Lawson Butt Explained

W. Lawson Butt
Birth Name:	Wilfred Lawson Butt
Birth Date:	4 March 1880
Birth Place:	Bristol, England
Death Place:	Hampshire, England
Occupation:	Actor
Relatives:	Dame Clara Butt(sister)

W. Lawson Butt (4 March 1880 – 14 January 1956) was a British actor and film director of the silent era.^{[1] [2]} His sister was opera singer Clara Butt.

Selected filmography

Actor

• The Woman Next Door (1915)
• Romeo and Juliet (1916)
• The Danger Trail (1917)
• Shackled (1918)
• Playthings of Passion (1919)
• Desert Gold (1919)
• It Happened in Paris (1919)
• The Miracle Man (1919) (*uncredited though substantial part in film)
• The World and Its Woman (1919)
• The Loves of Letty (1919)
• Earthbound (1920)
• The Tiger's Coat (1920)
• The Sting of the Lash (1921)
• Beyond the Crossroads (1922)
• The Masquerader (1922)
• The Flying Dutchman (1923)
• Dante's Inferno (1924)
• The Chicago Fire (1925)
• The Beloved Rogue (1927)
• Old San Francisco (1927)
• The Ringer (1928)

Director

• Afterwards (1928)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | BUTT, W. Lawson . 13 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121023190805/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/21883 . 23 October 2012 . dead .
2. (7 August 1915). W. Lawson Butt with Kleine, The Moving Picture World