David Butler
TV Writer
1927 – 2006
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Who was David Butler?
David Dalrymple Butler was a Scottish writer of numerous screenplays and teleplays who won a Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
He specialised in period-piece drama and is particularly remembered for a string of hit British television shows, including Within These Walls, Lillie, We'll Meet Again and Edward the Seventh, as well as for his acting, most specifically as Dr. Nick Williams on British television's first medical soap opera, Emergency - Ward 10 in 1960–62.
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- Born
- Nov 12, 1927
Larkhall - Also known as
- David Dalrymple Butler
- Spouses
- Mary McPhail
(1969 - 2006/05/27) - Norma Ronald
(1959 - 1966)
- Mary McPhail
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of St Andrews
- Died
- May 27, 2006
London
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on July 23, 2013
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