Arch Brady Butler (known professionally as "Archie Butler"; September 27, 1911 – February 4, 1977) was an American actor, crewman, and stunt performer.

Biography

Butler was born September 27, 1911, in

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, appeared in numerous moving pictures, particularly

Westerns The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred ...

, in such films as '' Across the Wide Missouri'' (1947), ''

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'' (1950), ''

Westward the Women ''Westward the Women'' is a 1951 Western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel and John McIntire. Plot In 1851, Roy Whitman wants to keep the lonely men who live in Whitman's Valley from leaving, so he ...

'' (1951), and ''

The Wild Bunch ''The Wild Bunch'' is a 1969 American epic Revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on th ...

'' (1969), and in such television shows as ''

Bonanza ''Bonanza'' is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 13, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 432 episodes, ''Bonanza'' is NBC's longest-running western, the second-longest-running western series on ...

'', ''

Gunsmoke ''Gunsmoke'' is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It centers on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central chara ...

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The Big Valley ''The Big Valley'' is an American Western drama television series that originally aired from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969 on ABC. The series is set on the fictional Barkley Ranch in Stockton, California, from 1884 to 1888. The one-hour e ...

'', ''

The Rifleman ''The Rifleman'' is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the fictional town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show ...

'', and '' The Virginian''. Butler died February February 4, 1977, aged 65, in

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Partial filmography

*'' Under Two Flags'' (1936) - (uncredited) *''

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'' (1940) - Cavalryman (uncredited) *''

Barbary Coast Gent ''Barbary Coast Gent'' is a 1944 American Western comedy film set in 1880s San Francisco's Barbary Coast and Nevada starring Wallace Beery. The movie was directed by Roy Del Ruth and features Binnie Barnes, Beery's brother Noah Beery, Sr., Joh ...

'' (1944) - Townsman (uncredited) *'' West of the Pecos'' (1945) - Vigilante (uncredited) *'' Code of the West'' (1947) - Cowboy (uncredited) *''

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'' (1950) - Trooper (uncredited) *''

'' (1950) - Cowboy (uncredited) *''

'' (1951) - Outrider (uncredited) *''

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'' (1953) - Cowboy (uncredited) *''

Ride, Vaquero! ''Ride, Vaquero!'' is a 1953 American Western film photographed in Ansco Color (print by Technicolor) made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). It was directed by John Farrow and produced by Stephen Ames from a screenplay by Frank Fenton and John F ...

'' (1953) - Bandit (uncredited) *''

Gypsy Colt ''Gypsy Colt'' is a 1954 American drama film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond and Frances Dee. Shot in Ansco Color, it was produced and distributed by Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film's basic pl ...

'' (1954) - Farrier (uncredited) *''

Man with the Gun ''Man with the Gun'' is a 1955 American black and white Western film starring Robert Mitchum. The film was released in the United Kingdom as ''The Trouble Shooter'' and is also sometimes entitled ''Deadly Peacemaker''. The supporting cast inclu ...

'' (1955) - Henchman (uncredited) *''

The Brass Legend ''The Brass Legend'' is a 1956 American Western film directed by Gerd Oswald and written by Don Martin. The film stars Hugh O'Brian, Nancy Gates, Raymond Burr, Rebecca Welles, Donald MacDonald and Robert Burton. The film was released on Dece ...

'' (1956) - Deputy (uncredited) *''

The Glory Guys ''The Glory Guys'' is a 1965 American Western film directed by Arnold Laven and written by Sam Peckinpah, based on the 1956 novel ''The Dice of God'' by Hoffman Birney. Filmed by Levy-Gardner-Laven and released by United Artists, it stars Tom ...

'' (1965) - Trooper (uncredited) *''

'' (1969) - Jabalai (uncredited)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Archie 1911 births 1977 deaths American stunt performers People from Rhea County, Tennessee Male actors from Tennessee American male film actors American male television actors 20th-century American male actors Western (genre) television actors