Frank Butler

born: 28 December 1889 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

died: 10 June 1967 Oceanside, San Diego, California, United States of America (age 77)

British-born actor who is best remembered for starring in Hal Roach's The Spat Family series. Some sources list a birth year of 1890, but the 1901 England Census, WWII Card, CADI entry and 1940 Census (and Passenger List below in links section) support birth year of 1889.

Real name: Frank Russell Butler Height: 6'1½"

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1923 Let's Build The Hon. J. Tewkesbury Spat 1923 The Call Of The Wild Hal 1923 Heavy Seas Tewkesbury Spat   1923 Roughing It Tewkesbury Spat   1923 The Great Outdoors Tewkesbury Spat 1923 The Darkest Hour Tewkesbury Spat   1924 Help One Another Tewkesbury Spat 1924 Political Pull Tewkesbury Spat   1924 Hunters Bold Tewkesbury Spat   1924 The King Of Wild Horses [?] 1924 Hit The High Spots Tewkesbury Spat 1924 Bottle Babies Tewkesbury Spat   1924 Suffering Shakespeare Tewkesbury Spat   1924 Radio Mad Tewksberry Spat 1924 Our Congressman Hemingway Abbott IV 1924 A Hardboiled Tenderfoot Tewkesbury Spat   1924 South O' The North Pole Tewkesbury Spat 1924 Lost Dog Tewkesbury Spat   1924 Every Man For Himself Laughing man 1924 Hot Stuff Tewkesbury Spat 1924 Deaf, Dumb And Daffy Tewksberry Spat 1924 The Rubber-Neck Tewkesbury Spat 1925 Laugh That Off Tewkesbury Spat   1925 The Fox Hunt Tewkesbury Spat   1925 Excuse My Glove Tewkesbury Spat   1925 Black Hand Blues Tewkesbury Spat   1925 Wild Papa Tewkesbury Spat 1925 The Royal Four-Flush Tewkesbury Spat   1925 Tol'able Romeo Violinist 1926 Don Key (Son Of Burro) Finn's rival   1927 Seeing The World English pedestrian Acknowledgements: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9Y2-TY7 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-16388-21842-45?cc=1861144 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-16388-21278-37?cc=1861144 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP4R-ZY6 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-27797-2974-62?cc=2000219 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-36724-20435-35?cc=2141044 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-36724-20521-28?cc=2141044 https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturealm00quig#page/n207/mode/1up/search/%22butler%2C+frank%22 https://archive.org/stream/international193738quig#page/174/mode/1up/search/%22butler%2C+frank%22 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JB3G-XJ4 Jesse Brisson (help and assistance; identification in Every Man For Himself) This page was last updated on: 19 October 2023