Frank Butler

Рождение : 1890-12-28,

Смерть : 1967-06-10

Фильмы

The Miracle
Screenplay
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
Strange Lady in Town
Screenplay
There's a new doctor in old Santa Fe, and it's Greer Garson. Director Mervyn LeRoy's 1955 western also stars Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smith, Walter Hampden, Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales, Earl Holliman, Adele Jergens, Robert Wilke, Frank DeKova, Nick Adams, Douglas Kennedy, Ralph Moody and Louise Lorimer.
Road to Bali
Story
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.
Road to Bali
Writer
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.
Whispering Smith
Screenplay
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).
Девушка из варьете
Frank Butler
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.
Золотые серьги
Screenplay
1945 год. На борту самолета следующего рейсом из Лондона в Париж полковник Ральф Денистоун рассказал интереснейшую историю из своей жизни американскому журналисту Квентину Рейнолдсу. Его рассказ повествует, как он и его товарищ были направлены в Германию, чтобы выведать секретную формулу отравляющего газа, разработанного нацистами. Вскоре они попали в плен, из которого им удалось бежать. Убив эсэсовскую охрану, они разошлись в разные стороны, чтобы избежать преследования. В чаще леса Ральф встретил одинокую цыганку — женщину удивительных способностей и красоты, которая помогла ему спастись от погони, предложив переодеться цыганом, проколоть уши, вставить серьги и кочевать вместе с ней в кибитке в поисках нацистского профессора…
Злоключения Полин
Screenplay
Молодая жизнерадостная Пирл Уайт ни минуты не может прожить без музыки, пения и танцев. Работая с утра до вечера в швейном ателье, она мечтает о театральных подмостках. Однажды ей выпадает неожиданная удача: клиентка ателье, актриса Джулия Гиббс, приводит её в театр, а затем и на съёмки киносериала "Злоключения Полины". Этот сериал приносит Пирл мировую славу.
Welcome Stranger
Story
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?
Калифорния
Screenplay
Калифорния 1848 год, пик южной золотой лихорадки, глобальное переселение американцев в южные штаты в потеках лучшей жизни и золота, В это время большинство штатов вступили между собой в федеральный союз, но Калифорния игнорирует все предложения соседей потому, что продажная местная правящая верхушка держится за власть, хотя большинство разноплеменного населения штата согласно со вступлением в состав федерации. Всем штатом, по сути, правит один человек — деспотичный Капитан Коффин, скупивший почти всю местную недвижимость и земли. Он жаждет сделать Калифорнию своей частной империей. Этому деспоту противостоят крепкий парень в широкополой шляпе, настоящий первопроходец Джонатан Трамбо и его любимая женщина красавица и певица Лили, которые не остановятся ни перед чем, ради демократии и свободы своей новой Родины…
The Kid from Brooklyn
Screenplay
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
Incendiary Blonde
Screenplay
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
A Medal for Benny
Screenplay
Benny's girl friend is being romanced by the town ne'er do well who keeps coming up with get-rich-quick schemes. Benny's father is a simple man who is bewildered by the world at large.
Идти своим путем
Screenplay
Отец Фитзджиббон, пожилой священник округа. Он отслужил в старом районе города уже 45 лет, но его церковь бедна, плохо отапливается и имеет долги за аренду земли. Для поправки дел прихода к нему направлен молодой священник Чак О`Молли.
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
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...
Дорога в Марокко
Screenplay
Оставшиеся в живых после кораблекрушения безбилетные пассажиры Джефф и Орвайл попадают на северо-африканское побережье и скачут на верблюдах через пустыню в Морокко. В надежде купить еду, Джефф продает Орвайл в рабство, но владелицей Орвайла оказывается принцесса Шалмар, которая освобождает его и становится его женой. Но не бескорыстно...
Остров Уэйк
Screenplay
Декабрь 1941. Без всякой надежды на помощь, небольшой гарнизон на островах Уилкс, Уэйк и Пил, в течение двух недель отражал яростные атаки японского флота.
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Screenplay
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
Моя любимая блондинка
Screenplay
Ларри Хейнс - посредственный артист водевилей - садится в поезд, направляющийся в Лос-Анджелес. Голливуд ждёт его с распростертыми объятиями? Не совсем. Контракт подписан с партнёром Ларри, катающимся на роликовых коньках пингвином Перси! Но, как говорит пословица: «Тень славы лучше, чем отсутствие славы вообще!» И вот в поезде Ларри встречает женщину. И к тому же блондинку. И британского агента в придачу! И даже умудряется помочь ей перехитрить немецких шпионов и выполнить важное секретное задание...
Aloma of the South Seas
Writer
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
Road to Zanzibar
Screenplay
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
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
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
Rangers of Fortune
Story
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
I Want a Divorce
Screenplay
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
Road to Singapore
Screenplay
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
The Star Maker
Screenplay
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
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.
Никогда не отчаивайся
Screenplay
Миллионер ипохондрик Джон Кидли приезжает лечиться в небольшое альпийское местечко. Но и тут его находит охотница за миллионами миссис Марко и вынуждает дать обещание жениться на ней. Доктор, по ошибке, выносит ему смертельный диагноз – Джону осталось жить всего месяц, вообщем хуже некуда. Все меняется, когда он встречает очаровательную Микки Хоукинс...
Paris Honeymoon
Writer
A Texas millionaire travels to Europe to meet his girlfriend, a European countess. He stops in a rustic mountain village and meets a beautiful peasant girl. He falls in love with her, then must decide if he wants her or the rich countess.
Give Me a Sailor
Screenplay
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. But Jim is also in love with Nancy so he begs Nancy's ugly duckling sister, Letty to help break Walter and Nancy up. Letty agrees only under one condition, he help her to win Walter!
Tropic Holiday
Story
A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.
Tropic Holiday
Screenplay
A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.
Свадьба на Вайкики
Story
Тони Марвин и его приятель. Им предписали составить эскорт победительнице конкурса красоты и ее подружке на экскурсии по островам, чтобы представить их во всей красе и склонить к участию в рекламной компании ананасов. К сожалению, неразбериха приводит к тому, что…
Свадьба на Вайкики
Screenplay
Тони Марвин и его приятель. Им предписали составить эскорт победительнице конкурса красоты и ее подружке на экскурсии по островам, чтобы представить их во всей красе и склонить к участию в рекламной компании ананасов. К сожалению, неразбериха приводит к тому, что…
Вальс шампанского
Writer
Эльза — дочь Штрауса, автора многочисленных вальсов. Однажды ей пришлось прийти к Баззи, руководителю джазового оркестра, из-за которого популярность нового музыкального стиля стала стремительно расти. Она хотела попросить его уехать из города, но даже не подозревала, что он настолько симпатичный...
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.
The Bohemian Girl
Screenplay
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
The Milky Way
Screenplay
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
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.
Bonnie Scotland
Screenplay
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to 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.
Марш деревянных солдатиков
Writer
Добро пожаловать в сказочную Страну Игрушек, где помимо трех поросят и ученого кота проживают Стэнни Дам и Олли Ди — помощники Мастера игрушек, Наши бестолковые герои всеми способами пытаются помешать несправедливой свадьбе городского плохиша Барнаби с малюткой Бо-Пип.
Ladies Should Listen
Writer
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
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
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Prosperity
Story
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
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.
Летающие слоны
Director
В Каменном Веке летали слоны! Не верите? Взгляните на первый скриншот! Вождь Фердинанд издал указ, по которому все мужчины с 13 и до 95 лет должны жениться, иначе они будут изгнаны или преданы лютой смерти. Тут не то что слоны, кто угодно полетит! Мощный гигант (Харди) пришел из-за дальних болот. Там, у себя, он привык брать женщин не спрашивая. Правда, в этих краях это не так просто. Маленький Звездный Огонек (Лорел) – молодой юноша, романтик, искусный ловец рыбы. А престарелый Саксофонус много лет мается зубной болью, и красавица дочь не может ему помочь. В этой обстановке разгораются нешуточные страсти. Поединки не на жизнь, а на смерть. Удары дубинкой неприятны, но привычны, как комариный укус.
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.
Познавая мир
English pedestrian
Школьный учитель банды, который везет детей в Европу после победы в местном конкурсе. Он берет их в тур по Неаполю, Помпеям, Риму, Ватикану, Венеции, Лондону и, наконец, Парижу, где возникают проблемы на вершине Эйфелевой башни.
Инструктор танцев
Writer
Пэдди по ночам за гроши работает инструктором танцев в клубе, а днём моет полы и сидит с чужими детьми. Ещё и её отец выгонят всех парней, которые хотят с ней познакомиться. И вот однажды Пэдди знакомится с ищущим приключений богачом.
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.
По ту сторону скал
Lord Wensleydon
Молодая женщина выходит замуж за старого миллионера, а затем влюбляется в красивого дворянина во время своего медового месяца.
The Sheik
Sir Aubrey Mayo
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...
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.