# Archie Butler (actor)

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{{short description|American actor, crewman and stunt performer}}
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{{Infobox person
|name          = Archie Butler
|birth_name    = Arch Brady Butler
|birth_date    = {{birth date|1911|09|27}}
|birth_place   = [Rhea County, Tennessee](/source/Rhea_County%2C_Tennessee), U.S.
|death_date    = {{death date and age|1977|02|04|1911|09|27}}
|death_place   = [Overton, Nevada](/source/Overton%2C_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](/source/Google_Books)}}</ref> was an American actor, crewman, and [stunt performer](/source/Stunt_man).<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](/source/Google_Books)}}</ref>

==Biography==
Butler was born September 27, 1911, in [Rhea County, Tennessee](/source/Rhea_County%2C_Tennessee), appeared in numerous moving pictures, particularly [Westerns](/source/Western_(genre)), in such films as ''[Code of the West](/source/Code_of_the_West_(1947_film))'' (1947), ''[Annie Get Your Gun](/source/Annie_Get_Your_Gun_(film))'' (1950), ''[Westward the Women](/source/Westward_the_Women)'' (1951), and ''[The Wild Bunch](/source/The_Wild_Bunch)'' (1969), and in such television shows as ''[Bonanza](/source/Bonanza)'', ''[Gunsmoke](/source/Gunsmoke)'', ''[The Big Valley](/source/The_Big_Valley)'', ''[The Rifleman](/source/The_Rifleman)'', and ''[The Virginian](/source/The_Virginian_(TV_series))''.<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](/source/Overton%2C_Nevada).{{cn|date=March 2025}}

==Partial filmography==
*''[Under Two Flags](/source/Under_Two_Flags_(1936_film))'' (1936) - (uncredited)
*''[Wyoming](/source/Wyoming_(1940_film))'' (1940) - Cavalryman (uncredited)
*''[Barbary Coast Gent](/source/Barbary_Coast_Gent)'' (1944) - Townsman (uncredited)
*''[West of the Pecos](/source/West_of_the_Pecos_(1945_film))'' (1945) - Vigilante (uncredited)
*''[Code of the West](/source/Code_of_the_West_(1947_film))'' (1947) - Cowboy (uncredited)
*''[Ambush](/source/Ambush_(1950_film))'' (1950) - Trooper (uncredited)
*''[Annie Get Your Gun](/source/Annie_Get_Your_Gun_(film))'' (1950) - Cowboy (uncredited)
*''[Westward the Women](/source/Westward_the_Women)'' (1951) - Outrider (uncredited)
*''[Arena](/source/Arena_(1953_film))'' (1953) - Cowboy (uncredited)
*''[Ride, Vaquero!](/source/Ride%2C_Vaquero!)'' (1953) - Bandit (uncredited)
*''[Gypsy Colt](/source/Gypsy_Colt)'' (1954) - Farrier (uncredited)
*''[Man with the Gun](/source/Man_with_the_Gun)'' (1955) - Henchman (uncredited)
*''[The Brass Legend](/source/The_Brass_Legend)'' (1956) - Deputy (uncredited)
*''[The Glory Guys](/source/The_Glory_Guys)'' (1965) - Trooper (uncredited)
*''[The Wild Bunch](/source/The_Wild_Bunch)'' (1969) - Jabalai (uncredited)

==References==
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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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Category:1911 births
Category:1977 deaths
Category:American stunt performers
Category:People from Rhea County, Tennessee
Category:Male actors from Tennessee
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors
Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:Western (genre) television actors

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