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name: "Hugo Butler"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "4 May 1914"
died: "7 January 1968"
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average_as: "writer"
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# Hugo Butler

Writer. Born 4 May 1914 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Died 7 January 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 4 May 1914, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- **Died:** 7 January 1968
- **Also known as:** H.B. Addis, Hugo Mozo, Philip Ansell Roll, Philip Ansel Roll
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Butler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1634907, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124947/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/22596

## Biography

Hugo Butler (4 May 1914 – 7 January 1968) was a Canadian-American screenwriter. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he began working in Hollywood in the late 1930s after a period as a journalist and playwright. His early credits include the screenplay for *A Christmas Carol* (1938) and an uncredited contribution to *Blossoms in the Dust* (1941).

Butler was blacklisted in the 1950s after being named to the House Un-American Activities Committee. He and his wife, actress Jean Rouverol, lived in Mexico for over a decade, where he wrote under pseudonyms including H.B. Addis, Hugo Mozo and Philip Ansell Roll, and collaborated with directors such as Luis Buñuel on *Robinson Crusoe* (1954) and *The Young One* (1960). Other notable screenplays from this period and later include *The Prowler* (1951), *He Ran All the Way* (1951) and *Autumn Leaves* (1956). In 1997 the Writers Guild of America restored several of his credits posthumously.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Blossoms in the Dust* (1941), Fi1m 58, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/blossoms-in-the-dust.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *Running Scared* (1972), Adaptation
- *The Legend of Lylah Clare* (1968), Screenplay
- *A Face in the Rain* (1963), Writer
- *Sodom and Gomorrah* (1962), Screenplay
- *Eva* (1962), Writer
- *The Young One* (1960), Screenplay
- *The Perfect Game* (1960), Director
- *Torero!* (1957), Writer
- *Autumn Leaves* (1956), Writer
- *Robinson Crusoe* (1954), Screenplay
- *World for Ransom* (1954), Writer
- *The First Time* (1952), Screenplay, Story
- *The Big Night* (1951), Screenplay
- *He Ran All the Way* (1951), Screenplay
- *The Prowler* (1951), Screenplay
- *A Woman of Distinction* (1950), Story
- *Your Witness* (1950), Screenplay
- *Roughshod* (1949), Screenplay
- *Miss Susie Slagle's* (1946), Screenplay
- *From This Day Forward* (1946), Screenplay
- *The Southerner* (1945), Adaptation
- *Lassie Come Home* (1943), Screenplay
- *The Omaha Trail* (1942), Screenplay
- *A Yank on the Burma Road* (1942), Screenplay
- *Blossoms in the Dust* (1941), Writer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/blossoms-in-the-dust.md)
- *Barnacle Bill* (1941), Screenplay
- *Wyoming* (1940), Screenplay
- *Edison, the Man* (1940), Original Story
- *Young Tom Edison* (1940), Screenplay
- *Society Lawyer* (1939), Screenplay
- *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* (1939), Writer
- *A Christmas Carol* (1938), Screenplay
- *Big City* (1937), Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1941: Best Story (nominated), for *Edison, the Man*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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