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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 (1916) and the early British horror film The Beetle (1919).[1]

Alexander Butler
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1913–1926

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)

References

Bibliography

• Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.
• Nollen, Scott Allen. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Cinema. McFarland & Co., 1996.
• Rigby, Jonathan. English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema. Reynolds & Hearn, 2004.

External links

• Alexander Butler at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Alexander Butler

Alexander Charles Butler, auch Andre Beaulieu (* 1869 in den USA; † 1959)[1] war ein US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur und Schauspieler beim britischen Film.

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