David Butler
David Butler was born in Larkhall, Scotland, United Kingdom on November 12th, 1927 and is the Screenwriter. At the age of 78, David Butler biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In 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 Lord 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.
- Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for: Voyage of the Damned (1976)
- Golden Globe nomination for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture for: Voyage of the Damned (1976)
- Winner – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (1986)