Frank Butler

Nacimiento : 1890-12-28,

Muerte : 1967-06-10

Películas

Promesa rota
Screenplay
Es la accidentada historia de una novicia que abandona su convento, atraída por el porte varonil de un capitán inglés del ejército que ha llegado a la península ibérica para luchar contra las tropas napoleónicas invasoras. La novicia desciende de su pedestal una imagen de la Virgen que allí se veneraba, para ocupar su puesto y evitar el escándalo que entre las demás novicias y todo el pueblo hubiera producido la deserción de la culpable.
La pelirroja indómita
Screenplay
La pelirroja Julia llega a Santa Fe en 1879 para reunirse con su hermano, un aventurero. Sin embargo, nada más llegar, la hija del cacique del pueblo le advierte que éste no la quiere en Santa Fe.
Camino a Bali
Story
En su carrera para escapar de sendas bodas impuestas, dos bailarines y cantantes, interpretados por Bing Crosby y Bob Hope, llegan al Pacífico Sur para luchar por el amor y la fortuna de una princesa de la isla, Lala (Dorothy Lamour). Mientras se pelean por conseguirla, deben hacer frente a todo tipo de peligros de la jungla. La atribulada pareja de amigos se convierte en pareja de enemigos, al luchar no sólo para salvar sus vidas sino también por conseguir la mano de Lala. (FILMAFFINIT)
Camino a Bali
Writer
En su carrera para escapar de sendas bodas impuestas, dos bailarines y cantantes, interpretados por Bing Crosby y Bob Hope, llegan al Pacífico Sur para luchar por el amor y la fortuna de una princesa de la isla, Lala (Dorothy Lamour). Mientras se pelean por conseguirla, deben hacer frente a todo tipo de peligros de la jungla. La atribulada pareja de amigos se convierte en pareja de enemigos, al luchar no sólo para salvar sus vidas sino también por conseguir la mano de Lala. (FILMAFFINIT)
Smith el silencioso
Screenplay
La banda de los Barton está causando problemas al ferrocarril con sus asaltos a trenes. La empresa contrata a Smith el Silencioso, pero en la primera batalla cae herido.
Variety Girl
Frank Butler
Catherine Brown y Amber La Vonne han ido a Hollywood para hacer carrera en el cine. Visitan el Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, el Brown Derby y otros lugares típicos de de Hollywood antes de estrellarse ante las puertas de los estudios Paramount, donde se ven implicadas en numerosas situaciones cómicas con varios actores y técnicos de los estudios.
En las rayas de la mano
Screenplay
El oficial inglés, Ralph Denistoun (Ray Milland), está en la Alemania nazi cumpliendo una misión de espionaje cuyo objetivo es descubrir la fórmula del gas venenoso usado por Hitler. En el viaje conoce a Lydia (Marlene Dietrich), una hermosa gitana que le será de gran ayuda.
Los peligros de Paulina
Screenplay
Una joven deja su trabajo como dependienta de una tienda de Nueva York y emprende una nueva vida dentro de una compañía teatral que recorre el país. Pero su verdadero éxito llega con el cine mudo, donde alcanzará la fama y adoración del público con su interpretación de la heroína en "Los peligros de Paulina".
Por distintos caminos
Story
El Dr. Joseph McRory es el director de la clínica de un pequeño pueblo a la cual llega el joven Dr. Jim Pearson. Este tiene una gran afición a cantar (lo cual no gusta nada a su gruñón jefe), y se siente atraído por una atractiva profesora que ayuda en la clínica, la cual no le corresponde.
California
Screenplay
Trumbo (Milland), un desertor del ejército, es el guía de un grupo de colonos, entre los que están Lily (Stanwyck) y Michael Fabian (Fitzgerald), que se dirigen a California, empujados por el afan de aventuras y por la fiebre del oro. Cuando llegan, se encuentran con una ciudad dominada por la anarquía, donde el malvado capitán Coffin (Couloris) impone su ley despóticamente. Trumbo se encargará de desbaratar los intentos de Coffin de provocar una sublevación en California.
El asombro de Brooklyn
Screenplay
Un tímido lechero se ve envuelto en una pelea callejera en la puerta del club nocturno donde trabaja su hermana. Sin saberlo, golpea al campeón del mundo de boxeo. Después de la relevancia que toma el asunto por su difusión en los periódicos, el manager del boxeador le ofrece la oportunidad de enfrentarse de nuevo con él en el ring. Por medio de una serie de combates amañados, el lechero comienza a pensar que es invencible. Remake de "La vía láctea" un film de Leo McCarey de 1936.
La rubia de los cabellos de fuego
Screenplay
La vida de la bulliciosa animadora Texas Guinan se recuerda desde su pobre infancia con un padre con mala suerte hasta su reinado como la Reina de los Clubes Nocturnos. En el camino, también encuentra el romance y la angustia.
Donde nacen los héroes
Screenplay
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En un pequeño pueblo del sur de California, un hombre de origen indio (Arturo de Cordova) trata de conquistar a una bella joven (Dorothy Lamour), pero a ella sólo parece interesarle su novio, que está combatiendo en el Pacífico.
Siguiendo mi camino
Screenplay
Historia de un simpático cura y su actividad a favor de su parroquia, así como las discrepancias con otro sacerdote mayor y más severo
Hostages
Writer
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.
China
Screenplay
Poco antes de Pearl Harbour, el oportunista americano David Jones y su socio Johnny Sparrow están en China para vender petróleo al ejército japonés invasor, sin importarle el sufrimiento de los chinos. Durante un viaje a Shanghai, Jones conoce a la compasiva maestra Carolyn Grant y las chispas no tardan en saltar entre estos personajes de fuerte voluntad. Pero cuando Jones es testigo de una atrocidad japonesa, sus sentimientos hacia sus clientes (y Carolyn) comienzan a cambiar...
Ruta de Marruecos
Screenplay
Crosby y Hope son dos náufragos de un crucero por el Mediterráneo que acaban en Arabia intentando conquistar a una bella y exótica princesa.
Wake Island
Screenplay
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Horizontes salvajes
Screenplay
Una mujer que ha permanecido en una isla desierta desde que sus padres fueran asesinados por una manada de furiosos elefantes, es rescatada y llevada de nuevo a San Francisco, donde tiene que reclamar su herencia.
Mi rubia favorita
Screenplay
Karen Bentley, una agente especial inglesa, tiene que formar equipo con el estrambótico Larry Haines, para frustrar los planes de unos espías alemanes.
Aloma
Writer
Un joven nativo de los Mares del Sur es enviado a EE UU para su educación, regresará a su isla después de que su padre muera para tratar de detener una revolución.
Ruta a Zanzíbar
Screenplay
Crosby es un promotor de barraca de feria algo golferas que engaña a los espectadores haciéndoles creer que Bob Hope es un prodigio de la naturaleza. Ambos marchan hasta Zanzíbar, donde encontrarán a una guapa nativa y buscarán una mina de diamantes. Entre sus momentos más surrealistas destaca el de Bob Hope luchando contra un gorila en plena jungla.
Untamed
Screenplay
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
Rangers of Fortune
Screenplay
Dos vaqueros van en ayuda de una ciudad que se encuentra bajo el control de un cacique malvado.
Rangers of Fortune
Story
Dos vaqueros van en ayuda de una ciudad que se encuentra bajo el control de un cacique malvado.
I Want a Divorce
Screenplay
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
Ruta de Singapur
Screenplay
Josh Mallon (Crosby) es un millonario que, harto de esa vida, escapa de su dominante padre (Charles Coburn) y, junto a un vagabundo (Bob Hope), viaja hasta Singapur donde encontrará a una atractiva nativa (Dorothy Lamour) que trabaja en un cabaret para un individuo con pocos escrúpulos (Anthony Quinn).
The Star Maker
Screenplay
La vida de Gus Edwards, famoso compositor de vodevil, actor y productor.
Island of Lost Men
Theatre Play
A Chinese general's daughter (Anna May Wong) tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's (J. Carrol Naish) jungle empire.
Never Say Die
Screenplay
John, un joven e hipocondríaco multimillonario, se halla en un balneario de los Alpes cuando su médico le dice que sólo le quedan 30 días de vida. Deseando librarse del acoso de una viuda sin escrúpulos, John acuerda una boda express y de conveniencia con Mickey, una muchacha tejana que tiene novio pero cuyo padre quiere enlazar con un príncipe local corrupto y arruinado.
Paris Honeymoon
Writer
Un millonario tejano viaja a Europa para encontrarse con su novia, una condesa. Se detiene en un pueblo de montaña y conoce a una hermosa joven, de la cual se enamora. Ahora tendrá que decidir entre las dos.
Dame un marino
Screenplay
Los hermanos Jim y Walter son dos marinos de la Marina de los Estados Unidos. Walter le dice a Jim que tan pronto como llegue a casa le va a pedir matrimonio a la bella Nancy Larkin, pero Jim también está enamorado de Nancy por lo que pide a la fea hermana de Nancy, Letty, que le ayude a que Walter y Nancy rompan. Letty está de acuerdo, pero con una condición, que Jim la ayude a conquistar a Walter.
Fiesta en el trópico
Story
Un guionista de Hollywood busca inspiración para su próxima película en México, donde se topa con una bella muchacha local que le echa los tejos.
Fiesta en el trópico
Screenplay
Un guionista de Hollywood busca inspiración para su próxima película en México, donde se topa con una bella muchacha local que le echa los tejos.
Waikiki Wedding
Story
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
Waikiki Wedding
Screenplay
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
Champagne Waltz
Writer
n Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
The Princess Comes Across
Screenplay
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Un par de gitanos
Screenplay
Una caravana de gitanos con la que viajan los ladronzuelos Stan y Ollie acampa junto a las murallas del palacio del conde de Arnheim. Un día, la infiel y vengativa esposa de Ollie, enfurecida por el arresto de su amante, secuestra a la hija del Conde, Arline, y huye dejándola con Stan y Ollie, quienes la criarán desconociendo su auténtica identidad. Tras pasar doce años, Arline es detenida en las tierras del palacio y llevada al calabozo, sus torpes amigos armarán un auténtico embrollo tratando de rescatarla.
La Vía Láctea
Screenplay
Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) es un tímido lechero que, sin saber muy bien como, noquea a un campeón de boxeo en una pelea. El manager del boxeador decide construir la reputación del lechero en una serie fija de combates y más tarde hacer que el campeón le gane y reconquiste así su título.
Strike Me Pink
Screenplay
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Coronado
Screenplay
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
Dos fusileros sin bala
Screenplay
Ollie y Stanley marchan hacia tierras escocesas en busca de fortuna. Lo que allí les lleva no es otra cosa que una herencia de Stan, aquí apellidado MacLaurel. Pero, hete aquí, que cuando recibe la herencia todos sus anhelos se frustran: el montante consiste en unas gafas y una pitillera. Así las cosas, la pareja se enrola en las fuerzas de Su Majestad para luchar en las fronteras de la India.
Vagabond Lady
Screenplay
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Había una vez dos héroes
Writer
En Toyland vive la pareja formada por Stannie Dum y Ollie Dee. Los dos se encuentran hospedados en la casa de Madre Peep y trabajan en una fábrica de juguetes. En dicho fantástico país el malvado y siniestro Silas Barnaby corteja a la hija de la anciana señora Peep, aunque ella se niega a acceder a sus deseos de matrimonio, puesto que su corazón está entregado a un joven de su entorno. Debido a esta negativa, Barnaby pone en práctica un método de presión…
Atención, señoras
Writer
Anna Mirelle, la encargada del mantenimiento de un edificio de apartamentos en el centro de París, habla tanto por teléfono con Julian De Lussac, un atareado hombre de negocios, que acaba enamorándose de él. Gracias a sus habilidades técnicas, descubrirá un complot contra Julian del que solo ella puede salvarle.
Search for Beauty
Writer
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
Girl without a Room
Writer
In this comedy, a Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.
White Woman
Theatre Play
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.
The Way to Love
Additional Dialogue
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
College Humor
Writer
Un profesor y la estrella del equipo de fútbol americano se enamoran de la misma chica.
Prosperity
Story
La matriarca de una familia de banqueros lidera a su clan durante una crisis económica.
When a Feller Needs a Friend
Writer
A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.
This Modern Age
Dialogue
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
New Moon
Adaptation
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
Remote Control
Writer
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Those Three French Girls
Adaptation
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
Strictly Unconventional
Writer
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.
Montana Moon
Writer
A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.
Montana Moon
Story
A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.
Untamed
Adaptation
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
Just Married
Screenplay
After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
The Big Killing
Writer
The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two sharpshooters to finish them off. Turns out that the "sharpshooters" aren't quite all they're cracked up to be, resulting in some unintended consequences.
Flying Elephants
Director
Cavemen Stan and Ollie vie for the affections of a stone-age beauty.
No Man's Law
Writer
A wild stallion (Rex the Wonder Horse) becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter as two thugs plot to steal their claim.
The Honorable Mr. Buggs
Writer
Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a wanted thief who has stolen a valuable brooch.
Seeing the World
English pedestrian
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.
The Nickel-Hopper
Writer
Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.
30 Below Zero
Professor Amos Hopkins
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.
Don Key (Son of Burro)
Finn's Rival
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.
The Fighting Buckaroo
Percy M. Wellington
There's gold in them thar hills and Larry Crawford must fight the unscrupulous Bradley and his men to keep it safe.
Made for Love
Freddie Waddams
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.
Satan in Sables
Victor
A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
Hot Stuff
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
In the 16th episode of Hal Roach's Spat Family series, Frank Butler, Laura Roessing and her brother, Sidney D'Albrook, order a fire engine from a mail catalogue.
Heavy Seas
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
Second release in 'The Spat Family' series of 2-reel comedies. In this episode the three of them win a yacht in a tombola and quarrel over the captaincy while Mrs TS goes swimming and risks getting lost.
The Call of the Wild
Hal
A dog is stolen from his home in England and shipped to Canada to become a sled dog. Based on the novel by Jack London.
Let's Build
Mr. Tewksberry Spat
Newlyweds Angelica and J. Tewkesbury Spat along with Mrs. Spat's brother Ambrose decide to build a house. It is finished in only 48 hours, but their carpentry skills may not be up to snuff. The first episode of The Spat Family series.
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Lord Henry Seville
John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when he is in Paris, Mona de Briac comes into his life. Mona comes from an noble family who is facing ruin.
A Self Made Wife
Allerdyce
Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, drab woman with no social skills whatsoever. Tim gets so embarrassed by her that he hires a "social secretary" for her to teach her how to function in the social strata in which they find themselves.
The Tiger's Claw
Inspector George Malvin
Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwood, nurses him back to health and out of gratitude he marries her, ignoring the fact that he has a fiancée, Harriet Halehurst (Eva Novak), back home.
My American Wife
Horace Beresford (as F.R. Butler)
A 1922 film.
A Tailor-Made Man
Theodore Jellicot
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
Más fuertes que su amor
Lord Wensleydon
Teodora, una joven aristócrata arruinada, se casa con un comerciante millonario mucho mayor que ella para que su padre y sus hermanas solteronas vivan confortablemente. Pero, poco después de la boda, se da cuenta de que se ha enamorado de Héctor, el Conde de Bracondale, un playboy que acude a los lugares frecuentados por los ricos.
El caíd
Sir Aubrey Mayo
Un jeque árabe se enamora de una dama británica y decide secuestrarla.
The Great Moment
Eustace
Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Russian Gypsy, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin, whom she does not love. During a trip to Nevada with her father, she meets engineer Bayard Delavel, who saves her life when she is bitten by a snake; when her father finds her with Bayard in his cabin, he forces them to marry. Believing that Nadine does not love him, Delavel leaves her and prepares to sue for divorce.