Jimmy Butler

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Jimmy Butler
Born	February 20, 1921(1921-02-20) Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Died	February 18, 1945(1945-02-18) (aged 23) France
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1933-1943

Jimmy Butler (Akron, Ohio, 20 February 1921 – France, 18 February 1945) was an American, juvenile, motion-pictures actor, active in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Butler earned acclaim for his role in the 1933 film Only Yesterday, and in 1934 his career got another significant boost when the actor earned lavish critical plaudits for his portrayal of Jim Wade in Manhattan Melodrama. Later he played one of the young protagonists, Boka, in No Greater Glory. The irony of this antiwar allegory spilled sadly over into the life of Butler, since he would lose his life a decade later in the real combat of World War II.

Filmography

• Girl Crazy (1943)
• Corvette K-225 (1943)
• Someone to Remember (1943)
• This Is the Army (1943)
• The Hard Way (1943)
• Tough As They Come (1942)
• Rise and Shine (1941)
• Naval Academy (1941)
• Uncle Joe (1941)
• Military Academy (1940)
• Star Dust (1940)
• Call a Messenger (1939)
• The Escape (1939)
• Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
• Winter Carnival (1939)
• Boys Town (1938)
• The Shopworn Angel (1938)

• Wells Fargo (1937)
• County Fair (1937)
• Stella Dallas (1937)
• Battle of Greed (1937)
• Show Them No Mercy! (1935)
• The Dark Angel (1935)
• The Awakening of Jim Burke (1935)
• Dinky (1935)
• Laddie (1935)
• When a Man's a Man (1935)
• Romance in Manhattan (1935)
• I'll Fix It (1934)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
• Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
• No Greater Glory (1934)
• Beloved (1934)
• Only Yesterday (1933)

External links

• Jimmy Butler at the Internet Movie Database
• Jimmy Butler at AllRovi