{{short description|American actor, crewman and stunt performer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox person |name = Archie Butler |birth_name = Arch Brady Butler |birth_date = {{birth date|1911|09|27}} |birth_place = Rhea County, Tennessee, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1977|02|04|1911|09|27}} |death_place = Overton, Nevada, U.S. |occupation = Actor, crewman, stunt performer |years_active = 1936–1970 }}
'''Arch Brady Butler''' (known professionally as "'''Archie Butler'''"; September 27, 1911 – February 4, 1977)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xqUYAQAAIAAJ|title=The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers: A Necrology of Actors and Actresses|page=83|first1=Billy|last1=Doyle|first2=Anthony|last2=Slide|publisher=Scarecrow Press|date=1999|isbn=9780810835474|via=Google Books}}</ref> was an American actor, crewman, and stunt performer.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=10dXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37|title=Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s: A Biographical Dictionary, 2d ed.|pages=37–38|first=Gene|last=Scott Freese|publisher=McFarland|date=April 10, 2014|isbn=9780786476435|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Biography== Butler was born September 27, 1911, in Rhea County, Tennessee, appeared in numerous moving pictures, particularly Westerns, in such films as ''Code of the West'' (1947), ''Annie Get Your Gun'' (1950), ''Westward the Women'' (1951), and ''The Wild Bunch'' (1969), and in such television shows as ''Bonanza'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''The Big Valley'', ''The Rifleman'', and ''The Virginian''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Secrets Of TV's The Rifleman: More Than Just Guns And Good Times: Stuntman Archie Butler|url=https://www.trend-chaser.com/entertainment/secrets-of-tvs-the-rifleman-more-than-just-guns-and-good-times/27/|website=Trend-Chaser.com|date=14 November 2016 |accessdate=March 7, 2017}}</ref>
Butler died February February 4, 1977, aged 65,<ref>{{cite web|website=OV Guide|title=Archie Butler: Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi|url=https://www.ovguide.com/archie-butler-9202a8c04000641f800000001f5bc1d0|accessdate=March 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308044357/https://www.ovguide.com/archie-butler-9202a8c04000641f800000001f5bc1d0|archive-date=March 8, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> in Overton, Nevada.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
==Partial filmography== *''Under Two Flags'' (1936) - (uncredited) *''Wyoming'' (1940) - Cavalryman (uncredited) *''Barbary Coast Gent'' (1944) - Townsman (uncredited) *''West of the Pecos'' (1945) - Vigilante (uncredited) *''Code of the West'' (1947) - Cowboy (uncredited) *''Ambush'' (1950) - Trooper (uncredited) *''Annie Get Your Gun'' (1950) - Cowboy (uncredited) *''Westward the Women'' (1951) - Outrider (uncredited) *''Arena'' (1953) - Cowboy (uncredited) *''Ride, Vaquero!'' (1953) - Bandit (uncredited) *''Gypsy Colt'' (1954) - Farrier (uncredited) *''Man with the Gun'' (1955) - Henchman (uncredited) *''The Brass Legend'' (1956) - Deputy (uncredited) *''The Glory Guys'' (1965) - Trooper (uncredited) *''The Wild Bunch'' (1969) - Jabalai (uncredited)
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==External links== *{{cite web|website=IMDb|title=Archie Butler (1911-1977)|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124820/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/people/archie-butler/|website=TV.com|title=Archie Butler|accessdate=March 7, 2017}} *{{cite web|website=The Rifleman|title=Welcome to The McCain Ranch: Archie Butler|accessdate=March 7, 2017|url=https://www.riflemanconnors.com/archie_butler.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905121226/http://www.riflemanconnors.com/archie_butler.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 5, 2008}}
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