Cyril Butcher

Cyril George Butcher (31 July 1909 – 23 February 1987) was an English actor and director and longtime companion of Beverley Nichols.

The two winners (Cyril Butcher and Aileen Despard) went on to appear in the now lost Alfred Hitchcock short An Elastic Affair and placed under contract by British International Pictures.

[3] In 1934, he published In Extremis, Worst Moments in the Lives of the Famous with a foreword by Beverley Nichols.

[8] Between 1959 and 1963, he directed for television: Ideal Home Exhibition (1963), The English Captain (1960), The Last Hours (1959), Old People; Part 1 (1959) and Election Results 1959 (1959).

[10] Butcher died on 23 February 1987 aged 77 at Sudbrook Cottage, the house he shared with Nichols, at Ham Common in Richmond, Surrey.