Alexander Butler

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Alexander Charles Butler , also Andre Beaulieu (* 1869 in the USA ; † 1959 ) was an American film director and actor in British film.

Life

The US-born Butler shot around 70 works in Great Britain between 1913 (short films were made in that year) and 1926, mostly for the producer George Berthold Samuelson , with whom he also stayed in his country of birth between December 1919 and April 1920 To explore the market for their productions. His 1914 film The Shepherd of the Southern Cross was shot in Australia. His daughter, the dancer Gwendolen Tremayne (1909–2012), was born in Twickenham , stepped in front of the film camera as a child (1920) and was later one of the famous Tiller Girls. Occasionally Butler also worked in front of the camera as an actor , from 1917 to 1922 under the pseudonym Andre Beaulieu .

Filmography

Director

  • 1913: For £ 50,000
  • 1913: Greater Love Hath No Man
  • 1913: In London's Toils
  • 1913: In the Hands of London Crooks
  • 1913: In the Toils of the Blackmailer
  • 1913: London by Night
  • 1913: OHMS
  • 1913: The Anarchist's Doom
  • 1913: The Great Bullion Robbery
  • 1913: The Passions of Men
  • 1913: A Little Child Shall Lead Them
  • 1915: The Shepherd of the Southern Cross
  • 1916: A Fair Impostor
  • 1916: A Pair of Spectacles
  • 1916: Just a Girl
  • 1916: Nursie! Only they!
  • 1916: The Girl Who Loves a Soldier
  • 1916: The Valley of Fear
  • 1917: In Another Girl's Shoes
  • 1917: Little Women
  • 1917: My Lady's Dress
  • 1917: The Sorrows of Satan
  • 1918: Jo the Crossing Sweeper
  • 1918: On Leave
  • 1919: Damaged Goods
  • 1919: The Beetle
  • 1919: The Disappearance of the Judge
  • 1919: The Lamp of Destiny
  • 1919: The Life of a London Actress
  • 1919: The Odds Against Her
  • 1919: The Thundercloud
  • 1920: David and Jonathan
  • 1920: Her Story
  • 1920: Love in the Wilderness
  • 1920: The Night Riders
  • 1920: The Ugly Duckling
  • 1921: For Her Father's Sake
  • 1923: Married Love
  • 1923: Should a Doctor Tell?
  • 1923: The Knockout
  • 1924: Napoleon and Josephine
  • 1925: A Stitch in Time
  • 1925: Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
  • 1925: All That Glistens Is Not Gold
  • 1925: At the Mercy of His Wife
  • 1925: Auld Lang Syne
  • 1925: Do Unto Others
  • 1925: Driven from Home
  • 1925: Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back
  • 1925: Her Great Mistake
  • 1925: How It Happened
  • 1925: Hung Without Evidence
  • 1925: I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside
  • 1925: It Is Never Too Late to Mend
  • 1925: Laugh and the World Laughs with You
  • 1925: Little Dolly Daydream
  • 1925: Man Proposes God Disposes
  • 1925: Never Put Off Until Tomorrow
  • 1925: Out of Sight out of Mind
  • 1925: Parted
  • 1925: Should a Mother Tell
  • 1925: Skeleton Keys
  • 1925: The Choice
  • 1925: The Death of Agnes
  • 1925: The Eternal Triangle
  • 1925: They Wouldn't Believe Me
  • 1925: Those Who Live in Glass Houses
  • 1925: 'Tis a Long Lane That Has No Turning
  • 1925: There's Many a Slip
  • 1926: Napoleon and Josephine

actor

  • 1925: She
  • 1926: The Wreck of the Hesperus
  • 1938: Mountains O'Mourne

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to ancestry.co.uk
  2. ↑ Anthony Slide: Silent Topics. Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow, Lanham MD et al. 2005, ISBN 0-8108-5016-8 , p. 11.
  3. ↑ a b Nell Shipman. A Brief History on svpproductions.com
personal data
SURNAME Butler, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butler, Alexander Charles (full name); Beaulieu, Andre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and actor in British film
DATE OF BIRTH 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH United States
DATE OF DEATH 1959