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Alexander Butler

1869 – 1959

American actor and film director

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Lived 1869 – 1959 (aged 89–90). Alexander Butler was an American actor and film director.

Alexander Butler was a British film director who made over sixty features and short films during the 1910s and 1920s including many for G. B. Samuelson's production company. Butler directed several British films in Hollywood in 1920, where Samuelson had made an arrangement with Universal Pictures. Amongst his notable films are the Sherlock Holmes adaptation The Valley of Fear and the early British horror film The Beetle (1919).

Selected filmography Just a Girl (1916) The Valley of Fear (1916) A Pair of Spectacles (1916) A Fair Impostor (1916) The Girl Who Loves a Soldier (1916) Nursie! Nursie! (1916) The Sorrows of Satan (1917) The Odds Against Her (1919) The Beetle (1919) The Disappearance of the Judge (1919) Damaged Goods (1919) David and Jonathan (1920) Love in the Wilderness (1920) The Ugly Duckling (1920) The Night Riders (1920) Married Love (1923) The Knockout (1923) A Royal Divorce (1923) I Pagliacci (1923) She (1925)

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Born
1869, United States
Birth century
Died
1959
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Who was Alexander Butler?

American actor and film director (1869-1959)

When was Alexander Butler born?

Alexander Butler was born in 1869 in United States.

When did Alexander Butler die?

Alexander Butler died in 1959.

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Alexander Butler was an actor and film director.

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Alexander Butler was American.

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· Wikipedia: Alexander Butler

· Wikidata: Q1449546

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