Richard Butler

Richard Butler

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

Morte : 2003-04-23

História

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.

Perfil

Richard Butler

Filmes

Mães em Luta
MP (uncredited)
Durante uma greve de fome feita por membros do IRA (Exército Republicano Irlandês) na cadeia, responsável pela primeira grande crise do governo Thatcher, duas mães de ativistas sofrem com a situação dos filhos. A sra. Quigley (Helen Mirren) é a pacata professora, avessa a ativismos e violência, que nada sabe da militância de seu filho. Já a sra. Higgins (Fionnula Flanagan) odeia ingleses, não tem medo de encarar as tropas da rainha e apóia incondicionalmente a ação do filho no IRA.
Quatro Casamentos e um Funeral
Vicar - Wedding Four
Charles (Hugh Grant) é um solteirão que nunca quis nada sério com ninguém, até conhecer uma envolvente mulher, por quem se apaixona. Sua complicada situação de assumir relacionamentos pode mudar depois de três outros casamentos e um funeral, que dão título ao longa.
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.
Aonde Nasce um Crime
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.]
Vida Nua
Senior Doctor
O filme é uma adaptação da autobiografia de Quentin Crisp, um verdadeiro ícone gay da Inglaterra no século vinte, um homem que enfrentou com extraordinaria coragem o preconceito e as perseguições ao longo de décadas, sempre com inteligência e senso de humor. O filme é estrelado por John Hurt. Crisp era um pária mesmo entre os gays. Era efeminado, afeminado e não fazia questão alguma de esconder isso. Pelo contrário, dizia que essa era a sua "contribuição para a causa", décadas antes de se falar de "visibilidade gay". Foi um homem muito a frente de seu tempo, que jamais abdicou de seu direito de ser e de existir, ainda que tenha sofrido por conta disso. Ele foi um transgressor, no melhor sentido da palavra, e isso numa época em que a homossexualidade ainda dava cadeia na Inglaterra.
The Nearly Man
Geoff
A middle class man finds life as a Labour MP challenging.