Hugo Butler

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1914-05-04

Deathday 1968-01-07 (53 years old)

Place of Birth Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Also Known As H.B. Addis, Hugo Mozo, Philip Ansell Roll, Philip Ansel Roll

Hugo Butler

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugo D. Butler (4 May 1914 – 7 January 1968) was a Canadian born screenwriter working in Hollywood who was blacklisted by the film studios in the 1950s. Born in Calgary, Alberta, his father had acted and written scripts in silent films. Hugo Butler worked as a journalist and playwright before moving to Hollywood in 1937 where he wrote the first of his thirty-four screenplays. His work on Edison the Man (1940) led to his nomination (with Dore Schary) for the Best Writing, Original Story Academy Award. In 1940 he married actress Jean Rouverol, later an author and screenwriter. Shortly thereafter Butler's career was interrupted when he served in the United States military during World War II. After being blacklisted, he wrote under various pseudonyms as well as using a fellow member of the Writers Guild of America as a front to submit screenplays to the movie studios on his behalf. He and his wife went to Mexico where he worked on scripts for directors Luis Buñuel and Carlos Velo. He was a handful of blacklisted artists responsible for the Nuevo Cine movement in Mexico, according to Rebeca Shreiber's Cold War Exiles in Mexico. They did not return to the United States on a permanent basis for thirteen years. Hugo Butler suffered from arteriosclerotic brain disease for several years before he died from a heart attack in 1968 in Hollywood, California. In 1997, the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America voted to posthumously give him official credit for scripts he had written. He is survived by Becky Butler, Emily Butler, Mary Butler, Debbie Butler and screenwriter Michael Butler.

Known For

Writer

1972
Running Scared

as Adaptation

1968
1963
1962
Sodom and Gomorrah

as Screenplay

1962
Eva

as Writer

1960
The Young One

as Screenplay

1957
Torero!

as Writer

1956
Autumn Leaves

as Writer

1954
Robinson Crusoe

as Screenplay

1954
1952
The First Time

as Screenplay

1951
The Prowler

as Screenplay

1951
He Ran All the Way

as Screenplay

1951
The Big Night

as Screenplay

1950
Your Witness

as Screenplay

1949
Roughshod

as Screenplay

1946
From This Day Forward

as Screenplay

1946
Miss Susie Slagle's

as Screenplay

1945
The Southerner

as Adaptation

1943
Lassie Come Home

as Screenplay

1942
1942
The Omaha Trail

as Screenplay

1941
Barnacle Bill

as Screenplay

1941
1940
Edison, the Man

as Original Story

1940
Young Tom Edison

as Screenplay

1940
Wyoming

as Screenplay

1939
Society Lawyer

as Screenplay

1938
A Christmas Carol

as Screenplay

1937
Big City

as Screenplay

Director

1960
The Perfect Game

as Director