| 词条 | David Butler (screenwriter) |
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| name = David Butler | image = | caption = | alt = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|11|12}} | birth_place = Larkhall, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom | birth_name = David Butler | death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|05|27|1927|11|12|df=y}} | death_place = London, England, United Kingdom | spouse = Norma Ronald (1959–1966; divorced) Mary McPhail (1969–2006; his death) | children = Two daughters | years_active = 1961–1992 | occupation = Director, producer, screenwriter, Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Writers Branch){{clarify|date=September 2013|reason=unable to located producing or directing credits at his imdb profile or any discussion of him directing or producing in this article's prose}} }} David Dalrymple Butler (12 November 1927 – 27 May 2006) was a Scottish writer of numerous screenplays and teleplays who won a Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. He specialized in period-piece drama and is particularly remembered for a string of hit British television shows, including Within These Walls, Lillie, We'll Meet Again and Edward the Seventh, as well as for his acting, most specifically as Dr. Nick Williams on British television's first medical soap opera, Emergency - Ward 10 in 1960–62. Early yearsA native of the town of Larkhall in South Lanarkshire, Butler was born into a well-educated family, with his parents working as teachers. At the age of 18, as World War II came to an end, he enrolled at the University of St Andrews, but ultimately abandoned his studies before attaining a degree, upon becoming interested in acting with the university drama society. He subsequently trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began his performing career in West End revues. In 1956, at the age of 29, he played a prison officer in Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop production of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow.[1] Career highlightsIn 1959, he married actress Norma Ronald and, by the early 1960s, was supplementing his acting career with scriptwriting. Following a 1966 divorce, his 1969 marriage to Mary McPhail lasted for the remainder of his life and produced two daughters. By 1971, he had mostly given up acting and began to devote all of his energies to turning out teleplays. One of his first successes in the historical genre was 1972's The Strauss Family followed by many other productions, including The Duchess of Duke Street in 1976–77, 1978's Disraeli, starring Ian McShane and his 1986 Primetime Emmy Award-winning Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy with Nicol Williamson in the title role. Circumstances also permitted an occasional return to acting, as in his own teleplays of the 1974–78 prison television series Within These Walls, in some episodes of which he played the penal institution chaplain, Rev. Henry Prentice. During this time, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his historical screenplay of 1976's Voyage of the Damned, depicting the 1939 attempt by 937 Jews to escape the looming Holocaust via a ship traveling from Hitler's Germany to Havana, but denied permission to disembark in Cuba or in the United States. DeathButler died in London at the age of 78. He is buried in the section of modern graves in the north-east quadrant of the eastern half of Highgate Cemetery in north London. Awards and nominations
ReferencesNotes1. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/david-butler-481453.html Hayward, Anthony. "David Butler—Writer of TV historical dramas" (The Independent, 8 June 2006)] 2. ^{{cite web | title =David Butler | publisher =Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences | url =http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1254214683796 | accessdate = 30 September 2009}} 3. ^{{cite web | title =David Butler | publisher =Hollywood Foreign Press Association | url =http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/film/25760 | accessdate = 30 September 2009}} Sources
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