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Daniel "Dan" Eugene Butler (born December 2, 1954 in Fort Wayne , Indiana ) is an American actor . Butler was best known for the role of the macho and proletarian sports presenter Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe in the comedy series Frasier , which he played from 1993 to 2004.
Life
Butler grew up as the son of the pharmacist Andrew Butler and his wife Shirley in Fort Wayne . In the 1980s, he turned to acting.
His partner is the acting teacher and director Richard Waterhouse.
Career
Butler first attracted attention in 1989 with a role in Terrence McNally's play The Lisbon Traviata . At the same time he also wrote an autobiographical off Broadway stage play entitled "The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me ..." . The title refers to a comment from Butler's father, who did this, as Dan Butler opposite this outed .
In the early 1990s, Butler began to take on supporting roles in humorous television series. After playing a regular part in the series Roseanne since 1991 , Butler took on his most famous role to date as Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe in the series Frasier in 1993 . As a boorish, hormone-controlled radio presenter for a sports information program, Butler formed a counterpoint to the conceited, elitist title character of the series, Frasier Crane, until 2004 . The frictions and comical scenes and entanglements that almost inevitably arose between the two dissimilar men formed a recurring plot (subplot) of the series.
While Butler became known to a broad audience as a macho as the Bulldog , he's homosexual in real life, as he revealed as a guest on Entertainment Tonight in 1994 .
Filmography (selection)
watch TV
- 1992 Columbo blood wedding
- 1992-1993: Roseanne
- 1993-2004: Frasier
- 1995: The X-Files - The Scary Cases of the FBI ( The X-Files , episode 2x14)
- 1997–2002: Hey Arnold!
- 1998: Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager - episode "Vis a Vis"
- 2005: Supernatural (season 1, episode 7)
- 2017: The fog (The Mist)
- 2019: Stadtgeschichten ( Tales of the City , episode 1x04)
Movie
- 1989: Friendship for life (Longtime Companion)
- 1990: The Long Road (The Long Walk Home)
- 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (The Silence of the Lambs)
- 1993: Dave
- 1994: I Love Trouble - Nothing but trouble (I Love Trouble)
- 1996: The Fan
- 1998: The public enemy no. 1 (Enemy of the State)
- 2009: Prayers for Bobby
- 2017: Hey Arnold! The jungle film ( Hey Arnold! The Movie Jungle )
Source references
- ↑ http://www.filmreference.com/film/18/Dan-Butler.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Dan Butler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butler, Dan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Butler, Daniel Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd December 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort Wayne , Indiana |