Highest rated movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Lowest rated movie: The Fan (1996)
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Looking for reviews of Dan Butler movies? Cinafilm has a total of 5,035 reviews across 19 movies.
Movies starring Dan Butler have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
The Silence of the Lambs - released in 1991 - is Dan Butler's highest rated movie, with a score of 87% based on 964 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Dan Butler is The Fan - released in 1996 - with a score of 41% based on 13 reviews.
Daniel Eugene Butler (born December 2, 1954) is an American playwright and actor known for his role as Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe on the TV series Frasier.
Butler was born in Huntington, Indiana and raised in Fort Wayne; the son of Shirley, a homemaker, and Andrew Butler, a pharmacist. Openly gay, he starred in Terrence McNally's 1989 play The Lisbon Traviata and wrote an Off Broadway play about his life, The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me..., which derives its title from a comment Butler's father allegedly made when Dan came out to him.
Though Butler never hid his homosexuality, he disclosed it publicly on Entertainment Tonight in 1994 during his run as a swaggering heterosexual on Frasier.
His partner is acting teacher and director, Richard Waterhouse.
Dan Butler has acted in films with Frankie Faison, Jack Black, Sigourney Weaver and Ving Rhames.
Dan Butler has worked with these film directors: Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Ivan Reitman and Philip Kaufman.
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