Charles Butterworth(1896-1946)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Charles Butterworth was, before he came to Hollywood in 1930, a stage
attraction on Broadway. In the '30s, he had his big successes as the
hero's no-nonsense best friend. He made a practice of ad-libbing dry
quips and bons mots during shooting, and screenwriters took advantage
of this by writing only fragments of his scripts, hoping that he would
fill in the missing lines. He didn't like that very much, however, and
his star began sinking in the late '30s. In the '40s, he worked for
smaller studios; Warner's A production,
This Is the Army (1943), was a
notable exception. Two years after his last movie,
Dixie Jamboree (1944) for PRC, he
died in a car crash.
