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:

Count de Savignac: I fell flat on my flute.


Princess Jeanette: Well, I was just about to go to bed.
Count de Savignac: Oh, wait, I'll join you!


George Evans: [Drunkenly] Who-whosever coming with me better hurry. I got to get down to the Rotary Club and speak on better ventilation for birdcages.


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Charles Butterworth Facts
Appeared in several jazz-age Broadway musicals, including "Allez Oop (1927), "Good Boy" (1928) and "Sweet Adeline" (1929), before making films.

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.

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.

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