Butch appeared as TV reporter Joachim West in MGM's Bio-Dome, the character, Creel, in Roger Corman's remake Humanoids From The Deep, dual roles as a uni-browed farmer and deputy in Bruce Campbell's My Name Is Bruce, and most recently as Mayor Eddie Modry in Dragon Soldiers.

Butch and his brother, Ben McCain, wrote and performed the theme song of My Name is Bruce titled "The Legend of Guan Di".

[2] The McCain brothers, with Ben anchoring the news and Butch forecasting the weather, hosted a morning TV show for 12 years (six each on KTVY and KOCO).

While hosting their daily morning television program, the brothers appeared on the syndicated TV show Hee Haw, as well as ABC soap operas General Hospital, All My Children, and Loving.

Butch and Ben also hosted a syndicated TV music program called The McCain Brothers Show.