Charles Butterworth Overview:

Character actor, Charles Butterworth, was born on Jul 26, 1896 in South Bend, IN. Butterworth died at the age of 49 on Jun 14, 1946 in Los Angeles, CA .

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A former law graduate and reporter, Butterworth turned to acting and brought his uniquely nervous manner to films with the coming of sound, together with a perennially dubious expression and a streak of fair hair that threatened to disappear from the top of his head. Often cast as vacillating rich bachelors who didn't get the girl. Killed in a car crash.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Charles Butterworth Quotes:

Anne Vincent Ives: Why Georgie, you look a little emaciated!
George Evans: [Inebriated] Well, I was just emaciated into the Elks Saturday night.


Eleanor: Oh, I want to go to the bachelor dinner.
Shemp 'Shempy': Can you do a fan dance?
Eleanor: I invented the fan dance.
Shemp 'Shempy': I saw one with electric fans once, it was awful


Eleanor: I wish a man would marry me so I could wear a decent hat.
Shemp 'Shempy': that's the best reason for getting married I ever heard.


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Charles Butterworth Facts
Although his death in a single automobile crash was listed an accident, some say that Butterworth was extremely despondent over the death of close friend Robert Benchley a few months earlier and deliberately crashed his speeding car.

A one-time news reporter for the Chicago American and New York Times, his talents as a writer were instrumental in establishing solid friendships with journalist Heywood Hale Broun and humorist Frank Sullivan, who helped him find initial work on radio.

Was engaged to actress Natalie Schafer, who played Mrs. Thurston Howell III on "Gilligan's Island" (1964), at the time of his tragic death.

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