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Lawson Butt is a Actor and Director British born on 3 march 1880 at Bristol (United-kingdom)

Lawson Butt

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Birth name Wilfred Lawson Butt
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 march 1880 at Bristol (United-kingdom)
Death 14 january 1956 (at 75 years)

W. Lawson Butt (born 4 March 1880, Bristol, Gloucestershire - died 14 January 1956, Hampshire) was a British actor and film director of the silent era.

Biography

Frère de la contralto Clara Butt (1872-1936), Lawson Butt partage sa carrière entre son pays natal et les États-Unis, où il débute au cinéma dans deux films sortis en 1915. Il apparaît dans vingt-neuf autres films muets américains, les trois derniers sortis en 1927, dont The Beloved Rogue d'Alan Crosland (avec John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt et Marceline Day).

Entretemps, mentionnons The Sting of the Lash d'Henry King (1921, avec Pauline Frederick) et Les Dix Commandements de Cecil B. DeMille (1923, avec Theodore Roberts et Charles de Rochefort), où il tient le rôle de Dathan — repris par Edward G. Robinson dans la seconde version de 1956 —.

Ses cinq derniers films comme acteur, sortis en 1928 et 1929 (tous muets), sont britanniques. Le premier est Toni d'Arthur Maude (1928, avec Jack Buchanan et Forrester Harvey). L'ultime (partiellement sonore) est City of Play de Denison Clift (1929, avec Harold Huth). S'y ajoute un sixième film muet britannique comme réalisateur (sa seule contribution à ce titre), Afterwards , sorti en 1928.

Au théâtre, Lawson Butt se partage également entre le Royaume-Uni et les États-Unis. En particulier, il joue à Broadway (New York) dans trois pièces, la première en 1914 étant La Nuit des rois de William Shakespeare. Les deux suivantes sont représentées en 1917, dont Les Joyeuses Commères de Windsor du même Shakespeare, avec sa compatriote Constance Collier.

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Filmography of Lawson Butt (25 films)

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The Beloved Rogue, 1h39
Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Henry Victor, Slim Summerville, Lawson Butt
Roles Duke of Burgundy
Rating69% 3.492093.492093.492093.492093.49209
This script must be run from the command line
Foreign Devils, 1h10
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Actors Tim McCoy, Claire Windsor, Cyril Chadwick, Frank Currier, Emily Fitzroy, Lawson Butt
Roles Sir Claude
Rating57% 2.8511352.8511352.8511352.8511352.851135
Captain Robert Kelly (McCoy) while attached to the American Embassy in Peking at the time of the Boxer Rebellion befriends Lady Patricia Rutledge (Windsor) and rescues her from the priests of a Chinese temple that she has gone to visit. He then asks a friend to escort her to safety and battles the Chinese in order to give them time to escape. Eventually he brings news or the approach of the allies to the barricade.
Old San Francisco, 1h28
Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Anna May Wong, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard, Anders Randolf
Roles Captain Enrique de Solano Y Vasquez - in Prologue
Rating63% 3.1930553.1930553.1930553.1930553.193055
Chris Buckwell, cruel and greedy czar of San Francisco's tenderloin, is heartless in his persecution of the Chinese, though he himself is secretly a half-caste. Buckwell, eager to possess the land of Don Hernández Vásquez, sends Michael Brandon, an unscrupulous attorney, to make an offer. Brandon's nephew, Terrence, meets the grandee's beautiful daughter, Dolores, while Vásquez refuses the offer. Terry tries to save the Vásquez land grants, but when Chris causes the grandee's death, Dolores takes an oath to avenge her father. Learning that Chris is a half-caste, Dolores induces his feeble-minded dwarf brother to denounce him; he captures her and Terry, but they are saved from torture and death by the great earthquake of 1906 that kills the villain.
Dante's Inferno, 1h
Directed by Henry Otto
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Pauline Starke, Ralph Lewis, Josef Swickard, William Scott, Lorimer Johnston, Lawson Butt
Roles Dante
Rating57% 2.857792.857792.857792.857792.85779
The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder and executed, and is afterward taken by demons to Hell where he will spend the rest of eternity
The Ten Commandments, 2h16
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Estelle Taylor, Richard Dix, Julia Faye, Rod La Rocque
Roles Dathan - The Discontented
Rating67% 3.3943.3943.3943.3943.394
Despite its epic scale, the Moses story only takes up about the first third of the film. After that, the story changes to a modern setting involving living by the lessons of the commandments. Two brothers make opposite decisions, one, John, to follow his mother's teaching of the Ten Commandments and become a poor carpenter, and the other, Danny, to break every one of them and rise to the top. The film shows his unchecked immorality to be momentarily gainful, but ultimately disastrous.
Beyond the Crossroads
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ora Carew, Lawson Butt, Melbourne MacDowell
Roles John Pierce / James Fordham

The Sting of the Lash
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Pauline Frederick, Lawson Butt, Lionel Belmore, Clyde Fillmore, Jack Richardson, Edwin Stevens
Roles Rhodes
Rating50% 2.5332752.5332752.5332752.5332752.533275
Après que son père, Daniel Keith, est tué dans un accident d'automobile dans un ranch de l'Ouest, Dorothy Keith tombe amoureuse du jeune Joel Gant, un mineur, et l'épouse. La concession de Gant est saisie par le cousin de Dorothy, Ben, qui travaille pour le compte d'une société d'exploitation, et le couple passe des années dans la pauvreté. Gant fait alors de la contrebande et se met à boire, pendant que Dorothy fait des lessives pour entretenir le ménage et la nièce de Gant, Crissy. Rhodes, un avocat de la compagnie minière, qui s'intéresse à Dorothy, offre du travail à Gant, mais celui-ci refuse. Un jour que Gant menace de fouetter Crissy, Dorothy le fouette durement. Gant est arrêté pour contrebande. Dorothy trouve un travail à la compagnie minière grâce à Rhodes et refuse de vivre avec son mari lorsqu'il est libéré. Plus tard, toutefois, il reprend le droit chemin et ils se retrouvent.
The Street Called Straight
Directed by Wallace Worsley
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Charles Clary, Lawson Butt, Naomi Childers, Alec B. Francis, Irene Rich, Milton Sills
Roles Col. Rupert Ashley (as W. Lawson Butt)

Afin de sortir sa famille de la ruine, Henry Guion détourne 400 000 dollars. Lorsque Peter Devenant, un ingénieur et ancien prétendant d'Olivia, la fille d'Henry, revient dans l'Est après avoir fait fortune, il offre de rembourser la somme. Olivia, fiancée au Colonel Ashley, refuse d'abord cette offre, puis finalement reconsidère la situation pour sauver la réputation de son père. Ashley rompt alors les fiançailles. Apprenant les problèmes de sa nièce, la riche tante d'Olivia, M De Melcourt, intervient et rembourse Peter, forçant sa nièce à réaliser qu'elle aime plus le jeune ingénieur que le hautain colonel.
Earthbound
Earthbound (1920)

Directed by T. Hayes Hunter
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Wyndham Standing, Mahlon Hamilton, Lawson Butt, Naomi Childers, Aileen Pringle, Flore Revalles
Roles Harvey Breck

Since their college days, Desborough and Rittenshaw have pretended to live by the creed, "No God, no sin, no future life." To this Breck, an author, refuses to subscribe, though the three are intimate friends of long standing. A cloud on their relationship which rapidly assumes tragic proportions, is the intimacy between Desborough and the beautiful wife of Rittenshaw. The latter first has his eyes opened by the suffering wife of Desborough. He waits until he has definite proofs, then kills Desborough on sight at their club.