Dan Butler
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1954-12-02 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Huntington, Indiana, USA
Also known As
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Dan Butler
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Daniel Eugene Butler (born December 2, 1954) is an American playwright and actor known for his role as Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe on the TV series Frasier. Butler was born in Huntington, Indiana and raised in Fort Wayne; the son of Shirley, a homemaker, and Andrew Butler, a pharmacist. Openly gay, he starred in Terrence McNally's 1989 play The Lisbon Traviata and wrote an Off Broadway play about his life, The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me..., which derives its title from a comment Butler's father allegedly made when Dan came out to him. Though Butler never hid his homosexuality, he disclosed it p...
Acting
1991
as Roden
1999
as Drake (voice)
1994
as Wilson Chess
2009
as Reverend Whitsell
1993
as Reporter
2002
as Lloyd Acheson
1990
as Charlie
1998
as Shaffer
2002
as Eckles
1992
as Zachery
1989
as Walter
2008
as Blow Job
1996
as Harvey Young
1996
as Garrity
2002
as Dr. Arthur Apsey
1991
as Styvesant
1992
as Asst. DA Mendelson
1997
as Host / Narrator
2024
as Father Frank
1986
as Jimmy Price
2018
as Mr. Simmons (voice)
2011
as Cal's Boss
2022
as I.E. Shinn
1993
as Ken Shubik
1995
as Self - Actor, "Frasier"
Production
2007
as Director
2012
as Writer
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