Lawson Butt
Lawson Butt (4 March 1883 – 14 January 1956) was a British actor and film director of the silent era. His sister was opera singer Clara Butt.
Also recorded as Lawson W Butt
Lawson Butt
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- Name
- W.
- Birth Name
- Wilfred Lawson Butt
- Born
- 4 March 1883
- Birthplace
- Bristol, England
- Died
- 14 January 1956
- Place of death
- Hampshire, England
- Occupation
- Actor
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
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• Name — W. Lawson Butt • Birth Name — Wilfred Lawson Butt • Born — 4 March 1883 • Birthplace — Bristol, England • Died — 14 January 1956 • Place of death — Hampshire, England • Occupation — Actor • Relatives — Dame Clara Butt (sister)
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
Actor • The Woman Next Door (1915) • Romeo and Juliet (1916) • The Danger Trail (1917) • Shackled (1918) • Playthings of Passion (1919) • Desert Gold (1919) • It Happened in Paris (1919) • The Miracle Man (1919) (*uncredited though substantial part in film) • The World and Its Woman (1919) • The Loves of Letty (1919) • Earthbound (1920) • The Tiger's Coat (1920) • The Sting of the Lash (1921) • Beyond the Crossroads (1922) • The Masquerader (1922) • The Flying Dutchman (1923) • Dante's Inferno (1924) • The Chicago Fire (1925) • Nine and Three-Fifths Seconds (1925) • The Beloved Rogue (1927) • Old San Francisco (1927) • The Ringer (1928) Director • Afterwards (1928)
Ad for the American western film Desert Gold (1919) with E.K. Lincoln, Eileen Percy, Margery Wilson, Russell Simpson, Edward Coxen, Walter Long, Lawson Butt, director T. Hayes Hunter, and author Zane Grey, on pages 1420 and 1421 of the June 7, 1919 Moving Picture World.
Zane Grey Pictures / W. W. Hodkins Corp. / Pathé Exchange · Moving Picture World (June 1919) at the Internet Archive
Advertisement for the American drama film The One Woman (1918) with Clara Williams, Lawson Butt, and Herschel Mayall (on the floor) in an insert after page 10 of the October 19, 1918 Exhibitors Herald.
Mastercraft Photoplay Corporation / Select Pictures Corporation · Exhibitors Herald (Sep. - Dec. 1918) on the Internet Archive
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1880
Lawson Butt born at Bristol.
1956
Lawson Butt died at Hampshire.
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