Frank Russell Butler (December 28, 1889 – June 10, 1967) was an American film and theatre actor and later screenwriter, born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England to parents Frederick Butler and Sarah Ann Hedges.
His theatre career included two appearances (1920s–1930s) in Broadway-theatre productions in New York City.
[citation needed] He co-won, with Frank Cavett, the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Going My Way (1944).
[1] Butler had earlier been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) twice in the same year, for Road to Morocco and Wake Island, both released in 1942.
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