---
name: "Dan Butts"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dan-butts"
fi1m_id: "dan-butts"
imdb_id: "nm0125434"
tmdb_id: 1303222
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T01:04:22.676607+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dan Butts

## Identity

Dan Butts

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dan-butts
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dan-butts
- **IMDb ID:** nm0125434
- **TMDB ID:** 1303222
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0125434/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1303222

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 71 (2), 2020s 77 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 69 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $139m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0125434/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1303222

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Weird: The Al Yankovic Story*](https://film.one/film/weird-the-al-yankovic-story.md) (77), [*Brüno*](https://film.one/film/bruno.md) (58)
- **HBO Max:** [*Flight of the Conchords*](https://film.one/tv/flight-of-the-conchords.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Dan Butts is a production designer whose credits include the television series *Flight of the Conchords* (2007–2009).

He has also worked on the films *Brüno* (2009), *Pee-wee's Big Holiday* (2016), *The Clapper* (2018) and *Weird: The Al Yankovic Story* (2022), and on television series including *Arrested Development* (2013–2018) and *Lady Dynamite* (2016–2017).

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Weird: The Al Yankovic Story* (2022), Fi1m 77, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/weird-the-al-yankovic-story.md)
- *Brüno* (2009), Fi1m 58, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/bruno.md)
- *Flight of the Conchords* (2007), Fi1m 84, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/flight-of-the-conchords.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Weird: The Al Yankovic Story* (2022), Production Design — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/weird-the-al-yankovic-story.md)
- *Press Play* (2022), Production Design
- *I Love That for You* (2022), series, Production Design
- *The Clapper* (2018), Production Design
- *Pee-wee's Big Holiday* (2016), Production Design
- *Break Point* (2014), Production Design
- *Brüno* (2009), Production Design — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/bruno.md)
- *Flight of the Conchords* (2007), series, Production Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/flight-of-the-conchords.md)
- *Dirty Deeds* (2005), Production Design
- *Seeing Other People* (2004), Production Design
- *Playboy's Tales of Erotic Fantasies* (1999), as Art Direction
- *Playboy: Jenny McCarthy - The Playboy Years* (1997), as Art Direction
- *Playboy: Wet & Wild VIII - Bottoms Up* (1996), as Art Direction
- *Playboy: Wet & Wild - The Locker Room* (1994), as Art Direction
- *Playboy Video Centerfold:  Jenny McCarthy - Playmate of the Year 1994* (1994), as Art Direction
- *Playboy: Night Dreams* (1993), as Art Direction
- *Playboy: Wet & Wild IV* (1992), as Art Direction
- *The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy* (1990), Production Design

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