Paul Butler Biography ((?)-)

Gender
Male
Occupation
Actor

Famous Works

  • CREDITS
  • Stage Appearances
  • Mission preacher and prisoner, Edmond, Provincetown Playhouse, NewYork City, 1982-83
  • John, Balm in Gilead, Circle Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1984
  • Walter Hollins, The Harvesting, Classical Theatre of Harlem, New York City, 1984
  • The Water Engine, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1985
  • Butler, Prairie du Chien (one-act play; double-bill with the one-act play The Shawl), Lincoln Center, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, New York City, 1985-86
  • Bishop Eli Frey and recruitment officer, Quiet in the Land, CircleRepertory Company, Triplex II Theatre, New York City, 1986
  • Claudia-Claudius, Caligula, Circle Repertory Company, Triplex II Theatre, 1986
  • Death and the King's Horseman, Goodman Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, and Lincoln Center, New York City, c. 1986-87
  • Captain Julius Alexander Randolph, A Few Good Men, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 1989-91
  • The Piano Lesson, Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, c. 1990-91
  • Helicanus, Pericles, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, New York City, 1991
  • T. O. Jones, I Am a Man, The Working Theater, New York City, 1993
  • Two Trains Running, Goodman Theatre, 1993
  • Shylock, The Merchant of Venice, Goodman Theatre, 1994
  • Antony, Antony and Cleopatra, Riverside Studios, London, 1995
  • Doc, Tooth of Crime, Signature Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre, Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City, 1996-97
  • The author and Buks Jonkers, Valley Song, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA, c. 1998, and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, San Francisco, CA,1998
  • Becker, Jitney, various productions, including Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh, PA, beginning 1996, Crossroads Theatre Company, New Brunswick, NJ, beginning 1997, Huntington Theatre, Boston, MA, beginning 1998, GeVa Theatre, Rochester, NY, 1999-2000, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 2000, Second Stage Theatre, New York City, 2000, Union Square Theatre, New York City,2000-2001
  • Title role, King Lear, Classical Theatre of Harlem, HSA Theatre, New York City, 2002
  • Eli, Gem of the Ocean, Goodman Theatre, 2003
  • Peter Nicholas, Drowning Crow, Manhattan Theatre Club, Biltmore Theatre, New York City, 2004
  • Appeared as the title role, Othello, Chicago, IL; in Golden Boy, Broadway production; and in Native Son, Goodman Theatre.
  • Major Tours
  • Shylock, The Merchant of Venice, Goodman Theatre Company, Europeancities, beginning 1994
  • Film Appearances
  • Do-Daddy Dean, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, United Artists, 1973
  • Security guard, Old Enough, Orion Classics, 1984
  • Edgar Rounds, Silver Bullet (also known as Stephen King's "Silver Bullet"), Paramount, 1985
  • Second police officer, Compromising Positions, Paramount, 1985
  • Jordan, Off Beat, Buena Vista, 1986
  • Gas station owner, Things Change, Columbia, 1988
  • Captain Blalock, Renegades, Columbia, 1989
  • Captain Hargate, The Rookie, Buena Vista, 1990
  • Gideon, To Sleep with Anger, Samuel Goldwyn, 1990
  • Al at the deli, He Said, She Said, Paramount, 1991
  • Commissioner Walker, Homicide, Triumph Releasing, 1991
  • Leroy Halloran, Strictly Business (also known as Go Natalie!), Warner Bros., 1991
  • Narc, The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez, 1991
  • Otis Wimms, Zebrahead (also known as The Colour of Love), Triumph Releasing, 1992
  • Police officer, Glengarry Glen Ross, New Line Cinema, 1992
  • Federal agent Skouras, Romeo Is Bleeding, Gramercy Pictures, 1993
  • Bookbinder, The Spanish Prisoner, Sony Pictures Releasing, 1997
  • Lieutenant Lynch, Meschugge (also known as Don't and TheGiraffe), 1998, German Independent, 2000
  • Charlie Phillips, The Insider (also known as Man of the People, 60 Minutes, Untitled Michael Mann Film, and The Untitled Tobacco Project), Buena Vista, 1999
  • Real judge, State and Main (also known as Sequences et consequences), Fine Line Features, 2000
  • Professor Sherman, Tadpole, Miramax, 2002
  • FBI agent Davis, Confess, Centrifugal Films, 2005
  • Television Appearances
  • Series
  • Detective Walter Clemmons, Crime Story, NBC, 1986-88
  • Detective Willard Block, a recurring role, 100 Centre Street (alsoknown as 101 Centre Street), Arts and Entertainment, 2001-2002
  • Miniseries
  • Golden Years (also known as Stephen King's "Golden Years"),CBS, 1991
  • Preacher, The Wedding (also known as Oprah Winfrey Presents: "The Wedding"), ABC, 1998
  • Movies
  • Sergeant Alonzo Hobbs, Dummy, CBS, 1979
  • Truck driver, Daybreak, HBO, 1993
  • Estabrook, Vanishing Son, syndicated, 1994
  • Estabrook, Vanishing Son II, syndicated, 1994
  • Estabrook, Vanishing Son III, syndicated, 1994
  • Estabrook, Vanishing Son IV, syndicated, 1994
  • Stan, Color of Justice, Showtime, 1997
  • Specials
  • Caribbean Cool, PBS, 1993
  • Tracey Takes on New York (also known as Tracey Ullman Takes onNew York), HBO, 1993
  • Panelist, Burden of Proof: Clinton, Congress and the Constitution,Cable News Network, 1998
  • Himself, People v. Simpson: Unfinished Business, Court TV, 1999
  • Episodic
  • Alex Chavin, "If Memory Serves," A Man Called Hawk, ABC, 1989
  • Judge Tyler B. Ashford, "Life Choice," Law & Order, NBC, 1991
  • Judge Edmond Francis, "Self Defense," Law & Order, NBC, 1992
  • Leo Hopkins, "School Ties," New York Undercover (also known as Uptown Undercover), Fox, 1994
  • Tyrone Hawkins, "All in the Family," New York Undercover (also known as Uptown Undercover), Fox, 1995
  • Clifford Ramsey, "Self Defense," Homicide: Life on the Street (also known as Homicide and H: LOTS), NBC, 1999
  • Morgan, "Goodbye to All That," Third Watch, NBC, 2003
  • Pilots
  • Detective Walter Clemmons, Crime Story, NBC, 1986