Alexander Butler was a British

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who made over sixty features and short films during the 1910s and 1920s including many for

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's production company. Butler directed several British films in

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in 1920, where Samuelson had made an arrangement with

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. Amongst his notable films are the

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adaptation ''

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'' (1916) and the early British horror film '' The Beetle'' (1919).Rigby p.16

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1916) * ''

'' (1916) * '' A Pair of Spectacles'' (1916) * '' A Fair Impostor'' (1916) * '' The Girl Who Loves a Soldier'' (1916) * '' Nursie! Nursie!'' (1916) * ''

The Sorrows of Satan ''The Sorrows of Satan'' is an 1895 Faustian novel by Marie Corelli. It is widely regarded as one of the world's first best-sellers – partly due to an upheaval in the system British libraries used to purchase their books, and partly due to its ...

'' (1917) * ''

The Odds Against Her ''The Odds Against Her'' is a 1919 British silent drama film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Milton Rosmer, Edna Dormeuil and Lorna Della. It was made at Ealing Studios. Cast * Milton Rosmer as Leo Strathmore * Edna Dormeuil as Na ...

'' (1919) * '' The Beetle'' (1919) * ''

The Disappearance of the Judge ''The Disappearance of the Judge'' is a British silent motion picture of 1919 directed by Alexander Butler Alexander Butler was a British film director who made over sixty features and short films during the 1910s and 1920s including many fo ...

'' (1919) * ''

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'' (1919) * ''

David and Jonathan David and Jonathan were, according to the Hebrew Bible's Books of Samuel, heroic figures of the Kingdom of Israel, who formed a covenant, taking a mutual oath. Jonathan was the son of Saul, king of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, and David w ...

'' (1920) * ''

Love in the Wilderness ''Love in the Wilderness'' is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Madge Titheradge, C. M. Hallard and Campbell Gullan. It was adapted from Gertrude Page's 1907 novel '' Love in the Wilderness''. The film ...

'' (1920) * ''

The Ugly Duckling "The Ugly Duckling" ( da, Den grimme ælling) is a Danish literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). It was first published on 11 November 1843 in ''New Fairy Tales. First Volume#New Fairy Tales. Fir ...

'' (1920) * ''

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'' (1923) * ''

The Knockout ''The Knockout'' is a 1914 American silent comedy film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. It also features Charlie Chaplin in a small role, his seventeenth film for Keystone Studios. It is one of only a few films in which Chaplin's Little ...

'' (1923) * '' A Royal Divorce'' (1923) * '' I Pagliacci'' (1923) * ''

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'' (1925)

References

Bibliography

* Low, Rachel. ''The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929''. Routledge, 1997. * Nollen, Scott Allen. ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Cinema''. McFarland & Co., 1996. * Rigby, Jonathan. ''English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema''. Reynolds & Hearn, 2004.

External links

* Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown British film directors {{UK-film-director-stub