Charles Edward Butterworth (July 26, 1896 – June 14, 1946)[1] was an American actor specializing in comedic roles, often in musicals.

[1] After graduating, Butterworth became a newspaper reporter at the South Bend News-Times and subsequently Chicago.

[1] One of Butterworth's more memorable film roles was in the Irving Berlin musical This Is the Army (1943) as bugle-playing Private Eddie Dibble.

He was generally a supporting actor, though he had top billing in We Went to College (1936) and the title role in Baby Face Harrington (1935), and shared top billing (as the Sultan) with Ann Corio in The Sultan's Daughter (1944).

[4] He was killed in an automobile accident on June 13, 1946, when he lost control of his car on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.