---
name: "John Butler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-butler-1200565"
fi1m_id: "john-butler-1200565"
imdb_id: "nm2899940"
tmdb_id: 1200565
wikidata_id: "Q30123055"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "4 July 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-01T00:09:41.765846+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."
---

# John Butler

## Identity

John Butler

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-butler-1200565
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-butler-1200565
- **IMDb ID:** nm2899940
- **TMDB ID:** 1200565
- **Wikidata ID:** Q30123055
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Butler_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30123055, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2899940/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1200565

Producer and director. Born 4 July 1972 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 4 July 1972, Dublin, Ireland
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Butler_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30123055, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2899940/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1200565

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Outlaws*](https://film.one/tv/the-outlaws.md) (67)

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

## Biography

John Butler is an Irish director, screenwriter and novelist. Born in Dublin on 4 July 1972, he has written and directed several feature films and television series.

His feature films include *The Stag* (2013), *Handsome Devil* (2016) and *Papi Chulo* (2018). On television he directed and wrote episodes of the BBC series *The Outlaws* (2021–2024), as well as directing the sketch show *Your Bad Self* (2010).

Butler published the novel *The Tenderloin* in 2011. His television work includes further credits on *Finding Joy* (2020) and the forthcoming series *These Sacred Vows* (2026).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Outlaws* (2021), Fi1m 67, Director, Executive Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-outlaws.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *The Outlaws* (2021), series, Writer, Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-outlaws.md)
- *Papi Chulo* (2019), Writer, Director
- *Handsome Devil* (2017), Director, Writer
- *The Stag* (2013), Screenplay, Director
- *The Ballad of Kid Kanturk* (2009), Director
- *George* (2005), Director
- *The Sham*, Screenplay

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