Cast: Charles Butterworth

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Charles Butterworth. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Half Angel

1936 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Frances Dee · Brian Donlevy · Charles Butterworth · Helen Westley

Synopsis Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.

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Sis Hopkins

1941 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Judy Canova · Bob Crosby · Charles Butterworth · Jerry Colonna

Synopsis A young girl from the "sticks" comes to the city to live with her wealthy relatives. At first she is the objection of derision and made fun of because of her unsophisticated nature, but it turns out that there's a...

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The Nuisance

1933 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Lee Tracy · Madge Evans · Frank Morgan · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.

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Thanks for the Memory

1938 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Bob Hope · Shirley Ross · Charles Butterworth · Otto Kruger

Synopsis Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.

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My Weakness

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Lilian Harvey · Lew Ayres · Charles Butterworth · Harry Langdon

Synopsis A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.

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We Went to College

1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Charles Butterworth · Walter Abel · Hugh Herbert · Una Merkel

Synopsis Phil is high strung and needs a rest so Nina talks him into going to the Sutter College homecoming. He takes his wife and Glenn, who was another classmate, to have some fun and get a brick contract. Old dependable...

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The Cat and the Fiddle

1934 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction William K. Howard · Sam Wood

Cast Ramon Novarro · Jeanette MacDonald · Frank Morgan · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis Victor Florescu is a talented, Brussels-based composer of serious music under the tutelage of respected Professor Bertier at the Music Conservatory. He is hoping to have his yet uncompleted operetta, "The Cat and the Fiddle", produced by famed impresario, Jules...

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Beauty and the Boss

1932 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Marian Marsh · David Manners · Warren William · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis The Baron is a banker, in Vienna, who works at at very fast pace. He appreciates beautiful women, but fires the beautiful Miss Frey as he considers her a diversion to work. Susie sneaks into his office to apply for...

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Hollywood Party

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski · Allan Dwan · Edmund Goulding · Russell Mack

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Jimmy Durante · Jack Pearl

Synopsis Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party with so that he might use the...

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Side Show

1931 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Winnie Lightner · Charles Butterworth · Evalyn Knapp · Donald Cook

Synopsis The delightful Winnie Lightner stars in this comedy-drama as Pat, a traveling carnival troupe member who does everything from high diving to hula dancing, with time left over to romance meek and mild Sidney (Charles Butterworth) and try to save...

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The Boys from Syracuse

1940 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Allan Jones · Irene Hervey · Martha Raye · Joe Penner

Synopsis The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus...

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Night in New Orleans

1942 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction William Clemens

Cast Preston Foster · Albert Dekker · Patricia Morison · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis The police lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel Abbott may be intimately involved in the murder. It even gets...

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Every Day's a Holiday

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Mae West · Edmund Lowe · Charles Butterworth · Charles Winninger

Synopsis Every Day's a Holiday (1937) is a comedy film starring and co-written by Mae West, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film, released on 18 December 1937, also starred Edmund Lowe, Charles Winninger, and Charles...

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Blonde Inspiration

1941 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast John Shelton · Virginia Grey · Albert Dekker · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis The non-musical tale of a fledgling writer (perennial Hollywood bit player Johnny Shelton, elevated temporarily to the majors) who sells a story to a big city magazine publisher (Doctor Cyclops' Albert Dekker) only to find his yarn attributed to another,...

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Rainbow on the River

1936 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Bobby Breen · May Robson · Charles Butterworth · Alan Mowbray

Synopsis A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

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