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:

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.


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


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


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Charles Butterworth Facts
Buried in St. Joseph Valley cemetery in his hometown of South Bend, Indiana.

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

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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