Charles Butterworth

Born: 1896-07-25


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The Mad Genius

as Karimsky
Released: 1931-09-30

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer....

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Second Chorus

as J. Lester Chisholm
Released: 1941-01-03

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both...

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Ladies of Leisure

as Cocktail Shaking Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: 1930-04-05

Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a...

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Forsaking All Others

as Shemp
Released: 1934-12-23

A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.

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Road Show

as Harry Whitman
Released: 1941-02-18

Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by...

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This Is the Army

as Eddie Dibble
Released: 1943-08-14

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank....

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Penthouse

as Layton
Released: 1933-09-08

Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long...

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Magnificent Obsession

as Tommy Masterson
Released: 1935-12-30

A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.

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The Stolen Jools

as Fake Louise Fazenda
Released: 1931-04-04

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended...

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Love Me Tonight

as Count de Savignac
Released: 1932-08-18

A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an...

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The Nuisance

as Floppy Phil Montague
Released: 1933-06-03

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a...

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Night in New Orleans

as Edward Wallace
Released: 1942-07-01

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under...

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Hollywood Handicap

as Himself
Released: 1938-05-28

A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They...

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Illicit

as George 'Georgie' Evans
Released: 1931-02-14

Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her...

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Hollywood Party

as Harvey Clemp
Released: 1934-05-24

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake...

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Half Angel

as Doc Felix
Released: 1936-05-22

Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is...

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The Night Is Young

as Willy Fitch
Released: 1935-01-11

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the...

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Manhattan Parade

as Herbert T. Herbert
Released: 1931-12-24

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on...

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Swing High, Swing Low

as Harry
Released: 1937-03-12

In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly...

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Follow the Boys

as Louie Fairweather
Released: 1944-05-05

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every...

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Side Show

as Sidney
Released: 1931-09-19

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.

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The Bargain

as Geoffrey
Released: 1931-07-23

A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.

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Beauty and the Boss

as Ludwig Pfeffer Jr.
Released: 1932-04-09

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business...

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Dixie Jamboree

as Professor
Released: 1944-08-15

A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a...

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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

as Algy Longworth / Mousey
Released: 1934-08-15

Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in...

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Sis Hopkins

as Horace Hopkins
Released: 1941-04-12

An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.

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What's Cookin'?

as J. P. Courtney
Released: 1942-02-20

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha...

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Blonde Inspiration

as 'Bittsy' Conway
Released: 1941-02-07

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

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Student Tour

as Ethelred Lippincott
Released: 1934-10-05

A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

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The Sultan's Daughter

as Sultan of Araband
Released: 1943-12-16

A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.

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Thanks for the Memory

as Biney
Released: 1938-11-11

Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife...

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The Life of the Party

as Colonel Joy
Released: 1930-10-25

Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.

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The Boys from Syracuse

as Duke of Ephesus
Released: 1940-07-30

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two...

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Let Freedom Ring

as The Mackerel
Released: 1939-02-24

A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

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Baby Face Harrington

as Willie Harrington
Released: 1935-04-12

Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by...

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The Cat and the Fiddle

as Charles
Released: 1934-02-16

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

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The Moon's Our Home

as Horace Van Steedan
Released: 1936-04-10

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware...

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Rainbow on the River

as Barrett
Released: 1936-12-18

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't...

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Orchids to You

as Teddy Stuyvesant
Released: 1935-08-09

An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's...

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Give Out, Sisters

as Prof. Woof
Released: 1942-09-01

The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The...

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Every Day's a Holiday

as Larmadou Graves
Released: 1937-12-18

When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest,...

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My Weakness

as Gerald Gregory
Released: 1933-09-22

A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous...

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Bermuda Mystery

as Dr. Randolph Tilford
Released: 1944-05-01

A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.

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