Biography

Johnny Butt was born on April 3, 1878 in Shoreditch, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Trelawny of the Wells (1916), David Copperfield (1913) and Three Men in a Boat (1920). He died in June 1931 in Lambeth, London, England, UK.

The earliest film Johnny Butt appeared in which is credited here on the database was released in 1906. However, Butt did in fact appear in hundreds of films, starting as early as in 1897, and is widely considered the first professional movie-actor of England.