which she managed to trap him.
Birth of a Nation
Mr Griff
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Scrubbers
Governor
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
Who Dares Wins
Dignitary
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
That Crazy Woman
Harry Moore
In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian.
The Vanishing Army
Ellis
Career army man Bill Paterson faces discharge in this examination of the harsh treatment of British NCOs.
The Man with the Power
Mr. Harris
Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual voyage that leads to Adler, a 'sensitive', and finally to the devil himself.
One Day at a Time
Ronald
An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
Scum
Governor
A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. [This is the original version scheduled for broadcast on 'Play for Today' on 8-Nov-1977 but withdrawn by the BBC because it was deemed too controversial. Director Alan Clarke edited the film and released it in cinemas in 1979 (See 'Scum (1979)'). The BBC would eventually broadcast the original on 27-Jul-1991.]
The Naked Civil Servant
Senior Doctor
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
The Nearly Man
Geoff
A middle class man finds life as a Labour MP challenging.